Salem Village Committeemen
Name | Petition | Church to 1696 | Sort |
Abby, Samuel and son | Pro-P | Church | 1 |
Alline, william | Pro-P | Non-Church | 2 |
Andrew, Daniell and sons | Anti-P | Non-Church | 3 |
Barton, Samull | NoS | Non-Church | 4 |
Bayly, Tho | NoS | Non-Church | 5 |
Beele, William | NoS | Non-Church | 6 |
In compare the social make-up of Salem Village's pro- and anti-Parris factions to the village's general population, download the Salem Village Data Set.
The data set contains four columns:
- "Name" lists every person in Salem Village who appeared on any village tax assessments for 1690, 1695, and 1697. The 137 names are a good, though imperfect, indicator of the village's adult male population in the period of the witch hunt. Only a few women, all widows, appear. Young men not yet independent or paying taxes do not appear.
- "Petition" notes whether the taxpayer signed either the pro- or anti-Parris petition in 1695. "NoS" (no signature) means that the person did not sign either petition.
- "Church to 1696" indicates whether a person was a church member though 1696. No distinction is made as to whether a person was a member of the Salem Village church or another church. The list is compiled from the pro- and anti-Parris petitions as well as from the records of the Salem Village church as recorded by Samuel Parris. Additional information came from the published records of the First Church in Salem Town.
- "Sort" permits data to be easily restored to their original order after a statistical manipulation.
To analyze Salem Village's population, click Next.