On September 22, 1692 the last eight individuals executed for the crime of witchcraft were hanged in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Among them was the only confessed witch (later recanted) and self-proclaimed fortune teller, Samuel Wardwell of Andover. Join Jeffrey and Sarah, your favorite Salem tour guides as they trace the early life of this Puritan raised by Quakers, and how that may have influenced how and why he was accused of being a Witch.
**trigger warning: miscarriages
- https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/tag/wardwell_samuel.html
- https://salemwitchmuseum.com/locations/lydia-wardell-protest-or-the-naked-quaker/
- Richard Hite, In the Shadow of Salem: The Andover Witch Hunt of 1692
- Robert Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World or The Wonders of the Invisible World Displayed in Five Parts
- Emerson Baker, A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
- Boyer and Nissenbaum, Salem-Village Witchcraft: A documentary record of local conflict in colonial New England
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