16 Facts About Sarah Good

Sarah Good's 70-acre was valued around 500 pounds and he didn't leave a will.

Sarah Good was left with no dowry and no prospects beyond marriage to an indentured servant named Daniel Poole who left her heavily in debt when he died soon after.

The small portion of land that Sarah Good had received from her father's estate was lost in a suit filed by Poole's creditors.

Sarah Good's husband told the examiners that she was "an enemy to all good".

Sarah Good was of a lower economic status, reduced to poverty due to the inheritance customs which cut out daughters and the debt of her first husband, Daniel Poole.

Accusers at the trials, especially in the trial of Sarah Good, often cited jealousy and envy as explanations for witches' discontent and anger.

William Sarah Good claimed he feared that his wife was a witch due to "her bad carriage to him", indicating he disliked her demeanor or how well she met his expectations for a wife.

Sarah Good was accused by her neighbors because she challenged Puritan values, and she was accused of possessing two women; the afflictions were often sporadic and inexplicable.

Sarah Good was accused of rejecting the puritanical expectations of self-control and discipline when she chose to torment and "scorn [children] instead of leading them towards the path of salvation".

When it had stopped, she claimed Sarah Good had attacked her with a knife; she even produced a portion of it, stating the weapon had been broken during the alleged assault.

Sarah Good then revealed the other half, proving his story.

Sarah Good stated that a tall man dressed all in black came to them, demanding they sign their names in a great book.

Sarah Good said that Good had ordered her cat to attack Elizabeth Hubbard, causing the scratches and bite marks on the girl's body.

Sarah Good spoke of seeing Good with black and yellow birds surrounding her, and that Good had sent these animals to harm the girls.

When Sarah Good was allowed the chance to defend herself in front of the twelve jurors in the Salem Village meeting house, she argued her innocence, proclaiming Tituba and Osborne as the real witches.

Sarah Good was pregnant at the time of her arrest and gave birth to an infant in her cell in the jail in Ipswich.