A campaign in a US state to offer posthumous exonerations to people executed for witchcraft in 1600s is growing in popularity as genealogy buffs seek to right the wrongs of the past.
In 2006, former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine gave an informal pardon to Grace Sherwood, a widowed midwife who was blamed by neighbours for ruining crops, killing livestock and creating storms and subsequently accused of being a witch.
Connecticut's witch trials were held in the mid-to-late 1600s. In each of the New England colonies, witchcraft was considered a capital offence. According to the earliest laws in the colony of Connecticut, "any man or women bee a Witch, that is, hath or consulteth with a familiar spirit, they shall bee put to death".
For years, she was tortured by a local minister who whipped her until she finally confessed to being a witch and admitted to "uncleanness with men," according to Bridgeport author Andy Piascik, who wrote an article for Connecticut Humanities, an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Johnson is believed to have been hanged after giving birth to the child of a man she was not married to.
He noted that even in recent decades people have been killed in multiple countries because they were suspected of being witches or sorcerers.Beth Caruso, an author, co-founded the CT Witch Trial Exoneration Project in 2005 to clear the names of the accused.
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