List of people of the Salem witch trials

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

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 February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of them women.

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 – servant of Dr William Griggs, local physician Mercy Lewis – servant of Thomas Putnam; 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. Margaret Rule Susannah Walcott Mercy Short Martha Sprague Mary Warren Abigail Williams – cousin of Betty Parris Other accusers (including accused witches who "confessed") Benjamin Abbot Ebenezer Babson William Barker, Sr. Rev. Thomas Barnard Sarah Bibber John Bly, Sr and Rebecca Bly Thomas Chandler Nathaniel Coit Deliverance Dane (née Hazeltine) John DeRich Joseph Draper Nathaniel Ingersoll Jeremiah Neale Samuel and Ruth Perley (or Pearly) Ann Putnam Sr. (née Carr) Edward Putnam Hannah Putnam John Putnam, Jr. John Putnam, Sr. Jonathan (or Johnathan) Putnam Nathaniel Putnam Thomas Putnam Timothy Swann Joseph Whipple Bray Wilkins John Wilkins Samuel Wilkins Ann Wilkins Physician who diagnosed "bewitchment" William Griggs – relative and employer of Elizabeth Hubbard Convicted Convicted and executed Bridget Bishop (née Playfer; executed June 10, 1692) Rebecca Nurse (née Towne; July 19, 1692) Sarah Good (formerly Poole, née Solart; July 19, 1692) Elizabeth Howe (née Jackson; July 19, 1692) Susannah Martin (née North; July 19, 1692) Sarah Wildes (née Averill; July 19, 1692) George Burroughs (August 19, 1692) George Jacobs, Sr. (August 19, 1692) Martha Carrier (née Allen; August 19, 1692) John Proctor (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) Alice Parker (September 22, 1692) Ann Pudeator (September 22, 1692) Wilmot Redd (September 22, 1692) Margaret Scott (September 22, 1692) Samuel Wardwell, Sr. (September 22, 1692) Convicted and died in prison Ann Foster (née Alcock) – died in custody in December 1692 Convicted but escaped Mary Bradbury (née Perkins) Pardoned Convicted and pardoned Abigail Faulkner, Sr. (née Dane), who was pregnant Dorcas Hoar, "confessed" Elizabeth Proctor (née Bassett), who was pregnant Sarah Wardwell, "confessed" Pled guilty and pardoned Mary Lacey Sr. (née Foster) – daughter of Ann Foster Not found guilty or otherwise survived the trial period Refused to plead 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 Unindicted or acquitted Arthur Abbot Nehemiah Abbot, Jr. Abigail Barker (née Wheeler) Mary Barker William Barker, Jr. Edward Bishop Edward Bishop III Sarah Bishop Katerina Biss Mary Bridges, Jr. Mary Bridges (née Tyler), Sr. Sarah Bridges Sarah Buckley (née Smith) Sarah Carrier Thomas Carrier, Jr. Bethiah Carter Jr. Bethiah Carter Sr. Rachel Clinton Sarah Cole (née Aslebee) Phoebe Day Elizabeth Dicer Rebecca Dike Mehitable Downing Lydia Dustin (died in custody after trial) Sarah Dustin Mary Dyer Daniel and Lydia Eames Esther Elwell Eunice Frye (née Potter) Sarah Hawkes, Jr. Margaret Jacobs Rebecca Jacobs (née Andrews) Elizabeth Johnson (née Dane), Sr. Mary Lacey, Jr. – daughter of Mary Lacey, Sr. and granddaughter of Ann Foster Mary Marston (née Osgood) Joan Penney (or Penny) Hannah Post Susannah Post Margaret Prince Susanna Rootes – either released or found not guilty; died around or after 1692 Abigail Rowe Mary Rowe Mary Toothaker (née Allen) - wife of Roger Toothaker and sister of Martha Carrier Job Tookey Hannah Tyler Mary Tyler (née Lovett) Hezekiah Usher II Rachel Vinson Mercy Wardwell Mary Whittredge (or Witheridge; née Buckley) Edward Wooland Released on bond Sarah Carrier Thomas Carrier, Jr. Elizabeth Dicer Abigail Faulkner, Jr. Dorothy Faulkner Dorothy Good – daughter of Sarah Good Frances Hutchins (née Alcock) Margaret Prince Abigail Rowe Mary Rowe Sarah Wilson (née Lord) Escaped John Alden, Jr. William Barker, Sr. Mary (née Hollingsworth) and Philip (or Phillip) English (married couple) Edward Farrington Not tried Born in prison Mercy, daughter of Sarah Good, born and died in prison some time prior to her mother's execution. Died in prison Lydia Dustin Ann Foster (née Alcock) Mercy, infant daughter of Sarah 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 Released from prison after the Governor ended the Witch Trials Mary Black, slave who was arrested and indicted but never went to trial Sarah Rist (née Clarke) - died 31 May 1698, Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Indicted by grand jury Stephen Johnson William Barker, Sr. Edward Farrington (escaped) Mary Green (escaped) Elizabeth Hutchinson Hart (released after 7 months in jail after her son Thomas filed petitions on her behalf)[1] Not indicted John Porter Sr. Israel Porter William Proctor 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 Evaded arrest or escaped Daniel Andrew George Jacobs, Jr. Named, but no arrest warrant issued Anne Bradstreet (née Wood) Dudley Bradstreet John Bradstreet Rev. John Busse (or Buss) – minister in Wells, Maine Rev. Francis Dane – 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 (or How) Lady Mary Phips (née Spencer) – wife of Massachusetts Governor Sir William Phips Sarah Swift (née Clapp) Margaret Sheaf Thacher (née Webb) – Jonathan Corwin's mother-in-law Court personnel Magistrates Court of Oyer and Terminer, 1692[2] 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[3] 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 Sir William Phips – Governor of Massachusetts 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) References Suffolk Court Records Case No. 2668, p. 149, "Petition of Thomas Hart" Massachusetts Archives Collections, Governor's Council Executive Records, Vol. 2, 1692, pages 176–177. Certified copy from the original records at Her Majestie's State Paper Office, London, UK, September 16, 1846. Records of the Massachusetts Supreme Court of Judicature, 1692/3, Page 1. Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Judicial Archives External links University of Virginia: Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project The Accused Witches of Gloucester