In the winter of 1691, Abigail Williams, Mercy Lewis, Elizabeth Hubbard, Ann Putnam Jr., and others, gathered to "tell each other's fortune." Two of the girls, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams began exhibiting strange behavior and babbling incoherently by January of 1692. The next month, Tituba, a Carribean slave, bakes a "witch cake" with the girls' urine to feed to the dog. Three months later, their stories had grown into outright accusations of witchcraft, supposedly committed by their fellow townspeople. After the last death in Salem, in March of 1693, nineteen people had been hanged, four died in jail, one was driven mad, and one, perhaps the most famous, Giles Corey, had been pressed to death.

This page is dedicated to those citizens of Salem, Massachutes who lost, or had their lives greatly altered by the witchhunt of 1692. The links below lead to pages that will tell of their lives and the circumstances of their deaths.