Massachusetts is working to fully atone for its witch trial legacy nearly 400 years after the first person was executed there for witchcraft
In 1648, Margaret Jones, a midwife, became the first person in Massachusetts — the second in New England — to be executed for witchcraft, decades before the infamous Salem witch trials. Nearly four centuries later, the state and region are still working to come to grips with the scope of its witch trial legacy.
That includes David Allen Lambert, chief genealogist for the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Lambert counts his 10th great grandmother — Mary Perkins Bradbury — among the accused who was supposed to be hanged in 1692 in Salem but escaped execution. “We can’t change history but maybe we can send the accused an apology,” he said. “It kind of closes the chapter in a way.
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