sits less than a two-minute walk from the Salem Witch Trials Memorial, a small park that houses locust trees, “which are thought to be the type of tree that may have been used for the hangings ...

The Salem Witch Trials Memorial Park is the most powerful, though. A stone wall creates a periphery around the serene tree-lined patch, with slab benches bearing the name, date and method of death ...

In 1648, Margaret Jones, a midwife, became the first person in Massachusetts — the second in New England — to be executed for witchcraft, decades before the infamous Salem witch trials.

Nineteen people accused of witchcraft were executed by hanging, another was pressed ... Roach’s 2002 book, “The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege ...

It took more than 300 years, but the story of a forgotten woman convicted in the Salem witch trials has finally been ... from the governor kept her from hanging. I was a 13-year-old student ...

In “The Crucible,” playwright Arthur Miller transformed the Salem witch trials of 1692 into a contemporary ... Johnson was “judged very Penitent” at her hanging in 1648.

led an effort that resulted in the exoneration of a woman who had been accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials ... center with the date of her hanging, it was paid for by a group ...