forfeitures A data set containing list of forfeitures for those who were condemned, escaped, and stood mute during trial.

forfeitures

Format

A data frame with 30 rows and 6 variables with the name Person_condemned:

legal_status: Legal status at time of forfeiture
Name: Name of those who were condemned during the trial
marital_status: The marital status for females
forfeiture: The evidence that a forfeiture was ordered
reversed: Was the declaration of the attainders was reversed

The source has some Key Tables which are: for the 1703 and 1711 acts reversing some of the witchcraft attainder see Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Act and Resolver, Public and Private, of the providence of the Massachusetts Bay, 21 vols. (Boston, 1869-1922), VI, 49-50 (1703 act), VI, 71-72 (1711 act). SWP-Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbain, eds., The Salem Witchcraft Papers; Verbian Transcript of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692, 3 vols. (New York, 1977). Calef-Robert Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World (London, 1700), excerpted in George L. Burr, ed., Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1684-1706 (New York, 1914), 293-393. Brattle-Thomas Brattle, "Letter," Oct. 8, 1692, in Burr, ed., Narratives, 169-190. Hale-John Hale, A modest Inquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft (Boston, 1702), in Burr, Narratives, 399-432. Gage-Thomas Gage, the History of Rowley (Boston, 1840).

Source

Brown, David C. “The Forfeitures at Salem, 1692.” The William and Mary Quarterly,#' vol. 50, no. 1, 1993, pp. 85–111. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2947237?seq=1, 10.2307/2947237