October 1692
From Marilynne K. Roach’s Chronology of the Salem Witch Trials
With opposition to the court’s methods growing, Governor Phips suspends the Court of Oyer and Terminer until England can advise on the witch problem. Some of the younger suspects are released on bail.
Image of Sir William Phips from University of Virginia website “Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project”:
Source: Cover illustration. The New England Knight: Sir William Phips, 1651-1695. By Emerson W. Baker and John G. Reid. University of Toronto Press, 1998. Photograph by Nicholas Dean, courtesy of the Gardiner family.
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PUT TO DEATH
June 10, 1692
Bridget Bishop
July 19, 1692
Sarah Good
Rebecca Nurse
Susannah Martin
Elizabeth How
Sarah Wildes
August 19, 1692
George Burroughs
John Proctor
John Willard
George Jacobs
Martha Carrier
September 19, 1692
Giles Cory, pressed to death
September 22, 1692
Martha Cory
Mary Eastey
Alice Parker
Ann Pudeater
Margaret Scott
Wilmott Redd
Samuel Wardwell
Mary Parker
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