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trespassing pigs and cursing her husband to his death. Sarah Holton’s husband
Benjamin Holton started going into convulsions the night after the confrontation, and then died weeks after Rebecca‘s confrontation with them about their pigs. Sarah Holten believed that Rebecca placed a curse on her husband but later thought better of it and was one of the first to speak about the injustice of the trials. Thirty-nine of the most prominent members of the community signed a petition on Nurse's behalf. At age 71, she was one of the oldest accused. The examining magistrates,
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In the end, the jury ruled Nurse not guilty. Due to the public outcry and renewed fits and spasms by the "afflicted", the judges reviewed her case with the jury. One particular point was emphasized, and the jury requested a second chance of deliberation (a legal practice used in those days). The jury
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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
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A public outcry greeted the accusations made against her, as she was considered to be a woman of very pious character, who lived in amity with her neighbours, and had a reputation for benevolence. Her neighbor Sarah Holton, accused
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161:Execution
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