Elizabeth BASSETT

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• EVENT: 5 Aug 1692, Condemned for witchcraft

• MARRIAGE: 1 Apr 1674, Salem, Essex, MA

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[5098] Elizabeth Bassett Proctor and her husband John were convicted of witchcraft at Salem.
John was hanged, but Elizabeth avoided the gallows because she was pregnant. For scholarly
details of the witchcraft hysteria, see the University of Virginia's "Salem Witch Trial Documentary
Archive" at http://www.salemwitchtrials.org/.

Vital Records Of Salem, Massachusetts To The End Of The Year 1849
The Essex Institute
Salem, MA, 1916
http://www.newenglandancestors.org/
(Marriage) "PROCTER, John, and Elizabeth Bassett, Apr. 1, 1674. CT. R."

"New England Marriages Prior to 1700"
Clarence A. Torrey, Baltimore, MD, 1985
(as found on NEHGS CD-ROM, Boston, 2001)
"PROCTOR, John2 (-1692) & 2/wf Elizabeth BASSETT, m/2 Daniel RICHARDS 1699;
1 Apr 1674; Salem"

"The Thorndikes of Aby in Greenfield, Lincolnshire, and Essex County, Massachusetts"
Scott C. Steward
NEHGR v154 p459 (Oct 2000)
p474: "Elizabeth Thorndike, 'aged 20 years and upwards'21:8[Oct]:1661; d. at Salem
30 6m [Aug.] 1672; m. at Ipswich in Dec. 1622, as his second wife, John Proctor, bp.
at Assington, Suffolk, 9 Oct. 1631, executed for witchcraft at Salem 19 Aug. 1692, son
of John and Martha (Harper) Proctor. He m. (2) Martha ---, and (3) at Salem, 1 April 1674,
Elizabeth Bassett, with whom he was accused of witchcraft in 1692."