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==Found not guilty==
==Found not guilty==
;:MAN they were all GUILTY AF:::

*Abigail (Wheeler) Barker
*Abigail (Wheeler) Barker
*Mary Barker
*Mary Barker

Revision as of 20:17, 17 December 2012

This is a list of people implicated in the Salem witch trials.

Susanna Rootes was either imprisoned and released or found not guilty due to insufficient evidence. Nevertheless, she died at age 78 in 1692.

Found guilty and executed

Found guilty and pardoned

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Found guilty and escaped

Pled guilty and pardoned

  • Ann (Alcock) Foster—died in custody, December 1692
  • Mary (Foster) Lacey Sr.
  • Rebecca (Blake) Eames
  • Abigail Hobbs
  • Mary (Clements) Osgood

Refused to enter a plea and pressed to death

Found not guilty

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  • 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 (Osborn) Marston
  • Hannah Post
  • Susannah Post
  • Mary (Allen) Toothaker
  • Hannah Tyler
  • Mary (Lovett) Tyler
  • Mercy Wardwell
  • Mary (Buckley) Witheridge

Died in custody

Escaped

  • John Alden
  • Edward Bishop Jr.
  • Sarah (Wilds) Bishop
  • William Barker Sr.
  • Edward Farrington
  • Andrew Carrier
  • Katherine (Schneider) Cary
  • Phillip English
  • Mary (Hollingsworth) English

Indicted by a grand jury, but never tried

  • Stephen Johnson
  • William Barker Sr.
  • Edward Farrington

Not indicted by a grand jury

  • William Proctor
  • Sarah (Towne) Cloyse
  • Phillip English
  • Katerina Biss
  • Mary (Hollingsworth) English
  • Tituba
  • Thomas Farrer, Sr.

Released on bond

  • Dorcas Good
  • Sarah Carrier
  • Thomas Carrier Jr.
  • Dorothy Faulkner
  • Abigail Faulkner Jr.
  • Sarah (Lord) Wilson
  • Frances Hutchins

Evaded arrest, never tried

  • George Jacobs Jr.
  • Daniel Andrew

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

Magistrates of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, 1692[1]

Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, 1693[2]

Clergy

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.

Public figures and politicians

Accusers

"The afflicted girls"

Physician who diagnosed "bewitchment"

Others

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Records of the Massachusetts Supreme Court of Judicature, 1692/3, Page 1. Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Judicial Archives

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