Alice Young

It started to be done in Scotland and Germany, but it's never been done in America.

I mean, there were, so the first woman killed as a witch in the Americas was a woman, a young woman called Alice Young.

And she was accused and killed as a witch because there was a terrible plague outside of Connecticut where she lived.

And her kids, her kids survived.

... um, nearly three decades before the Salem witch trials.

The first person executed for witchcr- uh, witchcraft in America was Alice Young of Windsor, Connecticut, who was hanged on May, in May of 1647.

So that's interesting.

That was in Windsor, Connecticut, and I, I did a little, uh, uh, Apple Map type situation just to see how far all of these witch hangings and witch deaths were from where we're talking about here, right?

Know the particulars of that case, okay? But just to throw it out, it is more likely than not that she would've been operating within a coven, right? To have one witch, especially back in those days, operating solo, it's kind of rare.

You would at least have some sort of a congregation of them, a coven of them, and if she was the first to get killed, is it not then likely that the rest of them would've gone way off the beaten path, left the town they were in, and possibly settled in Dudley Town?

Well, I'm excited that you wanted to dive into this, because I got a little bit pulled up here on Alice Young, okay?

Let's go.