Ann Putnam (Person)
Ann Putnam
1679 AD - 1716 AD
Accuser and important witness at the Salem Witch Trials of Massachusetts during the later portion of 17th-century Colonial America.
She was friends with some of the girls who claimed to be afflicted by witchcraft and, in March 1692, proclaimed to be afflicted herself. She is responsible for the accusations of 62 people, which, along with the accusations of others, resulted in the executions of twenty people, as well as the deaths of several others in prison.
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