Death . Greenwood Press, 2008.Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University. Updated: November 4, 2011 . Sarah died in 1689, probably also in childbirth, and Burroughs moved with his family to Wells, Maine. Hannah died in childbirth in 1681, leaving George Burroughs with a newborn and two other children. Salem August 2'd 1692 Genealgical Publishing Co, 1985.Calef, Robert. At his entry into the Room, many (if not *Samuell Webber 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. The 46-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest while . 165: List of Eleven Accused Persons and Their Accusers, May 1692, SWP No. 1691 p. 274. The afflicted girls, Ann Putnam, Jr., Sarah Bibber, Mercy Lewis, Elizabeth Hubbard, Abigail Hobbs, Mary Warren, Susannah Sheldon, testified against Burroughs as well and accused him of murdering members of his family and other people in the community. *John Partridge feild By Before the Honoured John Hallum Salem August 2'd 1692. ), Elizer Keysar aged aboute fourty five yeares Sayth that on Thursday last past being the fift day of this Instant moneth of May I was at the house of Thomas [Beadles] in salem, and Capt Daniell King being there also, at the same tyme, and in the Same Roome. 2. [6], Burroughs was arrested on charges of witchcraft on May 4, 1692,[7] based on the accusation of some personal enemies from his former congregation who had sued him for debt. This was near enough the border with French Canada that the threat of French and Indian war parties was real. Coincidentally, Thomas Putnam also testified during the trial and used similar language to what was written in the girls testimony: The deposistion of Tho. He looked back & knockt down all (or more) It may explain why a minister such as himself would have been accused of the crime of witchcraft in the first place, according to Baker: George Burroughs was a Harvard-trained minister and a spiritual and community leader, so on the surface he appears to be an unlikely person to be accused. Robert Calef later said that he had been buried so poorly that his chin and hand protruded from the ground. 063: Sarah Good Executed July 19, 1692, SWP No. George Burrough's children were among those. we whose names are under written being present with ann putnam at the times above mentioned: saw hir tortured and hard hir refuse to writ in the book also hard hir declare what is above writen: what she said she saw and hard from the Apperishtion of Mr. George Burroghs and from thos which acc[used him] for murthering of them Burroughs borrowed the money for Hannahs funeral from John Putnam. Flint, Genesee County, Michigan 48507 . #[Robert Morrell] It was an odd trait indeed for a man in a profession that required many quiet hours dedicated to studying that Bible, preparing and giving sermons, and tending to the spiritual needs of his flock.. While most ministers were public figures, open and engaged with their community, Burroughs was an intensely private individual and a man of mystery. He is survived by his loving wife of 49 years, Lorraine (Turnbull); his daughter, Nancy; special sons . Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company. He protested his innocence. He then moved to Wells, Maine, believing it would be safer from Indian attacks. Thomas Ruck of his sudden coming in after them & that he could tell his thoughts. Vol. George Burroughs and the Salem Witch Trials." He was the only minister to have experienced this fate in American history. The accusers said the black man [Devil] stood and dictated to him. During the meeting, John Putnam suddenly had Burroughs arrested for failure to repay his debt to him for Hannah Burroughss funeral expenses. Susan Sheldon. Among those in the crowd was the colonys most prominent minister Reverend Increase Mather. The death of George Floyd, which triggered widespread protests across the US, has been declared a homicide in an official post-mortem examination. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. of the afflicted, wo stood behind him. lock & rested it upon his breast Ann Putman, ( Witchcraft Papers, no. Yet he owned there were Toads. Many of the things you point out verify what was passed down in family history. He came from the Boston area and was a descendant of Rev. 17, James Duncan Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. Jurat in Curia [*Edward] Putnam](/tag/putnam_edward.html), ( Essex County Court Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. I having Receved perticuler Order from the Govern'r & Council of their Maj'sts Colony of the Masathusets, for the Same, you may not faile herein, Dated in portsmouth in the provenc of Hamshire. He was about 42 years of age. some thing Jumped down from between the Chimney & the side of the house and Run down the stairs and s'd Burroughs followed it down, and the negro then s'd it was something like a white calfe: another tyme lyeing with her husband some thing came into the house and stood by her bed side and breathed