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Nine-year-old Elizabeth Parris and eleven-year-old Abigail Williams began to exhibit strange behavior, such as blasphemous screaming, convulsive seizures, trance-like states and mysterious spells. Within a short time, several other Salem girls began to demonstrate similar behavior.
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Girls exoerenced screaming, barking like dogs and flapping their arms like chickens at church
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Unable to determine any physical cause for the symptoms and dreadful behavior, physicians concluded that the girls were under the influence of Satan.
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Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osburne were accused of witchcraft because they we social outcast. One was a slave from the Carribean, a begger, and a sickly old lady who married her servant.
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Mary Corey is accused of witchcraft
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Rebecca Nurse was denouced a witch.
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Martha Corey was examined before Magistrates Hathorne and Corwin.
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Rebecca Nurse was examined before Magistrates Hathorne and Corwin.
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Elizabeth Proctor was denounced as a witch.
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Sarah Cloyce, Rebecca Nurse's sister, was accused of witchcraft.
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Elizabeth Proctor and Sarah Cloyce were examined before Hathorne, Corwin, Deputy Governor Thomas Danforth, and Captain Samuel Sewall. During this examination, John Proctor was also accused and imprisoned.
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Abigail Hobbs, Bridget Bishop, Giles Corey, and Mary Warren were examined. Only Abigail Hobbs confessed.
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Nehemiah Abbott, William and Deliverance Hobbs, Edward and Sarah Bishop, Mary Easty, Mary Black, Sarah Wildes, and Mary English were examined before Hathorne and Corwin. Only Nehemiah Abbott was cleared of charges.
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Sarah Morey, Lydia Dustin, Susannah Martin, and Dorcas Hoar were examined by Hathorne and Corwin.
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George Burroughs was arrested in Wells, Maine.
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Burroughs was examined by Hathorne, Corwin, Sewall, and William Stoughton. One of the afflicted girls, Sarah Churchill, was also examined.
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George Jacobs, Sr. and his granddaughter Margaret were examined before Hathorne and Corwin. Margaret confessed and testified that her grandfather and George Burroughs were both witches. Sarah Osborne died in prison in Boston.
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Increase Mather returned from England, bringing with him a new charter and the new governor, Sir William Phips.
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Mary Easty was released from prison. Yet, due to the outcries and protests of her accusers, she was arrested a second time.
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1st victom was hung in Gallow Hills. Bridget Bishop.
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Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susanna Martin, Rebecca Nurse, and Sara Wild died.
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Sarah Osburne, Roger Toothaker, Ann Foster, and Lydia Dustin.
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George Burroughs, Martha Carrier, George Jacobs, John Proctor, John Willard.
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Giles Cory was pressed to death underneath rocks because he refused to go on trail for witchcraft.
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Dorcas Hoar was the first of those pleading innocent to confess. Her execution was delayed.
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Martha Corey, Margaret Scott, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Wilmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, and Mary Parker were hanged.
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Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Ann Pudeater, Margaret Scott, Wilmot Reed, and Samuel Wardwell hung to death.
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After 20 people had been executed in the Salem witch hunt, Thomas Brattle wrote a letter criticizing the witchcraft trials. This letter had great impact on Governor Phips, who ordered that reliance on spectral and intangible evidence no longer be allowed in trials.
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Governor Phips dissolved the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
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The General Court of the colony created the Superior Court to try the remaining witchcraft cases which took place in May, 1693. This time no one was convicted.