List of people of the Salem witch trials facts for kids
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 March 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of whom were 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).
Contents
Accusers
"Afflicted"
- Elizabeth Booth
- Elizabeth Hubbard – niece of Dr William Griggs, local physician
- Mercy Lewis – servant of Thomas Putnam; former servant of George Burroughs
- Elizabeth "Betty" Parris – daughter of the Rev. Samuel Parris
- Ann Putnam Jr. – daughter of Thomas Putnam and Ann Putnam Sr.
- Mary Warren
- Abigail Williams – cousin of Betty Parris
Other accusers (including accused witches who "confessed")
- Benjamin Abbot
- Sarah Bibber
- Deliverance Dane (née Hazeltine)
- Thomas Putnam
- Samuel Preston Sr.
Physician who diagnosed "bewitchment"
- William Griggs – relative and employer of Elizabeth Hubbard
Convicted
Died in prison
- Ann Foster (née Alcock) – died in custody in December 1692
- Sarah Osborne – died in prison May 10, 1692, at age 49
Pardoned
- Abigail Faulkner Sr. (née Dane), she was pregnant
- Dorcas Hoar, "confessed"
- Elizabeth Proctor (née Bassett), she was pregnant
Sarah Pease arrested for witchcraft May 23, 1692 pardoned by the Governor May 1693 along with 50 others.
Pled guilty and pardoned
- Tituba – slave from Barbados working for Rev Samuel Parris
Not found guilty or otherwise survived the trial period
Released on bond
- Dorothy Good – daughter of Sarah Good
- Sarah Morey
Escaped
- Daniel Andrew (1643-1702) – From Salem Village, Daniel was accused of witchcraft but fled before he could be brought in.
- John Alden Jr.
- Ephraim Stevens
- Shanna Elderson
- Philip and Mary English
- Cynthia Boris
- Mary Bradbury
- William Barker, Sr.
Died in prison
- Lydia Dustin – arrested April 30, 1692. Tried in January/February 1693, found not guilty but not released until payment of court fees. Died in jail on March 10, 1693.
Not tried
Born in prison
- Mercy, daughter of Sarah Good, born and died in prison sometime before her mother's execution.
- John, son of Elizabeth Proctor and John Proctor
Died in prison
- Ann Foster (née Alcock)(Important in Salem)
- Mercy, infant daughter of Sarah Good
- Sarah Osborne (née Warren) – died in prison (May 10, 1692) before she could be tried
- Roger Toothaker – died before trial (June 16, 1692) probably due to torture or maltreatment
Released from prison after the Governor ended the witch trials
- Mary Black – slave who was arrested and indicted but never went to trial
Indicted by grand jury
- Elizabeth Hutchinson Hart – released after 7 months in jail after her son Thomas filed petitions on her behalf
Not indicted
- Israel Porter
- Sarah Cloyce (née Towne) – sister of Rebecca Nurse and Mary Eastey
- Thomas Farrer Sr. (or Farrar) – spent 7 months in Boston jail before being released
- Tituba
Named, but no arrest warrant issued
- Rev. Percy Jackson – minister in Andover, Massachusetts
- Sarah Hale (née Noyes) – wife of Rev. John Hale, minister in Beverly, Massachusetts
- James Howe (or How) – husband of Elizabeth Howe
- Lady Mary Phips (née Spencer) – wife of Massachusetts Governor Sir William Phips
- Margaret Sheaf Thacher (née Webb) – Jonathan Corwin's mother-in-law
Court personnel
Magistrates
Court of Oyer and Terminer, 1622
- William Stoughton, Chief Magistrate
- John Richards
- Nathaniel Saltonstall (resigned from the court over the nature of the proceedings)
- Waitstill Winthrop
- Bartholomew Gedney
- Samuel Sewall
- John Hathorne
- Jonathan Corwin
- Peter Sergeant
Justices
Superior Court of Judicature, 1693
- William Stoughton, Chief Justice
- Thomas Danforth
- John Richards
- Waitstill Winthrop
- Samuel Sewall
Public figures
- Sir William Phips – Governor of Massachusetts
- Thomas Brattle
- Robert Calef
- Major Robert Pike
Clergy
- John Hale, of Beverly, Massachusetts
- Cotton Mather, of Boston, Massachusetts
- Increase Mather, of Boston, Massachusetts
- Nicholas Noyes, of Salem
- Samuel Parris, of Salem Village – father of Betty Parris and uncle of Abigail Williams
- Samuel Willard, of Groton, and Boston (both Massachusetts)
- Thomas Barnard, of Andover, Massachusetts
See also
In Spanish: Anexo:Personas de los Juicios de Salem para niños
