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
Witch trials in the early modern period region, the witch hunts declined during the 1630s, at a time when the communities living there were facing increased disaster as a result of plague, famine, economic collapse and the Thirty Years' War. Furthermore, this scenario would clearly not offer a universal explanation, for trials also took place in areas which were free from war, famine, or pestilence. Additionally, these theories - particularly Behringer's - have been labeled as oversimplified. Although there is evidence that the Little Ice Age and subsequent famine and disease was likely a contributing factor to increase in witch persecution, Durrant argues that one cannot make