Mar 22: Summary: This WEEK in Salem

Joining late? Catching up? Here’s a summary of what happened this WEEK in Salem:

WHAT HAPPENED

The gospel woman Martha Corey has been accused, arrested, examined, and sent to jail. Her husband, the cantankerous Giles Corey, is swaggering all over town spreading the accusations and contradicting her in her hearing. About Martha Corey


WHO’S WHERE

Accused

Rebecca Nurse (beloved)

About Elizabeth Proctor (quarrelsome)

Dorcas Good (4-year-old daughter of the beggar Sarah Good)

Arrested

(no one new)

Examined & sent to jail

NEW: Martha Corey (gospel woman) – In jail in Salem

Sarah Good (beggar) – Chained to a jail cell in Boston

Sarah Osborne (sickly) – Chained to a jail cell in Boston

Tituba (slave) – Chained to a cell in Boston

Tried & sentenced

(no one … yet)

Executed

(no one … yet)


Tomorrow in Salem: JAILED: the beloved Rebecca Nurse and 4yo Dorcas Good