Need to catch up? Here’s a snapshot of where we are in the story of Salem.
WHAT HAPPENED THIS WEEK
We met two new people: a man and his servant. The extremely tall and somewhat violent George Jacobs Sr. causes a disturbance and claims the girls are lying. His servant, Sarah Churchill, is another refugee from the wars in Maine and is afraid of him. She’s sitting with the afflicted girls.
The servant Mary Warren also says the girls are lying. She was part of the group, but after the Proctors (her masters) threatened her, she’s been cured.
Two women have been formally accused: Sarah Cloyce (Rebecca Nurse’s sister, who slammed the church door) and Elizabeth Proctor (the quarrelsome tavern owner and wife of John Proctor). The magistrates are holding off on arresting them until they can enlist help from Boston officials.
The Reverend Samuel Parris again hasn’t been paid, and hasn’t been since July. He’s being passive aggressive in his sermons to call out those who are evil.
The royally appointed governor William Phips is on his way home from London and has no idea what’s waiting for him.
WHO’S WHERE
ACCUSED
• Sarah Cloyce (angry) – Rebecca Nurse’s younger sister. She’d stormed out of church, and people began to question whether innocent people were being accused
• Elizabeth Proctor (quarrelsome) – an opinionated tavern owner, married to the respected but harsh John Proctor
ARRESTED
• (No one new)
IN JAIL
• Martha Corey (gospel woman) – a slightly arrogant church member
• Dorcas Good (4 years old) – the daughter of the beggar Sarah Good
• Sarah Good (beggar) with her baby – a vagrant who smokes a pipe and has a terrible temper
• Rebecca Nurse (beloved) – a 70-year-old grandmother who is well-loved throughout the community
• Sarah Osborne (sickly) – a scandal-ridden woman who married her servant and is trying to take her sons’ inheritance
• Tituba (slave) – the minister’s slave who was the first to be accused and the first to confess
TRIED & SENTENCED
• (No one … yet)
EXECUTED
• (No one … yet)
Tomorrow in Salem: Cold and hungry: the beggar Sarah Good’s baby
