Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project

Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project

We share the history of witch trials in Connecticut and work to clear the names of the accused.


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Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project
  • Please Support the Exoneration of Those Accused of Witchcraft in Connecticut

    Thank you for your interest in volunteering to support the Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project. We have two important requests.  First, please write to the Connecticut General Assembly to show your support for House Joint Resolution Number 34, Resolution Concerning Certain Witchcraft Convictions in Colonial Connecticut If you live in Connecticut, please write to your…


    February 11, 2023
  • Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project Statement on Proposed Resolution to Exonerate Those Accused of Witchcraft

    Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project Statement on Proposed Resolution to Exonerate Those Accused of Witchcraft

    The Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project is pleased that Rep. Jane Garibay has introduced HJ No. 21, Resolution Recognizing the Unfair Treatment of Individuals Accused of Witchcraft During the Seventeenth Century.


    January 17, 2023
  • An Introduction to the Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project

    and 1697, at least 45 people were accused of witchcraft in the Connecticut and New Haven colonies. 34 people were indicted on formal charges of witchcraft, including 24 women, 6 of their husbands, 3 men charged alone, and 1 unidentified individual. 11 victims are known to have been hanged, 9 women and 2 men. Both…


    February 1, 2023
  • The Alice (Alse) Young Story: Significant Connections to the Rest of Early New England History Uncovered and Brought to Life in One of Windsor: the Untold Story of America’s First Witch Hanging Beth M Caruso

    The Alice (Alse) Young Story: Significant Connections to the Rest of Early New England History Uncovered and Brought to Life in One of Windsor: the Untold Story of America’s First Witch Hanging  Beth M Caruso

    Our views of the New England witch trials are skewed by the intensity and magnitude of the Salem Witch trials of 1692. (Not to mention that the Salem trials are the only ones that get any recognition in history textbooks.) But Salem was really the last big eruption, a grand gruesome finale of many witchcraft…


    January 22, 2023
  • Unearthing the First American Witch Hanging Case by Beth M Caruso

    Unearthing the First American Witch Hanging Case by Beth M Caruso

    Few people have ever heard of Alice ‘Alse’ Young, the first witch-hanging victim in the American colonies. The fact that ten others were also hanged in Connecticut years before the Salem witch trials is also largely unknown. My novel One of Windsor: The Untold Story of America’s First Witch Hanging aims to raise awareness about…


    January 16, 2023
  • Before Salem: The Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project

    Before Salem: The Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project

    What is not widely known is that Salem was not the first in the colonies to hang people accused of being witches.


    January 1, 2023
  • Podcast Episode: Descendants of Connecticut Witch Trial Victims

    Podcast Episode: Descendants of Connecticut Witch Trial Victims

    Presenting intimate interviews with the descendants of Connecticut witch trial victims. They discuss why the exoneration of Connecticut witch trial victims is important to them and to the accused witches in our modern world. Learn how discovering this ancestry impacted descendant lives and why the stories of their accused witch ancestors must be talked about.…


    December 9, 2022
  • Podcast Episode: Connecticut Witch-Hunts and John Winthrop, Jr. with Dr. Scott Culpepper

    On our third episode of Thou Shalt Not Suffer: The Witch Trial Podcast, we discuss Connecticut Witch-Hunts, the satanic pact, the Witchfinder General, John Winthrop Jr, spectral evidence, and the Satanic Panic with Dr. Scott Culpepper.


    October 20, 2022
  • Podcast Episode: Should Connecticut Witch Trial Victims be Exonerated?

    On our second episode of Thou Shalt Not Suffer: The Witch Trial Podcast, we discuss why we believe Connecticut’s witch trial victims deserve to have their names cleared.


    October 13, 2022
  • Podcast Episode: Connecticut Witch Trial History

    Podcast Episode: Connecticut Witch Trial History

    The first full episode of Thou Shalt Not Suffer: The Witch Trial Podcast released October 6. Hosted by our own Sarah Jack and Josh Hutchinson, the podcast asks how and why we hunt witches and seeks solutions to the age-old problem. Episodes 1 to 3 are dedicated to Connecticut’s witch trials. You can listen in…


    October 10, 2022

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