August 5, George Jacobs Sr. August 19, George Jacobs Sr. Elizabeth Proctor is not hanged because she is pregnant. August 20, Margaret Jacobs recants the testimony that led to the execution of her grandfather George Jacobs Sr.
September 19, Sheriffs administer Peine Forte Et Dure pressing to Giles Cory after he refuses to enter a plea to the charges of witchcraft against him. After two days under the weight, Cory dies. Hoar escapes execution by confessing. October 8, Governor Phipps orders that spectral evidence no longer be admitted in witchcraft trials. October 29, Phipps prohibits further arrests, releases many accused witches, and dissolves the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
January 3, Judge Stoughton orders execution of all suspected witches who were exempted by their pregnancy. Phipps denied enforcement of the order causing Stoughton to leave the bench.
January 49 of the 52 surviving people brought into court on witchcraft charges are released because their arrests were based on spectral evidence. January 14, The General Court orders a day of fasting and soul-searching for the tragedy at Salem.
Moved, Samuel Sewall publicly confesses error and guilt. Redirecting to: www. Close this pop-up window to remain on this page. March 12, Ann Putnam Jr. March March 24, Corwin and Hathorne examine Rebecca Nurse. March 26, Hathorne and Corwin interrogate Dorcas.
March 28, Elizabeth Proctor is accused of witchcraft. Presided over by Chief Justice William Stoughton, the court was made up of magistrates and jurors.
The first to be tried was Bridget Bishop of Salem who was found guilty and was hanged on June Thirteen women and five men from all stations of life followed her to the gallows on three successive hanging days before the court was disbanded by Governor William Phipps in October of that year. This belief in the power of the accused to use their invisible shapes or spectres to torture their victims had sealed the fates of those tried by the Court of Oyer and Terminer. The new court released those awaiting trial and pardoned those awaiting execution.
In effect, the Salem Witch Trials were over. Historians and sociologists have examined this most complex episode in our history so that we may understand the issues of that era and view subsequent events with heightened awareness. Bridget Bishop, Hanged, June 10, Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archives. Roach Jul 22, Salem Witch Museum. Like Rev. Bayley ten years earlier, Lawson, too, was not fully paid nor ordained by Salem Town church, he left with some but less controversy than that of his predecessors.
His wife and daughter died just before he left the post and he goes on to become a minister in Boston. June Rev. He would be their first fully ordained minister. William of Orange, married to the elder daughter Mary, invades England and removes James from the throne. French soldiers sometimes led the raids. The English recall the New England governor and reappoint Bradstreet as Massachusetts governor, but without a valid charter, he hads no real authority to govern.
Cotton Mather is published, describing the Boston case from the previous year involving "Goody Glover" and Martha Goodwin. This death is later brought out as evidence against Rebecca Nurse in April Rev. Parris is formally called as the minister at Salem Village. October Salem Village church grants Rev.
Parris a full deed to the parsonage, apparently in violation of the congregation's own rules. November 19, The church covenant is signed by Rev.
Parris and 27 full members. February The French in Canada send a war party mainly made up of Abenaki that kills 60 at Schenectady, New York, and takes at least 80 captives. March Another war party kills 30 in New Hampshire and captures Captives are traded for hostages taken by the French in previous battles.
In another battle, the French take Fort Loyal in Falmouth, Maine, and kill most of the residents, burning the town. Some of those fleeing go to Salem. One theory is that she saw her parents killed. April 27, Giles Corey , twice a widower, and unmarried since his wife Mary died in , marries his third wife, Martha Corey who already has a son named Thomas. June Ann Putnam Sr. June 9, Indigenous peoples attack in several places in New York.
They appoint Sir William Phips, who had come to England to gather help against Canada, as royal governor. Simon Bradstreet refuses a seat on the governor's council and retires to his home in Salem. October 8, Rev. Samuel Parris asks the church to provide more firewood for his house, stating that the only wood he had was donated by Mr.
