The Connecticut Witch Trials occurred from 1647 to 1663, more than four decades before the trials in Salem, Massachusetts. “The witch trials in Connecticut were extremely deadly. The first seven ...

At least 34 people were accused or convicted of witchcraft during the trials in Connecticut, which lasted from 1647 to 1697. By their end, 11 people — two men and nine women — had been hanged ...

stopped some executions and discouraged the prosecution of witchcraft cases when he became governor of the Connecticut colony. He acted three decades before the Salem trials. “If Gov.

Decades before the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, Alse Young was killed at the gallows in Connecticut, becoming the first person on record to be executed in the American colonies ...

Hundreds of years after a group of men and women were tried and convicted of witchcraft, Connecticut lawmakers ... prosecutions, trials and executions cannot be undone or changed, no disgrace ...

expelled from their homes or killed after being charged with witchcraft — using magic, usually to cause harm.” Leading religious figures and founders of Connecticut played roles in the trials.

Despite the storied past, few people know about Connecticut’s witch trials. Between 1647 and 1697, Connecticut charged at least 46 people with witchcraft. In all, 11 were executed. Statistically ...

Advocates of the resolution argued it’s important to raise public awareness about the witch trials in Connecticut, which occurred decades before the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.

Decades before the Salem Witch Trials, Connecticut reckoned with trials of its own where dozens of people, mostly women were accused of witchcraft. “They were normal, regular everyday people who ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — Decades before the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, Alse Young was killed at the gallows in Connecticut, becoming the first person on record to be executed in the ...