Biography
Ann Putnam was born 18 October 1679 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States to Thomas Putnam, Jr. (1652-1699) and Ann Carr (1661-1699) and died 1716 Essex County, Massachusetts of unspecified causes.
1876 illustration of the courtroom; the central figure is usually identified as being Mary Walcott
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused, nineteen of whom were found guilty and executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death for refusing to plead, and at least five people died in jail. It was the deadliest witch hunt in the history of the United States.
Ann Putnam Jr., along with Elizabeth Parris, Mary Walcott, Mercy Lewis and Abigail Williams, was an important witness at the Salem Witch Trials of Massachusetts during the later portion of 17th century Colonial America.
She was friends with some of the girls who claimed to be afflicted by witchcraft and, in March 1692, proclaimed to be afflicted herself. She is responsible for the accusations of 62 people, which, along with the accusations of others, resulted in the executions of twenty people, as well as the deaths of several others in prison.
Siblings
See Also
- Ann Putnam
- Putnam in Essex County, Massachusetts
- Putnam family
- wikipedia:en:Ann Putnam - Wikipedia
- Lt Thomas Putnam Jr at Find A Grave
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