Episode 3
Episode 3 | 54m 39sVideo has Closed Captions
Sarah concludes her recollection. Her sisters endure the trial, conviction and hanging.
Sarah concludes her recollection. While awaiting trial, Sarah and Rebecca are joined in prison by their pious sister, Mary, also accused of witchcraft. Rebecca endures the ordeal of trial, conviction and hanging, and Mary soon follows her sister to her own death. Sarah escapes death but must endure the brutal conditions of imprisonment. As the drama concludes, a verdict is rendered.
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Episode 3
Episode 3 | 54m 39sVideo has Closed Captions
Sarah concludes her recollection. While awaiting trial, Sarah and Rebecca are joined in prison by their pious sister, Mary, also accused of witchcraft. Rebecca endures the ordeal of trial, conviction and hanging, and Mary soon follows her sister to her own death. Sarah escapes death but must endure the brutal conditions of imprisonment. As the drama concludes, a verdict is rendered.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipSarah: AT HER OWN EXAMINATION MARY'S PIETY AND REVERENCE WAS MOST EVIDENT.
THEY WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCUSE AN ANGEL OF MERCY.
WHAT SAY YOU TO THESE ACCUSATIONS?
I GRIEVE FOR THE TORMENTED.
I PRAY GOD EACH DAY TO RELIEVE THEIR SUFFERING.
IT'S ALL I KNOW HOW TO DO.
MARY EASTY... WE FIND THERE IS NOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO HOLD YOU IN SUSPICION OF WITCHCRAFT.
YOU ARE FREE TO GO.
( door opening ) Sarah: AND YET ANOTHER PRISONER WAS BROUGHT IN THAT DAY.
MARY...?
MARY!
OH, SARAH.
REBECCA.
BUT YOU WERE FREED.
THEY TOLD US SO.
YES, I WAS.
BUT AN AFFLICTED CHILD NAMED ME AGAIN AS HER TORMENTOR.
SHE SAID BECAUSE I WAS FREE MY SPECTER WAS LOOSE TO DRINK HER BLOOD.
TWO OTHERS ALSO SAID IT WAS TRUE.
WHO WERE THEY-- WHICH AFFLICTED?
MERCY LEWIS FIRST.
THEN ANNE PUTNAM-- THE DAUGHTER-- AND YOUNG ABIGAIL.
OH SARAH, I AM FRIGHTENED SO!
SARAH GOOD WAS RIGHT.
WE ARE DOOMED.
NO.
THE TRIALS-- WE MUST PREPARE FOR THE TRIALS.
DEAR SARAH GOD HAS FORSAKEN US IN OUR TIME OF NEED.
HOW LONG, O LORD, WILT THOU FORGET ME?
FOREVER?
HOW LONG WILT THOU HIDE THY FACE FROM ME?
Sarah: SISTER THIS IS NOT OUR PSALM.
IT IS MY PSALM AND OTHERS.
MARY... DID THEY TELL YOU?
THIS CHILD'S MOTHER HAS LOST HER NEWBORN BABY A BOY, BORN IN THE HAY AND WRAPPED IN SWADDLING CLOTHES.
REBECCA!
Sarah: OF US THREE SISTERS, REBECCA'S TRIAL CAME FIRST.
THEY TOOK HER AWAY.
THAT WAS THE LAST TIME I SAW MY SISTER.
DEAR REBECCA.
DEAR, DEAR REBECCA.
FETCH ME THE DEPOSITIONS OF THE NURSE TRIAL.
THERE WERE MANY DEPOSITIONS AGAINST THE ACCUSED AT THE TRIAL AS YOU CAN SEE.
"MERCY LEWIS VERSUS REBECCA NURSE.
"ANN PUTNAM, SR.
VERSUS REBECCA NURSE.
THE REVEREND SAMUEL PARRIS VERSUS REBECCA NURSE."
AND MANY ON HER BEHALF.
