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Mary Webster (fl. 1684) was a resident of colonial New England who was accused of witchcraft and was the target of an attempted lynching by friends of the accuser.
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A Massachusetts jury acquitted Mary Webster of witchcraft in 1683, but her Hadley neighbors still thought her a witch – especially since she survived after they left her hanging from a tree. It was nine years before the Salem witch trials would begin, a time when accusations of witchcraft were fairly common.
21 de mar. de 2022 · On March 27, 1683, the county court apprehended Mary Webster for an examination on suspicion of witchcraft. The local magistrates didn’t want to deal with her, so they sent her off to Boston...
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15 de oct. de 2019 · According to Judd, Mary Webster lived in a “town-house”—i.e., housing for the poor—in “the Middle Highway,” a meadow. Her husband and his brother were the sons of one of Hadley’s founders, John Webster, a former governor of Connecticut, yet they had somehow lost their property and fallen into indigence.
8 de may. de 2017 · Mary Webster, believed to be a witch, was hanged by members of her early Massachusetts community, in an act that preceded the Salem witch hysteria of 1692. She survived a long night dangling from a tree and inspired the author Margaret Atwood.
29 de ene. de 2017 · La actriz estadounidense Mary Webster falleció el pasado lunes en Dallas a la edad de 81 años. La noticia fue dada en su muro de Facebook por David Frankham,...
