![]() Governor Phipps refused to sign the order for further executions, so Elizabeth Proctor and others were eventually released. Nineteen men and women had been hanged and one man pressed to death with rocks. DM) By that time the terrible trials had been stopped, although one of the judges stubbornly insisted that all those condemned should be executed. ![]() 19, 1692, but Elizabeth was given a reprieve "on account of her peculiar circumstances," or, until her child could be born. ![]() There were so-called trials, and both were condemned to death, along with a number of others. Shortly thereafter he was denounced as a wizard. When Elizabeth was arrested, her husband staunchly defended her, and said publicly that the foolish girls should be sent to the whipping post. She accused her mistress of being a witch. Their servant was Mary Warren, one of the hysterical girls responsible for the witch trouble at Salem Village. On Apshe was married to John Proctor of Danvers, or Salem Village. ![]() She was the oldest daughter, and likely the oldest child, of William Bassett and and Sarah (_). Elizabeth (Bassett) Richards was accused of witchcraft in the Salem Witch TrialsĮlizabeth Bassett was born in about 1647 in Lynn, Essex County, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. ![]()
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