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Executed for Witchcraft

<p>Historian Clarence F. <b>Jewett</b> included a list of other people executed in New England in <i>The Memorial History of Boston: Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts 1630–1880</i> (Ticknor and Company, 1881). He wrote,</p>

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<p>The following is the list of the twelve persons who were executed for witchcraft in New England before 1692, when twenty other persons were executed at Salem, whose names are well known. It is possible that the list is not complete&nbsp;; but I have included all of which I have any knowledge, and with such details as to names and dates as could be ascertained&nbsp;: —

1647, — "Woman of Windsor", Connecticut (name unknown) [later identified as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alse_Young" title="Alse Young">Alice Young</a>], at Hartford. 1648, — Margaret Jones, of Charlestown, at Boston. 1648,— Mary Johnson, at Hartford. 1650? — Henry Lake's wife, of Dorchester. 1650?—Mrs. Kendall, of Cambridge. 1651, — Mary Parsons, of Springfield, at Boston. 1651, — Goodwife Bassett, at Fairfield, Conn. 1653, — Goodwife Knap, at Hartford. 1656, — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Hibbins" title="Ann Hibbins">Ann Hibbins</a>, at Boston. 1662, — Goodman Greensmith, at Hartford. 1662,— Goodwife Greensmith, at Hartford.</p>

1688,— <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Glover" title="Ann Glover">Goody Glover</a>, at Boston." <sup id="cite_ref-Jewett_3-5" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Jones_(Puritan_midwife)#cite_note-Jewett-3">[3]</a></sup></blockquote>

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