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salem witchhunt - Coggle Diagram

- - - - accused by sarah good
      - old + didnt attend church
      - died in prison 10th may
    - - accused by putnam girls
      - she was a beggar
      - executed 19th july
      - aready suspeced of being a witch
    - - 71 years old
      - long standing feud with putnams
      - found inncocent in june but reconsidered after girls complained -> hanged 19th july
    - - 71 years old male
      - accused after wife was accused
      - refused to go to trial
        
        was tortured for 3 days
        
        dies 19th sep
    - - 50 years old
      - guilty and executed on june 10th 1692
      - already accused of witchcraft 30 years before
  - - - 9 years old
      - left salem soon after
      - strange symptoms
        
        jan 1692
        
        convolsing barking and muttering
        
        accused tituba which led to witch hunt
    - - 12 years old
      - father was an instigator
      - testified against 60 people
    - - 11 years old
      - played key role in witchhunt
        
        accused 57 people
  - - - new govener after new charter 1691
      - but left for a military expedition most of 1692
      - court of oyer and terminer
        
        led by william stoughton
        
        samuel seawall
        
        publically aknowledged guilt as a judge - 1697
        
        trails began before court fully established as he said they used magic in prison
    - - cheif judge
      - phips wanted to stop the witch hunt but stoughton escelated it
- - - - 600 colonist killed
      - new england economy suffered
      - political and religious controlof puritangovernment depleated
    - - french declared war on england and its colonies after glorious revolution --> power vacuum in colonies
      - encouraged Wabanaki Native Americans to launch raids on New England
      - 1691-2 --> refugees from wabanaki raids
      - 1692 --> rumours planned Native American attack on Massachusetts
  - - - imprisoned andrews and officials
      - puritan coup
    - - included corwin and hawthorne
        
        later became judges in salem witchtrials
    - - restricted theocratic rule of puritans
      - sir william phips as govenor
        
        while he was absent he established the court of oyer and terminer (headed by william stoughton)
      - however he was absent most of 1692 as he had to leave on military expedition