Alice Parker (Salem)
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Alice Parker, a resident of Salem Town, Massachusetts, was executed on September 22, 1692 during the Salem Witch Trials [1]. Martha Corey, Mary Eastey, Ann Pudeator, Dorcas Hoar and Mary Bradbury were convicted and sentenced to death by hanging at the same time [2]. The charges included the murder of Mary Warren's mother [3].
[edit] References in Modern Culture
Alice Parker is mentioned in the song "I wind my clocks / OneSixNineTwo" by Neal Peterson. Peterson is a descendant of Parker.
[edit] References
- ^ The Salem witchcraft papers, Volume 2 : verbatim transcripts of the legal documents of the Salem witchcraft outbreak of 1692 / edited and with an introduction and index by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum
- ^ Salem witch craft trials of 1692
- ^ Rosenthal, Bernard: "Salem Story", page 168. Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN: 0-521-55820-4
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