Ann putnam age the crucible

Ann Putnam October 18, — was a primary accuser, at age 12, at the Salem Witch Trials of Massachusetts during the later portion of 17th-century Colonial America. She was friends with some of the girls who claimed to be afflicted by witchcraft and, in March , proclaimed to be afflicted herself, along with Elizabeth Hubbard , Mary Walcott , Mercy Lewis , Abigail Williams , and Mary Warren.

Putnam is responsible for the accusations of 62 people, [ 2 ] which, along with the accusations of others, resulted in the executions of twenty people, as well as the deaths of several others in prison. She was a first cousin once removed of Generals Israel and Rufus Putnam. These three girls would become the first afflicted girls outside of the Parris household.

The Putnam family lived on the southwest side of Hathorne Hill, approximately in the area of what is today Danielle Drive in Danvers, Massachusetts. For many years, a house that stands back from Putnam Lane was misidentified as the Putnam House, but this house was likely built circa Images of this house are still routinely misidentified as Annie's home.

Shortly after the trials were over, the family built a new house in the general area of what is today Dayton and Maple Streets in Danvers where Annie spent the rest of her life. Upham , and implied by her own will, Annie was chronically ill in the years after the trials, and that led to her death at a young age. It seems she was frequently the subject of sickness, and her bodily powers much weakened.

The probability is, that the long-continued strain kept upon her muscular and nervous organization, during the witchcraft scenes, had destroyed her constitution. Such interrupted and vehement exercises, to their utmost tension, of the imaginative, intellectual, and physical powers, in crowded and heated rooms, before the public gaze, and under the feverish and consuming influence of bewildering and all but delirious excitement, could hardly fail to sap the foundations of health in so young a child.

How did ann putnam die

The tradition is, that she had a slow and fluctuating decline. The opposite elements of her composition struggled in a protracted contest — on the one side, a nature morbidly subject to nervous excitability sinking under the exhaustion of an overworked, overburdened, and shattered system; on the other, tenacity of life. The conflict continued with alternating success for years; but the latter gave way at last.

Her story, in all its aspects, is worth of the study of the psychologist.