Salem

Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States,

# History

## Origin of name

The Native Americans who inhabited the central Willamette Valley at first European contact, the Kalapuya, called the area Chim-i-ki-ti, which means "meeting or resting place" in the Central Kalapuya language (Santiam).

#### Christian Conquest

Colonial settlement of the shores of Massachusetts Bay began in 1620 with the founding of the Plymouth Colony. Other attempts at colonization took place throughout the 1620s.

Cape Ann led by Roger Conant. Conant's leadership provided the stability for the settlers to survive the first two years, but John Endecott replaced him by order of the Massachusetts Bay Company. Conant stepped aside and was granted 200 acres (0.81 km2) of land in compensation. These "New Planters" and the "Old Planters" agreed to cooperate because of the diplomacy of Conant and Endecott. To recognize this peaceful transition to the new government, the name of the settlement was changed to Salem, the hellenized name of Shalem (שָׁלֵם), the royal city of Melchizedek, which is identified with Jerusalem.

## Connecticut Witch Trials

Alse Young was born in 1615 in New Windsor, Berkshire, England and moved to Windsor, Connecticut during the 1630s.

She was the wife of John Young, She had a daughter, Alice Young Beamon, who was accused of witchcraft in nearby Springfield, Massachusetts, 30 years later. Her daughter Alice Young Beamon married and had children with Simon Beamon and was also accused of witchcraft but defended herself by claiming that she was being slandered. Even though Alice Young was a woman without a son when the witchcraft accusation was lodged, her husband was still alive during her accusation.finally in 1646 Alice was hanged and executed as a witch.

Her death started the **Connecticut Witch Trials** in 1647 to 1663. They were the first large-scale witch trials in the American colonies, 30 Year's before the Salem Witch Trials.

John M. Taylor lists a total of 37 cases, 11 of which resulted in executions. The execution of Alse Young of Windsor in the spring of 1647 was the beginning of the witch panic in the area, which would not come to an end until 1670 with the release of Katherine Harrison.

## Salem

New England had been settled by religious dissenters seeking to build a Bible-based society according to their own chosen discipline. The original 1629 Royal Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was vacated in 1684, after which King James II installed Sir Edmund Andros as the governor of the Dominion of New England. Andros was ousted in 1689 after the "Glorious Revolution" in England replaced the Catholic James II with the Protestant co-rulers William and Mary.

In Salem Village in February 1692, Betty Parris (age 9) and her cousin Abigail Williams (age 11), the daughter and the niece, respectively, of Reverend Samuel Parris, the young women unware of Christianity cruelty began to explore their nature and magic in Salem Village.

Many Other young women in the village began to exhibit similar behaviors. creating for a time the first Magical Village in modern history.

# Witch Hunt

The first three people accused and arrested for allegedly afflicting Betty Parris, Abigail Williams, 12-year-old Ann Putnam, Jr., and Elizabeth Hubbard, were Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba—with Tituba being the first.

Sarah Good was a destitute woman accused of witchcraft because of her reputation. At her trial, she was accused of rejecting Puritan ideals of self-control and discipline when she chose to torment and "scorn children instead of leading them towards the path of salvation.

Sarah Osborne rarely attended church meetings. She was accused of witchcraft because the Puritans believed that Osborne had her own self-interests in mind following her remarriage to an indentured servant. The citizens of the town disapproved of her trying to control her son's inheritance from her previous marriage.

Tituba, an enslaved South American Indian woman from the West Indies, likely became a target because of her ethnic differences from most of the other villagers. She was accused of attracting girls like Abigail Williams and Betty Parris with stories of enchantment from *Malleus Maleficarum*. These tales about sexual encounters with demons, swaying the minds of men, and fortune-telling were said to stimulate the imaginations of girls and made Tituba an obvious target of accusations.

Each of these women was on March 1, 1692, then sent to jail.

In March, others were accused of witchcraft: Martha Corey, Dorothy Good, and Rebecca Nurse in Salem Village, and Rachel Clinton in nearby Ipswich. Martha Corey had expressed skepticism about the credibility of the girls' accusations and thus drawn attention. The charges against her and Rebecca Nurse deeply troubled the community because Martha Corey was a full covenanted member of the Church in Salem Village, as was Rebecca Nurse in the Church in Salem Town. If such upstanding people could be witches, the townspeople thought, then anybody could be a witch, and church membership was no protection from accusation. Dorothy Good, the daughter of Sarah Good, was only four years old but was not exempted from questioning by the magistrates. her answers were construed as a confession that implicated her mother. In Ipswich, Rachel Clinton was arrested for witchcraft at the end of March on independent charges unrelated to the afflictions of the girls in Salem Village.

