![]() ![]() Mary Brown was a widow from Reading who accused Sarah Cole of Lynn of afflicting her in October of 1692. She was born in Salem Village in 1674.īooth accused the following people of afflicting her: John Alden Jr, Daniel Andrew, Martha Corey, Giles Corey, Mary DeRich, Philip English, Mary Ireson, John Proctor, Sarah Proctor, Margaret Prince, Elizabeth Proctor, William Proctor, Wilmot Redd, Job Tookey, John Willard, Mary Warren. Elizabeth Booth:Įlizabeth Booth was one of the afflicted girls from Salem Village. In addition, Bibber also served as a witness against the following people: Mary Bradbury, Giles Corey, Mary Easty, Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Dorcas Hoar, George Jacobs Sr, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse, Ann Pudeator, Alice Parker, John Proctor, Job Tookey, John Willard. Sarah Bibber accused the following people of afflicting her: Mary Bradbury, Susannah Martin, Lydia Dustin, Dorcas Hoar, Sarah Morey, Mary Witheridge. ![]() She was described by Joseph Fowler, as well as various other people, in his testimony during Rebecca Nurse’s case as a “very turbulent unruly spirit” who had a habit of making mischief among her neighbors and would use foul language and quarrel with her husband often. Sarah Bibber was a 36-year-old woman from Salem Village who was married to John Bibber with whom she had a 4-year-old child. Shortly after, on July 19, Joseph Ballard filed official complaints against Mary Lacey Sr and Mary Lacey Jr for bewitching his wife. 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. It is not known who the two girls were, but is believed to possibly be Ann Purnam Jr and Mary Walcott. 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. Joseph Ballard was the constable of Andover. ![]() As a result, Ebenezer filed complaints against the two women on September 3. The two afflicted girls made the trip to Gloucester and claimed that the specters of Elizabeth Dicer and Margaret Prince were tormenting the women. In September of 1692, when Gloucester resident Eleanor Babson and her neighbor Mary Sargent began complaining of spectral visions of Indians and French soldiers someone, probably Eleanor’s son, Ebenezer, asked some of the afflicted Salem village girls to visit Eleanor in an attempt to find out who was afflicting her. These names were collected from the arrest warrants, examination records and indictments of the accused: Ebenezer Babson:Įbenezer Babson was a 25-year-old fisherman from Gloucester. The following is a list of the accusers and the people they accused. Most of the accusers were from Salem Village but some were from Andover, Boxford, Ipswich, Gloucester, Reading and Marblehead. This is because as the trials dragged on in Salem, the witchcraft accusations started to spread to neighboring towns. The accusers were from all over the Massachusetts Bay Colony, not just Salem. 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. These afflicted girls were: Elizabeth Booth, Sarah Churchill, Elizabeth Hubbard, Mercy Lewis, Ann Putnam Jr, Betty Parris, Susannah Sheldon, Mary Walcott, Mary Warren and Abigail Williams. They accused the majority of the victims in the trials. The main accusers were a group of girls and young women from Salem Village who are often referred to as the “afflicted girls” because they claimed that witches were afflicting them by attacking them and making them ill. The Salem Witch Trials accusers were a group of people who accused the Salem Witch Trials victims of witchcraft in 1692. ![]()
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