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
Northern Moravia witch trials people are estimated to have been executed in the 1678-1696 witch craze. Otakar Vávra's film "Kladivo na čarodějnice" (Malleus Maleficarum, also translated as "Witches' Hammer" or "Witchhammer", 1969) is based on Václav Kaplický’s book "Kladivo na čarodějnice" (1963), a novel about witch trials in Northern Moravia during the 1670s. Northern Moravia witch trials Northern Moravian witch trials, also known as "Boblig witch trials" was a series of witch trials which occurred in the Jeseník and Šumperk area in present-day Czech Republic, between 1622 and 1696. They are among the largest and most well known witch trials in the history of