![]() L am Innocent” were the first words out of her mouth. On April 19, 1692, the magistrates in Salem began their questioning of Mary Warren. Having no family and working for a man who beat her, it is not very surprising that, when accused of witchcraft herself, Mary Warren sought the public attention and legal protection of being an aggressive accuser of local witches. ” In her tenement against Alice Parker, Mary Warren also claims that she killed her mother and afflicted her sister, Elizabeth, “she also told me she: bewigged my mother & was a cause of her death: also that: she belched my sister: Ells: that Is both deaf & dumb. ![]() Some of Mar’s anxiety over the loss of her parents surfaced during the trials.The document in which John Deride accused George Jacobs, Sir., states, “that Mary Warrens mother did appear to this Deponent John Deride] this day with a white man and told him that goodwill Parker and Oliver did kill her. This situation forced Warren to become a servant and support herself since she had no funds or property to claim. Both of Mary Warren’s parents died before this stage in her life. Siebel claimed that: “Proctor replayed if they were let alone so we should all be Devils & witches quickly they should rather be had to the Whipping post but he would fetch his jade Home & thresh the Devil out of her & more to the like purpose crying hang them, hang them.And also added that when she was first taken with fits he kept her close to the Wheel & threatened to thresh her, & then she had no more fits till the next day he as gone forth, & then she must have her fits again forsooth” (SSP: 683-684). Therefore, when John Procter discovered that Mary Warren participated in the accusations he threatened to whip her until her senses returned.After Mary Warren stayed in town the night of Rebecca Nurse’s examination, Samuel Siebel went to court ND testified to Proctor’s opinions about the accusers and about Marry participation in the accusations. Both John and Elizabeth Procter disagreed with the conduct of the trials. Mary Warren- the Crucible BY cardsharp At the time the Salem witchcraft trials began, Mary Warren was twenty years old and employed as a servant in the household of John Procter of Salem Village.īefore her first formal examination on April 19, 1692, Warren participated mildly in the afflicted girls’ accusations. ![]()
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