It is elementary in the story to know that these girls were the daughter and niece, respectively, of Reverend Samuel Parris. He was the first ordained minister of Salem. Shortly after, 11 year old Ann Putnam also started displaying similar behaviour. After her, quite a good number of girls followed her. There was only one doctor in Salem at the time. He attributed these causes to something Supernatural.
In February , three women were accused of witchcraft in relation to these incidents. Sarah Osborne and Sarah Good pleaded innocent. But were anyway executed due to the trials. On the other hand, Tituba was the only one to ever make a confession in this long incident. Tituba confessed to using witchcraft against the girls.
In her confession, she confessed to seeing specters such as eerie animals like red cats, black dogs and yellow birds. However, it is also widely speculated that Tituba had been forced to confess by the Reverend. This fact is strengthened by how accommodating she had been to the judges. She spent one year and 3 months in jail. She was the last of the accused to be released.
It was a special court for the witch trials. Henceforth, the claims, accusers and accused grew in number. Many people claimed to be affected by witchcraft. In these trials, 8 girls were afflicted by witchcraft. Most of accusations were done by men. All of these were between the ages of He was accused of being the mastermind of all the other witches.
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We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. The other accusers were the parents of afflicted girls, who filed complaints on the girls behalf because they were too young, as well as various villagers who had either been advised by the afflicted girls that witches were harming someone in their family or villagers who believed that they had been afflicted themselves by one of their neighbors.
The accusers were from all over the Massachusetts Bay Colony , not just Salem. This is because as the trials dragged on in Salem, the witchcraft accusations started to spread to neighboring towns.
The following is a list of the accusers and the people they accused. These names were collected from the arrest warrants, examination records and indictments of the accused:.
The two afflicted girls made the trip to Gloucester and claimed that the specters of Elizabeth Dicer and Margaret Prince were tormenting the women. As a result, Ebenezer filed complaints against the two women on September 3. Joseph Ballard was the constable of Andover. In mid-July, Ballard brought two of the afflicted girls from Salem Village to Andover to visit his wife, Elizabeth, who had been mysteriously ill all summer.
It is not known who the two girls were, but is believed to possibly be Ann Purnam Jr and Mary Walcott. Using the touch test, which was when a suspected witch touched an afflicted person to see if their symptoms stop, it was determined that they were afflicted and they named several people who they said were afflicting them. Sarah Bibber was a year-old woman from Salem Village who was married to John Bibber with whom she had a 4-year-old child. Elizabeth Booth was one of the afflicted girls from Salem Village.
She was born in Salem Village in She accused Cole of appearing to her day and night and threatening her, making her ill, throwing stones against her house at night, sending cat-like creatures to run across her roof and making dog-like creatures appear to her at the local creek. John Buxton was a farmer from Salem Village who made accusations against a number of people on behalf of the afflicted girls of Salem Village.
In addition, Cheever also served as a witness against Martha Corey. Sarah Churchill was one of the afflicted girls of Salem Village.
In May of , Sarah Churchill accused George Jacobs Sr of afflicting her when she testified that the Devil made her sign his book and she saw Jacobs name in it. In June, Sarah Ingersoll testified that Churchill has admitted lying to her but her testimony was ignored. The girls arrived and claimed that Mary Fitch was being afflicted and they named three women whose spectres they saw throttling her: Abigail Rowe, Rebecca Dike and Esther Elwell.
Thomas Dodd lived in Marblehead and filed a complaint against a local mariner named Nicholas Frost whom he believed was afflicting his daughter, Johanna Frost, in September of Foster was about 14 years old and was the daughter of Ephraim Foster, the constable of Andover.
Ephraim Foster was a year-old constable of Andover. In August of , Foster filed complaints against John Howard. Ephraim Foster was also summoned to provide testimony against Samuel Wardwell, who was accused of witchcraft by Martha Sprague. Zebulon Hill was a year-old cooper who had moved from Gloucester to Salem in In September of , he filed a complaint against Joan Penney, a recently widowed woman from Gloucester, for afflicting his year-old daughter Mary Hill.
Joseph Houlton was 71 years old at the time of the trials and lived in Salem Village. In , Houlton was awarded a tract of land in Salem Village and he chose land adjacent to Ingersoll and Nathaniel Putnam.
This made him neighbors to the two and later brought him into the Allen-Putnam-Endicott lawsuit about the boundary of Bishop farm. Yet, that same month Houlton also signed a petition defending Rebecca Nurse against her accusation of witchcraft.
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