Letter from Rev. yo'r humble Servant, (Reverse) To Jno Hauthorn Thirty-five citizens of Salem Village signed a petition to the court, but it did not move the court. His failure to baptize his children or to attend communion and the secrecy he seemed to keep did not look well on him. 037: Giles Corey Pressed to Death, September 16, 1692, SWP No. #[Robert Morrell] As Baker suggests, although the issue was quickly settled, the arrest may have left a bad impression on the Salem villagers and may have set Burroughs up for further trouble in the community. George Burrough's children were among those. 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. George Burroughs would use one or more of these texts in his trial in 1692, attempting to refute the charges against him. In 1992, the Salem Witch Trials Memorial was built in Salem, Mass and a marker was established for George Burroughs. Being ask'd w[hether] he partook of the Lords supper, he being (as ), You are Required in their Maj'sts names to aprehend the body of mr George Buroughs at present preacher at Wells in the provence of Maine, & Convay him with all Speed to Salem before the Magestrates there, to be Examened, he being Suspected for a Confederacy with the devil in opressing of Sundry about Salem as they relate. On December 17, 1711, the Burroughs family was awarded 50 in restitution. & Burroughs, ( Essex County Court Archives, Salem - Witchcraft, vol. 137: John Willard Executed August 19, 1692, SWP No. He said (some of you may observe, that) when On May 3, 1683, Burroughs visited Salem Village to meet with the village committee in order to settle his accounts. 29. During the trip, Burroughs wandered off and Ruck and his sister began talking as they walked home. 2, no. He left in 1683, moving back to Falmouth. Burroughs was born in Suffolk, England in 1652 and migrated to the settlement of Roxbury in the Massachusetts Bay Colony with his mother when he was a child, although some sources say he first lived in Virginia before moving to Roxbury. 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 In the book, Mather said he preferred not to discuss the case at all but was required to include it by the government of Massachusetts Bay Colony. George Floyd's heart disease and use of fentanyl were contributing factors to his death, but they were not the direct cause, the medical examiner who performed his autopsy testified on Friday in . 6, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA. Although the jury had found no witches' marks on his body, he was nonetheless convicted of witchcraft and a conspiracy with the devil . During the examination, Burroughs was asked if it was true that his house in Casco Bay was haunted. Mary Walcott ThoughtCo. 133: Samuel Wardwell Executed, September 22, 1692, SWP No. Mary Lacy, senr. Lewis, Jone Johnson. Deliberance Hobbs {testimony read take it in his hands or arms out of the Cannoo or boat and carry it and set it on the shore: and mr Borroughs being: there sayd that he had carryed one barrill of molasses.or sider: out of a cannoo that had like to have done him a displeasure: s'd mr Borroughs intimated: as if he did not want strength to do it but the disadvantage of the shore was such: that his foot slipping in the sand: he had like to have strained his legg He along with George Jacobs, John Proctor, John Willard, and Martha Carrier were brought to the execution site. *mary webber, ( Witchcraft Papers, no. I will not writ in your book tho you doe kil me Your research is so interesting and I appreciate all your hard work. 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. Although historians have blamed her accusation on causes ranging from a conspiracy against Andover's proprietary families to reaction against threats to patriarchal . On May 11, 1692, another accused witch, Margaret Jacobs, confessed to being a witch and said her grandfather, George Jacobs, Sr, and George Burroughs were witches as well. The claim: The cause of George Floyd's death was a drug overdose. white calf in his house. According to Mathers account of the trial, in September, two witnesses came forward and offered testimony against Burroughs. 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. Click on the names below to see their relationship charts. Jurat in Curia [*Edward] Putnam](/tag/putnam_edward.html), ( Essex County Court Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. By the next morning, Washington had a sore throat. Jurat in Curia, ( Essex County Court Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. George Burroughs was hanged at Proctor's Ledge in present-day Salem on August 19, 1692. Mary Walcott. Short of stature, muscular, dark-complexioned, he was highly attractive to women, as is shown by his winning the hand of a rich widow as his second wife when he was a mere village minister. [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]). 