Not a question: Last Salem witch exonerated

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It took more than three centuries, but the last Salem "witch" who wasn't has been officially pardoned.

Massachusetts lawmakers on Thursday formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name 329 years after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 and sentenced to death at the height of the Salem Witch Trials.

Lawmakers agreed to reconsider her case last year after a curious eighth-grade civics class at North Andover Middle School took up her cause and researched the legislative steps needed to clear her name.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/26/1101562323/salem-witch-trials-woman-exonerated-329-years-later

Is this her? https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Johnson-17588

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Interestingly, if exonerating falsely-accused witches is your bag, then there's also a Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project. Outbreaks of witchcraft hysteria, which were rampant in Europe and migrated to the British North American Colonies, were not limited to Salem.

https://connecticutwitchtrials.wordpress.com/

https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2022/07/connecticut-witch-trial-exoneration-project-seeks-justice-for-wrongfully-accused/#:~:text=The%20Connecticut%20Witch%20Trial%20Exoneration,for%20the%20crime%20of%20witchcraft

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I heard, Caleb Buffum would be smiling.

Answer 2

Better late than never! Many were falsely accused by the religious fanatics of that era! Thank you for sharing!