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 six, including Burroughs, were sentenced to death. 038: Martha Corey Executed, September 22, 1692, SWP No. Jurat in Curia, The Deposition of Simon Willard [aged about 42] years saith I being at Saco in the year [1689] some: in Capt Ed Sarjants garison was speaking of mr George Borroughs his great strength saying he Could take:a barrill of mallasses out of a Cannoe or boat alone: and that he Could. be the truth:before the Jury of Inquest: Aug'st 3: 92: upon her oath The same day after lecttor in the said: Ingersolls chamber abigaill williams mary walcot said that goody hobs of topfell bitt mary walcot by the foot then both falling into a fit as soone as it was over the said william hobs and his wife goe both of them a long the table; the said hucheson tooke his rapier stabed goody hobs one the side as abigaill williams & mary walcot saide: the said abigaill & mar said the roome was full of them then the said hucheson & Ely putnam stabed with their raperres at a ventor then said mary & abigell you have killed a greet black woman of Stonintown. Couple of interesting notes. There was no parsonage yet, so George and Hannah Burroughs moved into the home of John Putnam and his wife Rebecca. He came from the Boston area and was a descendant of Rev. Thirty-five citizens of Salem Village signed a petition to the court, but it did not move the court. And for other such things he was accused, until about thirty testimonies were brought in against him; nor were these judgd the half of what might have been considered for his conviction. part of the day, & the other at Charlstown part He was the only minister to have experienced this fate in American history. The girls testifying against him said that his first two wives and the wife and child of his successor at Salem Churchvisited as specters and accused Burroughs of killing them. He was accused of not baptizing most of his children. [2] He was raised by his mother in the town of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Sarah died in 1689, probably also in childbirth, and Burroughs moved with his family to Wells, Maine. We know that George Burroughs had been residing in Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama 35901. Many of the things you point out verify what was passed down in family history. The abovesd was in private none of He died in August 1974 at 57 years old. Burroughs was arrested on charges ofwitchcraft on April 30, 1692, based on the accusation of some personal enemies from his former congregation who had sued him for debt. https://www.thoughtco.com/george-burroughs-3529133 (accessed March 4, 2023). He was unable to repay the debt, and resigned from his post, leaving Salem in 1683.[5]. Despite not living in Salem for many years prior to the Salem Witch Trials, Burroughs was found guilty of witchcraft and sentenced to hang. at both, yet did not partake of either. Online Pennsylvania Death Certificates and Death Records Indexes. George Burroughs was a minister who was accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. In April 1682, merely a year and a half after coming to Salem, one of Burroughss parishioners wrote to him complaining that brother is against brother and neighbors against neighbors, all quarreling and smiting one another. By the spring of the following year the village committee stopped paying Burroughs so he left town. Mercy Lewis About the Gun he said he took it before the George Burroughs was the only Puritan minister indicted and executed in Salem in 1692. Mercy Lewis, who lost relatives in one of the attacks on Falmouth, fled to Casco Bay, with a group that included Burroughs and her parents. Burroughs was apparently familiar with some works of Thomas Ady, critical of witchcraft prosecutions, whom he later quoted at his trial: "A Candle in the Dark", 1656; "A Perfect Discovery of Witches", 1661; and "The Doctrine of Devils", 1676. He denied this but did confirm that it had toads, which many people believed at the time served as witches familiars. Summary George Burroughs was born on January 13, 1917. [12], Execution of Reverend George Burroughs, 1901 drawing, Genealogy of the Burroughs Family, 1894. 35. Thomas Greinslit Sepr. Rev. SWP No. Susan Sheldon {affirmed each of them that George Burroughs was born 26 October 1579 in Wickhambrook, Saint Edmundsbury, Suffolk, England to Thomas Burroughs (1531-1597) and Bridget Elizabeth Heigham (1530-1597) and died 1 February 1653 Pettaugh, Suffolk, England of unspecified causes. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. ( Wm Wormall v. Geo. 30 ), The Complaint of Susannah Shelden against mr burroos which brought a book to mee and told mee if i would not set my hand too if hee would tear mee to peesses i told him i would not then hee told mee hee would starve me to death then the next morning he told mee hee could not starve mee. When the parsonage was finally completed, the Burroughs family moved in and took on a young servant, Mercy Lewis, a fellow survivor of the Wabanaki raid of 1676. 