List of people of the Salem witch trials

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The central figure in this 1876 illustration of the courtroom in the Salem witch trials is usually identified as Mary Walcott, one of the accusers.

This is a list of people associated with the Salem witch trials, a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of them women.

Surnames in parentheses preceded by "née" indicate birth family maiden names (if known) of married women, who upon marriage generally took their husbands' surnames. Due to the low population of the Massachusetts North Shore at the time of the trials, a significant percentage of local residents were related to other local residents through descent or by marriage. Many of the witchcraft accusations were driven at least in part by acrimonious relations between the families of the plaintiffs and defendants. Unless otherwise specified, dates provided in this list use Julian-dated month and day but New Style-enumerated year (i.e., years begin on January 1 and end on December 31, in the modern style).

Accusers

"Afflicted"

Other accusers (including accused witches who "confessed")

Physician who diagnosed "bewitchment"

Convicted

Convicted and executed

Convicted and died in prison

Convicted but escaped

Pardoned

Convicted and pardoned

Pled guilty and pardoned

Not found guilty or otherwise survived the trial period

Refused to plead

Died in custody

Unindicted or acquitted

Released on bond

Escaped

Not tried

Born in prison

Died in prison

Released from prison after the Governor ended the Witch Trials

Indicted by grand jury

Not indicted

Evaded arrest or escaped

Named, but no arrest warrant issued

Court personnel

Magistrates

Court of Oyer and Terminer, 1692[3]

Justices

Superior Court of Judicature, 1693[4]

Jurors

The list of jurors who served in the trial of Rebecca Nurse does not include other jurors who served in prior and subsequent trials. The jury initially acquitted Nurse but were ordered to redeliberate by William Stoughton.

Trial of Rebecca Nurse

Public figures

Clergy

References

  1. ↑ Suffolk Court Records Case No. 2668, p. 149, "Petition of Thomas Hart"
  2. ↑ "People Accused of Witchcraft in 1692". www.17thc.us. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  3. ↑ 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, UK, September 16, 1846.
  4. ↑ Records of the Massachusetts Supreme Court of Judicature, 1692/3, Page 1. Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Judicial Archives

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