Cemeteries in Hanging Rock, Virginia

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Old Burying Point Cemetery: Many notable people are buried in this cemetery, such as Salem Witch Trials Judge John Hawthorne, Mayflower passenger Captain Richard More, architect Samuel McIntire, Governor Simon Bradstreet, Chief Justice Benjamin Lynde and Reverend John Higginson.

The last execution day was September 22. Hanged were Martha Corey (her husband Giles Corey was pressed to death three days earlier), Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Ann Pudeator, Wilmot Redd, Margaret Scott, and Samuel Wardwell.

No convicted witches executed at Proctor's Ledge in 1692 are buried at Charter Street Cemetery. Their remains were taken from the shallow graves near the gallows and buried in secret by their family and friends. Their burial locations remain unknown.

Located in the heart of the Charter Street National Register Historic District, Charter Street Cemetery is Salem's oldest burial ground. This 1.47 acre public green space contains one of New England's finest collection of 17th, 18th and 19th century gravestone art with the oldest stone dating to 1673.

Change., Christ-Doane tells us about her recent discovery of a “treasure trove” of information about the youngest victim of the trials, 4-year-old Dorothy Good.

Perhaps the most devastating story from the Salem witchcraft trials is that of Dorothy Good, the youngest person to be arrested and jailed in 1692. At the age of four years old, Dorothy was accused of practicing witchcraft and confined to prison for nearly eight months.

June 10- Bridget Bishop is executed on Proctor's Ledge at Gallows Hill in Salem. She is the first person to be executed during the Salem witch trials.

People are still trying to determine why a court of law would have indicted, tried, found guilty, sentenced to death, and executed nineteen men and women in Salem village in 1692 for the alleged crime of witchcraft.

Several notable figures are buried at Old Burying Point. Among them are Massachusetts Governor and Revolutionary War figure John Brooks, Sarah Bradlee Fulton, a Revolutionary War heroine, Judge John Hathorne, one of the most influential and hated judges of the Salem Witch Trials.

Change., Christ-Doane tells us about her recent discovery of a “treasure trove” of information about the youngest victim of the trials, 4-year-old Dorothy Good.

June 10- Bridget Bishop is executed on Proctor's Ledge at Gallows Hill in Salem. She is the first person to be executed during the Salem witch trials.

Abt noon, at Salem, Giles Corey was pressed to death for standing mute Much pains was used with him two days one after another by ye court & Capt. Gardner of Nantucket who had been his acquaintance: but all in vain.