July 19: Sarah Good, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse, Elizabeth Howe, and Sarah Wildes are executed by hanging at Gallows Hill in Salem. Mather, Cotton. The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England. John Dunton, 1692. Sir Colin was formerly chairman of easyJet, deputy chairman of Smiths Group plc, director of Thales plc and pro chancellor of Cranfield University. He was knighted in 1988 for services to export. I am hoping to write Sarah’s history in her true light to extinguish the wrong done her and her co-defendants, and this small piece will enable me to gain a clearer picture of hw she was caught up in the furor orchestrated in part by one Cotton Mather and his ilk. Another Perley relative, Deborah Perley, also gave testimony against Howe concerning Samuel Perley’s daughter:

Although numerous people came to the court to provide testimony against Elizabeth Howe, a number of people spoke in her defense too. Ancestry.com, comp. Salem Witches. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original information from surviving legal records from the towns and villages in question and appearing in Godbeer, Richard, comp. The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England, Appendices A & B. [Information taken from Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum, eds. The Salem Witchcraft Papers: Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak. 3 vols. New York, NY: 1977.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1992.In her defense, Elizabeth Howe's father-in-law testified to her good nature. He said that she, "[set] a side humain infurmitys as [become] a Christion with Respact to [himself] as a father very dutifully & a wifife to [his] son very carfull loveing obedient and kind Considering his want of eye sight." He concluded his witness by saying, "now desiering god may guide your honours to se a difference between predigous and Consentes I rest yours to Sarve." [2] Execution [ edit ]

The people who testified in her defense were: James Howe, Sr, Joseph and Mary Knowlton, Edward Payson, Rev. Samuel Phillips, Simon and Mary Chapman, Daniel Warner, John Warner, Sarah Warner and Deborah Hadley. Ann Putnam, Jr. was one of the "afflicted" girls. She was one of the most aggressive accusers, her name appearing over 400 times in court documents. Ann was twelve years old at the start of the trials. She accused nineteen people and saw eleven of them hanged. This is a significant amount when one considers the fact that only nineteen people total hanged because of the accusations against them. In 1706, Ann Putnam, Jr. apologized for her actions; she was the only "afflictee" to do so publicly. [5] October 1710, Convictions Reversed, The General Court of Massachusetts Bay, An act, the several convictions, judgments, and attainders be, and hereby are, reversed, and declared to be null and void. [7] The behavior of several children in the home of the Goodwin family in Boston results in the accusation, trial and execution of their Irish washerwoman, Ann Glover (also known as "Goody Glover"), for witchcraft.

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I was curious to see to whom they had talked about us. But most of all I felt a sense of relief that there was a public outrage about Lizzie's death. It made me feel better, that the world was sharing our disbelief. I felt cheated that by Wednesday it was no longer thought newsworthy. But it did mean that our story was firmly in the world out there, which made me feel very nervous about going out. Even though Phillips seemed to clear the air concerning Hannah Perley’s bewitching, other neighbors, particularly the Cummings family, told the court more incriminating stories. In myriad small ways she helped us to find ways to cope – so every night for years Jessica would say a prayer that was more like a phone call to God: "Dear Lord, thank you for the nice day I have had today and for looking after Lucy and Daddy and me. Can I talk to Mummy now ..." and she would then tell her mother everything she had done that day. It has been a great joy to be invited into the lives of so wide a variety of people, and it is a chapter of my life that I shall never forget. I have received nothing but kindness and support throughout, and I feel most fortunate to have had this opportunity to serve Her Majesty the Queen in this County. May 27: Governor William Phips issues a commission for a Court of Oyer and Terminer and appoints as judges John Hathorne, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Bartholomew Gedney, Peter Sergeant, Samuel Sewall, Wait Still Winthrop and Lieutenant Governor William Stoughton.

Sir Richard has been an Epilepsy Society vice president since May 1995 and was formerly deputy chairman and then chairman of Glaxo Wellcome plc (until May 2002). He was rector of Imperial College London (from 2001 to 2008) and chairman of NHS London (from 2008 to 2010). Since 2010 he has been senior independent director of the Eurasian Natural Resources Company (ENRC) and chair of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. In 1994 he was awarded a knighthood for services to the pharmaceutical industry. Abigail Williams was 11 at the time of Elizabeth Howe's trial in 1692. She was one of the most well-known "afflicted" girls in the Salem witch trials. Her name appeared on the arrest warrant for Elizabeth Howe. [2] She was the niece of Reverend Samuel Parris, reverend of Salem Village and was one of the first two girls to become "afflicted". [6] Marion Starkey, The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials, (USA: Anchor Books, 1969)Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, eds., The Salem Witchcraft Papers (hereafter SWP), Vol. I, DaCapo Press, 1977, pp. 248-255 They took the child to several doctors who told them she was "under an evil hand." Her condition continued for two or three years until "she pined away to skin and bones and ended her sorrowful life."