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Sarah Good

Life Story

Social Marginalization

Testimonies

Gender Issues

Trial

Conclusions

Economic Marginalization

  • First "witch" to testify
  • Accused of hurting children
  • W. Good affirmed that she was a witch
  • "...enemy against all that is good..."
  • Tituba named her as a witch
  • When S. Good accused other "witches", the afflicted children said that yes, the others were witches, but still accused S. Good
  • S. Good was imprisoned while pregnant, and she lost the child
  • Dorcas Good was also accused and imprisoned
  • When S. Good's father dies, all of the money is left to his widow and his eldest son. The will intended for all of his children to receive a share, but when the mother remarried, she kept her children's inheritance.
  • S. Good's second husband was responsible for paying the first husband's debts, which left them with very little money.
  • She "gave" all of her dowry to William to make up for the debts her first husband had left her, but the courts never gave her the money that her mother took.
  • They became homeless, and were a drain on the community.
  • The economic issues brought about by the debts and the inheritance troubles affected how W. Good and the whole community saw her.
  • Middle-aged or old women without sons or brothers were often accused
  • For the Puritans, the ideal virtuous woman was subservient to men
  • Women threatened the social order when they disrupted the flow of property or land from father to son
  • Women who defied social norms were accused as witches
  • A woman could be either neighborly or sinful--S. Good was not neighborly.
  • The definition of appropriate behavior differed based on the social class and race of the woman, but men were still above them
  • The unfriendly attitude of some older women was like a sign of refusal to accept their place in the social order--deviance was akin to witchcraft
  • Sarah Good was accused of witch-craft for both social and economic reasons
  • She fit the gender stereotypes that marked a woman as a witch
  • Her foul disposition as well as her status as a beggar made it easier for people to jump to the conclu-sion that Sarah Good was in league with the Devil
  • Her trial set the stage for the trials of many other women and men--it set a precedent for how the trials would run
  • It was strange that she did not receive money from her father's estate
  • Poole, her first husband, was "his own man" before marrying Sarah
  • On her second marriage, she had to pay her first husband's debts
  • She rented rooms in the houses of several community members
  • She was strange and unpleasant--people considered her a nuisance
  • S. Good's life as a beggar took it's toll on her and she appeared much older than she was
  • She was not a respected member of society, and only one person stood up for her when she was tried
  • Even her husband accused her, and although her daughter did not directly say that S. Good was a witch, the girl's tetimony was taken as an accusation
  • Her father, John Solart died and left the family money
  • Her mother remarried and didn't give any of the money to the daughters
  • She married a man named Daniel Poole, who left her with debt when he died
  • Her second husband, William Good had to pay the debts
  • They became homeless and had to beg
  • First warrant for her arrest was issued February 29th, 1692
  • Executed on July 9th, 1692
  • Included stories of physical torment from several young girls as well as other townspeople
  • Told how generally awful S. Good was, saying she was "spiteful" and "of a turbulent spirit"
  • Tituba said that S. Good told her to kill someone with a knife
  • One person claimed to have seen apparitions of S. Good and her unborn child--the child accused its mother of murdering it
  • Thomas and Sarah Gadge claimed that S. Good killed some of their cows using witchcraft because they could find no natural cause
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