2 Page 26. putnam aged 40: years and Edward putnam agged 38 years who testifieth and saith. ), Samuel Webber aged about 36 years Testifieth and sayth that aboute seaven or eight Yeares agoe I Lived at Casco Bay and George Burroughs was then Minester there, and haveing heard much of the great strength of him s'd Burroughs ; he Coming to our house wee ware in discourse about the same and he then told mee that he had put his fingers into the Bung of a Barrell of Malasses and lifted it up, and carryed it Round him and sett it downe againe. Essex ss The Jurors for our Sovereigne Lord and Lady the King and Queen pr'sents That George Burroughs late of falmouth in the province of the Massachusets Bay in New England -- Clarke -- The ninth Day of May in the forth Year of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Lord and Lady William and Mary by the Grace of God of England Scottland France and of a Sab: when that sacrament happened to be At some point during this time period, Burroughss second wife, Sarah, died and Burroughs remarried again. He was arrested on May 4 in Maine family legend says while he was eating dinner with his family and was forcibly returned to Salem, to be jailed there on May 7. *Step. Nathaniel Ingersoll and five others paid a 15 pound bond to keep Burroughs out of prison and also collected depositions in his favor. 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 And this did somewhat appease the people, and the executions went on; when he [Mr. Burroughs] was cut down, he was dragged by a Halter to a hole, or grave, between the rocks, about two feet deep; his shirt and breeches being pulled off, and an old pair of trousers of one executed put on his lower parts: he was so put in, together with Willard and Carrier, that one of his hands, and his chin, and a foot of one of them, was left uncovered. Due to Burroughss role as a religious leader, it was theorized that he was recruited by the Devil so he could use his influence to convince his parishioners to become witches. In fact, Mather was so disgusted by Burroughs he refused to call him by his full name: Glad should I have been, if I had never known the name of this man; or never had this occasion to mention so much as the first letters of his name. George Burroughs was the only minister that was executed during the Salem Witch Trials. 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. Born in Glace Bay he was the son of Blanche and the late Patrick Burrows. George Carlin experienced several heart problems, having three heart attacks over three decades - one in 1978, 1982, and 1991. My mother was Norma Burroughs. ). *mary webber, ( Witchcraft Papers, no. Burroughs had moved to Wells, Maine, and had been married another two times before the time of the trials. 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.. 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. The Baxter Manuscripts, Volume 5 ed by James Phinney Baxter. 22. Burroughs borrowed the money for Hannahs funeral from John Putnam. Hist. George Burroughs was the only Puritan minister indicted and executed in Salem in 1692. Salem.Aug't 5'th 1692. I am also a descendent of George Burroughs. Jurat in Curia, ( Essex County Court Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. He was accused by nine persons for extraordinary lifting, and such feats of strength as could not be done without a diabolical assistance. [9] George Burroughs George Burroughs (1917 . Burroughs and other survivors, including a young Mercy Lewis and her family, fled to an island in the Casco Bay where they foraged for food until they were rescued, according to a letter from Major Brian Pendleton to the Governor of Massachusetts: Honored Governor together with the Counsell,I am sorry my pen must be the messenger of so great a tragedy. Pennsylvania Death Certificates, 1906-1968 (indexed) (at Ancestry/requires payment); includes scanned copies of the death certificates Pennsylvania Death Records Indexes, 1906-1972 (index only; free) PDF files; you must search each year separately; for some years surnames are listed by Soundex code; from the Pennsylvania State . Wheldon, Capt Wormwood testifyed about the Gun & 2. *Geo. On the 11th of this instant we heard of many killed of our neighbors in falmouth or Casco-Bay: and on the 12th instant Mr. Joslin sent me a brief letter written from under the hands of Mr. Burras [sic] the minister. To the Sheriffe of Essex, (Reverse) July 26'th 1692 I have Sumoned the within named James Greinslett according to this Within Sub pena to Give in his Evidence att the time and place within mentioned by me He denyed that he made his wife swear, that The doctor, who is in his early 30s, earned his medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 2016 and had received his physician and surgeon license just 18 days before May 25,. 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. his T marke. Letter from Fancis Littlefield and others to Governor and Councils. 