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Tag: 1692

Ipswich and the Salem witchcraft trials

January 18, 2023January 18, 2023 Gordon Harris4 Comments
Ipswich MA and the Salem witchcraft trials

During the Salem witch trials, Elizabeth Howe of Linebrook Road was tried and hanged. The Ipswich jail was filled with the accused, but the ministers of the town opposed the trials as a delusion. Residents blocked the bridge to prevent the accusing girls from being brought into Ipswich.

Posted in HistoryTagged 1692, conspiracy, Court, fear, insanity, Salem, Topsfield, witches, women

South Main Street

January 5, 2023January 5, 2023 Gordon HarrisLeave a comment
South Main Street postcard, Ipswich MA

In March 1692 the Selectmen laid out 23 small lots with the condition that the owners not encumber the highway, provide drainage to the river and paving for foot travelers, and "keep horses from spoiling the same.”

Posted in RoadsTagged 1692, neighborhood, Photos, South Main Street

The witchcraft trial of Elizabeth Howe, hanged July 19, 1692

July 19, 2021November 18, 2022 Gordon Harris20 Comments
Mathison painting, "Examination of a Witch" trial of Elizabeth Howe of Ipswich

Elizabeth Howe and her husband James resided on outer Linebrook. She was charged with bewitching her neighbor’s child and was arrested on May 28, 1692. She was one of the five women hung in Salem on July 19, 1692.

Posted in History, People, Video, WitchcraftTagged 1692, Elizabeth Howe, Ipswich, July, Linebrook, witches, women

The witchcraft accusations against Sarah Buckley and Mary Witheridge

June 20, 2021 Gordon Harris3 Comments
Mary Walcott

On May 23, 1692, a complaint for witchcraft was filed against Sarah Buckley and her widowed daughter Mary Witheridge. The "bewitched" girls of Salem Village claimed that the women's specters had attacked them. Held in shackles in the cold crowded jail, both were acquitted in January,1692

Posted in History, People, WitchcraftTagged 1692, Salem, witches, women

Rachel Clinton arrested for witchcraft, May 28, 1692

April 28, 2021November 12, 2022 Gordon Harris4 Comments
Rachel Clinton of Ipswich was accused of witchcraft

Everything about Rachel Clinton's life went wrong, and in her old age she was an easy target for the witchcraft hysteria that spread from Salem throughout Essex County.

Posted in History, People, StoriesTagged 1692, Ipswich, witches, women

Four-year-old Dorothy Good is jailed for witchcraft, March 24, 1692

March 24, 2021November 12, 2022 Gordon Harris25 Comments

On March 24, 1682. a child, Dorothy Good of Salem was taken custody, and interrogated by the local magistrates for two weeks. Hungry, cold and missing her mother, Dorcas broke down and told the inquisitors what they wanted to hear, that her mother was a witch, and consorted with the devil.

Posted in History, StoriesTagged 1692, march, witches, women

The Spectre Leaguers, July 1692

March 19, 2021October 19, 2022 Gordon HarrisLeave a comment
Spectral leaguers, Gloucester MA

In the midst of witchcraft accusations in 1692, Gloucester was invaded by a spectral company for a fortnight. Their speech was in an unknown tongue, and bullets passed right through them.

Posted in LegendsTagged 1692, fear, Gloucester, insanity, July, witches
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