List of people of the Salem witch trials

This is a list of people associated with the Salem witch trials, a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of them women.

Contents

• Afflicted
• Physician who diagnosed bewitchment
• Convicted and died in prison
• Convicted but escaped
• Convicted and pardoned
• Pled guilty and pardoned
• Refused to plead
• Died in custody
• Unindicted or acquitted
• Released on bond
• Escaped
• Born in prison
• Died in prison
• Released from prison after the Governor ended the Witch Trials
• Indicted by grand jury
• Not indicted
• Evaded arrest or escaped
• Named but no arrest warrant issued
• Court of Oyer and Terminer 1692
• Superior Court of Judicature 1693
• Jurors
• Trial of Rebecca Nurse
• Public figures
• Clergy
• References

Surnames in parentheses preceded by "née" indicate birth family maiden names (if known) of married women, who upon marriage generally took their husbands' surnames. Due to the low population of the Massachusetts North Shore at the time of the trials, a significant percentage of local residents were related to other local residents through descent or by marriage. Many of the witchcraft accusations were driven at least in part by acrimonious relations between the families of the plaintiffs and defendants. Unless otherwise specified, dates provided in this list use Julian-dated month and day but New Style-enumerated year (i.e., years begin on January 1 and end on December 31, in the modern style).