Case file · Witch trials
Elizabeth Johnson Jr. exonerated
In 2022 Massachusetts exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr. of Andover, the last person convicted in the Salem trials whose name had never been cleared, after a campaign by a North Andover middle-school civics class.
2022 CE · 42.70, -71.14 · status: official
The account
Johnson was sentenced to death in 1693 but reprieved. Andover saw more accusations in 1692 than Salem Village itself.