I have just recently discovered that a relative of mine - Nicholas Noyes - was one of the judges for the trials, which has increased my interest in this topic. But I have long been curious -- has anyone ever researched the young girls to see what happened to them. Were they able to live out normal lives?

On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 12:10 AM, BRudo1@aol.com wrote: > But I have long been curious -- has anyone ever researched the young > girls to see what happened to them. Were they able to live out normal > lives? This is taken loosely from Mary Beth Norton's book, "In The Devil's Snare": Elizabeth Booth: Married Israel Shaw in Salem on 12/26/1695 and had at least two children. Sarah Churchwell: married Edward Andrews on 8/11/1709 in Berwick, Maine, after being fined for premarital fornication. Betty Hubbard: moved with the Griggs family to Gloucester and married John Bennet of that town and had four children. Mercy Lewis: moved to Greenland, NH to live with her sister. Had a bastard child in 1695, and married Charles Allen in 1701 -- probably the father. Later lived in Boston. Bettty Parris: married Benjamin Barron in Sudbury in 1710. They had five children. Ann Putnam, Jr.: died unmarried in May 1715. Joined the Salem Village church in 1706, which is when she asked for public forgiveness for her part in convicting people who she now believed to have been innocent. Susannah Sheldon: went to Providence, RI to live with a relative. In 1694, she was called before the town council as a "person of Evill fame," and probably ordered out of town. Probably died unmarried before 1697, and therefore was likely the girl Rev. Hale described as experimenting with the egg white and the Venus glass, since that unnamed girl was dead by the time he wrote his book about the trials that year. Mary Walcott: married Isaac Farrar of Woburn in 1696, settling there and then in Ashford, CT. They had 6 children. Mary Warren and Abigail Williams: cannot be traced. Cheers, Margo