Connecticut Witch Trials
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- First Confession
- First Executed
- Wethersfield
- Edith, I find you guilty of DARK MAGIC!
- In 1648, Mary Johnson was the first person recorded in Connecticut to be accursed of black magic, ironically just 40 years preceding the more infamous Salem trials.
- www.wethersfieldhistory.org/articles/connecticuts-witch-trials/
- On May 26, 1647, Alice Young became the first person in the colonies to be executed for witchcraft.
- Accused witches in Wethersfield included:Carringtons, Mrs. Bassett, Mrs. Knapp, and Lydia Gilbert.
- gulp E-E-Edith! You're going to want to see this!
- In total, Connecticut had 43 witch trials with fortunately only 16, just 37% ending in execution. 16x 100=1,600/43=
- The only goodwitch is a dead witch!
- scoff You just hate me, because I'm gorgeous!
- In Wethersfield alone, there are nine accusations and three executions between 1648 and 1668, a twenty-year span. Mary Johnson's case, there was no trial or even recorded accusation, because she confessed immediately under pressure from Reverend Sam Stone.
- But why
- You are to go nowhere near Edith!
- Wethersfield's final executed sorceress, Katherine Harrison, was accused due to quickly becoming rich, since originally, she was a maid in Hartford. However, when her husband died, she inherited an estate worth one thousand pounds.
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