HERE IS THE PETITION OF GOOD CHARACTER.
THERE ARE MANY NAMES HERE AS GOODWIFE CLOYCE HAS INDICATED.
THIS DOCUMENT SAYS THAT THE JURY FOUND YOUR SISTER, REBECCA NURSE "NOT GUILTY"?
YES.
WHEN THE JURY FOUND HER NOT GUILTY THERE WERE FITS FROM THE AFFLICTED.
THE JUDGES SENT THE JURY BACK TO THINK AGAIN.
WHEN THEY CAME BACK, REBECCA WAS GUILTY.
AFTER SENTENCING HER TO HANG THEY SENT HER OFF TO BOSTON JAIL.
Samuel: I CARRIED PETITIONS TO GOVERNOR PHIPS ON HER BEHALF.
THEY HAD SIGNATURES OF INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE.
NURSE WAS GRANTED A STAY OF EXECUTION ON JULY 2.
MANY OF THE AFFLICTED BROKE OUT AGAIN WHEN WORD CAME OF THE REPRIEVE.
AND SO THE GOVERNOR REVOKED HIS DECISION.
YES.
SHE WAS SENTENCED TO DIE AFTER SUFFERING FALSE HOPES AND ACCUSATIONS.
REBECCA WAS BROUGHT BEFORE THE MINISTER OF HER OWN COVENANT CHURCH: THE REVEREND MR.
NICHOLAS NOYES.
SHE WAS BROUGHT FOR ONE PURPOSE ONLY-- EXCOMMUNICATION.
"HE THAT COMMITTETH SIN IS OF THE DEVIL "FOR THE DEVIL SINNETH FROM THE BEGINNING.
"FOR THIS PURPOSE, THE SON OF GOD WAS MANIFESTED THAT HE MIGHT DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL."
REBECCA NURSE MAY YOUR SOUL BE FOREVER CONDEMNED TO THE ETERNAL DAMNATION IN HELL FOR PRACTICING WITCHCRAFT.
PRAY GOD DENY YOU A PLACE IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
YOU HAVE FORSAKEN HIM.
FORSAKEN YOUR COVENANT.
FORSAKEN YOUR SOUL.
THIS WAS THE CRUELEST SENTENCE OF ALL.
SO BE YE: EXCOMMUNICATED.
IT SEPARATED A DYING WOMAN FROM HER LOVING GOD.
IN HER OWN MIND, REBECCA WAS DEAD WHEN THE BIBLE CLOSED ON HER SOUL.
SARAH GOOD'S TRIAL ALSO CAME QUICKLY AS DID THE VERDICT.
( drum beating ) CONFESS NOW TO GOD ALMIGHTY OF YOUR SINS.
YOU ARE A WITCH, AND YOU KNOW IT!
YOU ARE A LIAR!
IF YOU TAKE MY LIFE GOD WILL GIVE YOU BLOOD TO DRINK!
( crowd yelling ) MY GOD.
( drum beating ) HAVE YOU LAST WORDS?
SPEAK!
HANG HER!
HANG HER!
WHY IS SHE SILENT?
SHE IS EMPTY, JUST A BODY.
SHE HAS NO SOUL.
"AND THEY BLESSED REBECCA "AND SAID UNTO HER "THOU ART OUR SISTER.
"BE THOU THE MOTHER OF THOUSANDS OF MILLIONS AND LET THY SEED POSSESS THE GATE OF THOSE WHICH HATE THEM" HOLD.
SAMUEL... LET US TRY DOWN THERE.
MY GOD... THEY DENY THEM EVEN A CHRISTIAN BURIAL.
LET US FIND HER.
( key turns in lock ) MARY EASTY.
WHERE ARE YOU TAKING HER?
TO HER TRIAL.
MY PURSE AND MY SHOES... NO, NO, STOP!
SARAH, YOU MUST LET ME GO!
