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- The Maryland Witch Trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in Colonial Maryland between June 1654, and October 1712. It was not unique, but is a Colonial American example of the much broader phenomenon of witch trials in the early modern period, which took place also in Europe. Colonial Maryland had a unique relationship to Christianity, the Calvert family established Maryland as a safe-haven for Catholic refugees from Europe and insisted on the need for the Maryland Toleration Act. Enacted in 1641, the act protected the Catholics from prosecution. But as the century went on, Puritan immigration displaced the Catholics and turned the state into an overwhelmingly Protestant British colony. From 1644 to the 1670s, a series religious conflicts in the state eventually lead to the Protestant Revolution, and as a result Catholicism was made illegal in the province, and Puritans took control of the Maryland government. This provides some additional context to the political system in the province as the witch trials progressed. Along with the Maryland Witch Trials, the Connecticut Witch Trials which had started in 1647, and the Salem witch trials in 1692, were the first executions in the United States for Witchcraft in the 17th century. (en)
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- I believe in general that there is and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no credit to any particular instance of it. (en)
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- The Maryland Witch Trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in Colonial Maryland between June 1654, and October 1712. It was not unique, but is a Colonial American example of the much broader phenomenon of witch trials in the early modern period, which took place also in Europe. Along with the Maryland Witch Trials, the Connecticut Witch Trials which had started in 1647, and the Salem witch trials in 1692, were the first executions in the United States for Witchcraft in the 17th century. (en)
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- Maryland Witch Trials (en)
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