At a Salem Village town meeting, members of one faction in a growing church conflict promise to stop paying the church's minister, Rev. Samuel Parris. Those supporting him generally want more separation from Salem Town; those opposing him generally want a closer association with Salem Town; but there are other issues that tended to polarize around the same lines. Parris begins to preach about a Satanic conspiracy in town against him and the church. January 8: Representatives of Salem Village petition Salem Town to recognize the village's independence, or at least to tax Salem Village residents only for Salem Village expenses.
Samuel Parris, begin exhibiting strange behavior, making strange noises, and complaining of headaches. Tituba , one of the family's enslaved Caribbeans, experiences visions of the devil and swarms of witches, according to her later testimony. Betty and Abigail's strange fits and jerky movements are much like the children in the Goodwin household in Boston had in an incident they likely had heard about; a copy of Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions by Rev.
Cotton Mather was in Rev. Parris' library. January St. Agnes Eve was a traditional English fortune-telling time. January 25, In York, Maine, then part of the Province of Massachusetts, Abenaki sponsored by the French invade and kill about 50— English colonists sources disagree on the number , take 70— hostages, kill livestock and burn the settlement. February 8: A copy of the new provincial charter for Massachusetts arrives in Boston.
Maine is still part of Massachusetts, to the relief of many. Religious liberty is granted to all but Roman Catholics, which does not please those who oppose radical groups like the Quakers. Others are not pleased that the document is a new charter rather than a restoration of the old one. February: Captain John Alden Jr. February William Griggs, a physician, buys a home in Salem Village.
His children had already left home, but his niece Elizabeth Hubbard live with Griggs and his wife. About February After traditional remedies and prayers fail in the Parris household to cure the girls of their strange afflictions, a doctor, likely Dr.
William Griggs, diagnoses the "Evil Hand" as the cause. February Mary Sibley , a neighbor of the Parris family, advises John Indian, an enslaved Caribbean of the Parris family, to make a witch's cake to discover the names of the witches, perhaps with the help of his wife, another enslaved Caribbean of the same family. Instead of relieving the girls, their torments increase.
Ann Putnam Jr. She will testify 32 times in the trials that followed. February Betty and Abigail begin naming Tituba for their behavior, which increase in intensity.
Several neighbors and ministers, likely including Rev. John Hale of Beverley and Rev. Nicholas Noyes of Salem, are asked to observe their behavior. They question Tituba. February Ann Putnam Jr. None of these three were likely to have many local defenders against such accusations.
Ezekiel Cheever is appointed to take notes on the proceedings. Hannah Ingersoll, wife of the tavern-owner, finds that the three had no witch marks on them.
William Good tells her about a mole on his wife's back. Tituba confesses, naming the other two as witches and adding rich details to her stories of possession, spectral travel and meeting with the devil. Sarah Osborne protests her own innocence; Sarah Good says that Tituba and Osborne are witches but that she is herself innocent. Sarah Good is sent to Ipswich to be confined with a local constable who is also her relative. She escapes briefly but returns voluntarily; this absence seems especially suspicious when Elizabeth Hubbard reports that Sarah Good's specter had visited her and tormented her that evening.
March 2: Sarah Good is jailed at the Ipswich jail. Sarah Osborne and Tituba are questioned further. Tituba adds more details to her confession, and Sarah Osborne maintains her innocence. March 3: Sarah Good has apparently now been moved to Salem jail with the other two women, where the questioning of all three by Corwin and Hathorne continues.
March: Philip English, a wealthy Salem merchant and businessman of French background, is appointed a selectman in Salem. March 6: Ann Putnam Jr. March: Mary Warren, a servant in the home of Elizabeth and John Proctor , begins having fits like the other girls. She tells John Proctor she had seen the specter of Giles Corey, a local and prosperous farmer, but he dismisses her report.