MY AUNT MARY WAS FOUND GUILTY.
SHE IS TO HANG.
I CANNOT BEAR IT.
I MUST SEE HER.
HANG?
ARE YOU CERTAIN?
THEN I WILL GO WITH YOU.
( key turns in lock ) SAMUEL!
SAMUEL?
HOW WERE YOU LET IN?
A CERTAIN AMOUNT GIVEN TO THE RIGHT OFFICIAL.
IT WAS JOSEPH'S DOING.
OH, DEAR AUNTS... OH, GOD... WE THOUGHT YOU WERE ARRESTED.
IT WAS THE MOST GRIEVOUS TIME, SAMUEL.
MY LIFE MEANS BUT LITTLE NOW.
IT IS THE WILL OF GOD.
IT IS NOT HIS WILL.
YOUR LIFE MEANS EVERYTHING ESPECIALLY NOW.
YOU ARE MORE LIKE SARAH THAN ANYONE IN THE FAMILY, SAMUEL.
AUNT MARY JOSEPH AND I WILL DO ANYTHING TO SAVE YOU.
YOU CAN START WITH THIS.
WHAT IS IT?
IT'S A PETITION ON MARY'S BEHALF.
THE WORDS ARE MINE.
SARAH PUT THEM DOWN HERSELF.
AS I CANNOT.
Sarah: DELIVER IT BY HAND TO GOVERNOR PHIPS.
HE NEARLY PARDONED REBECCA ONCE.
MAYBE HIS BACKBONE HAS STRENGTHENED SINCE.
IT'S WRITTEN TO THE MAGISTRATES.
IF THEY AND THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS READ IT IT MAY SAVE OTHERS FROM MY FATE.
READ IT, SAMUEL.
"I, MARY EASTY, AM CONDEMNED TO DIE.
"THE LORD ABOVE KNOWS MY INNOCENCE "AND AT THE GREAT DAY "IT WILL BE KNOWN TO ALL.
"I PETITION YOUR HONORS NOT FOR MY OWN LIFE "FOR I KNOW I MUST DIE "AND MY APPOINTED TIME IS SET "BUT THAT NO MORE INNOCENT BLOOD MAY BE SHED.
"BY MY OWN INNOCENCY "I KNOW YOU WERE IN THE WRONG WAY.
"MAY THE LORD IN HIS INFINITE MERCY "DIRECT YOU "IN THIS GREAT WORK "IF IT BE HIS BLESSED WILL "THAT NO MORE INNOCENT BLOOD BE SHED.
"I WOULD BEG OF YOU "THAT YOUR HONORS EXAMINE "SOME OF THOSE CONFESSING WITCHES-- "I BEING CONFIDENT THERE ARE SEVERAL OF THEM "WHO HAVE BELIED THEMSELVES AND OTHERS "AS WILL APPEAR, IF NOT IN THIS WORLD "THEN SURELY IN THE WORLD TO COME... WHITHER I AM GOING."
ARE THE WORDS ADEQUATE?
YOU SUPPORT NO ANGER FOR THOSE WHO ACCUSE YOU.
WHY?
I BELIEVE THEY ARE TRULY POSSESSED.
WE ARGUED.
SHE WILL NOT BE CONVINCED OTHERWISE.
DEAR AUNT, THEY ACCUSED YOU FALSELY.
AT MY TRIAL THEY SAID I RUBBED MY HANDS TOGETHER OFTEN-- THUS-- AND DOING SO WAS PROOF OF MY GUILT.
HOW CAN THEY CLAIM TO BE AFFLICTED YET SPEAK SUCH FALSEHOODS?
THEY ARE EITHER POSSESSED OR THEY ARE NOT.
THEY CANNOT BE BOTH.
BUT THAT IS THE TRUTH, SAMUEL.
OBSERVE, DEAR NEPHEW WOULD YOU SAY THEY ARE EXACTLY ALIKE?
EXACTLY... YES.
