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Essays, primary documents, biographical sketches, chronology, images, and other documents relating to the 1692 trials for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts
. Workers who avoided striking during the war were now demanding wage increases to keep pace with spiraling inflation. Over 3,300 postwar strikes swept the land.
Abigail Williams and Elizabeth (Betty) Parris, daughter of Rev. Parris and his wife Elizabeth, were the first two girls in Salem Village to exhibit behaviors in mid-January of 1692 which were soon identified as being caused by witchcraft by a local doctor (presumably William Griggs) and Rev. John Hale, called in by Rev. Parris