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Alse Young (1615 – 26 May 1647) of Windsor, Connecticut — sometimes Achsah Young or Alice Young — was the first recorded instance of execution for witchcraft in the thirteen American colonies. She had one child, Alice Beamon (Young), born in 1640, [2] who was also condemned for the same crime thirty years later in the 1670s ...
Witch Hanged. The first person to be convicted for witchcraft crimes and hanged for it in colonial America was Alice ‘Alse’ Young, a resident of Windsor, Connecticut. Some of her powerful contemporaries made sure she was killed at the gallows in Hartford, Connecticut, on May 26, 1647, forty–five years before the Salem trials began.
Forty-five years before the Salem witch trials in 1692, Alse Young (ca. 1600–1647) of Windsor, CT, was the first woman to be tried, convicted, and executed for witchcraft in America’s 13 colonies. Witchcraft was one of 12 capital crimes decreed by Connecticut’s colonial government in 1642.
One of the people convicted was Alse Young, who historians believe was the first documented New Englander to be killed for witchcraft. Details of her life and death are scant. Historians...
On May 26, 1647, Alse Young of Windsor was the first person on record to be executed for witchcraft in the 13 colonies. Young was hanged at the Meeting House Square in Hartford, now the site of the Old State House. Alse Young was not the only person in Connecticut executed for the crime of witchcraft. Mary Johnson of Wethersfield was ...
Alse (Alice) Young of Windsor, Connecticut, was sent to the gallows erected in Hartford’s Meeting House Square, now the site of Connecticut’s Old State House, on May 26, 1647. Witchcraft was...
March 24, 2019 at 6:00 a.m. They’re easy to miss: two red bricks, inscribed with the names of two former Windsor residents, Alse Young and Lydia Gilbert, set into the ground at the north end of...
