WIKI :: List of people of the Salem witch trials

ACCUSERS



{Joseph Pope}



"Afflicted"

• Elizabeth "Betty" Parris – daughter of the Reverend Samuel Parris
• Abigail Williams – cousin of Betty Parris
• Mercy Lewis – servant of Thomas Putnam and former servant of George Burroughs
• Ann Putnam, Jr. – daughter of Thomas Putnam and Ann Putnam, Sr.
• Elizabeth "Betty" Hubbard – servant of physician William Griggs
• Mary Walcott
• Susannah Sheldon
• Mary Warren
• Elizabeth Booth
• Henry Kinne
• Bathsheba(Besheba) Folger Pope - Sister of Abiah Folger Franklin wife of Josiah Franklin, parents of James and Benjamin Franklin

Others

• Sarah Bibber
• Ezekiel Cheever – son of schoolmaster and author Ezekiel Cheever
• Jessica Titus
• Ann Putnam (née Carr), Sr.
• Thomas Putnam
• Benjamin Abbot
• Nathaniel Ingersoll
• Sarah Rist (née Clarke) – resident of Redding and wife of Nicholas Rist; arrested at the same time as John Alden, Jr. and released at the end of the trials per the orders of William Phips, Governor of Massachusetts

Physician who diagnosed "bewitchment"

• William Griggs – relative and employer of Elizabeth Hubbard

FOUND OR PLED GUILTY


Convicted and executed

• Bridget Bishop (executed June 10, 1692)
• Rebecca Nurse (née Towne) (July 19, 1692)
• Sarah Good (formerly Sarah Poole, née Solart) (July 19, 1692)
• Elizabeth Howe (née Jackson) (July 19, 1692) – wife of Thomas Howe
• Susannah Martin (née North) (July 19, 1692)
• George Burroughs (August 19, 1692)
• George Jacobs, Sr. (August 19, 1692)
• Wynda Gibson (August 19,1692)
• John Proctor (August 19, 1692) – husband of Elizabeth Proctor
• Martha Carrier (née Ingalls) Executed August 19, 1692
• John Willard (August 19, 1692)
• Martha Corey (September 22, 1692) – wife of Giles Corey
• Mary Eastey (née Towne) (September 22, 1692)
• Mary Parker (née Ayer) (September 22, 1692)
• Kester Darrow (September 22, 1692) - husband of Roslyn (née Scott) Darrow
• Ann Pudeator (September 22, 1692)
• Wilmot Redd (September 22, 1692)
• Samuel Wardwell, Sr. (September 22, 1692)

Convicted and died in prison

• Ann Foster

Convicted but escaped

• Mary Bradbury (née Perkins)
• Roslyn (née Scott) Darrow wife of Kestter Darrow and mother of Tavie Darrow

Pardoned

Convicted and pardoned

• Elizabeth Proctor (née Bassett), who was pregnant – wife of John Proctor
• Abigail Faulkner (née Dane), Sr., who was pregnant
• Dorcas Hoar

Pled guilty and pardoned

• Mary Lacey (née Foster), Sr. – daughter of Ann Foster

NOT FOUND GUILTY

Refused to plea

• Giles Corey – pressed to death (September 19, 1692) through the use of peine forte et dure

Died in custody

• Lydia Dustin – found not guilty but died in custody

Found not guilty

• Abigail Barker (née Wheeler)
• Mary Barker
• William Barker, Jr.
• Mary Bridges, Jr.
• Mary Bridges (née Tyler), Sr.
• Sarah Bridges
• Sarah Buckley (née Smith)
• Sarah Cole (née Aslebee)
• Lydia Dustin – died in custody after trial
• Sarah Dustin
• Eunice Frye (née Potter)
• Sarah Hawkes, Jr.
• Margaret Jacobs
• Rebecca Jacobs (née Andrews)
• Elizabeth Johnson (née Dane), Sr.
• Julie Kildunne
• Mary Lacey, Jr. – daughter of Mary Lacey, Sr. and granddaughter of Ann Foster
• Mary Marston (née Osgood)
• Hannah Post
• Susannah Post
• Susanna Rootes – either released or found not guilty; died at age 78 in 1692
• Mary Toothaker (née Allen)
• Hannah Tyler
• Mary Tyler (née Lovett)
• Mercy Wardwell
• Mary Witheridge (née Buckley)

