Dorothy Good, the youngest Salem Witch Trials victim, was arrested at the age of four or five and imprisoned for nearly nine months in 1692. Though she survived, the trauma from her incarceration had lasting impacts. Research by Rachel Christ-Doane indicates that Dorothy's life was marked by instability, financial hardship, and abandonment. She lived a transient life, moving between households and institutions, and her children were ultimately indentured to other families. Distressingly, Dorothy's life ended in obscurity, with her body reportedly discovered in a bog meadow in Connecticut in 1761.

00:00 Introduction and Historical Context

00:27 Welcome to Salem Witch Trials Daily

00:32 The Tragic Story of Dorothy Good

01:01 Dorothy's Life After Imprisonment

02:00 Dorothy's Adulthood and Struggles

03:02 Dorothy's Children and Their Fate

03:28 A Grim Conclusion

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⁠Emerson W. Baker, A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience

⁠Marilynne K. Roach, The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege

⁠Mary Beth Norton, In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

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