May 26: Alse Young, the First American Witch

2014-05-26The 26 May 1647 began one of the darkest times of America’s past. In Windsor, Massachusetts at the age of 47, Alse Young was tried, convicted, and found guilty for the capital offense of witchcraft.

Not much is known about Young except that she was the first recorded woman to be executed for the accusation of witchcraft in America. Young was hung at a meeting house square in Hartford, which today is the old state house. Witch hunting was most prominent in Europe being the cause of thousands of deaths.

Alse Young’s death was only the beginning to an era called the witch trials. Witchcraft was a crime that could not be proven, so in a lot of cases the women weren’t actually killed. Women were accused for a multitude of things so the reason Alse Young was accused is endless. She could have been too strong or too smart or mistakably doing an act that could not yet be explained. Even her daughter Alice Young Beamon was accused 30 years after the fact, so being related to a witch was enough.

According to Witches and Neighbors by Robin Briggs, in America over one hundred witches were accused of witchcraft throughout the witch trials. This resulted in 36 executions. Witchcraft was last listed as a capital crime in 1715 and disappeared from the list of crimes in 1750. People used the Bible to back them up in their claims to put witches to death. For example, in Exodus 22:18 it says “you shall not permit a sorceress to live”.
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Alse Young led the way into a time most would like to forget.

–Miguel Hope

Photo Caption: Everett H. Keeler’s 1937 photograph of the Old State House, Hartford, Connecticut which now sits on the site where Alse Young was executed.

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