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In one case, after a man accidentally shot and killed another man, Lydia Gilbert, of Windsor, Conn. Want more historical perspective? By this time, testimony from multiple witnesses was required in order to obtain a witchcraft conviction.
In fact, many of the accused after were acquitted—and some were even awarded damages for having been slandered. In , Katharine Harrison, of Wethersfield, Conn.
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In — the same year that the Salem witch trials began — Fairfield, Conn. But none resulted in execution. Though witchcraft would technically remain a capital crime in Connecticut until the 18th century, the courts there were growing skeptical and weary of witchcraft trials. Too many of them, it seemed, were the result of personal feuds. Even an unsolicited confession was no longer sufficient. And yet, even as the Connecticut legal system entered a comparative age of enlightenment, Salem was descending into a lethal hysteria—20 witches executed in less than four months.
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Contact us at editors time. A 19th-century illustration of the founding of the colony of New Haven in later Connecticut by puritan preacher John Davenport, They are, presumably, referring to the Salem witch trials , when 19 people in 17th-century Massachusetts were executed on charges of witchcraft. In my scholarship on the darker aspects of U. I teach a college course here in Massachusetts that explores this perennially popular but frequently misinterpreted period in New England history.
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Perhaps the most salient point about witch trials, students quickly come to see, is gender. In Salem, 14 of the 19 people found guilty of and executed for witchcraft during that cataclysmic year of were women. Across New England, where witch trials occurred somewhat regularly from until , women vastly outnumbered men in the ranks of the accused and executed.
According to author Carol F. And even when men faced allegations of witchcraft, it was typically because they were somehow associated with accused women. As historian John Demos has established , the few Puritan men tried for witchcraft were mostly the husbands or brothers of alleged female witches. Women held a precarious, mostly powerless position within the deeply religious Puritan community. The Puritans thought women should have babies, raise children, manage household life and model Christian subservience to their husbands.
Recalling Eve and her sinful apple , Puritans also believed that women were more likely to be tempted by the Devil. When women stepped outside their prescribed roles, they became targets. Too much wealth might reflect sinful gains. Too little money demonstrated bad character. Too many children could indicate a deal with a devil. Having too few children was suspicious, too.
Mary Webster of Hadley, Massachusetts, was married without children and relied on neighborly charity to survive. Apparently, Webster was not meek and grateful enough for the alms she received: She developed a reputation for being unpleasant. Smith died anyway. Webster, however, survived the attempted execution — much to the terror of her neighbors, I imagine.
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She was the wife of the wealthiest man in town and the mother of nine healthy children. In she was charged with witchcraft. Parsons, too, was acquitted.
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