Wilmot Redd

Wilmot Redd was one of the victims in the salem witch trials of 1692. Wilmot was born in Marblehead Massachusetts. Her husband was Samuel Redd a local fisherman who she shared many years with. Wilmot was known to be a crusty and irritable lady to many of her neighbors, they use to say that she was “probably more bitch than witch”.


Redd was apprehended may of 1692 by local constable James Smith. The warrant for her apprehension was signed by magistrates John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin. Wilmot Redd was captured and charged with have committed “sundry acts of witchcraft on the bodies of Mary Wolcott and Mercy Lewis.” locals of Salem Village known today as Danvers.

Indicted as a witch Redd was accused of "detestable arts called Witchcraft and Sorceries wickedly, maliciously and feloniously used, practiced & exercised at the Towne of Salem." Redd was then executed by hanging on September 22 1692.


Wilmot Redds Grave site is located at Old Burial Hill in Marblehead and is the closest grave to Redd's Pond (a pond that was named after Wilmot Redd) where her small house once stood.

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