In early 2017, the members of the CLA and Phillips Library staff found several documents in the collection which had not yet been digitized. Further information about the collection can be found in the Phillips Library's finding aid.Ī large portion of the documents were previously digitized by the University of Virginia and may be found as part of their Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project. The original manuscripts in this collection are owned by our project partners, the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum. The best-known trials were conducted by the Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 and the Superior Court of Judicature in 1693, both in Salem Town. Despite being generally known as the Salem Witchcraft Trials, the preliminary hearings in 1692 were conducted in various towns across the province: Salem Village (now Danvers), Ipswich, Andover, Topsfield, and Salem Town. More than 200 people, men women, and children included, stood accused of witchcraft and thirty were eventually found guilty.
The Salem Witchcraft Trials were a series of hearings before county court trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft in the counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex in colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693.
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