Ann Putnam, does she hurt you? - She could not speak. Mary Lewis! does she hurt you? - Her mouth was stopped. Mary Walcott! doth this woman hurt you?Ī. to be guilty of sundry acts of witchcraft what say you to it? Speak the truth, and so you that are afflicted, you must speak the truth, as you will answer it before God another day. Elizabeth Proctor! you understand whereof you are charged, viz. On April 4, John Walcott and Nathaniel Ingersoll filed an official complaint against Elizabeth Proctor, on behalf of Abigail Williams, John Indian, Mary Walcott, Ann Putnam, Jr, and Mercy Lewis, and a warrant was issued for her arrest.Īfter she was apprehended, Elizabeth Proctor was brought to the Salem Village meetinghouse on April 11 and examined by Judge Thomas Danforth, according to court records:
In late March, two of the afflicted girls, Mercy Lewis and Abigail Williams, claimed Elizabeth Proctor visited them at night in spirit form and tormented them. The meetinghouse of the first church in Salem Village, illustration published in the New England Magazine, Volume 5, in 1892 Elizabeth Proctor’s Arrest and Trial: Warren’s fits quickly stopped but as soon as John Proctor left on business a few days later, her symptoms returned and she joined the ongoing witch trials as a witness. John Proctor, who believed the afflicted girls were just pretending to be afflicted, accused Warren of faking her symptoms and threatened to beat her if she continued. In the spring of 1692, after some of the afflicted girls began having fits and claimed that invisible forces were tormenting them, the Proctor’s servant, Mary Warren, began showing the same symptoms.
Elizabeth Proctor’s Early Life:Įlizabeth Proctor, whose maiden name was Bassett, was also the granddaughter of Goody Burt, a folk healer from Lynn who had been tried, but acquitted, on charges of witchcraft over 30 years earlier. Elizabeth, Proctor’s third wife, married Proctor in April of 1674, two years after the death of his second wife, Elizabeth Thorndike.
The Proctors were a wealthy family who lived on a large rented farm on the outskirts of Salem Village, in what is now modern day Peabody. Elizabeth Proctor, wife of Salem Village farmer John Proctor, was accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials in 1692.
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