Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Dark Eve
- 2 The girls of Salem
- 3 Boys and girls together
- 4 June 10, 1692
- 5 July 19, 1692
- 6 August 19, 1692
- 7 George Burroughs and the Mathers
- 8 September 22, 1692
- 9 Assessing an inextricable storm
- 10 Salem story
- Appendix Letter of William Phips to George Corwin, April 26, 1693
- Notes
- Index
- Titles in the series
3 - Boys and girls together
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Dark Eve
- 2 The girls of Salem
- 3 Boys and girls together
- 4 June 10, 1692
- 5 July 19, 1692
- 6 August 19, 1692
- 7 George Burroughs and the Mathers
- 8 September 22, 1692
- 9 Assessing an inextricable storm
- 10 Salem story
- Appendix Letter of William Phips to George Corwin, April 26, 1693
- Notes
- Index
- Titles in the series
Summary
I use the feminine pronoun here because in Western Civilization the overwhelming majority of witchcraft victims have been women, who are more subject to hysteria than men.
– Chadwick Hansen, 1972The accusations that had begun formally with the legal complaints of February 29 continued steadily through March, April, and May. Then, as if to pause forthe trial and execution of Bridget Bishop in early June, the flow of accusations diminished to the point where, after June 4, no warrants for arrest were issued until July 1. By the end of May, seventeen of the twenty people who would be executed were already in prison. July saw relatively little in the way of new accusations until around the middle of the month, at which point the main activity shifted away from Salem Village to Andover.
Although the first Andover accusation had occurred in May against Martha Carrier, July saw a dramatic outpouring of accusations and confessions in Andover.According to Calef, an Andover constable, Joseph Ballard, invited Salem Village accusers to Andover to uncover the cause of his wife's illness. Ann Putnam, Jr., and Mary Walcott came to Andover and continued their accusations of witchcraft. On July 19, the date of five executions, Ballard complained against Mary Lacey, Sr., whose mother, Ann Foster, had been examined on July 15 and had confessed, although not to hurting Ballard's wife.
By the time of Mary Lacey's examination Abigail Williams had quietly dropped out; but Lacey's daughter, 15-year-old Mary Jr., entered the picture as a new and vigorous accuser.
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- Salem StoryReading the Witch Trials of 1692, pp. 51 - 66Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993