NOW SEE... THEY ARE ALSO EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE.
AND SO IS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE AFFLICTED.
THEY ARE POSSESSED-- AND YET THEY ARE NOT.
( key turns in lock ) TAKE THIS TO GOVERNOR PHIPS.
IT HAS BEEN WRITTEN BY THE PUREST OF SOULS.
Woman: NO!
NO!
Sarah: THE DAYS THAT FOLLOWED DID NOT BODE WELL FOR THE PEOPLE OF ESSEX COUNTY... HE'S DONE NOTHING WRONG!
DIFFERENT TOWNS BORROWED THE AFFLICTED GIRLS IF THEY HAD NONE OF THEIR OWN TO DISCOVER WITCHES AMONG THEM.
ACCUSED WERE TAKEN IN THE NEIGHBORING TOWNS OF ANDOVER, MARBLEHEAD, TOPSFIELD AND AS FAR OFF AS AMESBURY.
THE CHILDREN WERE BUSY INDEED.
THERE WAS ONE DAY WHEN RELIGIOUS SERVICE WAS SPARSE.
THE MINISTER'S SALARY WAS CUT OFF BY THOSE UNABLE OR UNWILLING TO PAY.
THE MAN WHO WANTED TO BE THE UNDOUBTED PURVEYOR OF THE WORD WAS HIMSELF DOUBTED.
I NAME MY TEXT... ROMANS, CHAPTER 13.
"LET EVERY SOUL BE SUBJECT UNTO THE HIGHER POWERS.
"FOR THERE IS NO POWER BUT OF GOD: "THE POWERS THAT BE ARE ORDAINED OF GOD.
"WHOSOEVER THEREFORE RESISTETH THE POWER "RESISTETH THE ORDINANCE OF GOD "AND THEY THAT RESIST "SHALL RECEIVE TO THEMSELVES DAMNATION.
"FOR HE IS THE MINISTER OF GOD TO THEE FOR GOOD.
"BUT IF THOU DOETH EVIL "BE AFRAID "FOR HE BEARETH NOT THE SWORD IN VAIN: "FOR HE IS THE MINISTER OF GOD "A REVENGER TO EXECUTE WRATH UPON HIM THAT DOTH EVIL.
"RENDER THEREFORE TO ALL THEIR DUES: "TRIBUTE TO WHOM TRIBUTE IS DUE; "CUSTOM TO WHOM CUSTOM; "FEAR TO WHOM FEAR; HONOR TO WHOM HONOR."
THE DEVIL'S PREVALENCY IN THIS AGE IS MOST CLEAR IN THE SHEER NUMBERS OF WITCHES THAT ABOUND IN ALL PLACES.
NOW, HUNDREDS ARE DISCOVERED AMONG US-- IN OUR VILLAGE AND HERE IN OUR VERY CHURCH.
HERETOFORE, ONLY THE BARBAROUS DESERTS HAD THEM BUT NOW THE CIVILIZED AND RELIGIOUS PARTS ARE FREQUENTLY PESTERED WITH THEM.
Sarah: ALICE PARKER, SALEM TOWN ANN PUDEATOR, SALEM TOWN.
MARGARET SCOTT, ROWLEY.
WILMOT "MAMMY" REDD, MARBLEHEAD.
SAMUEL WARDWELL, ANDOVER.
MARY PARKER, ANDOVER.
MARTHA CORY WIFE OF GILES CORY, SALEM FARMS.
MARY EASTY, TOPSFIELD.
MARY'S PETITION HAD FALLEN ON DEAF EARS.
SHE WOULD BE AMONG THOSE OF INNOCENT BLOOD.
Parris: THERE ARE BUT TWO PARTIES IN THIS WORLD-- CHRIST AND HIS FOLLOWERS AND SATAN AND HIS FOLLOWERS.
THERE ARE NO NEUTRALS.
EVERYONE IS ON ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER.
