This Day in History
Goodwife "Goody" Glover (died November 16, 1688) was the last person to be hanged in Boston as a witch.
Glover was arrested and tried for witchcraft. At trial it was demanded of her to say the Lord’s Prayer, she recited it in English and broken Latin, but since she had never learned it in English, she could not say it in English. The proof against her was wholly deficient. The jury brought her guilty.
On November 16, Annie Glover was hanged in Boston amidst mocking shouts from the crowd.
Three hundred years later in 1988, the Boston City Council decided that this conviction was not just and proclaimed November 16 Goody Glover Day.
