He was the second Salem Village minister, but quarreled over his salary and left.
He had five children.
He was widowed three times.
His second wife died about a year after their arrival in Salem Village.
After his second wife's death, he remarried and moved to Maine.
He was rumored to have mistreated his wives.
One of his children was not baptized; a fact that was brought up in his trial.
He was well known for his physical strength.
Upon his arrest for witchcraft, his wife took everything that was valuable in the house, sold his books and loaned the money for interest. She then took her own daughter and left George's children to fend for themselves.
During his trial, witnesses testified that his two dead wives came to them in their dreams explaining that he had killed them.
He was also identified by the afflicted girls as the "Black Minister" and leader of the Salem Coven.
At his execution, he repeated the Lord's Prayer flawlessly.
She was arrested upon the complaint of Joseph Holton and John Walcott.
Four of her five children were taken with her to jail.
Her eight-year-old daughter, Sarah, admitted to being a witch since she was six. She told the court that her mother baptized her a witch in Andrew Foster's pasture.
Richard and Thomas Carrier also confessed to witchcraft, and blamed their mother for making them witches. Numerous others confessed that she also made them witches.
Martha denied the charges of witchcraft and making others witches.
She spoke her mind freely on her feelings of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and its methods.
The Rev. Francis Dane spoke in her defense and stated that she was a victim of gossip.
Almost 10 years after her hanging, her surviving family was paid 7 pounds and 6 shillings in restitution for her death.
At five-years-old, she was the youngest prisoner of the Salem witch trials.
When questioned, she stated that her familiar was a little snake. She said it would talk to her and sucked blood from her finger. A red spot was found at the tip of her finger where she said the snake would suckle.
She was never the same after her mother's death and months in prison.
In 1710 her father, William Good, told the General Court that since her imprisonment Dorcas was unable to "govern herself."
She would mumble words under her breath if people failed to give her alms. People believed these mumbled words to be curses directed at them.
Her visits would be attributed to death of livestock.
At her hanging, the Rev. Nicholas Noyes asked her to confess to being a witch. Her famous response to him was: "I am no more a witch than you are a wizard, and if you take away my life God will give you blood to drink." Twenty-five years later, Noyes died of a hemorrhage, chocking on his own blood.
She was 1 of 8 children of William Towne of Topsfield.
She was married to Francis Nurse.
The Rev. James Allen and she once fought over the boundry of their two neighboring properties.
She worshipped at the Salem Village church, but remained a member of the Salem Town church.
Rebecca was hard of hearing, so she did not often respond to those who spoke to her.
She was 71-years-old when she was charged with witchcraft.
She was originally found not guilty by the court, but when the courtroom and the afflicted girls protested, Chief Justice Stoughton asked the jury to reconsider a statement made by one of the prisoners. Nurse was found guilty the second time because of the reconsidered evidence and her failure to respond to questions because her poor hearing.
Her reputation as a good and prudent women didn't help her escape the gallows.
She was excommunicated, but her decendents had it revoked on March 6, 1712.
The Parris family later moved to Barbados, where his father became a sugar planter and merchant.
Samuel attended Harvard College, but returned to the islands after his father's death in 1678.
He became a merchant, but when a hurricane wrecked his business and sugar prices were low, he sold his business and moved to Boston. He was a merchant for only eight years.
He tried to be a merchant in Boston but couldn't compete, so he decided to become a minister.
Salem Village hired him as their minister in 1688.
She was originally from an Arawak village in South America.
As a child, she was captured, taken to Barbados and sold into slavery.
Tituba was purchased by Parris, or given to settle a debt, while Parris was a merchant in Barbados.
Since Parris was an unmarried merchant at the time he acquired Tituba, it was rumored that she may have served as his concubine.
Parris, Tituba and another Indian slave named John moved to Boston in 1680.
She married John in 1689 around the same time Parris and his family moved to Salem.
Tituba was the first accused of witchcraft and the first to confess. However, she later recanted her confession when people stopped believing the cries of the accused.
Historians believe that she had one daughter, Violet, who stayed with the Parris household until Samuel Parris' death.