Salem’s witch trials of 1692 are the most famous in American pop culture, but they weren’t the only witch trials on what was to become U.S. soil—just the best documented.

George Burroughs (c.1652 –1690) reciting the Lord's Prayer before his execution at Witches Hill, Salem, Massachusetts, on 19 August 1690, after being accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials.

Elizabeth Johnson Jr., a woman convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s, was finally exonerated after years of petitioning by Massachusetts teacher Carrie LaPierre and ...

Last Convicted Salem ‘Witch’ Is Finally Cleared Elizabeth Johnson Jr. has been officially exonerated—thanks to a dogged band of middle schoolers Brigit Katz - Correspondent August 3, 2022 ...

The Boston grave site of Samuel Sewall, a judge in the 1692-1693 Salem witch trials. (Steve LeBlanc/AP) In 1711, colonial leaders passed a bill clearing the names of some convicted in Salem.

While Mary and Philip English would go on to survive the witch trials by escaping to New York, Richter explained that their story highlights another pervasive injustice that victims of the witch ...

Last Conviction in Salem Witch Trials Is Cleared 329 Years Later The exoneration of Elizabeth Johnson Jr., the last person whose name was not officially cleared, came from the efforts of an eighth ...