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 was accused of such acts as lifting weights beyond what would be humanly possible to lift. The Salem Witch Trials Victims: Who Were They? Death record, obituary, funeral notice and information about the deceased person. While standing on a ladder before the crowd, waiting to be hanged, he successfully recited the Lord's Prayer, something that was generally considered by the Court of Oyer and Terminer to be impossible for a witch to do. Last edited on 24 February 2023, at 21:13, Learn how and when to remove this template message, introducing citations to additional sources, "Warrant for apprehension of George Burroughs, and Officer's Return", "Reverend George Burroughs: Ringleader of the Salem Witches? 2, no. Aug. 3, 1692. George Burroughs, a 1670 Harvard graduate, grew up in Roxbury, MA; his mother returned to England, leaving him in Massachusetts. (2021, July 31). & Burroughs, ( Essex County Court Archives, Salem - Witchcraft, vol. dreadfull & tedious fit, 3. Eliz. 167: Petitions from Relatives of Prisoners and Others (October 1692 - January 1693), SWP No. Evidently, he left bad feelings in his wake, and was now forcibly returned to Salem to face witchcraft charges. It appears from court records that Burroughss children soon began fighting over the money. Salem August 2'd 1692. Putnam testified again later on that the spirits of Burroughss wives also came to her on May 5 and told her that Burroughs had murdered them, his first wife said he had stabbed her at the parsonage in Salem Village and the second wife said he killed her in the vessell as she was coming to see her friends because they would have one another.. When Burroughs was cut down from the gallows, his body was dragged to a rocky crevice bordering the execution site, his clothing was stripped off and he was dressed in a pair of trousers of one executed and was placed in the grave with Willard and Carrier. This death is later brought out as evidence against Rebecca Nurse in 1692. Burroughs was minister of Salem Village for three years a decade prior. 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. In September, 1681, Mr. Burroughs wife died, and he had to run in debt for her funeral expenses. 36. Rebecca Beatrice Brooks is the author and publisher of the History of Massachusetts Blog. I did afterwards forbeare #[The same Evening after these words being alone in one Roome of my house and noe candle or light being in the s'd Roome] the same afternoone I haveing Occation to be at the s'd Beadles house and [being] in the Chamber where mr George Burroughs Keept I observed that s'd Burroughs did steadfastly fix [his] eys upon mee, the same Evening being in my own house, in a Roome without any Light I did see very strange things appeare in the Chimney. Elizabeth Hubbard On May 3, 1683, Burroughs visited Salem Village to meet with the village committee in order to settle his accounts. 24 ). 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. "Rev. Sewall Clr, ( Witchcraft Papers, no. That about the breaking Out of this last Indian Warr being at the house of Capt Scottow's at black point he Saw Mr George Burroughs lift and hold Out a gunn of Six foot barrell or thereabouts putting the forefinger of his right hand into the Muzle of s'd gunn and So held it Out at Armes End Only with that finger and further this deponent Testifieth that at the Same time he Saw the Said Burroughs take up a full barrell of Malasses w'th but two fingers of one of his hands in the bung & Carry it from the Stage head to the Door at the End of the Stage Without letting it downe & that Liut Richard Hunniwell & John Greinslitt & Some other persons that are Since dead Were then present. In doing some genealogy on my biological family, I found out that Reverend Burroughs was my 9th great grandfather. Wee comand you all Excuses set apart to be & personaly app'r at the Next Court of Oyer & Terminer held at Salem on the first Tuesday in August Next There to Testify the Truth on certain Indictments to be Exhibited against George Burroughs & not depart the Court without lycense or leave of s'd Court hereof fail not On penalty of One hundred pounds money to be levied on your Goods Chattels &ca Dated in Salem July 26'th 1692. Letter from Rev. 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. He along with George Jacobs, John Proctor, John Willard, and Martha Carrier were brought to the execution site. I, Wiggin and Lunt, 1867.Roach, Marilynne K. The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege. Three years later, on June 22, 2008, George once again experienced heart failure and passed away at . Profile of Elizabeth How, Persecuted Salem Witch, Tituba and The Salem Witch Trials of 1692, Biography of Elizabeth Parris, Accuser in the Salem Witch Trials, Sarah Cloyce: Accused in the Salem Witch Trials, John Alden Jr. and the Salem Witch Trials, History of Witches Signing the Devil's Book, M.Div., Meadville/Lombard Theological School. Richard Carrier affirmed to the jury that he saw Mr. George Burroughs at the witch meeting at the village and saw him adminster the sacrament. Peter's second wife, Sarah Cloyce, sister of Rebecca Nurse and Mary Easty (or Eastey), relocated to Salem End, now West Framingham. 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].
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