Released on bond

• Dorothy Good – also known as Dorcas Good; daughter of Sarah Good
• Sarah Carrier
• Thomas Carrier, Jr.
• Dorothy Faulkner
• Abigail Faulkner, Jr.
• Sarah Wilson (née Lord)
• Frances Hutchins (née Alcock)
• Margaret Prince
• Elizabeth Dicer
• Mary Rowe
• Abigail Rowe

Escaped

• John Alden, Jr.
• Edward Bishop, Jr.
• Sarah Bishop (née Wilds)
• William Barker, Sr.
• Roslyn (née Scott) Darrow (wife of Kestter Darrow) and mother of (Tavie Darrow)
• Edward Farrington
• Andrew Carrier
• Katherine Cary (née Schneider)
• Phillip English
• Mary English (née Hollingsworth)

NOT TRIED

Born in prison

• John Proctor III – infant son of John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor, born in prison on January 27, 1693 during Elizabeth's stay of execution
• Mercy Good – infant daughter of Sarah Good, born and died in prison some time prior to Sarah's execution
• Tavie Darrow - infant daughter of Roslyn (Scott) Darrow and Kestter Darrow, born in prison on March 3, 1692

Died in prison

• Mercy 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
• At least nine or ten others

Indicted by grand jury

• Stephen Johnson
• William Barker, Sr.
• Edward Farrington
• Jacob Boswell
• Elizabeth Hutchinson Hart (released after 7 months in jail after son Thomas petitions on her behalf)

Not indicted

• William Proctor
• Sarah Cloyse (née Towne)
• Phillip English
• Katerina Biss
• Mary English (née Hollingsworth)
• Tituba
• Thomas Farrer, Sr. – spent 7 months in Boston jail before being released
• Harry Boswell

Evaded arrest

• George Jacobs, Jr.
• Daniel Andrew

Named, but no arrest warrant issued

• Anne Bradstreet (née Wood)
• Dudley Bradstreet
• John Bradstreet
• John Busse – minister in Wells, Maine
• Francis Dane – minister in Andover, Massachusetts
• Sarah Hale (née Noyes) – wife of Rev. John Hale, minister in Beverly, Massachusetts
• James Howe – husband of Elizabeth Howe
• Hezekiah Usher
• Mary Phips (née Spencer) – wife of Massachusetts Governor William Phips
• Sarah Swift (née Clapp)
• Margaret Thatcher (née Webb) – mother-in-law of magistrate Jonathan Corwin

COURT PERSONNEL

Magistrates

Court of Oyer and Terminer, 1692

• William Stoughton, Chief Magistrate
• John Richards
• Nathaniel Saltonstall
• 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

Jurors

The list of jurors who served in the trial of Rebecca Nurse does not include other jurors who served in prior and subsequent trials.

Trial of Rebecca Nurse

• Captain Thomas Fisk, Sr., jury foreman
• John Bacheler
• John Dane
• Andrew Eliot
• Joseph Evelith
• Captain Thomas Fisk, Jr.
• William Fisk
• Henry Herrick, Jr.
• John Peabody
• Thomas Pearly, Sr.
• Thomas Perkins

PUBLIC FIGURES

• William Phips – Governor of Massachusetts
• Thomas Brattle
• Robert Calef

Clergy

• Cotton Mather, of Boston, Massachusetts
• Increase Mather, of Boston, Massachusetts
• John Hale, of Beverly, Massachusetts
• Nicholas Noyes, of Salem
• Samuel Parris, of Salem Village – father of Betty Parris and uncle of Abigail Williams
• Francis Dane, of Andover, Massachusetts
• Samuel Willard, of Groton, Massachusetts, and Boston, Massachusetts