Nevertheless, Burroughss trial reached its end shortly after and he was promptly found guilty and sentenced to hang later that month.
The Witchcraft Trial of Reverend George Burroughs The death of George Floyd, which triggered widespread protests across the US, has been declared a homicide in an official post-mortem examination. Yet, upon closer inspection, there were a multitude of factors that brought him under suspicion, and many of these surrounded his spirituality and commitment to Puritanism. He served as minister of Salem Village from 1680 until he left in 1683. July 1954 . Short of stature, muscular, dark-complexioned, he was highly attractive to women, as is shown by his winning the hand of a rich widow as his second wife when he was a mere village minister. On June 25th, 2022, George was called to his eternal reward. Jurat in Curia [*Edward] Putnam](/tag/putnam_edward.html), ( Essex County Court Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. This memorial website was created in memory of George Burroughs, 38, born on January 17, 1915 and passed away on April 0, 1953. her, that he had made her set her hand to 107: John Proctor Executed, August 19, 1692, SWP No. William & Mary by the Grace of God of England Scotland France & Ireland King & Queen defend'rs of the faith &ca George Burroughs was a minister who was accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Providence, but he understood nothing of it Aug'st 3: 1692, ( Witchcraft Papers, no. Although they still believed in witches and believed witches may have invaded Salem, they had doubts that so many people could have been guilty of the crime. Another witness, Hannah Harris, testified that Burroughs had a strange ability to somehow know what his wife had said in private conversations when he was away and once scolded her for what she had said to Harris when he had been away from home. Burroughs eldest son, Charles Burroughs, filed a claim stating that his fathers estate was seized after his conviction, leaving the family with very little money, and asked for 50 pounds in damages: To the Honoured Comitte apoined by the Gennarll Court to Inquire into the Names of Such as may be Meet for takeing of the atta[nbar ]der for the Makeing Some Restitucon & these Humbly & Sorroufully Shew that our Dear & Honourd father Mr George Burrough was aprehened in apriel 1692 at wells & Imprisoned Severall Months in Bostone & Salem Goales and at last Condemened & Executed for whichcraft which we have all the reason in the world to bleve he was innocent of by his carefull Chatecizing his Chilldren & upholding religion in his family and by his Solom & Savory written Instructions from prison we were Left a parsell of small Chilldren of us helpless & a mother in Law with one Small Child of her owne to take care of whereby she was not so Capable to take care of us by all which our fathers small Estate was most of it Lost & Expended and we Scattered we cannot tell Certanly what the lose may be but the Least we can Judge by best information was fifty poundes besides the damage that hath acrued to us many wayes thereby is Some hundreds of pounds wee Earnestly pray that the attainder may be taken of & if you please the fifty pounds may be restored.. On April 30, 1692, Capt Jonathan Walcott and Thomas Putnam of Salem Village filed a complaint of witchcraft against George Burroughs, as well as five other people, on behalf of the afflicted girls Mary Walcott, Mercy Lewis, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, Jr, Susannah Sheldon, and Elizabeth Hubbard. Salem Witch Trials MemorialAddress: Liberty Street, Salem Mass, Proctors Ledge MemorialAddress: 7 Pope St, Salem, Mass, Site of the Salem Witch Trials ExecutionsAddress: Proctors Ledge, wooded area between Proctor Street and Pope Street, Salem, Mass. his T marke. Tho Som of us Can Remember of Considerable in the House, besides his Liberary which she Sold and Recd the money for; then Lett it out att Intrest and was afterward Recd by another Husband; and not one farthing bestowed upon any Child but her Own: This being matter of fact we Humbly Leave it with your Honours to Consider wheather of what The Honourable Generall Court allowd &c she have not allredy Recd To much And the Children To Little. ), Gentlemen #[Robert Morrell] Thomas Hutchinson,The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay (1767.) With those words, under the tearful gaze of an ambivalent crowd the George Burroughs was hanged. George Burroughs was probably born around Suffolk, England around 1650 prior to migrating to Massachusetts Bay Colony with his parents. Wells: Sept: 28th 1691 p 294.
George Burroughs - Wikipedia 038: Martha Corey Executed, September 22, 1692, SWP No. The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts. John Brown test testifyed about a b[arre]ll [of] Cyder & others unknowne came to this depon't & Mr Burroughs had a trumpett & sounded it, & they would have had this depon't to have gone up with them to a feast at Mr parris- ses & Goody Nurse & Goody procter told her this depon't they were Deacons & would have had her eat some of their sweet bread & wine & she asking them what wine that was one of them said it was blood & better then our wine but this depon't refused to eat or drink with them & they then dreadfully afflicted her at that tyme. I told him itt did not belong to mee, and I was not willing to medle or make with itt, then s'd King sayd are you not a Christian if you are a Christian goe [&] see him and discourse with him, but I told him I did beleive it did not belong to such as I was to discourse him he being a Learned man. When they finally arrived in Salem, Burroughs was brought to the jail in Salem town. Thomas putnam The police caused George Floyd's death, but drugs and heart disease played a role, the medical examiner says. Burroughs and George Jacobs underwent a physical examination for signs that they were witches but the jurors conducting the search found nothing upon the body of the above said Burroughs but what is natural although they did find some odd marks on Jacobs that they deemed unnatural.
