Proctor wasn’t arrested until the first week of April after Elizabeth Hubbard accused her as well. She didn’t officially accuse anyone of witchcraft until she named Elizabeth Proctor on March 26.

Lewis didn’t immediately join the afflicted girls in naming witches. A few days later, Putnam and her cousin, Abigail Williams, began naming women they believed were bewitching them.

When Putnam began behaving strangely in the winter of 1692, suffering fits and seizures, Lewis quickly followed suit.īy the end of February, a local doctor determined the girls were bewitched. It was in Thomas Putnam’s home that the nineteen-year-old Lewis befriended Ann Putnam, Jr. She later moved to Salem village, where her married sister lived, and became a servant for Thomas Putnam, who is considered to be one of the ringleaders of the Salem Witch Trials accusers. In the summer or fall of 1689, the Wabanaki attacked again, this time killing both of Mercy Lewis’ parents.Īfter their deaths, Lewis was briefly sent to work as a servant in Reverend George Burroughs home.

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