BOSTON (AP) In 1648, Margaret Jones, a midwife, became the first person in Massachusetts the second in New England to be executed<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/group-seeks-to-clear-names-of-all-accused-convicted-or-executed-for-witchcraft-in-massachusetts/">Read More</a>
While much attention has focused on clearing the names of those put to death in Salem, most of those caught up in witch trials throughout the 1600s have largely been ignored, including five women hanged for witchcraft in Boston between 1648 and 1688.
The Massachusetts Witch-Hunt Justice Project is the latest group pushing the state to atone for its witch trial legacy. Home of the infamous Salem trials, hundreds of individuals were accused, arrested, and executed on witchcraft charges in the 1600s.
A Massachusetts group is working to clear the names of all of those accused, arrested or indicted in the Salem witch trials nearly four centuries later.