| 1692/00/00 |
Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin and Sarah Wildes are hanged from a tree on Proctor's Ledge. Their bodies are dumped into a low spot beneath the ledge where the memorial is now. |
Proctor's Ledge, Salem, Salem, MA
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| 1692/00/00 |
At the Salem Village Parsonage, Tituba, a slave owned by Samuel Parris, probably, tells Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams tales of voodoo and witchcraft. |
Salem Village Historic District, Danvers
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| 1692/01/00 |
Ann Putnam experiences torments such as barking like a dog, suffering seizures and complaining of being pinched by invisible spirits. |
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| 1692/03/00 |
As soon as the girls are declared bewitched, Edward Putnam repairs to the house of his brother and there proceeds to examine them in order to ascertain whether or not they are truthful in their declarations. |
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| 1692/03/01 |
With Jonathan Corwin and John Hathorne presiding, testimony is presented that Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are witches. |
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| 1692/03/01 |
Joseph Putnam and Ezekiel Cheever take notes during the examinations of Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba. Putnam will be one of the most outspoken opponents of the trials. |
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| 1692/03/21 |
As Martha Cory is led into the meetinghouse, a Village woman named Bethshaa Pope flings first her muff and then her shoe at Martha, striking her in the head. |
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| 1692/03/21 |
The afflicted girls, sitting together at the front, cry out in 'extreme agony'. When Martha Cory wrings her hands, they scream that they were being pinched and when Martha bites her lips, they declare that they can feel teeth biting into their own flesh. |
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| 1692/03/21 |
Martha Cory of Salem Village is examined by Hathorne and Corwin before a throng of several hundred in the Village meetinghouse. |
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| 1692/03/21 |
Jonathan Corwin cross examines Martha Cory of Salem Village before several hundred spectators at the Salem Village meetinghouse. |
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| 1692/05/31 |
Martha Ingalls Allen Carrier's trail begins before judges John Hathorne, Jonathan Corwin and Bartholomew Gedney at the Salem Village Meeting House. |
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| 1692/06/00 |
The Court of Oyer and Terminer is established to facilitate hearing cases awaiting in Boston's jails delayed while the Charter with England is revised. |
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| 1692/07/00 |
Joseph Putnam and thirty-eight others sign a petition for the acquittal of Rebecca Nurse. |
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| 1692/07/19 |
Rebecca Nurse is hung until death for practicing witchcraft. |
Proctor's Ledge, Salem, Salem, MA
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| 1692/08/05 |
Nathaniel Felton Sr and Nathaniel Felton Jr sign a Petition in support of John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor. The document is in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. |
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| 1692/08/05 |
John Willard is brought to trial found guilty of witchcraft. After the trial, John Peabody and eleven other jury members who convicted John Willard, will sign and circulate a declaration of regret. |
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| 1692/08/19 |
John Proctor, found guilty of witchcraft, is hanged at Proctor's Ledge, near Gallows Hill. |
Proctor's Ledge, Salem, Salem, MA
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| 1692/08/19 |
Martha Ingalls Allen Carrier (granddaughter of Edmund Ingalls), is denounced as a rampant hag by Cotton Mather and hanged as a witch at Proctor's Ledge, Salem. Site is near 7 Pope Street in Salem, MA. |
Proctor's Ledge, Salem, Salem, MA
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| 1692/08/19 |
Found guilty of practicing witchcraft, John Willard is executed by hanging at Proctor's Ledge, near Gallows Hill. |
Proctor's Ledge, Salem, Salem, MA
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| 1692/08/19 |
Convicted of witchcraft, Rev George Burroughs is hanged on Proctor's Ledge in Salem, Massachusetts. Site is near 7 Pope Street, Salem. |
Proctor's Ledge, Salem, Salem, MA
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| 1692/08/19 |
George Jacobs Sr, found guilty of witchcraft, is executed by hanging at Proctor's Ledge, near Gallows Hill. |
Proctor's Ledge, Salem, Salem, MA
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| 1692/09/19 |
Giles Corey, accused of witchcraft along with his wife Martha Corey during the Salem Witch Trials, is crushed to death after two days of pressing. |
Salem, MA, Massachusetts
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| 1692/10/00 |
Licensed to sell drink out-of-doors from her home, Widow Mary Gedney, (2nd wife Eleazer Gedney), bills the Province for entertainment of jurors and witnesses for refreshments provided during the examinations and trials. |
Gedney and Cox Houses, Salem, MA
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| 1693/02/00 |
Mary Gedney receives 40 pounds as partial payment for what the government says are extraordinary charges left by the Court of Oyer and Terminer. |
Gedney and Cox Houses, Salem, MA
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| 1696/00/00 |
Samuel Sewall becomes convinced that the deaths of his two sons in 1696 was God's punishment for his participation in the Salem witch trials. |
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| 1696/00/00 |
Constable Joseph Putnam refuses to collect the taxes intended to pay the Reverend Samuel Parris's salary. |
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| 1697/00/00 |
Reverend Samuel Parris quits Salem Village. |
Salem Village Historic District, Danvers
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| 1697/01/17 |
At the Old South Meeting House (razed), Minister Samuel Willard reads Samuel Sewall's apology for his involvement in the Salem witch trials. Sewall ask for both man's and God's forgiveness. |
Old South Meetinghouse, Boston
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| 1711/00/00 |
George Burroughs's children receive compensation for his wrongful execution. |
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| 1773/00/00 |
The Massachusetts legislature passes a bill disallowing the use of spectral evidence in trials and allowing heirs to file claims for return of property seized in the proceedings against John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor and Rebecca Nurse. |
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