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Briget Bishop (ca. 1632, England – 10 June 1692 Salem, Massachusetts) was the first person executed for witchcraft during the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692. See also: 1632 (novel) Events February 22 - Galileos Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published July 23 - 300 colonists for New France depart Dieppe November 8 - Wladyslaw IV Waza elected king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after Zygmunt III Waza death November 16 - Battle of Lützen...
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Events February 13 - Massacre of Glencoe March 1 - The Salem witch trials begin in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony with the charging of three women with witchcraft. ...
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1876 illustration of the courtroom The Salem witch trials of colonial America resulted in a number of convictions and executions for witchcraft in 1692 in Massachusetts, the result of a period of factional infighting and Puritan paranoia which led to the deaths of at least twenty-five people and the...
Reputedly outspoken, flashy in her costume (by Puritan standards) and often unruly in her behavior, Bishop was an obvious choice to be the first person hanged, as her death would cause the least amount of dismay among the public. Bishop was close to 60 years old at the time of her death. For the record label, see Puritan Records. ...
Bishop was married three times in her life. Her first marriage was c 1660 to George Wasselbe, who died at a young age. Her second marriage was on 26 July 1666 to Thomas Oliver, a widower and prominent businessman with whom she had one daughter, Christian (b 8 May 1667), who would later marry Thomas Mason. She was accused of bewitching Thomas Oliver to death but was acquitted for lack of evidence. Her last marriage c 1687 was to Edward Bishop, a prosperous sawyer whose family ran a tavern in Beverly. She later became the owner of the tavern. // Events January 1 - Colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses from Scotland to England at the village of Coldstream and begins advance towards London in support of English Restoration. ...
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Thomas Oliver (c 1601 England-June 1679 Salem, Essex Co. ...
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Location in Massachusetts Coordinates: , Country United States State Massachusetts County Essex County Settled 1626 Incorporated 1626 Government - Type Mayor-council city - Mayor William Scanlon, Jr. ...
Her own step son (Edward Bishop) and daughter-in-law (Sarah Bishop) were also taken to jail on charges of witchcraft. Edward Bishop and his wife Sarah were involved in the witchcraft hysteria of 1692. ...
She denied all charges of witchcraft during the trials, saying, "I know not what a witch is."
Bishop was the first person to be executed in the Salem Witch Trials. 1876 illustration of the courtroom; the central figure is usually identified as Mary Walcott The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings by local magistrates and county court trials to prosecute people alleged to have committed acts of witchcraft in Essex, Suffolk and Middlesex Counties of Massachusetts in 1692...
Upham implied that her being brought to trial for Witchcraft was at least in part due to her inlaws through her stepchildren from her second husband wanting to take possession of her property (especially a house she inherited from him near the meeting house), and that this was made possible because one of them was a member of the local constabulary.[1]
In 1956 the Massachusetts General Court passed an act exhonerating Bridget Bishop; they also passed a similar measure some years after that. Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Further reading
- Wilson, Jennifer M. (2005). Witch. www.jennifermwilson.com: Authorhouse. ISBN 1-4208-2109-1.
- Boyer, Paul S.; Stephen Nissenbaum (1976). Salem Possessed; The Social Origins of Witchcraft. Boston: Harvard University Press.
- Hill, Francis (2000). The Salem Witch Trials Reader. Da Capo Press.
- Karlsen, Carol F. (1998). The Devil in the Shape of a Woman.
- Rosenthal, Bernard (1993). Salem Story: reading the witch trials of 1692. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Upham, Charles (1980). Salem Witchcraft: Volume II. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co..
References - ^ # Upham, Charles (1980). Salem Witchcraft: Volume II. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co.
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