on her, and she being much affrighted at it, would have awakened her husband but could not for a con- siderable tyme, but as soone as he did awake it went away., but this I heard her say. and an Indian that comes with her for the flore is all covered with blod.then the said mary and abigaill looked out of dores & said they saw a greet company of them one a hill & there was three of them lay dead the black woman & the indian & one more that they knew not 170: Superior Court of Judicature: Witchcraft Trials (January - May 1693), SWP No. It appears from court records that Burroughss children soon began fighting over the money. then we come into the house of left Ingersoll and I went into the great Roome and abigle come in and said ther he stands I said wher wher and presently draed my rapyer but he emmedetly was gon as she said then said she ther is a gray catt then i said wher abouts doth she stand ther s'd she ther than I struck # [with] with my rapyer then she fell in afitt and when it was over she said you kild hur and immedetly Sary good come and carrid hur away this was about 12 a clock 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. On August 2, the Court of Oyer and Terminer heard the case against Burroughs, as well as cases against John and Elizabeth Proctor, Martha Carrier, George Jacobs, Sr. and John Willard. Keyzer: declared: to the Jury of Inquest that the evidence: in this paper is the truth upon oath: Aug'st 3 1692 Mercy Lewis. [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]). Elizer Keiser, Capt. [1] Another source gives his birth date and place as Virginia, 1652. Savage says his father probably died in Virginia, and he can feel no doubt that he was the son of that Mrs. 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. Wm. 072: Elizabeth How Executed July 19, 1692, SWP No. 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. & he told me his name was borrous, Then he tooke a booke out of his pocket: & opened it.& bid me set my hand to it I tould him I would not: the lines in this book was read as blod; then he pinched me twise & went away: The next morn- ing.he apeared to me againe.and tould me he was above a wizard; for he was a conjurar and so went away but sins that he hath apeared to me every day & night very often and urged me very much to set my hand to his book: and to run a way telling me if I would do so I should be well & that I should need feare no body: & withall tor- mented me severall ways every time he Came exept that time he told me he was a conjuror: This night he asked me very much to set my hand to his book or else he sayed he would kill me; withall tortoring me very much by biting and pinching squesing my body and runing pins into me also on the: 9'th may 1692 being the time of his examination mr George Burroughs or his Apperance did most greviously afflect and torment the bodyes of Mary Walcott mercy lewes Ann putnam and Abigail williams for if he did but look upon them he would strick them down or almost choak them to death also severall times sence he has most dreadfully afflected and tormented me with variety of torments and I beleve in my heart that mr George Burroughs is a dreadfull wizzard and that he has often tormented me and also the above named parsons by his acts of wicthcraft Jurat in Curia, Eliz Hubbard.declared:the above written evedence:to be the truth: upon her oath:that she had taken.this she owned before the Jury of inquest: Aug'st 3 1692, ( Essex County Court Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. ), Province of the Mattathusets Bay in New EnglandThe deposition of Thomas Greinslitt aged about forty years Testfieth. Jurat in Curia, ( Essex County Court Archives, Salem - Witchcraft, vol. 045: Mary Esty Executed, September 22, 1692, SWP No. The sholdiers A number of them began filing letters with the court asking their siblings to give them their share of the money and later filed letters asking to award their portion to their siblings due to a desire to sit down in silence., In March, Mary Burroughs filed a letter asking her brother to send her portion of the restitution which is my right and proper due from the general court I pray you to send it by my mother which will take some care about it.., On April 3, 1712, Rebecca Fowle filed a letter asking the court to award any remaining restitution to her brother, George Burroughs with out delay for every discourse on this malloncely [sic] subject doth but give a fresh wound to my bleeding heart-but i desire to sit down in silence.. This being about.4.a clock in the after noon, ( Essex County Court Archives, Salem - Witchcraft Vol. George Burroughs, a 1670 Harvard graduate, grew up in Roxbury, MA; his mother returned to England, leaving him in Massachusetts. "Rev. (2021, July 31). Sam Morgan sworne lookt upon her & she fell into a 1, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA.. ), The Examination of Geo: Burroughs 9.May.1692 Memorial Site* Salem Witch Trials Memorial. Zeb Hill