1. Elizabeth Booth was born in 1674 and was one of the accused as well as one of the accusers in the Salem Witch Trials.
23 Facts About Elizabeth Booth
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Elizabeth Booth grew up in Salem, Massachusetts, as the second eldest of ten children.
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Elizabeth Booth was born in 1674 in the Salem Village to George Elizabeth Booth Sr.
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Elizabeth Booth was the second eldest of ten siblings who included: George Booth Jr.
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When Elizabeth Booth was eight years old, her biological father, a woodworker, died.
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Elizabeth Booth's mother remarried and her stepfather died only four years later.
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Finally, at age eighteen, Elizabeth Booth claimed to be afflicted by witchcraft and became one of the six accusers of the Salem Witch Trials.
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Elizabeth Booth is remembered in American colonial history for her role in the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
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Elizabeth Booth confessed that she herself had attempted to murder children while under the influence of a specter.
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Elizabeth Booth then went on to accuse their daughter, Sarah Proctor.
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Elizabeth Booth's reputation stemmed from being one of the accused to becoming the accuser and using her experience against others.
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Elizabeth Booth testified that the specters of those murdered had come to tell her they had been killed by the Proctors and begged Elizabeth to stop the murders.
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Elizabeth Booth's testimony, aided by her sister Alice's and her mother's support, convicted the Proctors of witchcraft and both were sentenced to be executed.
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However, Elizabeth Booth Proctor was pregnant with her sixth child and she was placed in jail instead to await the birth of her child.
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Once the trials ended, Elizabeth Booth Proctor was reprieved and released.
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Elizabeth Booth testified that her deceased stepfather had come to her and informed her that Goody had murdered him.
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Elizabeth Booth was one of the last people to be executed during the Salem Witch Trials.
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Elizabeth Booth claimed that Job Trooney tried to afflict her and others with witchcraft.
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Elizabeth Booth grew up in a home where both her father and stepfather died in the span of four years.
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Elizabeth Booth's father died when she was just eight years old.
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Elizabeth Booth grew up having to help her mother provide for the family, which was now her mother Alice, her younger brother George, and younger sister Alice.
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Elizabeth Booth was twenty two years old and the two were married in Salem, Essex co.
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Elizabeth Booth claimed that she was possessed by the devil himself.