List of people of the Salem witch trials

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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.

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

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"

• Elizabeth Booth
• Elizabeth Hubbard – niece of Dr William Griggs, local physician
• Mercy Lewis – servant of Thomas Putnam; a 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 – servant of Elizabeth and John Proctor
• Abigail Williams – cousin of Betty Parris
• John Indian – slave of Rev. Samuel Parris and husband of Tituba

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Other accusers (including accused witches who "confessed")

• Benjamin Abbot
• Deliverance Dane (née Hazeltine)
• Abigail Hobbs

• Samuel Preston Sr

Physician who diagnosed "bewitchment"

• William Griggs – relative and employer of Elizabeth Hubbard

Executed

See also: List of people executed for witchcraft

• Bridget Bishop Died June 10, 1692 (aged 60), execution by hanging.
• Sarah Good Died July 29, 1692 (aged 39), execution by hanging.
• Rebecca Nurse Died July 19, 1692 (aged 71), execution by hanging.
• Elizabeth Howe Died July 19, 1692 (aged 57), execution by hanging.
• Susannah Martin Died July 19, 1692 (aged 71), execution by hanging.
• Sarah Wildes Died July 19, 1692 (aged 65), execution by hanging.
• Rev. George Burroughs Died August 19, 1692 (aged 42), execution by hanging.
• George Jacobs Sr. Died August 19, 1692 (aged 83), execution by hanging.
• Martha Carrier Died August 19, 1692 (aged 49), execution by hanging.
• John Proctor Died August 19, 1692 (aged 59), execution by hanging.
• John Willard Died August 19, 1692 (aged 35), execution by hanging.
• Martha Corey Died September 22, 1692 (aged 72), execution by hanging.
• Mary Eastey Died September 22, 1692 (aged 58), execution by hanging.
• Mary Parker Died September 22, 1692 (aged 55), execution by hanging.
• Alice Parker Died September 22, 1692, execution by hanging.
• Ann Pudeator Died September 22, 1692 (aged 70), execution by hanging.
• Wilmot Redd Died September 22, 1692, execution by hanging.
• Margaret Scott Died September 22, 1692 (aged 77), execution by hanging.
• Samuel Wardwell Sr. Died September 22, 1692 (aged 49), execution by hanging.

Died from peine forte et dure

• Giles Corey Died September 19, 1692 (aged 81), pressed to death, refused to enter a plea.

Died in prison

• Ann Foster Died December 3, 1692, aged 75, after 21 weeks of imprisonment, having endured torture during the trial, finally confessed.
• Sarah Osborne Died May 10, 1692, aged 49.
• Lydia Dustin Died March 10, 1693, after 11 months imprisonment, having been acquitted but unable to pay her court fees.
• Roger Toothaker Died June 16, 1692, age, having been subjected to mistreatment whike awaiting trial.
• Mercy, infant daughter of Sarah Good, born and died in prison

Survived trial period

Sentenced but not executed

• Elizabeth Proctor (née Bassett) – Initially avoided execution due to pregnancy. Second execution avoided by general reprieve.

Fled to avoid imprisonment

• Daniel Andrew (1643-1702) – From Salem Village, Daniel was accused of witchcraft but fled before he could be brought in.
• Philip and Mary English – Fled to New York. Returned to Salem after the conclusion of the trials.

Released on bond

• Dorothy Good – daughter of Sarah Good
• Sarah Morey

Found not guilty

• John Alden Jr.
• Ephraim Stevens
• Mary Bradbury
• William Barker, Sr.

Pardoned

• Abigail Faulkner Sr. (née Dane), she was pregnant
• Dorcas Hoar, "confessed"
• Edward and Martha (Bowne) Farrington
• Sarah Pease arrested for witchcraft May 23, 1692 pardoned by the Governor May 1693 along with 50 others.

Pleaded guilty and pardoned

• Tituba – slave from Barbados working for Rev Samuel Parris

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

Released from prison after the Governor ended the witch trials

• Mary Black – slave who was arrested and indicted but never went to trial
• Esther Elwell, ancestor of Sarah Jessica Parker - proved in an episode of "Who Do You Think You Are"

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, 1692

• 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
• William Bond Speaker of the General Court, ceded authority
• 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

External links

• University of Virginia: Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
• The Accused Witches of Gloucester
• Angelo