Martin, Susannah
From Salem Links and Lore
The sixty-seven year old widow Susannah Martin of Amesbury was hanged as a witch on July 19, 1692 on the basis of the
testimony of the accusing circle of girls of Salem Village and other neighbors. Although she maintained her innocence to the end,
a previous history of witchcraft accusations and the momentum of Salem's accusations carried her to the gallows. Martin figures in
historian Carol Karlsen's account of the Salem outbreak as an example of a woman who was easily targeted as a threat to the
orderly transmission of property down the paternal line because of Martin's role in an ongoing court dispute over her father's
will.
See Also
Important Persons in the Salem Court Records Salem Witch Trials, Univ. of Virginia
