Salem witch trial

Salem Witch Trials

  • A Law Is Passed

    A Law Is Passed

    The English Parliment makes Witchcraft a capital crime.
  • The Punishment

    The Punishment

    Parliment takes their peoples charters away as punishment for trying to be independent . A charter guarantees land titles.
  • The Governor Is Arrested

    The Governor Is Arrested

    Governor Sir Edmund Andros is imprisoned in Castle William Dungeon for harsh taxes and taking peoples' land titles.
  • The Circle Is Formed

    The Circle Is Formed

    The girls of Salem forms their circle. The people in the first, orignal circle were Mary Walcott, Elizabeth Booth, Susannah Sheldon, Betty Parris, and Abigail Williams.
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    The Birth

    The Putnams had four girls and one boy since 1692.
  • The Mayhem Starts

    The Mayhem Starts

    The girls in the circle begin to start pretending to be afflicted.
  • Tituba

    Tituba

    Tibuta has a arrest warrant issued against her.
  • Jail

    Jail

    Sarah Osbourne and Sarah Good are taken to jail with Tituba.
  • Rebecca Nurse

    Rebecca Nurse

    Rebecca Nurse is accused of witchcraft as well as Martha Cory.
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    Mary Warren

    Mary Warren tries to confess but ends up joining the afflicted girls once again.
  • Phillip English Returns

    Phillip English Returns

    Phillip English visits Susanna and Mary at the Putnams.
  • Court of Oyer and Terminer

    Court of Oyer and Terminer

    The first session of Court of Oyer and Terminer sat in Salem.
  • The First Hanging

    The First Hanging

    Bridget Bishop is the first to be hung.
  • The Meeting In Boston

    The Meeting In Boston

    Twelve ministers gathered in Boston and made the accusations of the shapes of people visiting the afflicted weigh less tha before
  • Trying It Again

    Trying It Again

    The court sat once again. On that day Rebecca Nurse, Elizabeth How, Sarah Good, Sarah Wild, and Susanna Martin were tried, They were all sentencd to be hung.
  • The Accused Are Hung

    The Accused Are Hung

    Those who were accused on June 28th were all hung.
  • On Gallows Hill

    On Gallows Hill

    Susanna meets up with Jonathan under the tree at Gallows Hill to meet Mary Bradbury, a woman accused of witchcraft.
  • Pike Arrives

    Pike Arrives

    In August, Reverend Richard Pike of Salisbury arrives at the Putnams and writes in a letter what Susanna English knows.
  • Another Hanging

    Another Hanging

    George Jacobs, Martha Carrier, George Burroughs, John Procter, and John Willard were hung.
  • The Pressing

    The Pressing

    Giles Cory was taken into an open field and pressed to death by placing a board ontop of him, They kept piling stones ontop of the board until he died. He could have confessed but he wanted the rest of his family to keep their house and possessions.
  • Susanna Tells Her Story Once Again

    Susanna Tells Her Story Once Again

    Susanna told Thomas Brattle her story and he writes in a letter.
  • Copies Everywhere

    Copies Everywhere

    The copies of Thomas Brattle's letter is passed around.
  • The Return

    The Return

    William English returns home and Governor Phips dissolved the Court of Oyer and Terminer, childen were released from jail as well as the adults put in to jail based on only spectral evidence. 150 still remained in jail.
  • The Superior

    The Superior

    The General Court creates The Superior to hear the rest of the witchcraft cases.
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    Staying With The Putnams

    Susanna stays with the Putnams over the winter, while her brother William stays in her shambled house.
  • The Release

    The Release

    Governor Phips releases the remaining people in prison.
  • They Come Back

    They Come Back

    Susanna English's parents came home.
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    Death

    Mary English, Susanna's mother, died of consumption, or tuberculosis, the winter of 1693-1694.
  • The Voyage

    The Voyage

    William English takes Susanna English to Guadeloupe in the summer on his boat.
  • Marriage

    Marriage

    Susanna English gets married to Jonathan.