Case file · Witch trials
Ann Hibbins hanged in Boston
Ann Hibbins, a wealthy widow and sister-in-law of former governor Richard Bellingham, was hanged for witchcraft in Boston on 19 June 1656.
1656 CE · 42.35, -71.07 · status: official
The account
She was the third person executed for witchcraft in Boston. Her quarrelsome reputation, not any evidence of magic, appears to have doomed her. Hawthorne later used her in 'The Scarlet Letter'.