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Margaret Jones.
American midwife hanged after conviction for allegedly practicing witchcraft
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About Margaret Jones
Margaret Jones was the first person to be executed for witchcraft in Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the second in New England during a witch-hunt that lasted from 1647 to 1693. Hundreds of people throughout New England were accused of practicing witchcraft during that period, including over two hundred in 1692 during the Salem Witch Trials. Prior to the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, over a forty-one year period (1647–1688), nine women, including Margaret Jones, were hanged as witches.
Everything about Margaret Jones →- Occupation
- midwife
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1613
- Died
- June 15, 1648