Case file · Witch trials
Ann Glover and the Goodwin children
Ann Glover, an Irish former indentured servant, was hanged in Boston on 16 November 1688 after the children of the Goodwin family fell into fits she was blamed for.
1688 CE · 42.36, -71.06 · status: official
The account
She was the last person hanged in Boston as a witch. Cotton Mather took the eldest Goodwin girl into his home to study her afflictions and wrote up the case, which helped shape how Salem's magistrates read the symptoms four years later.