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George Burroughs (1915-1953) *38, Grave #54299260 - Sysoon *Thomas putnam above written evidence: is the truth Aug'st 3: 1692 Witnesses -- mr Jno Ruck mrs Eliz: Ruck mr Thomas Ruck & Samuel Ruck ), The Deposition of Mary Walcott agged about 17 years who testi- fieth and saith that on the later end of April 1692: mr. George Burroughs or his Apperance came to me whom I formerly well knew: and he did Immediatly most greviously torment me by biting pinching and almost choacking me urging me to writ in his book: which I refusing he did -- againe most greviously torment me and tould me if I would but touch his book I should be well but I tould him I would not for all the world and then he threated to kil me and said I should never witnes against him: but he continewed tortering and tempting me tell the 8 may: and then he tould me he would have kiled his first wife and child: when his wife was in travil but he had not the power: but he keept hir in the kithin tell he gave hir hir deaths wound.but he charged me in the name of his God I should not tell of it:but Immediatly there appeared to me mr.Burroughs two first wives in their winding sheets whom I formerly well knew and tould me that mr. Burroughs had murthered them and that their blood did crie for vengance againt him: also on the 9'th may being the day of his ex- amination he did most greviously torment me dureing the time of his examination for if he did but look on me he would strick me down or allmost Choake me: also dureing his examination I saw mr. George Burroughs or his Apperane most greviously torment mercy lewes Eliz Hubb [e] rt Abigail william and Ann putnam and I beleve in my heart that mr. George Burroughs is a dreadful wizzard and That he had often afflected and tormented me and the afore mentioned parsons by his acts of wicthcraft, Mary Walcot declared this writing to be a true evidence: to the Jury Mary Walcott Later, the government of the Massachusetts colony recognized Burroughs' innocence and awarded 50 pounds damages to his widow and children, though this led to disputes over the division of the award among his heirs. Death: August 19, 1692 (37-46) . Visit this site's About page to find out more about Rebecca. It was no easy thing to secure him at the great distance of his place of residence. May 10- Sarah Osborne dies in prison in Boston. 2, no. Weld swone He came from the Boston area and was a descendant of Rev. Death . Ed. His great grandma was Nora Burroughs (Armistead) from New Point, Mathews, Virginia. Since the Salem Village parsonage was in disrepair at the time of Burroughs arrival, the Burroughs family stayed with John Putnam, Sr, and his wife Rebecca.
the Bewitched being present. According to Mathers account of the trial, in September, two witnesses came forward and offered testimony against Burroughs. When they ran into Burroughs again, he chided his wife for what she had said privately to her brother. Sumons Ruck etal, ( Essex County Court Archives, Salem - Witchcraft, vol. His secretive nature didnt help either and made it seem like he was hiding something.
George Burroughs Obituary (1932 - 2022) - Legacy Remembers #(Robert Morrell ) Many of the things you point out verify what was passed down in family history. *Simon Willard Jurat in Curia Mercy Lewis was one of the afflicted girls of the Salem Witch Trials and a servant in Thomas Putnam's home.. Lewis, the daughter of Phillip Lewis, was born in Falmouth, Maine in 1675. Despite being far away from the witch hysteria in Salem, Massachusetts, Burroughs name was brought up as a witch and a warrant was put out for his arrest. I, Wiggin and Lunt, 1867.Roach, Marilynne K. The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege. Family history states that we are related to John Burroughs from northern VA. This G. B. was indicted for witch-craft, and in the prosecution of the charge against him he was accused by five or six of the bewitched, as the author of their miseries; he was accused by eight of the confessing witches, as being an head actor at some of their hellish randevouzes, and one who had the promise of being a king in Satans kingdom, now going to be erected. yo'r humble Servant, (Reverse) To Jno Hauthorn Sewall , Cle When he was upon the ladder, he made a speech for the clearing of his innocency, with such solemn and serious expressions, as were to the admiration of all present: his prayer (which he concluded by repeating the Lords prayer) was so well worded, and uttered with such composedness, and such (at least seeming) fervency of spirit, as was very affecting, and drew tears from many, so that it seemed to some that the spectators would hinder the execution. On December 17, 1711, the Burroughs family was awarded 50 in restitution. Burroughs was moved to Boston jail. And her daughter Mary affirmed that Mr. George Burroughs was at the witch meetings and witch sacraments, and that she knows Mr. Burroughs to be of the company of witches. Sus: [one line too faint] 34 ), Benjemin huchension s'd that one the 21'st aprell 92 abegeral wiluams s'd that there.was a lettell black menester that Lived at Casko bay he told me so and s'd that he had kild 3 wifes two for himself and one for mr Losen and that he had made nine Weches in this plase and s'd that he Could hold out the hevest gun that Is in Casko bay w'th one hand w'c no man Can Case hold out w't both. Peabody Essex Museum, Phillips Library, Salem, MA.).
