Benjamin Abbot News Today

NORTH ANDOVER — Salem, Massachusetts, may be best well-known as Ground Zero for the witch trials of 1692, but the largest number of accused witches — more than any other

Elizabeth Johnson is believed to have died in 1747 and been buried in an unmarked grave in the Old Burying Ground in North Andover.

Note: This column by Don Robb first ran in the Townsman on October 27, 2011. It tells the story of how rumor and hysteria impacted our community.