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Articles from the tag: Connecticut Witch Trials
Articles from the tag: Connecticut Witch Trials
Decades before the infamous Salem witch trials began, there were witch trials and executions here in Connecticut. In fact, the first witch-hanging in all the...
375 years after America hanged its first “witch” in Hartford, a multi-state coalition of descendants and activists are calling on Connecticut legislators to exonerate the victims of the Connecticut witch trials.
In 1647, Alse Young of Windsor, Conn., was the first person to be executed for witchcraft in what would become the United States. She was 47, a dangerous age, given that many people prosecuted for witchcraft were middle-aged women.