Johnson made a compelling confession during a court examination: She said that another woman, Martha Carrier, “perswaded her to be a witch” and that Carrier told her she “Should be Saved if she would be a witch,” according to a 1692 document digitized by the University of Virginia’s Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive. She was one of 28 family members accused of witchcraft in 1692, according to the Boston Globe. While many other convicted witches were exonerated, many of them posthumously, the late Johnson - or “EJJ,” as LaPierre and her students called her - had “somehow been overlooked while all other convicted witches had been exonerated over the years,” LaPierre told CNN in an email.ĭetails of Johnson’s life are slim, but her family was a major target of the Salem witch trials, driven by hysteria, Puritanical rule and feuding between families. But until she’d read a book on local witches by historian Richard Hite, LaPierre said she had no idea how the Salem witch trials reverberated in the North Andover area - and it was within those pages that she learned of Johnson. North Andover, a town in northeastern Massachusetts, is only about 40 minutes from Salem.
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