The Salem Witch House(1642). The Salem Witch house still stands on the corner of North and Essex Streets in Salem. They provide guided tours and tell tails of the first witchcraft trials.

Nineteen accused witches were hanged on Gallows Hill in 1692.

Bridget Bishop, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, Sarah Wildes, George Burroughs, Martha Carrier, John Willard, George Jacobs, Sr. John Proctor, Martha Corey, Mary Eastey, Ann Pudeator, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Wilmott Redd, Margaret Scott, Samuel Wardwell.

This is Bridget Bishop's gravestone. An accused witch that got hung June 10, 1692.

This is what she said:

Bridget Bishop

"I am no witch.
I am innocent.
I know nothing of it."


The early Puritans aim was to purify the church, not to separate from it.
The Puritans got a great amount of acceptance in the early years of Queen Elizabeth's reign.
The Puritans considered religion a complex, subtle, and a highly intellectual affair. The Puritans believed that there was nothing one could do about the condition of one's soul but try to act as one would expect a heaven-bound soul to act.