Bridget Bishop was the first person executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in 1692. Nineteen were hanged, and one, Giles Corey, was pressed to death. Altogether, about 200 people were tried.
Bishop, as depicted in a lithograph
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging. One other man, Giles Corey, died under torture after refusing to enter a plea, and at least five people died in jail.
The central figure in this 1876 illustration of the courtroom is usually identified as Mary Walcott.
Portrait of Increase Mather, 1688, by Joan van der Spriet
Reverend Cotton Mather
The present-day archaeological site of the Salem Village parsonage