Their first case was Bridget Bishop and on June 10 she was found guilty and hanged on Gallows Hill (Blumberg). Another trial was Martha Corey. Friday, March 11, 1692 was the day Salem fasted and prayed. That day, Rev. Parris asked the girls to reveal another witch. They found their next victim and her name was Martha Corey. He was a new member of the congregation. She responded sarcastically. The accusers acted in agony and acted to be forced by an invisible power to imitate the witch's movement. "They will decide Corey's exam on Monday, March 21st." She eventually denied the charges and they couldn't prove it, so they sent her to prison (The Salem Witch Trials, 1692). After all this, in the aftermath of the accused, Governor Phipps, after his wife was interrogated for witchcraft, prohibited further arrests, released many accused witches, and dissolved the Court of Oyer and Terminer on October 29. In May 1693, he pardoned all those in prison on charges of witchcraft. But the damage had been done; 19 were convicted at Gallows Hill, a 71-year-old man was forced to death and the others died in prison awaiting execution.
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