Person:Bridget Playfer (1)

Bridget Playfer
b.Est 1640
m. 13 Apr 1660
  1. Benjamin Wasselbe1663 -
  2. Mary Wasselbe1665 -
  • HThomas OliverAbt 1601 - 1679
  • WBridget PlayferEst 1640 - 1692
m. 26 Jul 1666
  1. Christian Oliver1667 -
m. Abt 1687
Facts and Events
Name[2] Bridget Playfer
Gender Female
Alt Birth[1] Abt 1632 England
Birth[2] Est 1640 Estimate based on date of marriage.
Marriage 13 Apr 1660 Norwich, Norfolk, EnglandSt. Mary-in-the-Marsh
to Samuel Wasselbe
Marriage 26 Jul 1666 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Thomas Oliver
Marriage Abt 1687 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Edward Bishop
Death[1][3] 10 Jun 1692 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Hanged as a witch
Reference Number? Q3644584?


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Bridget Bishop ( 1632 – 10 June 1692) was the first person executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in 1692. Nineteen were hanged, and one, Giles Corey, was pressed to death. Altogether, about 200 people were tried.

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References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Bridget Bishop, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Anderson, Robert Charles. Bridget (Playfer) (Wasselbe) (Oliver) Bishop. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Oct 1989)
    64:207.

    No earlier record of Bridget has been found. There is no baptism of a Bridget Playfer in St. Mary-in-the-Marsh, an event which most likely would have taken place in the 1630s, nor is she mentioned in any of the Playfer wills probated in the seventeenth century in the Consitory Court of Norwich, the Archdeaconry Court of Norwich or the Archdeaconry Court of Norfolk.

  3. Greene, David L. Salem Witches I: Bridget Bishop. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jul 1981)
    57:129.

    Bridget Bishop was hanged in Salem, Mass., 10 June 1692, when she became the first to die of the twenty alleged witches ultimately executed in the Salem witchcraft delusion.