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Samuel Holten former home and Salem witch trials

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Salem witch trials were in several small towns in the area.  Perhaps the most important was Danvers (located here).  The site here was the 1692 home of Samuel Holten.  His daughter, Sarah Holten, testified against Rebecca Nurse at her trial.  Nurse was found guilty and hanged.   

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Salem witch trials

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of them women. Despite being generally known as the Salem witch trials, the preliminary hearings in 1692 were conducted in several towns in the Province of Massachusetts Bay: Salem Village (now Danvers), Ipswich, Andover, and Salem Town.

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