America Witchcraft
1647
May 26: Alse (Alice) Young, Windsor CT, hung in Hartford

1648
June 15: Margaret Jones, Charleston CT executed in Boston MA
December: Mary Johnson, Wethersfield CT, hung in Hartford

1650
Mrs. H. (Alice) Lake, Boston MA

1651
May: "Goody" (Mary) Bassett, Stratford CT
Mrs. (Lizzy) Kendal, Cambridge MA executed in Boston MA
March 6: Joan Carrington, Hartford CT
John Carrington, Hartford CT
May 29: Mary Parsons, Springfield MA executed in Hartford CT

1653
"Goody" (Elizabeth) Knapp, Fairfield CT

1654
Kathy Grady, Jamestown VA, hanged at sea
June 23: Mary Lee, MD, hanged at sea
September: Lydia Gilbert, Windsor CT hung in Hartford

1656
June 19: Anne Hibbins, Salem MA

1658
Elizabeth Richardson, Maryland, hanged at sea
Katherine Grade, Jamestown VA, hanged at sea

1662
Mary Sanford, Hartford CT

1663
June 25: Mary Barnes, Farmington CT, hung in Hartford
Rebecca Greensmith, Hartford CT
Nathaniel Greensmith, Hartford CT

1685
October 3: Rebecca Fowler, Calvert MD

1688
November 15: "Goody" (Annie) Glover, Salem

1692 Salem
June 10: Bridget Bishop
July 19: Sarah Good
Rebecca Nurse
Susannah Martin from Amesbury
Elizabeth Howe from Topsfield
Sarah Wildes from Topsfield
August 19: George Burroughs
John Proctor
John Willard
George Jacobs
Martha Carrier from Andover
September 16: Giles Corey, pressed to death
September 22: Martha Corey
Mary Easty
Alice Parker
Mary Parker
Ann Pudeator
Margaret Scott
Wilmot Redd
Samuel Wardwell
Died in Jail:
William Hobbs
May 10, 1692: Sarah Osburne

In America, like most of the cases in Europe, the individuals that were targeted to be witches were poor, disliked neighbors,
or those of an opposing religion. This was also the case in the colonial Connecticut where the witchcraft hysteria started in
the New World. The first "witch" executed in North America was Alse Young of Windsor Connecticut. She was hung in
Hartford Connecticut where the Old State House now stands. Many people know about the Salem Witchcraft trials but their
were many executed before the 1692 hysteria. In fact there was a small hysteria outbreak in Connecticut in 1651 when four
people were hung that year and dozens were accused and examined. There was a total of 13 witches hung in Connecticut
documented and one from Connecticut was brought to Boston to be executed. A total of 24 were hung in Massachusetts,
totaling 37 hung in New England. There were also others that died in jail while waiting to be examined and tried as witches.
Other than New England there were witchcraft trials in Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Two "witches" were executed
in Maryland and two in Virginia and strangely they were hung on ships off shore. The main problem with researching Pre-
Salem executions in New England has been difficult because of the lack of records and documents of the trials and/or
executions.