List of people of the Salem witch trials
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This is a list of people involved in the Salem witch trials.
The Accused Found guilty and executed
- Bridget Bishop (June 10, 1692)
- Rebecca (Towne) Nurse (July 19, 1692)
- Sarah (Solart) Good (July 19, 1692)
- Elizabeth (Jackson) How (July 19, 1692)
- Sarah (Averill) Wildes (July 19, 1692)
- Susannah (North) Martin (July 19, 1692)
- George Burroughs (August 19, 1692)
- Martha (Allen) Carrier (August 19, 1692)
- George Jacobs, Sr. (August 19, 1692)
- John Proctor (August 19, 1692)
- John Willard (August 19, 1692)
- Giles Corey (September 19, 1692) - Pressed to death
- Martha Corey (September 22, 1692)
- Mary (Towne) Eastey (September 22, 1692)
- Alice Parker (September 22, 1692)
- Mary (Ayer) Parker (September 22, 1692)
- Ann Pudeator (September 22, 1692)
- Margaret (Stevenson) Scott (September 22, 1692)
- Wilmot Redd (September 22, 1692)
- Samuel Wardwell Sr. (September 22, 1692)
- Dana (Michael) Foley (September 22, 1692)
[edit] Found guilty and pardoned
- Elizabeth (Bassett) Proctor - pregnant
- Abigail (Dane) Faulkner Sr. - pregnant
- Mary Post
- Sarah (Hooper) Wardwell
- Elizabeth Johnson Jr.
- Dorcas Hoar
[edit] Found guilty and escaped
[edit] Pled guilty and pardoned
- Ann (Alcock) Foster—died in custody, December 1692
- Mary (Foster) Lacey Sr.
- Rebecca (Blake) Eames
- Abigail Hobbs
- Mary (Clements) Osgood
[edit] Refused to enter a plea and pressed to death
[edit] Found not guilty
- Abigail (Wheeler) Barker
- Mary Barker
- William Barker, Jr.
- Mary Bridges, Jr.
- Mary (Tyler) Bridges, Sr.
- Sarah Bridges
- Sarah (Smith) Buckley
- Sarah (Aslebee) Cole
- Lydia Dustin—died in custody after trial
- Sarah Dustin
- Eunice (Potter) Frye
- Sarah Hawkes, Jr.
- Margaret Jacobs
- Rebecca (Andrews) Jacobs
- Elizabeth (Dane) Johnson, Sr.
- Julie Kildunne
- Mary Lacey, Jr.
- Mary (Osgood) Marston
- Hannah Post
- Susannah Post
- Mary (Allen) Toothaker
- Hannah Tyler
- Mary (Lovett) Tyler
- Mercy Wardwell
- Mary (Buckley) Witheridge
[edit] Died in custody
[edit] Escaped
- John Alden
- Edward Bishop Jr.
- Sarah (Wilds) Bishop
- William Barker Sr.
- Edward Farrington
- Andrew Carrier
- Katherine (Schneider) Cary
- Phillip English
- Mary (Hollingsworth) English
[edit] Indicted by a grand jury, but never tried
- Stephen Johnson
- William Barker Sr.
- Edward Farrington
[edit] Not indicted by a grand jury
- William Proctor
- Sarah (Towne) Cloyse
- Phillip English
- Katerina Biss
- Mary (Hollingsworth) English
- Tituba
- Thomas Farrer, Sr.
[edit] Released on bond
- Dorcas Good
- Sarah Carrier
- Thomas Carrier Jr.
- Dorothy Faulkner
- Abigail Faulkner Jr.
- Sarah (Lord) Wilson
- Frances Hutchins
[edit] Evaded arrest, never tried
- George Jacobs Jr.
- Daniel Andrew
[edit] Named, but no arrest warrant issued
- Anne (Wood) Bradstreet
- Dudley Bradstreet
- John Bradstreet
- John Busse—minister in Wells, Maine
- Francis Dane -- minister in Andover, Mass.
- Sarah (Noyes) Hale—wife of Rev. John Hale, minister in Beverly, Mass.
- James How—husband of Elizabeth (Jackson) How
- Hezekiah Usher
- Mary (Spencer) Phips—wife of Massachusetts Governor William Phips
- Sarah (Clapp) Swift
- Margaret (Webb) Thatcher—mother-in-law of magistrate Jonathan Corwin
[edit] Magistrates of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, 1692[1]
- William Stoughton, Chief Magistrate
- John Richards
- Nathaniel Saltonstall
- Waitstill Winthrop
- Bartholomew Gedney
- Samuel Sewall
- John Hathorne
- Jonathan Corwin
- Peter Sergeant
[edit] Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, 1693[2]
- William Stoughton, Chief Justice
- Thomas Danforth
- John Richards
- Waitstill Winthrop
- Samuel Sewall
[edit] Clergy
- Cotton Mather, Boston
- Increase Mather, Boston
- John Hale, Beverly
- Nicholas Noyes, Salem
- Samuel Parris, Salem Village
- Francis Dane, Andover
- Samuel Willard, Groton, Boston
[edit] Jurors
- Capt. Thomas Fisk, Sr., Foreman
- William Fisk
- John Bacheler
- Capt. Thomas Fisk, Jr.
- John Dane
- Joseph Evelith
- Thomas Pearly, Sr.
- John Peabody
- Thomas Perkins
- Andrew Eliot
- Henry Herrick, Jr.
The list of jurors who served in the trial of Rebecca Nurse, above, does not include the many other jurors who served in prior and subsequent trials.
[edit] Public figures and politicians
- William Phips -- Governor
- Thomas Brattle
- Robert Calef
[edit] Accusers
[edit] "The afflicted girls"
- Betty Parris
- Abigail Williams, her cousin
- Mercy Lewis
- Ann Putnam, Jr.
- Elizabeth (Betty) Hubbard
- Mary Walcott
- Susannah Sheldon
- Mary Warren
- Elizabeth Booth
[edit] Physician who diagnosed "bewitchment"
[edit] Others
- Sarah Bibber
- Ezekiel Cheever (son of the School Master)
- Jessica Titus
- Ann (Carr) Putnam Sr.
- Basheba Pope
- Benjamin Abbot
[edit] References
- ^ Massachusetts Archives Collections, Governor's Council Executive Records, Vol. 2, 1692, pages 176-177. Certified copy from the original records at Her Majestie's State Paper Office, London, September 16, 1846.
- ^ Records of the Massachusetts Supreme Court of Judicature, 1692/3, Page 1. Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Judicial Archives
