John Richards (Salem witch trials) Boston on April 2, 1694. He had married Ann Winthrop, the widowed daughter-in-law of founder John Winthrop; they had no children. John Richards (Salem witch trials) John Richards (died April 2, 1694) was a colonial military officer, businessman, politician, and magistrate, best known for his participation in the Salem witch trials in 1692. John Richards was born in England, and traveled with his parents in 1630 to North America as part of the first major wave of migration to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1644 Ricards was enrolled in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, which he would remain involved
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