Jurat Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/george-burroughs-3529133. appeared in their winding sheets, & said that Cotton Mather witnessed the event as well. As soon as he was turned off [hanged], Mr. Cotton Mather, being mounted upon a horse, addressed himself to the people, partly to declare that he [Mr. Burroughs] was no ordained Minister, partly to possess the people of his guilt, saying that the devil often had been transformed into the Angel of Light. Some in town thought he might be the "dark man" spoken of in many of the accusations. Lawson because she was so unwilling to goe from the village and also killed Mr Lawsons child because he went to the eastward with Sir Edmon and preached soe; to the souldiers and that he had bewicthed a grate many souldiers to death at the eastword, when Sir Edmon was their. she should not write to her Father Ruck without 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 . Visit this site's About page to find out more about Rebecca. Eliz. Mercy Lewis's uncle, Thomas Skilling, died from an injury brought on by the Indian attack. Burroughs remained in Salem Village for two years but when the parishioners stopped paying his salary all together, he decided to leave, according to Emerson W. Baker in his book A Storm of Witchcraft: Burroughss tenure was shorter and more turbulent than Bayleys. Jurat in Curia, ( Essex County Court Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. On May 9, Burroughs was brought to the Salem Village meetinghouse where he was examined by John Hathorne, William Stoughton and Jonathan Corwin, while Reverend Samuel Parris took notes. He continued to serve as the pastor until the town was attacked and destroyed during a Wabanaki raid on August 11, 1676. 7a, Mass. George Burroughs was one of the first ministers to step into the Salem Village Church. He was buried in Inglewood Cemetery, Inglewood, Taranaki, New Zealand. He experienced significant heart failure in 2005. 2 no. 5, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA. Walt Disney. She was the youngest of six siblings, and had three sisters, Mary (1644-1695), Sarah (1646-1716), and Hannah (1652-1698), and two brothers, Andrew (1657 . Humbly craving continually your prayers and help in this distressed case, so praying almighty God continually to prepare you, that you may be a terror to evil-doers and a praise to them that do well, we remain yours to serve in what we are able. George Burroughs was hanged at Proctor's Ledge in present-day Salem on August 19, 1692. ), the Deposition of John putnam & Rebecah his wife testifieth and saith that in the yeare :80: Mr Burros lived in our house nine month, there being a great differanc betwixt Sd Barros & his wife, the differanc was so great that they did Desier us the deponants to com into their room to hear their difference, the contrivercy that was betwixt them was that the afor s'd Burros did rquier his wife to give him a written covenant under her hand and Seall that shee would never reveall his secrits, our anser was that they had once made a covenant before god and men which covenant we did conseive did bind each other to keep their lawfull secrits, and further saith that all the time that s'd Burros did live att our house he was a very sharp man to his wife, notwithstanding to our observation shee was a very good and dutifully wife to him that we haveing ben conversant with severall of the afflected persons as maryWolcott mercy lewes Eliz: Hubburt and we have seen them most dreadfully tomented and we have seen dreadfull marks in their fleesh which they said Mr. Burroughs did make by hurting them: but on 9'th may 1692 : the day of the Examination of Mr. George Burroughs the afforesaid parsons were most dreadfully tormented dureing the time of his Examination as if they would have been torne al to peaces or all their bones putt out of joynt and with such tortors as no tounge can express also severall times sence we have seen the afforesaid afflected parsons most dreadfully tormented and greviously complaining of Mr. Burroughs for hurting them and we beleve that Mr. George Burroughs the prisoner att the bar has severall times af- flected and tormented the afforesaid persons by acts of wicthcraft Jurat in Curia, ( Essex Institute Collection, no. 15. He denyed that his family was affrighted by a Burroughs accepted the offer and relocated to Salem Village. Rebecca Beatrice Brooks is the author and publisher of the History of Massachusetts Blog. putnam aged 40: years and Edward putnam agged 38 years who testifieth and saith. After the Trials Demonstrators hold signs honouring George Floyd and other victims of racism as they gather during a protest outside Hennepin County Government Center on March 28 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. John Putnam and his wife Rebecca testified that when Burroughs stayed at their house, he was often harsh towards his first wife, Hannah, and Burroughs once told them that he required Hannah to sign a written agreement that she would never reveal