Alse Young (1615 – 26 May 1647) of Windsor, Connecticut — sometimes Achsah Young or Alice Young — was the first recorded instance of execution for witchcraft...

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...

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...

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...

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...

through witchcraft. The earliest recorded witchcraft execution was that of Alse Young in 1647 in Hartford, Connecticut, the start of the Connecticut Witch Trials...

explorer Allyn Abbott Young (1876–1929), American economist Alse Young (1615–1647), American alleged witch Alton Milford Young (1884–1950), American leader...

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...

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...

injection Ocuish, Hannah Ross, Michael Bruce Taborsky, Joseph "Mad Dog" Young, Achsah "Connecticut governor signs death penalty repeal". CBS News. April...