Alse Young (1615 – 26 May 1647) of Windsor, Connecticut — sometimes Achsah Young or Alice Young — was the first recorded instance of execution for witchcraft...
8 KB (771 words) - 20:38, 14 September 2024
Witch trials in Connecticut (section Alse Young)
total of 37 cases, 11 of which resulted in executions. The execution of Alse Young of Windsor in the spring of 1647 was the beginning of the witch panic...
15 KB (1,752 words) - 00:45, 24 July 2024
colonial America had an immense influence in law at the time and even today. Alse Young was the first person on record to be executed for witchcraft in Colonial...
36 KB (4,149 words) - 10:36, 10 August 2024
Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the second in New England (the first being Alse Young in 1647) during a witch-hunt that lasted from 1647 to 1693. Hundreds of...
9 KB (1,269 words) - 00:04, 2 August 2024
for witchcraft began in the New England colonies with the hanging of Alse Young of Windsor, Connecticut, on May 26, 1647, followed by the conviction of...
24 KB (2,807 words) - 15:28, 15 September 2024
through witchcraft. The earliest recorded witchcraft execution was that of Alse Young in 1647 in Hartford, Connecticut, the start of the Connecticut Witch Trials...
114 KB (13,914 words) - 18:26, 23 September 2024
Matthew Hopkins; hanged. Adrienne d'Heur 1585–1646 France Burned to death. Alse Young c. 1600–1647 Connecticut Colony The first person recorded to have been...
39 KB (1,212 words) - 07:59, 24 August 2024
several people Allen Young (1827–1915), English master mariner and explorer Allyn Abbott Young (1876–1929), American economist Alse Young (1615–1647), American...
26 KB (3,256 words) - 03:27, 30 September 2024
that town has been implicated in the accusations of witchcraft against Alse Young, who was executed on that charge on 26 May. John Winthrop, the Puritan...
18 KB (2,050 words) - 08:00, 14 August 2024
injection Ocuish, Hannah Ross, Michael Bruce Taborsky, Joseph "Mad Dog" Young, Achsah "Connecticut governor signs death penalty repeal". CBS News. April...
20 KB (317 words) - 06:41, 22 August 2024