AND WHO WILL HAVE THE VICTORY?
LET THE WORD GO FORTH FROM SALEM VILLAGE THAT WE WILL SUCCEED IN OUR STRUGGLE AGAINST THE DEVIL HIMSELF AND BANISH HIM AND HIS KIND FROM OUR MIDSTS.
YOU MUST EAT.
TAKE CARE OF DORCY!
( Dorcy cries ) TAKE CARE OF HER!
WHERE ARE YOU TAKING ME?
WHERE DO YOU TAKE ME?
TO MY TRIAL?
I KNEW NOT WHERE I WAS BEING TAKEN.
IT WAS A LONG JOURNEY NORTHWARD ALONG THE IPSWICH ROAD.
I CAME TO REALIZE WHAT WAS HAPPENING.
I WAS IN THE CUSTODY OF A PRIVATE JAILER-- ONE WHO HIRED OUT HIS SERVICE TO THE PROVINCE TO ACCOMMODATE THE OVERCROWDED JAILS.
HE WAS A FARMER-- A LANDOWNER LIKE ANY OF MY NEIGHBORS YET HE WAS MY JAILKEEPER.
IT WAS A SHED... NOTHING MORE.
DIRT FLOOR, DAMP AND SOILED STRAW-- A TEMPORARY STOP BEFORE APPEARING AT MY OWN TRIAL OR SO I THOUGHT.
A TRIAL THAT WOULD SURELY LEAD TO THE HANGING TREE.
NEVER DID I FEEL MORE ALONE.
IT WAS AT THAT MOMENT THAT I TRULY SUFFERED THE LOSS OF MY DEAR SISTERS AND THE CHILD NAMED "DORCY."
EACH TIME THE DOOR OPENED I THOUGHT THEY WERE COMING TO TAKE ME TO MY TRIAL.
BUT EACH TIME IT WAS ONLY MY JAILKEEPER WITH FOOD.
HIS VISITS HAD NO SCHEDULE WHICH UNNERVED ME MORE.
AS I LOST THE DAYS INTO WEEKS SO DID I LOSE MY WELL-BEING.
A TRIP TO THE HANGING TREE SEEMED MORE WELCOMED.
TO JOIN MY SISTERS IN THE GLORY OF THE HEREAFTER BECAME MY OBSESSED SALVATION THAT CONSUMED MY EVERY THOUGH.
I WAS BECOMING MORE ILL, AND I DID NOT CARE.
WEEKS TO MONTHS... WINTER.
A WORLD BEYOND THE SHED HAD CEASED ALL MEANING.
SALEM VILLAGE WAS NOW BUT A DISTANT DREAM.
HOW MANY HAD BEEN HANGED SINCE DEAR MARY?
WHAT OF MY HUSBAND?
WHAT OF SAMUEL?
OF LITTLE DORCY?
( laughter ) MY ONLY TOUCH WITH THAT OUTSIDE WORLD WAS THE BRIEF GLIMPSES OF MY JAILKEEPER'S CHILDREN.
DEAR GOD... AUNT SARAH... AUNT SARAH, IT IS I, SAMUEL.
SHE IS GRAVELY ILL.
CAN WE GET YOU FOOD?
WATER.
PETER... WE HAVE COME FOR YOU, SARAH.
IT IS OVER.
THE MADNESS IS OVER.
AUNT SARAH, YOU ARE FREE.
FREE TO COME HOME WITH US.
FREE.
THE GOVERNOR ISSUED A GENERAL PARDON TO ALL THE ACCUSED.
THEY ARE EMPTYING THE JAILS.
WE HAVE PAID YOUR JAILER.
WHAT MONTH IS IT?
APRIL... APRIL 15.
IT IS A YEAR SINCE I WAS TAKEN AWAY.
IT IS ALL OVER NOW... OVER.
HOW BE IT SO?
