She’s a Witch!
When suspicion falls on midwife Margaret Jones, she becomes the first victim of the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s witch trials.
8 min readMar 13, 2023
Margaret Jones, along with her husband, Thomas, their 3-year-old daughter Sarah and newborn, John, arrived at Massachusetts Bay Colony from England in 1634. The colony had only been established a mere four years prior. Theirs was…