On April 30, George Burroughs, Lydia Dustin, Susannah Martin, Dorcas Hoar, Sarah Morey, and Philip English (Mary's husband) were arrested.

on May 27, 1692, William Phips ordered the establishment of a Special Court of Oyer and Terminer for Suffolk, Essex and Middlesex counties to prosecute the cases of those in jail. Warrants were issued for more people.

## Death

Sarah Osborne, one of the first three persons accused with her magic and help from George Burroughs faked her death inside the jail on May 10, 1692 , 2 days later Sarah got out from her grave and went to prison to rescue the other's. but she found more people in jail from Salem Village:

* Sarah Dustin (daughter of Lydia Dustin)
* Ann Sears
* Bethiah Carter Sr. and her daughter Bethiah Carter
* Jr., George Jacobs Sr. and his granddaughter Margaret Jacobs,
* John Willard
* Alice Parker
* Ann Pudeator
* Abigail Soames
* George Jacobs Jr. (son of George Jacobs Sr. and father of Margaret Jacobs)
* Daniel Andrew
* Rebecca Jacobs (wife of George Jacobs Jr. and sister of Daniel Andrew)
* Sarah Buckley and her daughter Mary Witheridge
* Elizabeth Colson
* Elizabeth Hart
* Thomas Farrar Sr. Roger Toothaker
* Sarah Proctor (daughter of John and Elizabeth Proctor)
* Sarah Bassett (sister-in-law of Elizabeth Proctor)
* Susannah Roots
* Mary DeRich (another sister-in-law of Elizabeth Proctor)
* Sarah Pease
* Elizabeth Cary
* Martha Carrier
* Elizabeth Fosdick
* Wilmot Redd
* Sarah Rice
* Elizabeth Howe
* Capt. John Alden (son of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins)
* William Proctor (son of John and Elizabeth Proctor)
* John Flood
* Mary Toothaker (wife of Roger Toothaker and sister of Martha Carrier) and her daughter Margaret Toothaker
* Arthur Abbott

almost the entire Salem Village of Danvers, Massachusetts was about to be executed. something should be done.

Sarah went back to her grave and tried with her magic to revive the dead , after her failure , she began praying in God and Satan but that too was failed , 2 days after desperate attempt's , she felt that someone was watching her... she began looking but found nothing and she began to search for something to use.

From June 30 through early July, Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin and Sarah Wildes, along with Rebecca Nurse, went to trial at this time, where they were found guilty. All five women were executed by hanging on July 19, 1692.

In August, grand juries indicted George Burroughs, Mary Eastey, Martha Corey and George Jacobs Sr. Trial juries convicted Martha Carrier, George Jacobs Sr., George Burroughs, John Willard, Elizabeth Proctor, and John Proctor. Elizabeth Proctor was given a temporary stay of execution because she was pregnant. On August 19, 1692, Martha Carrier, George Jacobs Sr., George Burroughs, John Willard, and John Proctor were executed.

# THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK

on August 20 , 1692 George Burroughs came out of his grave by Sarah Osborne who had found a Djinn‏‎ and asked it to keep him alive.

But the Execution's were continued and on September 22, 1692 Mary Eastey, Martha Corey, Ann Pudeator, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Alice Parker, Wilmot Redd and Margaret Scott. were executed.

Sarah asked the Jinn to keep them alive but the Jinn asked her to choose two only and so Alice Parker and Martha Corey was did not died.

Marta Corey , Sarah Osborne , Alice Parker and George Burroughs abandoned Salem and asked the Jinn to make them powerful enough to not come close to death again , the four then became Immortal's a wish that soon tried to undo but it was not possible. and later the four found home in Eastwick, Philadelphia and their story continues..

as for Salem...the last trial was held in May 1693, public response to the events continued. In the decades following the trials, survivors and family members (and their supporters) sought to establish the innocence of the individuals who were convicted and to gain compensation. In the following centuries, the descendants of those unjustly accused and condemned have sought to honor their memories. Events in Salem and Danvers in 1992 were used to commemorate the trials. In November 2001, years after the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the trials, the Massachusetts legislature passed an act exonerating all who had been convicted and naming each of the innocent, with the exception of Elizabeth Johnson, who was cleared by the Massachusetts Senate on 26 May 2022, the last conviction to be reversed, after pressure from schoolchildren who discovered the anomaly. The trials have figured in American culture and been explored in numerous works of art, literature and film.

Christianity did not stopped in Salem. many thousands of people wizards or not were executed.

keep a moment of silence in their honor after you read this.