During the Salem Village witchcraft hysteria of 1692 and 1693, a series of people identified as innocent victims died in jail, were hanged, or died under torture in Salem Village, Salem, Salem Farmes, Topsfield, Amesbury, Wells, Maine, Andover, Marblehead, Rowley, Billerica, and Reading. Those named include Sarah Osburn, Bridget Bishop, Roger Toothaker, an infant daughter to Sarah Good, Sarah Good, Elizabeth How, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Wilds, Rev. George Burroughs, Martha Carrier, George Jacobs, Sr., John Procter, Sr., John Willard, Giles Cory, Martha Cory, Mary Esty, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Ann Pudeator, Wilmot Redd, Margaret Scott, Samuel Wardwell, Ann Foster, and Lydia Dastin. Their words proclaim innocence, deny witchcraft, and plead that no more innocent blood be shed.
