Excerpted from the longer volume Sketches of Andover, this volume
details the accusations, tortures, trials and executions of the
Andover citizens victimized by the Salem Witch Trials of the 1690s.
During the Salem witch trials in 1692, more than 200 people were
accused of practicing witchcraft and twenty were executed. Over
forty Andover citizens, mostly women and their children, were were
accused and arrested for witchcraft. More than any other town in
New England, including the most confessed witches, and the highest
number of children arrested. Three Andover residents, Martha
Carrier, Mary Parker, and Samuel Wardwell, were convicted and
executed. Five others either pled guilty at arraignment or were
convicted at trial: Ann Foster, Mary Lacey Sr., and Abigail
Faulkner Sr. (daughter of Andover's minister, Francis Dane) in 1692
and Wardwell's wife Sarah and Rev. Dane's granddaughter, Elizabeth
Johnson Jr. in 1693. Those who were not executed were granted
reprieves by Gov. William Phips, but the convictions remained on
their records. In 1713, in response to petitions initiated in 1703
by Abigail Faulkner Sr. and Sarah Wardwell, Massachusetts Governor
Joseph Dudley reversed the attainder on the names of those who were
convicted in the episode. Eventually, the colony admitted the
trials were a mistake and compensated the families of those
convicted. Since then, the story of the trials has become
synonymous with paranoia and injustice, and it continues to beguile
the popular imagination more than 300 years later.
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