• Not long after the fever died, Parris was voted from office, walked out on the highroad, and was never heard from again.
• The legend has it that Abigail turned up later as a prostitute in Boston.
• Twenty years after the last execution, the government awarded compensation to the victims still living, and to the families of the dead.
• Elizabeth Proctor married again, four years after John Proctor's death.
• In March of 1792, the congregation rescinded the excommunications.
• Some of the farms which had belonged to the victims were left to ruin, and for more than a century no one would buy them or live on them.
• To all intents and purposes, the power of the theocracy in Massachusetts was broken.

To return.