THE AFFLICTED CHILDREN WENT TOO FAR IN NAMING NAMES.
HUNDREDS WERE ACCUSED... EVEN THE GOVERNOR'S WIFE.
HE STOPPED THEM THEN?
NO, IT WAS PROMINENT MINISTERS ABOVE PARRIS.
THEY REJECTED SPECTRAL EVIDENCE AS SOLE PROOF-- SO IT STOPPED.
ALL AS IT WAS BEFORE.
ALL AS BEFORE?
HOW MANY DEAD?
19 HANGED ONE PRESSED TO DEATH-- 20 IN ALL.
20... GOD SPARED ME THAT I MIGHT TELL YOU THIS STORY.
20 INNOCENT PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES.
THE PEOPLE WHO DIED WERE THE DEAREST OF US ALL.
AND THEY DIED BECAUSE OF CHURCH POLITICS, SUPERSTITIONS AND BAD BLOOD, STIRRED BY ANCIENT QUARRELS.
I SAY THIS WITH GOD AS MY WITNESS.
YOU HAVE MENTIONED PROOF PREVIOUSLY.
CAN YOU PRESENT THIS PROOF?
MORE PROOF THAN SPECTRAL EVIDENCE, GOOD SIR.
Sarah: THAT IS A MAP OF SALEM VILLAGE IN 1692.
THAT WILL PROVE THAT THE MADNESS WAS NOT DUE TO WITCHCRAFT BUT TO DISPUTES BETWEEN NEIGHBORS IN SEPARATE PARTS OF THE VILLAGE-- DISPUTES OVER LAND, INHERITANCES AND THE MEETINGHOUSE.
HOW SO?
I HAVE PLACED A MARK OVER EACH HOUSE WHERE THE ACCUSERS LIVED.
AND I HAVE MARKED EVERY HOUSE WHERE THE ACCUSED LIVED.
A CENTERLINE DIVIDES THE DISPUTED MEETINGHOUSE IN HALF.
I FAIL TO SEE THE REASONING.
LOOK MORE CLOSELY, YOUR HONOR.
THE ACCUSERS ALL LIVED WEST OF THE DIVIDING LINE AND THOSE THEY ACCUSED LIVED EAST OF IT.
THIS IS BUT A LIST OF NAMES.
20 NAMES.
I OFFER THEM TO YOU AS PROOF OF A CONSPIRACY.
HOW SO?
THOSE ARE THE NAMES OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN THE VILLAGE WHO FIRST OPPOSED SAMUEL PARRIS TAKING OVER OUR CHURCH.
OF THOSE 20, 17 WERE ACCUSED OR HANGED AS WITCHES.
YOU WILL EXCUSE US FOR THE MOMENT.
KIND WOMAN... LET US GO HOME.
LET US GO.
WHAT FOLLY TO DIE AT THE HANDS OF CHILDREN.
OH, DEAREST REBECCA, OH, DEAREST MARY.
"BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN SPIRIT "FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD IN HEAVEN.
"AND BLESSED ARE THEY "THAT ARE PERSECUTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN."
GOODWIFE CLOYCE-- WE AS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CROWN HAVE LISTENED TO YOUR STORY AND CONSIDERED THE EVIDENCE AND CIRCUMSTANCES YOU HAVE PRESENTED.
IT IS STILL OUR CONCERTED OPINION THAT YEARS WILL INDEED PASS BEFORE FINAL JUDGMENT IS MADE ON ANY ACCUSED PERSON WHO DIED IN 1692.
HOWEVER... WITH REGARD TO YOUR OWN CASE AND THOSE OF YOUR SISTERS YOU CAME HERE, NOT SEEKING FINAL JUDGMENT BUT MERELY TO TELL YOUR STORY AND THEIRS AND TO CLEAR THEIR NAMES, AS YOU SAY.
THIS YOU HAVE DONE.
I FEEL WE MUST APOLOGIZE IN SOME WAY FOR THEIR SUFFERING AND YOURS.
