More Places

Other places in Massachusetts, New England, and beyond include bits of Massachusetts Bay witch-hunt history, from colonists leaving the Commonwealth to museums collecting relics.

Connecticut

Colchester Burying Ground, 2 Stebbins Road, Colchester. Richard and Andrew Carrier were tortured during the Salem witch trials and confessed. The brothers and their wives are buried here.

Marlboro Cemetery, 19 East Hampton Road, Marlboro. Several years after his wife Martha was hanged during the Salem witch trials, Thomas Carrier and his family moved to Colchester, Connecticut. In the 1930s, an excavation crew uncovered the Carrier family cemetery. The bodies were reburied in Marlboro and a headstone was placed there at some point that lists five generations of one line of male descendants, but not necessarily whose bodies were buried there. Probably father Thomas Carrier was buried in Marlboro, but his two sons are buried in Colchester.

Massachusetts

Woodlawn Cemetery, 104 Concord Road, Acton. Abigail Faulkner was convicted of witchcraft in Salem but her pregnancy postponed her execution. She survived the trials. Abigail’s son was born in March 1693 and named Ammiruhamah, Hebrew for “my people have received mercy.” He died in Acton in 1756 and his gravestone is here.

Ohio

Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Cleveland. Two large, colonial-era nails unearthed at the Samuel Parris homesite, purportedly from the transom of the front door. After discussing the find with Richard Trask of Danvers Archival Center who did the archaeological dig at the parsonage, it’s more likely the nails came from the 1734 addition based on nail-head shape. See the picture and read about the museum in J.W. Ocker’s OTIS post.

Pennsylvania

Castle Halloween Museum, 2028 Broad Avenue, Altoona. For 50 years, Pamela E. Apkarian-Russell, known as the Halloween Queen, has collected artifacts, costumes, decorations, artwork, games, and more from the 1890s on. She wrote A Collector’s Guide to Salem Witchcraft & Souvenirs (1997). Facebook page. Call 814-940-1031 to reserve a tour.