01.22.06

UIS Spring, 2006 - Understanding US History

Posted in at 2:11 pm by Stephanie

Trial of Elizabeth Clawson, Stamford, Connecticut - Salem, MA wasn’t the only place going through a witch hunt in 1692. There was another one in Stamford Connecticut. The difference, for reasons I have yet to completely research, is that people in Stamford were less prone to panic and more thoughtful in their approach. While the “water ordeal” is the most famous, least logical form of punishment for women who were accused of witches, many theologians and jurists actually rejected the practice. Increase Mather, one of the more famous preachers in New England, condemned the practice. Elizabeth Clawson was found not guilty of being a witch by a court in Stamford.

Sources:
The Witch Trial of Elizabeth Clawson

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