Elizabeth Hubbard (Salem witch trials) Witchcraft Crisis of 1692, that after the witch trials Elizabeth moved from Salem to Gloucester in Massachusetts. On October 27, 1711, she married John Bennett, with whom she had four children. Norton cites her basis on a published marriage record of a woman named Elizabeth Hibbert and a man named John Bennett, that later on produced four children. However, it is not confirmed that Elizabeth Hibbert is in fact Elizabeth Hubbard; there are records of multiple women having the name of Elizabeth Hubbard or variations of it, existing in the area at the time. Elizabeth’s adult life and ultimately, her
Salem witch trials physician and author Thomas Browne, to be used in the Bury St Edmunds witch trial and the accusations against two Lowestoft women, the colonial magistrates also accepted its validity and their trials proceeded. Sometime in February 1692, likely after the afflictions began but before specific names were mentioned, a neighbor of Rev. Parris, Mary Sibly (or Sibley; aunt of Mary Walcott), instructed John Indian, one of the minister's slaves, to make a "witch cake." She intended to use traditional English white magic to discover the identity of the witch who was afflicting the girls. The cake, made from rye meal