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. 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. Geo Burroughs (Reverse) G. Burroughs . Below is the original account as first compiled and published in 1700 by Robert Calef in More Wonders of The Invisible World, and later reprinted or relied upon by others including Charles Wentworth Upham and George Lincoln Burr: Mr. Burroughs was carried in a cart with others, through the streets of Salem, to execution. His great grandma was Nora Burroughs (Armistead) from New Point, Mathews, Virginia. Mary Walcott {testimony going to be read 170: Superior Court of Judicature: Witchcraft Trials (January - May 1693), SWP No. 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. putnam aged 40: years and Edward putnam agged 38 years who testifieth and saith. George H Burroughs of Flint, Genesee County, Michigan was born on February 28, 1914. [4] He became the minister of Salem Village (now Danvers) in 1680 (where he would eventually be convicted of witchcraft and hanged). He answered that it was an amazing & humbling Burroughss secrecy and his other odd traits later became a theme during his trial and were discussed in great detail in the testimony of his accusers and former associates. Online Pennsylvania Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries Stoughton didnt usually sit in on the examinations but did so in the case due to the fact that Burroughs was a minister, which added more gravity to the situation. The Witchcraft Trials in Salem: An Account - Famous Trials 31, 2021, thoughtco.com/george-burroughs-3529133. 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. Geo. One of these witnesses stated that he was persuaded by others not to testify against Burroughs during the time of his trial but he said he later regretted this and decided to come forward after the fact. This was near enough the border with French Canada that the threat of French and Indian war parties was real. [1] Another source gives his birth date and place as Virginia, 1652. One eye witness to the execution, Robert Calef, described the event in his book More Wonders of the Invisible World: Mr. As had happened with his predecessor, the first minister to serve Salem Villages separately from Salem Town, the church would not ordain him and he left in a bitter salary fight, at one point being arrested for debt, though members of the congregation paid his bail. 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. 25 Duncan Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, M.A. Over the course of the following decade, the residents of Salem had come to the realization that the witch trials had been a mistake and that innocent people may have been executed. [3] As an American Congregational pastor, he graduated from Harvard College in 1670 with distinguished honors, where he was also considered an outstanding athlete. Later, the government of the Massachusetts colony recognized Burroughs' innocence and awarded 50 pounds damages to his widow and children, though this led to disputes over the division of the award among his heirs. Updated: November 13, 2011 . Coincidentally, Thomas Putnam also testified during the trial and used similar language to what was written in the girls testimony: The deposistion of Tho. On May 9, George Burroughs was examined by magistrates Jonathan Corwin and John Hathorne; Sarah Churchill was examined the same day. 163: Two Letters of Gov. I am a descendant of George Burroughs from his daughter Rebecca Fowle. On August 19, Burroughs was taken to Gallows Hill to be executed. Rebecca Burrows, who came from Virginia that she might enjoy God in his ordinance in N.E., & who joined the church in Roxbury 19, July 1657.. ). Stoughton Rebecca Beatrice Brooks is the author and publisher of the History of Massachusetts Blog. He was accused of not baptizing most of his children. It is important to note how Burroughs was described as some of these attributes would be stated against him by his accusers: 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. 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 9th may 1692 : the day of the Examination of Mr. George Burroughs the aforesaid parsons were most dreadfully tormented during the time of his Examination as if they would have been torn all 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 at the bar has severall times afflected and tormented the afforesaid persons by acts of witchcraft.. After graduation, he became the minister of Salem Village in 1680. George Burroughs (c. 1650 August 19, 1692) was an American religious leader who was the only minister executed for witchcraft during the course of the Salem witch trials. the Book. He served as minister of Salem Village from 1680 until he left in 1683. 