George Burrows: obituary and death notice on InMemoriam 168: A Bill Against Conjurations, Witchcraft, and Dealing with Evil and Wicked Spirits (December 1692), SWP No. all of the Bewitched) were greivously tortured. George Burroughs George Burroughs (1917 . It is with broken Hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved son, husband and father on February 10, 2018 with his loving family by his side. Evidently, he left bad feelings in his wake, and was now forcibly returned to Salem to face witchcraft charges. During the examination, Burroughs was asked if it was true that his house in Casco Bay was haunted. [citation needed] At his trial, which took place in May, he was found guilty based on evidence that included his extraordinary feats of strength, such as lifting a musket by inserting his finger into the barrel (such feats of strength being presumed impossible without diabolical assistance[8]). evidence: is the truth. Jone Johnson Lewis is a women's history writer who has been involved with the women's movement since the late 1960s. From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging. Society ), Wm & Mary by the Grace of God of England Scotland france & Ireland King & queen defend'rs of the faith &ca --, Wee Comand you to Warn & give Notice unto John Pierce and John lane. 173: Reversal of Attainder and Restitution (1710 - 1750). Flint, Genesee County, Michigan 48507 . After Boston minister Cotton Mather reassured the crowd that his execution was the result of a court decision, Burroughs was hanged. take it in his hands or arms out of the Cannoo or boat and carry it and set it on the shore: and mr Borroughs being: there sayd that he had carryed one barrill of molasses.or sider: out of a cannoo that had like to have done him a displeasure: s'd mr Borroughs intimated: as if he did not want strength to do it but the disadvantage of the shore was such: that his foot slipping in the sand: he had like to have strained his legg Rev. Although the jury had found no witches' marks on his body, he was nonetheless convicted of witchcraft and a conspiracy with the devil. marce luis uppon har oath did owne this har testimony to be the truth be fore the Juriors for In quest:agust:3: 92. we whose names are under writen being present hard mircy lewes declare what is above writen what she said she saw and hard from the Apperishtion of Mr George Burroughs and also beheld hir tortors which we cannot express for sume times we ware redy to fear that every joynt of hir body was redy to be displaced: also we perceived hir hellish temtations by hir loud out cries mr.Burroughs . He along with George Jacobs, John Proctor, John Willard, and Martha Carrier were brought to the execution site. Brown {strength & the Gun. I Recd an order from the Gov'r & Council to aprehend mr George Buroughs at present preacher at Wells, to be Sent to Salem their to be Examened, being Suspected to have Confedracy with the devil in opressing Sundry persons about yo'r Towne of Salem, accordingly I have sent him by John Partredg Marshal of this provence, Except he meet with any other Authority that will commit him to Some other officer to be Convayed as above, he pleading it will be to his damage to go So far, I am When it was finally over and Burroughs still remained in their custody, the lawmen took it as a sign that the Devil had unsuccessfully tried to free Burroughs. In 1689, George Burroughs and his family survived another raid, but Mercy Lewis' parents were killed and she began to work as a servant for George Burroughs's family. Essex County Court Records, Vol. George Burroughs and the Salem Witch Trials. 172: Petitions to the General Court, with Responses (1696-1725), SWP No.
Tragedy Info - Michael Hensley Obituary - Death: Burroughs | Facebook 2, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA. marshall of the Provence of newhansher and maine, (Reverse) Warrant agt Burroughs the Marchalls Returne, ( Witchcraft Papers, no. When it was Burroughs turn, he climbed the ladder and made an eloquent speech declaring his innocence and then recited the Lords prayer flawlessly, despite the common belief that witches couldnt recite the prayer without making a mistake. 094: Rebecca Nurse Executed July 19, 1692, SWP No. Its not clear why Greenlit or the other witness felt compelled to testify against Burroughs long after he had already been tried and executed but it suggests that the community may have begun to doubt Burroughss guilt, particularly after the events of his execution, and Greenlit may have been pressured to testify to provide further proof of this alleged guilt. name it. He answered it was so long since he could not tell: yet Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges. Geo. Jurat in Curia, ( Essex County Court Archives, Salem - Witchcraft, vol. 170: Superior Court of Judicature: Witchcraft Trials (January - May 1693), SWP No. Thirty-five citizens of Salem Village signed a petition to the court, but it did not move the court. Lewis, Jone Johnson.
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