The Witches: Salem, 1692
Characters in The Witches: Salem, 1692
9 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Betty Parris
Nine-year-old daughter of Salem Village's minister, Rev. Samuel Parris; her fits in early 1692 were among the first signs of the crisis.
Abigail Williams
Eleven-year-old niece of Rev. Samuel Parris, whose accusations helped set the Salem witch trials in motion.
Supporting characters
Cotton Mather
Prominent Boston minister and author whose writings on witchcraft shaped the era's response to the Salem trials.
Increase Mather
Boston minister and Harvard president whose 1693 tract against spectral evidence helped bring the trials to an end.
George Burroughs
A former minister of Salem Village, accused of witchcraft and hanged in August 1692.
Giles Corey
An elderly Salem farmer pressed to death after refusing to enter a plea to charges of witchcraft.
Rebecca Nurse
A respected elderly church member of Salem Village convicted and hanged despite a petition attesting to her good character.
Martha Carrier
An Andover woman convicted and hanged as a witch amid one of the trials' largest waves of accusations.
William Phips
Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who dissolved the special court and ultimately halted the trials.