Ann PUTNAM

1679 - 1716  (36 years)

• Name	Ann PUTNAM
  Born	18 Oct 1679	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
  Gender	Female
  Noteworthy	One of the original accusers at the Salem Witch Trials
  Witchcraft connection?	Y
  Witch Description	She is responsible for the accusations of 62 people, which, along with the accusations of others, resulted in the executions of twenty people, as well as the deaths of several others in prison.  [1]
  Cause of Death	Chronic illness following the witch trials
  Died	29 Jun 1716	Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts
  Buried	Putnam Cemetery, Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts
  	unmarked grave
  Person ID	I40433	Main
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	Thomas PUTNAM,   b. 12 Mar 1652, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 24 May 1699, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 47 years)
  Mother	Ann CARR,   b. 15 Jun 1661, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 8 Jun 1699, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 37 years)
  Married	25 Sep 1678	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F1818	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	James TENNANT,   d. ?
  Last Modified	25 Oct 2020
  Family ID	F28377	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 18 Oct 1679 - Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Died - 29 Jun 1716 - Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  When her parents died in 1699, Putnam was left to raise her nine siblings aged 7 months to 16 years. Putnam never married. Fourteen years after the terrible trials, Ann Putman admitted that she had lied and apologized for the part she had played in the witch trials in 1706. http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ma-salemafflicted3.html —--  "I desire to be humbled before God for that sad and humbling providence that befell my father's family in the year about '92; that I, then being in my childhood, should, by such a providence of God, be made an instrument for the accusing of several persons of a grievous crime, whereby their lives were taken away from them, whom now I have just grounds and good reason to believe they were innocent persons; and that it was a great delusion of Satan that deceived me in that sad time, whereby I justly fear I have been instrumental, with others, though ignorantly and unwittingly, to bring upon myself and this land the guilt of innocent blood; though what was said or done by me against any person I can truly and uprightly say, before God and man, I did it not out of any anger, malice, or ill-will to any person, for I had no such thing against one of them; but what I did was ignorantly, being deluded by Satan. And particularly, as I was a chief instrument of accusing of Goodwife Nurse and her two sisters, I desire to lie in the dust, and to be humbled for it, in that I was a cause, with others, of so sad a calamity to them and their families; for which cause I desire to lie in the dust, and earnestly beg forgiveness of God, and from all those unto whom I have given just cause of sorrow and offense, whose relations were taken away or accused." [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S76] Wikipedia. [S76] Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Nurse.