March Ann Putnam Jr. Town records note that Mary Sibley had been suspended from communion with Salem Village Church for giving John Indian instructions to make a witch's cake. She is restored to full covenanted membership when she confesses that she had innocent purposes in doing this folk ritual. March Rebecca Nurse, 71 years old, also a respected church member and part of the community, is accused of witchcraft by Abigail Williams. Deodat Lawson visits several members of the community and witnesses Abigail Williams acting strangely and claiming Rebecca Nurse was trying to force her to sign the devil's book.
March Abigail Williams interrupts Rev. Lawson's service at the Salem Village meetinghouse, claiming to see Martha Corey's spirit separate from her body.
March A local delegation visits Rebecca Nurse at home. March An arrest warrant is issued for Rebecca Nurse. Samuel Brabrook, a marshall, is sent to arrest Dorcas Good, the daughter of Sarah Good and a four or five-year-old girl, on a charge of witchcraft.
He arrests her the next day. Dorcas is identified incorrectly in some records as Dorothy. Sometime after the accusations are leveled against Rebecca Nurse, John Proctor, whose daughter is married to an in-law of Rebecca Nurse's son, denounces the afflicted girls publicly. She maintains her innocence. What she answers is interpreted as a confession that implicates her mother, Sarah Good.
March Mercy Lewis accuses Elizabeth Proctor of afflicting her through her specter. Samuel Parris preaching on "dreadful witchcraft broke out here. During the sermon, Sarah Cloyce , Rebecca's sister, leaves the meetinghouse and slams the door. March In Ipswich, Rachel Clenton or Clinton , accused by her neighbors of witchcraft, is examined by local magistrates there.
None of the girls involved in the Salem Village accusations are involved in Rachel Clenton's case. April: More than 50 men in Ipswich, Topsfield and Salem Village sign petitions declaring that they do not believe spectral evidence about John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor nor do they believe they could be witches.
April 3: Rev. Samuel Parris reads to his congregation a prayer request for thanks from Mary Warren, servant to John and Elizabeth Proctor. Mary expresses gratitude that her fits had stopped. Parris questions her after the service. April 3: Sarah Cloyce comes to the defense of her sister, Rebecca Nurse. The result was that Sarah is accused of witchcraft.
April 4: Complaints are filed against Elizabeth Proctor and Sarah Cloyce, and an arrest warrant issued to have them in custody by April 8. The warrant also orders Mary Warren and Elizabeth Hubbard to appear to give evidence. April Another Sunday meeting at Salem Village sees interruptions, said to have been caused by the specter of Sarah Cloyce. Samuel Parris takes notes for the day.
John Proctor, Elizabeth's husband, objects to the accusations against Elizabeth—and is himself then accused of witchcraft by Mary Warren, their servant, who had also accused Elizabeth Proctor. John Proctor is arrested and jailed.
A few days later, Mary Warren admits to lying about the accusation, saying the other girls were also lying. April Mercy Lewis claims that Giles Corey had appeared to her and forced her to sign the devil's book.
Mary English is visited at midnight by Sheriff Corwin with an arrest warrant; she tells him to come back and arrest her in the morning, which he did. April New accusations are made against Bridget Bishop and Mary Warren, who had made accusations but then recanted them.
They are taken to Ingersoll's tavern. Parris and Ezekiel Cheever take notes. Giles Corey maintains his innocence. Mary Warren recants her recantation in the case of the Proctors. Deliverance Hobbs confesses to witchcraft.
Mary Easty had been accused following her defense of her sister, the accused Rebecca Nurse. April Susanna Sheldon accuses Philip English of tormenting her through witchcraft. William Beale, who had sparred with English in in a lawsuit about land claims, also accuses English of having something to do with the deaths of Beale's two sons. English is not found until late May, at which time he and his wife are jailed in Boston.
George Burroughs, a predecessor of Samuel Parris as Salem Village minister, is thought by some in town to be at the center of the outbreak of witchcraft. Philip English is reported as missing.
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