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These men were less involved yet helpful when accusations and testimony were needed. Robinson alleged that what tied these conspirators together were bonds of kinship and friendship.

Their goal was merely to reassert power over the families and forces that had gradually assumed control of Salem Village, seeking vengeance against those suspected of wrongdoing or what they deemed to be undesirable elements.

In this task, they were ably assisted by their female children, servants, and relatives, including Mary Walcott, Sarah Churchill, Ann Putnam, Jr. Thomas and Edward Putnam filed most of the complaints against the accused themselves, on behalf of the afflicted girls who were too young to legally do so.

Also, a recent handwriting analysis, conducted by Professor Peter Grund from the University of Kansas, determined that over of the Salem Witch Trial court documents were written by Thomas Putnam himself.

These documents include the depositions of the afflicted girls which, coincidentally, share very similar language and phrases. This suggests the afflicted girls recorded testimonies may have been altered and tampered with by Thomas Putnam , who often served as a court clerk during the trials, indicating that he may have had an even bigger influence on the trials then previously thought.

In addition, a book titled The Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of speculates that one of the reasons Ann Putnam, Jr, may have gotten involved with the witch trials in the first place is because the Putnam children were being abused by their parents and Ann was directing her anger over the abuse at others around her:. Who could fault one for speculating that she could not come to terms with having killed her own child, that she found some relief in the fantasy world of blaming witches?

Ann was particularly active in the case against Nurse. We cannot imagine the cause of the alleged complaint of witchcraft. She appears to have been an amiable and exemplary woman, and well educated for the times in which she lived.

We suspect, from an examination of the charges brought against her at the courts, that she had several times severely rebuked the accusing girls for their folly and wickedness, when meeting in their circles. In this way, she probably incurred the displeasure of Ann Putnam and her mother — her principle accusers. As a result, it is no surprise that the Putnams were the ones to accuse Nurse of witchcraft when the witch hunt began.

Ann Putnam, Jr. But since that, she hath greviously afflicted by biting, pinching, and pricking me, [and] urging me to write in her book. And, also, on the 24th of March, being the day of her examination, I was greviously tortured by her during the time for her examination, and also several times since. Ann Putnam, Jun, did own the oath which she hath taken: this her evidence to be truth, before us, the Jurors for Inquest, this 4 day of June, Ann, Jr, also testified that she witnessed Nurse attacking her mother at their home on March 18 of that year.

Ann, Jr, and her mother were not the only Putnams to testify against Rebecca Nurse. Nurse denied all of their accusations and was actually found not guilty at the end of her trial in June of However, upon reading the verdict in the courtroom, the afflicted girls began to suffer fits and Chief Justice William Stoughton asked the jury to reconsider their decision. The jury briefly deliberated and then came back with a guilty verdict. As the Salem Witch Trials continued, the witch hunt began to spread to neighboring towns.

In July, Ann Putnam, Jr. Goodwife Ballard was dying, and the doctors could not find the cause. Joseph Ballard and the assistant pastor of his church, the Reverend Thomas Barnard, thought it might be witchcraft. The Reverend Barnard decided to repeat the experiment.

He took the girls to another sickbed in another home, and then to yet another, and another. To solve the problem, the Reverend Barnard invited the women of Andover to submit to the touch test. Sure of their innocence, the women agreed. The results of the touch test were overwhelming. Sixty-seven women were arrested. In September, the afflicted girls visited Gloucester, at the invitation of Ebenezer Babson, whose mother was complaining of seeing spectral visions of Indians and French soldiers.

The girls accused a handful of local women there of witchcraft during that visit and accused several more during a return visit in October or November. A total of nine women were arrested for witchcraft in Gloucester. One victim was tortured to death: Giles Corey September 19 , one victim died in jail: Sarah Osborne, and the rest, including Elizabeth Proctor , Tituba and John Alden Jr , were either never charged, found not guilty, pardoned or escaped from jail. She was friends with some of the girls who claimed to be afflicted by witchcraft and, in March , proclaimed to be afflicted herself.

She is responsible for the accusations of 62 people, which, along with the accusations of others, resulted in the executions of twenty people, as well as the deaths of several others in prison.

Familypedia Explore. Create or edit article. Improve article; tree, bdm, etc Form:Person Semi-manual method Advanced form rarely used. Surnames People by decade Birth decade Death decade. Rebecca Nurse was the most religious woman in town. This accusation made people think that if Rebecca Nurse could be a witch then no one was safe!

Rebecca Nurse and her sisters were found guilty and eventually hung on Gallows Hill. Over the course of that year, Ann Putnam had accused sixty-two people from all over the colonies. During that year, twenty-four people and two dogs died because of the accusations made by the Circle girls.

Ann's accusations were one of the sole causes of putting nineteen people to death. After Lady Phips was named as a witch, Governor Phips decided that it was enough. He finally ended the Salem Witch Trials on October 29, After the witch trials ended, some of the Circle girls still accused people of witchcraft. They may have done this to have an excuse for not doing chores, or for the attention. This time, no one listened to their complaints.

Ann Putnam led a hard life after the Salem Witch Trials. She went from being of person of privilege to providing service and care to others.

Her parents died in within two weeks of each other, leaving Ann to raise nine younger siblings alone. Later in her life, Ann Putnam wanted to join the church. A requirement before joining the church was to confess all of one's sins. Due to this requirement, Ann wrote an apology for her participation in the Salem Witch Trials. This is what she wrote:.



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