Sarah Osborne

Bishops, who was hanged June 10, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, and Sarah Wildes were hanged on July 19. George Burroughs, Martha Carrier, John Willard, George Jacobs, and John Proctor were hanged on August 19th. Martha Corey, Mary Eastey, Ann Pudeator, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Wilmot Redd, Margaret Scott, and Samuel Wardwell were all executed on September 22nd. As many as 13 more people died in prison including Sarah Osborne, Lyndia Dustin, and Ann Foster. Giles…

” Abby Williams is the respected niece of Reverend Parris and is often bewitched in court. When Sarah Osborne was on trial Abby became very ill “I was throwing up with all the other girls, all 13 of them! Do you think we could make that up? It was Sarah is making us do that. She deserves to be hung.” Sarah Osborne will be hung later this week unless she confesses her involvement with the devil. Sarah Good and Tituba, Parris’ servant, both confessed…

The Salem Witch Trials persecuted many innocent outcasts in Salem, Massachusetts in the year of 1692. These outcasts were innocent but became the victims of accusations without solid evidence. The accused were not viewed as normal citizens, but became seen by the people of Salem as witches or worshippers of Satan. The trials were filled with ignorance and paranoia over the safety of themselves and their family. Due to hysteria the Salem Witch Trials occurred and resulted in the death of twenty…

With Trials Sarah Osborne is an example of one of the colonists who were falsely accused of witchcraft during the period of the Salem witch trials. They used such excuses as she didn’t attend church regularly and that she had been married three times. There was not sufficient enough evidence against her to justly accuse her of being a witch but they did and as a result she ended up dying in a Boston prison. She was an elderly woman who lived in the town of Salem Massachusetts. Sarah along…

with the Devil” and other questions. By contradicting herself, by first saying she wasn’t a witch then exclaiming she was a witch, she pleased listeners by going into detailed answers about her services to the Devil. She had also accused Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne as being witches as well. With her confession the town set out to find from the possessed who the other witches were. There are theories that Tituba only confessed to these crimes after being beaten by her master, the Reverend…

using witchcraft such as Goody Osborne and Sarah Good with Tituba were accused of committing witchcraft on other girls in the village which lead to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692. The victims described what they did to them. The girls whose names were Ann Putnam and Elizabeth Hubbard would be other victims not only by Tituba but also Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne. Both Ann and Elizabeth pointed that the people who tortured them were indeed Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne who tortured them by…

The first accused were Tituba, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne (Brooks). These women were all elderly women and had suspicion. Tituba was a “Savage” because she was an Indian and a servant for the Parris family in Salem (Roach; Blumberg). This is why she was thought to be a witch. Tituba’s case was…

In the year 1692, unusual and incomprehensible events occurred in Salem Village, Massachusetts, after a group of young girls had sinister episodes. For instance, “they would fall on the floor, shaking and trembling in seizures, or sit and stare off into space, unaware of the world around them. They would cry and shout curses uncontrollably” (Magoon 7). The Puritan settlers in the Salem community grew fearful as more girls became victims of these episodes. The village began to suspect that…

Tituba was imprisoned for thirteen months, along with Sarah Osborne who died in prison and Goody was hanged on Tuesday 19th July 1692. The months following led to more than 200 people accused and Bridget Bishop whose wit and independent spirit led to her hanging. I believe that the main cause was the oppression…

Fear and corruption run rampant during one of America’s darkest periods. 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts was a time of fear, allegation, and distress. The town of Salem will forever be linked to the witch trials and the executions of innocent victims. One person tortured to death, five others die in prison, and nineteen men and women hanged (6). The atmosphere surrounding Salem was ripe for the occasion. Some of the predominant causes of the Trials were a combination of the strict Puritan codes…