The Salem Witchcraft Papers


The 1692 Salem Witch Trials:
Documents and Participants



List of Defenders Connected with Salem Village

From Paul Boyer and Steven Nissenbaum, editors, Salem-Village Witchcraft, Boston, Northeastern UP, 1997.

Included in this list are names of the following:

1. Individuals testifying in defense of those accused witches who lived in Salem Village.

2. Everyone listed on Charles Upham's map (see pp. 394-95), who signed a petition in favor of an accused witch living in Salem Village. (There were two petitions circulated in favor of John and Elizabeth Procter. One petition was signed by thirty-two residents of Ipswich, who described themselves as the Procters' former "neighbors." These signatures, all unfamiliar to readers of this book, are not included in the following list.)

3. Everyone giving skeptical testimony designed to cast doubt on the credibility of the afflicted girls.

4. Any "defender" not accounted for in the above categories but whose name might be familiar to readers of this book.

Aborn, Samuel (Nurse Petition) Hubbard, William (Buckley)
Allen, Rev. James (Bradbury) Hutchinson, Joseph Senior (Nurse Pet.)
Andrew, Daniel (Nurse, Nurse Pet.) Hutchinson, Lydia (Nurse Pet.)
Andrew, Sarah (Nurse Pet.) Jacobs, Thomas (v. Sarah Bibber)
Barton, Samuel (E. Procter) Jacobs, Mary (v. Sarah Bibber)
Bishop, Edward Senior (Nurse Pet.) Kettle, James (v. Elizabeth Hubbard)
Bishop, Hannah (Nurse Pet.) Leach, Sarah (Nurse Pet.)
Bishop, Edward Junior (v. Mary Warren) Locker, George (Procter Pet.)
Moulton, Robert (v. Susanna Sheldon)
Bishop, Sarah (v. Mary Warren) Nurse, Samuel (Nurse)
Buxton, Elizabeth (Nurse Pet.) Nurse, Sarah (v. Sarah Bibber)
Cloyse, Peter (Nurse) Osborne, William (Nurse Pet.)
Cooke, Isaac (Nurse Pet.) Osborne, Hannah (Nurse Pet.)
Cooke, Elizabeth (Nurse Pet.) Phillips, Samuel (How)
Endecott, Samuel (Procter Pet., Nurse Pet.) Phillips, Walter Senior (Nurse Pet.)
Phillips, Margaret (Nurse Pet.)
Endecott, Hannah (Procter Pet.) Phillips, Tabitha (Nurse Pet.)
Elliot, Daniel (E.Procter) Porter, Israel (Nurse)
Easty, Mary (Mary Warren) Porter, Elizabeth (Nurse)
Felton, Nathaniel Senior (Nurse Pet.) Porter, John (v. Sarah Bibber)
Herrick, Joseph (Nurse Pet.) Porter, Lydia (v. Sarah Bibber)
Holton, James (Procter Pet.) Preston, Rebecca (Nurse)
Holton, John (Procter Pet.) Putnam, Benjamin (Nurse Pet.)
Holton, Ruth (Procter Pet.) Putnam, John Senior (Nurse, Nurse Pet.
Holton, Joseph Senior (Nurse Pet.)
Holton, Sarah (Nurse Pet.) Putnam, Rebecca (Nurse, Nurse Pet.)
Holton, Joseph Junior (Nurse Pet.) Putnam, Jonathan (Nurse Pet.)Putnam, Lydia (Nurse Pet.)
Rea, Sarah (Nurse Pet.)
Putnam, Nathaniel (Nurse) Sibley, Samuel (Nurse Pet.)
Putnam, Sarah (Nurse Pet.) Stone, Samuel (Procter Pet.)
Putnam, Sarah (Nurse Pet.) Swinnerton, Job (Nurse Pet.)
Putnam, Joseph (Nurse Pet.) Swinnerton, Esther (Nurse Pet.)
Rea, Daniel (Nurse Pet.) Tarbell, John (Nurse)
Rea, Hepzibah (Nurse Pet.) Tarbell, Mary (Nurse)
Rea, Joshua (Nurse Pet.) Wilkins, Thomas (Procter Pet.)

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