his secrets. Click on the names below to see their relationship charts. Mathers son, Reverend Cotton Mather, later wrote an account of Burroughss case for his book, The Wonders of the Invisible World. He was bid to look upon sus: sheldon. "[citation needed], Letters dated to 1691 from the Littlefields, founder of Wells, Maine, and in-laws to Peter Cloyce, and Rev. *Thomas putnam The legislature also gave compensation to the heirs of 23 of those convicted, in the amount of 600. The similarity of Thomas Putnams testimony with the afflicted girls testimonies and the shared language and phrasing in several of the girls testimony suggests that the girls might not have said those specific things and Putnam may have added these words to the documents himself to strengthen the case against Burroughs. knew, Abig: Hobbs 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. Burroughs was described in a reading by Frances Hill: "George Burroughs was confident, strong-willed, and decisive, a man of action as well as a preacher, unusually athletic and clever enough to do well in Harvard. Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges. name it. More Wonders of the Invisible World. Great job on your website. In 2019, Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia ranked as the 7th leading cause of death. Jurat in Curia, ( Withcraft Papers, 11a, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA., Boston, MA., Boston. He was also suspected of killing his wives by witchcraft, and although clearly witchcraft was not involved, there is some historical evidence that he had treated them poorly.[10]. all of the Bewitched) were greivously tortured. and that he had made Abigail Hobbs a wicth and: severall wicthes more: and he has continewed ever sence; by times tempting me to write in his book and greviously tortoring me by beating pinching and almost choaking me severall times a day and he also tould me that he was above wicth for he was a cunjurer One such witness, Mary Webber, said that while living near Burroughs at Casco Bay several years ago she became acquainted with his then wife, Sarah Ruck Hathorne, who told her about a strange occurrence in the Burroughss home: Mary Webber wid aged about 53 years testifieth and sayth that she living at Casco Bay about six or seven years ago, when George Burroughs was Minister at said place, and living anner Neighbour to said Burroughs, was well acquainted with his wife which was daughter to Mr. John Ruck of Salem she hath heard her tell much of her husband unkindness to her and that she dare not wright to her father to acquaint [him] how it was with her, and so desired me to wright to her father that he would be pleased to send for her and told me she had been much afrighted, and that something in the night made a noise in the chamber where she lay as if one went about the chamber, and she calling up the negro to come to her the negro not coming said that she could not come some thing stopped her, then her husband being called he came up. ). yo'r humble Servant, (Reverse) To Jno Hauthorn 28. 1700.Mather, Cotton. Dr. Andrew Baker, who performed Mr. Floyd's autopsy, said police officers'. On Monday afternoon, an independent autopsy ordered by George's family found . Thus in haste I commit you to Providence of our Lord God and desire Your prayers also for us. Hubbard Rev. [1] The Lewis family next settled in Salem. His first wife was Hannah Fisher; they had nine children. in his Shape appeared to her, & urged [her to set] The family will receive friends from 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, June 30, 2022, at the funeral home. 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. New details are being revealed in regards to the death of George Floyd. According to historian Sidney Perley, an old family story from the Buffum family states that from his house on nearby Boston street, Joshua Buffam could see Burroughss exposed hand and foot sticking out of the crevice, so just after night fall he went to cover them so they were no longer visible. hands this Is about a ll a clock and I ask her Where about this lettel man stood s'd she Just where the Cart wheell went along I had a 3 graned irne fork in my hnad and I thru it wher she said he stud and she presently feell in a letel feet and when it twas over Said She you have toren his coot for I hard it tare wher abouts said I one won side said she 4. at both, yet did not partake of either. Mary Lacy, senr. Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama 35901 . George Burroughs was the only Puritan minister indicted and executed in Salem in 1692. After the examination, Burroughs was indicted on four charges of witchcraft and was brought back to the dungeon at the Salem jail. 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. the Mallossoes. 8, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA. The villagers disliked his attitude and thought he was unqualified for the role. 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.