Thomas Oliver (Salem witch trials) the second charge in 1692 as the result of which she was hanged. When he left the colony for England he had a considerable amount of real property to which he returned after his first wife Mary's death. His estate included a house and sometime tavern in Salem, Massachusetts near the meeting house where after his death his widow Bridget Oliver Bishop was known for staying up late into the night entertaining her guests with playing shovelboard. During the scholarly reexaminations of the Salem witch trials during the 19th century, Bridget Bishop's claims on this estate were posited as the
Channel Islands Witch Trials caused her to die, throwing there her poor body. She was a poor innocent, who was thus born and lived all her life a poor innocent." There is a link to the Salem witch trials, Philippe d’Anglois (Philip English), was born in Jersey of Huguenot descent and emigrated to Salem in the 1670s and was one of those arrested. The last witch trial in Jersey was John Jarvis in 1736 by which time at least 66 had been accused in the island. Priaulx Library Channel Islands Witch Trials The Channel Islands Witch Trials were a series of witch trials in