YOU HAVE BEEN WRONGED.
ALTHOUGH IT IS LIKELY ANY RESTITUTION WILL TAKE MANY YEARS WE WISH TO MAKE SOME MEASURE OF SYMBOLIC SUPPORT.
A MEASURE OF RESPECT ABSOLVING YOU AND YOUR SISTERS FROM ANY GUILT IN THIS MATTER.
WE THREE MAGISTRATES BEFORE YOU SO DESIRE TO RIGHT THE WRONG IN THE EYES OF THE LAW FOR THE UNJUSTICES DONE.
WE HUMBLY PLACE BEFORE YOU OUR SYMBOLIC JUDGMENT-- THREE SOVEREIGNS-- ONE FOR EACH SISTER.
ONE GOLD SOVEREIGN FOR THE SOVEREIGNTY OF EACH LIFE.
ANNE PUTNAM, JR.
SOUGHT MEMBERSHIP IN THE VILLAGE CHURCH IN 1706.
SHE APOLOGIZED TO THE ACCUSED WHO SURVIVED AND TO THE FAMILIES OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES.
SHE WAS ADMITTED INTO THE CHURCH.
SHE DIED TEN YEARS LATER IN 1716 AT AGE 36, UNMARRIED.
ANN PUTNAM, SR., DIED IN JUNE 1699 AT AGE 38 MENTALLY ANGUISHED OVER THE LOSS OF HER HUSBAND THOMAS WHO DIED THE MONTH BEFORE.
THEY REST IN AN UNMARKED GRAVE.
TITUBA REMAINED IN SALEM JAIL FOR THE DURATION OF THE TRIALS WHERE SHE WAS USED AS A WITNESS AGAINST THE ACCUSED.
WHEN THE TRIALS ENDED SHE WAS SOLD BY SAMUEL PARRIS TO PAY FOR HER JAIL FEES.
THE REVEREND MR.
SAMUEL PARRIS FAILED TO HOLD HIS DEED OR HIS POSITION IN THE CHURCH.
HE WAS DRIVEN OUT OF SALEM VILLAGE IN THE YEAR 1697 BY THE RESTORED ANTI-PARRIS COMMITTEE LED BY SAMUEL NURSE AND JOSEPH PUTNAM.
PARRIS WAS BANISHED TO OBSCURITY NEVER TO BE HIRED AS A MINISTER AGAIN.
THE REVEREND MR.
NICHOLAS NOYES WAS TO FOLLOW THE PROPHECY OF SARAH GOOD.
AFTER THE HANGINGS, HE SUFFERED AN INTERNAL HEMORRHAGE AND DID, INDEED, DIE DRINKING HIS OWN BLOOD.
LITTLE DORCY GOOD CONFESSED TO BEING A WITCH.
SHE WAS RELEASED FROM JAIL AT THE AGE OF FIVE YEARS.
SHE WOULD SUFFER EMOTIONALLY FOR THE REMAINDER OF HER LIFE.
IN 1711, MARY EASTY'S NAME WAS CLEARED AND HER SURVIVING FAMILY WAS AWARDED £20 STERLING BY RECOMMENDATION OF THE COURT OF INQUIRY.
HER ATTAINDER WAS REVERSED.
REBECCA NURSE'S FAMILY WAS AWARDED £25 STERLING IN 1711 AS RECOMPENSE.
HER ATTAINDER WAS ALSO REVERSED.
IN 1712, THE CHURCH OF SALEM OVERTURNED HER EXCOMMUNICATION THUS RESTORING REBECCA'S SOUL TO GOD.
SARAH CLOYCE RETURNED TO HER HUSBAND PETER AND HOME IN FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS WHERE SHE DIED THREE WEEKS AFTER SHE WAS GRANTED THE HEARING.
SHE WAS BURIED WITH THREE GOLD SOVEREIGNS.
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