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Authors: Marilynne K. Roach

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9. Rental property purchased in 1674 by Philip English (when the tenants wereWilliam and Sarah Buckley and their family, who later moved to Salem Village where Sarah and a daughter were accused of witchcraft in 1692). Philip later willed this property to his daughter Susanna (English) Touzel.

10. Bridget Bishop’s widowed husband Edward Bishop, the sawyer, bought this house 1694. John and Susanna Beckett eventually owned it.

Ann Putnam’s Neighborhood. (Map by the author. Source: Perley, “Hathorne: Part of Salem Village in 1700. No. 1,” and [2]; “The Plains No. 2.”)

 

1. Thomas and Ann Putnam.

2. Constable John Putnam.

3. Location of Thomas and Ann Putnam’s 1697 house.

4. Edward Putnam.

5. Eleazer Putnam.

6. Alexander and Sarah Osborn, (she was one of the first three people to beaccused).

7. Putnam Burying Ground.

8. Joseph Putnam.

Tituba’s Neighborhood. (Map by the author
. Source
: Perley, “Center of Salem Village in 1700”; Trask, “
The Devil Amongst Us
.”)

 

1. Salem Village parsonage, (the Ministry land owned either by the Village or by Reverend Samuel Parris); Tituba lived here.

2. Jonathan Walcott, his afflicted daughter Mary Walcott.

3. Samuel and Mary Sibley (who recommended the “witch-cake” countercharm).

4. Salem Village Meeting House.

5. Reverend James and Mary (Carr) Bailey, (house was rented out after they moved away).

6. Francis and Rebecca Nurse.

7. Widow Sarah Holton.

8. Watch House.

9. Nathaniel Ingersoll’s ordinary.

Mary Warren’s Neighborhood. (Map by the author.
Source
: Perley, “Groton, Salem in 1700”; Brown,
A Guide to the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692
.[corrects house location though the present building is probably post-1692], 28, 103-104; Upham,
House of John Procter
.)

1. John Procter’s rented farm, “Groton;” Mary Warren lived here.

2. Lot owned by John Procter.

Salem Town. (Map by the author.)

 

1. Gallows Hill

2. Town Bridge

3. Stacey’s mill.

4. Bridget Bishop.

5. Mary English.

6. Point of Rocks.

Salem and Vicinity. (Based on Marilynne K. Roach, “A Map of Salem and Vicinity in 1692.” Sassafras Grove Press: Watertown, MA,1985, 1990.)

Three items excavated by Richard Trask from the 1681 Salem Village Parsonage Archaeological Site: part of a blue and gray Rhenish stoneware jug; a green glass wine bottle neck; and a metal plate rim monogrammed SPE (Samuel and Elizabeth Parris). (Photo by Richard B. Trask.)

Salem Village Parsonage Site. The view of the L-shaped house is from the cellar hole marking the lean-to, with the main room (the hall) to the left, and the cellar hole beyond that was under the parlor. Tituba testified how, when she stood in the hall, she could hear the cries of the girls in the parlor. (Photo by the author.)

Rebecca Nurse Homestead, Danvers, Massachusetts. (Photo by Tina Jordan.)

Salem Village Meeting House replica, based on dimensions in the Salem Village records, built on the Nurse Homestead property for the film
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
. (Photo by Tina Jordan.)

Mary English’s statement concerning the unreliability of Mary Warren’s testimony, dated June 1, 1692. Mary may have signed this herself, though not all scholars agree. (Essex County Court Archives, Vol. 1:19, deposited with the Peabody Essex Museum. Used courtesy of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Image courtesy of University of Virginia’s
Salem Witch Trials
Documentary Archives
, http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/archives/ecca.html)

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