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. Ezekiel Chever On December 12, Washington was out on horseback supervising farm activities and it began to snow. The tradition is, that they found Mr. Burroughs in his humble home, partaking of his frugal meal; that he was snatched from the table without a moments opportunity to provide for his family, or prepare himself for the journey, and hurried on his way roughly, and without the least explanation of what it all meant.. #(Robert Morrell ) Tho Greenslitt: aged about forty years being deposed Testifieth yt about the first breaking out of the [letters crossed out] last Indian warre [word crossed out] being att the house of Captn Joshua Scotts at Black point. The manner of death was deemed to be homicide. George Burroughs (1917 - 1974) - Gadsden, Alabama Nevertheless, Burroughss trial reached its end shortly after and he was promptly found guilty and sentenced to hang later that month. Witnesses. He married Frances Sparrow (1583-1621) 1597 in Wickhambrook, Saint Edmunsbury, Suffolk, England. Elisha Hutchinson, a magistrate there, issued the proper order, addressed to John Partridge in Portsmouth, Field-marshal of the provinces of New Hampshire and Maine, dated April 30, 1692, to arrest George Burroughs, preacher at Wells; he being suspected of a confederacy with the devilWhen we consider the distance and the circumstances of travel at that time, it is evident that the officers charged with the service acted with the greatest promptitude, celerity, and energy. George Burrows. 1700.Mather, Cotton. The six, including Burroughs, were sentenced to death. For a puritan minister, the fact that he couldnt remember the last time he took communion and that only some of his children were baptized did not reflect well on him. also: s'd that: Mr Borroughs: told her that: he made lights: in Mr Keyzers: Chimny, Jurat in Curia by Mr Keysor](/tag/keyser_elizer.html) Sworne also by Eliz: Wardwell as to the last night, ( Manuscripts and Archives Division, Salem Selections, New York Public Library, New York, NY. We Subscribe Our Selves your Honours Humble Sertts.. 107: John Proctor Executed, August 19, 1692, SWP No. An arrest warrant was issued for Burroughs that day in Portsmouth, NH and was ordered to be carried out by Major Elisha Hutchinson and Field Marshal Jonathan Partridge. Rev. as I was agoeing to Salem village I saw the apperishtion of a little man like a minister with a black coat on and he pinched me by the arme and bid me goe along with him but I tould him I would not but when I cam to the village I saw theire Mr. George Burroughs which I never saw before and then I knew that it was his apperishtion which I had seen in the morning and he tortured me several times while he was in examination also dureing the time of his examination I saw Mr. George Burroughs or his Apparanec most greviously torment and afflect Mary Walcott mercy Luis Elizabeth Hubbert Ann putnam and abigaill williams by pinching twisting & almost choaking them to death also severall times sence mr george Burroughs or his Apperance has most greviously tormented me with variety of tortors and I beleve in my heart that mr George Burroughs is a dreadfull wizzard and that he has most greviously tormented me and the above mentioned parson by his acts of wicthcraft, Sarah Viber declared to the Jury of inquest:that the above written evidence is the truth:Aug'st 3: 1692 the which she owned on her oath The accusers said the black man [Devil] stood and dictated to him. On April 30, 1692, Capt Jonathan Walcott and Thomas Putnam of Salem Village filed a complaint of witchcraft against George Burroughs, as well as five other people, on behalf of the afflicted girls Mary Walcott, Mercy Lewis, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, Jr, Susannah Sheldon, and Elizabeth Hubbard. It is not known why exactly Burroughs was accused but it may have been due to left over resentment from his time as the minister in Salem Village as well as his legal troubles with the Putnam family. he being then in one of the Chambers in s'd House. On April 30, 1692, several of the girls of Salem leveled accusations of witchcraft at George Burroughs. This article was very interesting in that my wife, Georgina Burroughs, is the 8th generation Grand Daughter of George Burroughs. Many of the things you point out verify what was passed down in family history. I, Wiggin and Lunt, 1867.Roach, Marilynne K. The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege. Upham, Charles (1980). 4, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA., Boston, MA..), Anno Regis et Reginae Willim et Mariae nunc: Angliae &c Quarto, 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 Ireland King and Queen Defenders of the faith &c and Divers other Dayes and times, as well before as after certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcrafts and Sorceries. May 10- Sarah Osborne dies in prison in Boston. Wickedly and felloniously, hath used -- Practised and Exercised at and within the Towneship of Salem in the County of Essex afores'd in, upon.and ag't one Mercy Lewis of Salem Villiage in the County of Essex in New England -- by which wicked Arts the said Mercy Lewis -- the Ninth Day of May -- in the fourth Year afores'd and Divers other Dayes and times as well before as after was and is Tortured afflicted Pine Consumed Wasted and Tormented: ag't the Peace of our Sovereigne Lord and Lady the King.and Queen, and ag't the forme of the Statute in that case made and Provided/. Thomas Putnam, The abovs'd Complaint was Exhibited before us this 30'th aprill 1692, (Essex Institute Collection, no. Yet other sources identify his father as Nathaniel Burroughs, a merchant in Maryland and Massachusetts and state that his grandfather was a prominent minister in England. (2021, July 31). *Simon Willard Jurat in Curia 136: Sarah Wilds Executed July 19, 1692, SWP No. He was also accused of killing his other wives and treating them harshly. 113: Ann Pudeator Executed, September 22, 1692, SWP No. Yet he owned there were Toads. He continued to serve as the pastor until the town was attacked and destroyed during a Wabanaki raid on August 11, 1676. James Duncan Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. Sarah died in 1689, probably also in childbirth, and Burroughs moved with his family to Wells, Maine. On August 5, George Burroughs was indicted by a grand jury; then a trial jury found him and five others guilty of witchcraft. he said) in full communion at Roxbury. Herrick Dep't Sheriff, ( Essex County Court Archives, Salem, Witchcraft, vol. When he was upon the ladder, he made a speech for the clearing of his innocency, with such solemn and serious expressions, as were to the admiration of all present: his prayer (which he concluded by repeating the Lords prayer) was so well worded, and uttered with such composedness, and such (at least seeming) fervency of spirit, as was very affecting, and drew tears from many, so that it seemed to some that the spectators would hinder the execution. The six, including Burroughs, were sentenced to death. In 1690, Burroughs moved to Wells, Maine where he continued to preach. George Burroughs was a minister who was accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. George Burroughs was the only minister that was executed during the Salem Witch Trials. He died in August 1974 at 57 years old. Not surprisingly, he remarried soon. George Burroughs, a Puritan minister who served in Salem, Massachusetts from 1680-83, was also one of the survivors of the attack by the Native Americans. 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. The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England. George Floyd's Cause of Death Revealed in Independent Autopsy 172: Petitions to the General Court, with Responses (1696-1725), SWP No. George Burroughs and the Salem Witch Trials. Reverend George Burroughs (c1650 - 1692) - Executed for witchcraft in the infamous Salem witch trials, George Burroughs was born about 1650 in Suffolk County, England, the son of Nathaniel Burroughs (1618 - 1682) and Rebecca Style (1622 - 1684). Michael Hensley Obituary - Death: Burroughs Elementary School | Michael Hensley Cause Of Death Michael Hensley Obituary: In the loving memory of Michael Hensley, we are saddened to inform you that. This death is later brought out as evidence against Rebecca Nurse in 1692. Capt Putman testifyed that he made his wife ( Wm Wormall v. Geo. Heart disease, fentanyl contributed to George Floyd's death but - CNN Because the executions took place during a heat wave, the bodies had to be buried immediately in a shallow grave at the execution site to prevent them from rotting. Mercy Lewis's uncle, Thomas Skilling, died from an injury brought on by the Indian attack. 92. At the time of Burroughs arrival, Salem was in a constant state of conflict and many of its residents were feuding. The pop star was suffering from. Updated: November 4, 2011 . 094: Rebecca Nurse Executed July 19, 1692, SWP No.