March 26: John Hathorne, Jonathan Corwin and Rev. March 24: Corwin and Hathorne examine Rebecca Nurse and Dorothy Good. March 23: Salem Marshal Deputy Samuel Brabrook arrests four-year-old Dorothy Good. March 21: Magistrates Hathorne and Corwin examine Martha Corey. March 19: Abigail Williams accuses Rebecca Nurse as a witch. Mercy Lewis, Mary Walcott and Mary Warren later alleged affliction as well. shows symptoms of affliction by witchcraft.

Tituba confesses to afflicting and confirms Good and Osborne are her co-conspirators. March 1–March 7: Magistrates John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin interrogate Good, Osborne and Tituba over the course of several days. The girls later accuse Sarah Osborne and Sarah Good of witchcraft.įebruary 29: Based on formal complaints from Joseph Hutchinson, Thomas Putnam, Edward Putnam and Thomas Preston, Magistrates John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin issue warrants to arrest Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba for afflicting Elizabeth Parris, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam Jr. Pressured by ministers and townspeople to say who caused her odd behavior, Elizabeth Parris identifies Tituba.

Parris for this and her expression of regret is accepted by the congregation. Mid-February: A local doctor (historically assumed to be Doctor Griggs), attends to the 'afflicted' girls, and first suggests that witchcraft may be the cause.Īround February 25: Mary Sibly (or Sibley), a neighbor of the Parris family, instructs John Indian, the husband of Tituba, to make a 'witch cake' of rye meal and the girls' urine to feed to a dog in order to discover who is bewitching the girls, according to English folk 'white magic' practices. and other Salem girls begin acting similarly. January 20: Eleven-year-old Abigail Williams and nine-year-old Elizabeth Parris begin behaving much as the Goodwin children acted three years earlier. October 16: Villagers vow to drive Parris out of Salem and stop contributing to his salary. Parris moves to Salem from Boston, where Memorable Providences was published.

November: Samuel Parris is named the new minister of Salem. The behavior of several children in the home of the Goodwin family in Boston results in the accusation, trial and execution of their Irish washerwoman, Ann Glover (also known as 'Goody Glover'), for witchcraft.Ĭotton Mather publishes 'Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions', which includes his account of the Goodwins and Glover. This timeline of the Salem witch trials is a quick overview of the events.

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