The Witchcraft Trial of Elizabeth Morse of Newbury, 1680.The witchcraft accusations against Sarah Buckley and Mary Witheridge.Mary Perkins Bradbury, charged as a witch.The witchcraft trial of Elizabeth Howe, hanged July 19, 1692.By some historic accounts, she had become insane.

She was never charged, but was kept in the cold Ipswich jail until her her poor father managed to gather up £50 for Dorothy’s bail and “board.” By that time, the child suffered from grave psychological damage that would destroy the rest of her life.

“I saw the Apparition of Dorothy Good, Sarah Good’s daughter who did immediately almost choke me and tortured me most grievously: and so she hath several times since tortured me by biting and pinching and almost choking me, tempting me also to write in her book, and also on the day of her examination, the Apparition of Dorothy Good tortured me during the time of her Examination and several times since.”ĭorothy Good was in custody from Mauntil December 10, 1692. The Deposition of Ann Putnam, 3th March 1691/92 Sarah was taken from her daughter Dorothy, and was hanged on July 19, 1692. While she was in prison, Sarah Good gave birth to a daughter she named Mercy, but the infant died. Having gained the contrived evidence they sought, Sarah Good was convicted on the basis of her daughter’s forced testimony. The Court of Oyer and Terminer met on June 30th, and Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse, and Elizabeth How of Ipswich were put on trial. She was delivered to the Boston jail, but as the jails overflowed with the accused, she and her mother were transferred to the Ipswich jail. Hungry, cold and missing her mother, Dorothy broke down and told the inquisitors what they wanted to hear, that her mother was a witch, consorted with the devil, and also that her mother had given her a snake that bit her. On March 24, she was taken custody, and was interrogated (“examined”) by the local magistrates for two weeks. Sarah’s daughter, Dorothy (the name Dorcas was also erroneously recorded) was only four years old at the time. On March 1, 1692, Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and the Rev. Sarah had long been a melancholy and somewhat confrontational woman, and was accused of witchcraft on Februby the girls Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Parris. Sarah then married William Good, but creditors seized their Salem home, and by 1692, Sarah Good and her husband were homeless beggars. Sarah Poole’s husband died in 1682 leaving her in debt.

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