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Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
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Sarah Good
17th-century American colonist executed during the Salem Witch Trials
Sarah Good was one of the first three women to be accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials, which occurred in 1692 in colonial Massachusetts.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Sarah Osborne
17th-century American colonist convicted of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials
Sarah Osborne (also variously spelled Osbourne, Osburne, or Osborn; née Warren, formerly Prince, was a colonist in the Massachusetts Bay colony and one of the first women to be accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials of 1692. Sarah Osborn was suggested to be a witch by…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Tituba
17th-century enslaved woman involved in the Salem witch trials
Tituba was an enslaved Native American woman who was one of the first to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692–1693.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Danvers, Massachusetts
Town in Massachusetts, United States
Danvers is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, located on the Danvers River near the northeastern coast of Massachusetts. The suburb is a fairly short ride from Boston and is also in close proximity to the beaches of Gloucester, Ipswich and Revere. Originally…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Salem witch trials
Legal proceedings in Massachusetts (1692–93)
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging. One…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)