124. Witch Trials: Martha Carrier

On August 19th, 1692 Salem saw its third round of executions. Four men and one woman were hanged that day -- a group so sensational that Cotton Mather himself attended their last moments. He had to see the Queen of Hell for himself. Join Jeffrey and Sarah, your favorite Salem tour guides, as they talk about Martha Carrier, the first person to be accused from Andover, a town that saw more accusations than any other.

 

• Salem Witch Museum - "Thomas and Martha Carrier / Widow Allen Home, Site of"
• Salem Witch Museum - "Martha and Thomas Carrier: A Love Story"
• Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
• History of Massachusetts - "The Witchcraft Trial of Martha Carrier"
• Wikitree - Thomas Carrier
• "A Witch Trial Victim's Family Reunion" - Gloucester Times
• Witchcraft Poems: Salem 1692. Roslyn, N.Y.: Stone House Press, 1988
• In the Shadow of Salem: The Andover Witch-hunt of 1692 by Richard Hite
• Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather
• The Salem Witch Trials by Marilynne K. Roach
• Salem Village Witchcraft by Boyer and Nissenbaum

 

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