Talk:List of people of the Salem witch trials

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This page is for all the lists of all people involved in various capacities in the Salem witch trials, to help get the lists off of the main article. Ogram 17:02, 11 September 2007 (UTC) Salem Witch Trials. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.5.15.187 (talk) 20:10, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

I descend from Elizabeth Hutchinson Hart, the accused witch, who was pardoned by a petition from her son, Thomas Hart. This new info discovered and proven, December 4, 2018. Poetree1948 (talk) 16:55, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Kathy Jo Bryant Poetree1948 (talk) 16:56, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Vandals adding extra people
This page seems to attract additions, and it's unclear that it is currently correct in spite of the efforts of several editors. One imagines that every name listed here ought to be checked against authoritative sources. Who's willing? Snezzy (talk) 19:08, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, I can confirm that there are a lot of people that were accurate that are no longer presented. I'm directly related to Stephen Johnson, Elizabeth Johnson, Sr, and Francis Dane so I mostly looked at that family when I have researched it in the past. Elizabeth Johnson, Jr (removed since I last checked) was one of the named, and at least to the point that she had to testify in court. The court transcript has her saying that the devil came to her in the form of a bird. Meanwhile, you can use this source linked on the Francis Dane page for a lot of names (click on the document thumbnail in the post). His extended family had the highest number of accused. You can also look for other references from the pages about some of the accused. Meanwhile, if you're near a university, there are a lot of books. The one's I had taken out in the past were a timeline, and then a compilation/transcription of known court transcripts and related documents (ordered by name) --132.198.220.151 (talk) 17:22, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

Nathaniel Ingersoll
I found this link when I googled him on the web: www.hawthorneinsalem.org/images/image.php?name=MMD1121

I'm not quite sure what to call his category so he is in others. sources I know (perhaps Upham and Savage) have him as constable and deacon c 1692, and at least one source had his house as the location of some of the "proceedings". I'm not quite sure if he merits his own article, though I think there is clearly enough biographical info about him to do better than just a stub. John5Russell3Finley (talk) 01:29, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Number who died in prison
This article lists 3 who died in prison. This one says 5 died in prison Salem_witch_trials --Skintigh (talk) 14:48, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Esther Elwell
On Who Do You Think You Are? (U.S. TV series), on the Sarah Jessica Parker episode, one of her ancestors is named as Esther Elwell and is said to have been imprisoned during the trials, but the trials seized before she was sentenced. The two women that was arrested with her is mentioned (Rowe/Roe and Dike/Dicer). 5.241.73.82 (talk) 18:33, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Twentieth execution victim?
The article says that 20 people were executed, but lists only 19. A recent addition has been reverted as a possible hoax, but this leave the question, who was the 20th victim? WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 18:18, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Finally figured it out. The 20th victim is listed under "Refused to plead". WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 16:06, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Giles Corey was not convicted.
Giles Corey was not convicted. He was pressed to death because he refused to plea. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.105.194.224 (talk) 15:22, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Updating categories of persons
The categories are a bit of a mess right now, and there's some mix-ups probably due to the fact that people were imprisoned for long periods of time without officially being tried. I have begun to try cleaning up the categories, assuming people are currently placed in the correct ones. Some people may be placed in multiple categories as it is. I am trying to find a good list to compare this to, but I don't have one at the moment. Changes in wording may also needed for situations like the above (Giles Corey was executed but not convicted of witchcraft)

As it is, the best organization may be to sort out those who died from those who survived, as generally those who died have the most sources on them and are therefore the ones able to have proper encyclopedic references, while most of the accused but not convicted have little scholarship published. The one issue is there were also some "afflicted" persons who died during the trials. An alternative would be accused vs accusers, although there is a little overlap in that as well (ex Mary Warren) La Ovo (talk) 00:06, 7 June 2023 (UTC)