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 1695 when Thomas Maule, a noted Quaker, publicly criticized the handling of the trials by the Puritan leaders in Chapter 29 of his book "Truth Held Forth and Maintained", expanding on Increase Mather by stating, "it were better that one hundred Witches should live, than that one person be put to death for a witch, which is not a Witch". For publishing this book, Maule was imprisoned twelve months before he was tried and found not guilty. On December 17, 1696, the General Court ruled that there would be a fast day on January 14, 1697, "referring to the late