Timeline: Before 1692 | January 1692 | February 1692 | March 1692 | April 1692 | May 1692 | June 1692 | July 1692 | August 1692 | September 1692 | October 1692 | November/December 1692 | 1693 | The Aftermath
November 1692
November: Mary Herrick reported that the ghost of Mary Easty visited her and told her of her innocence.
November 25: Governor Phips established a Superior Court of Judicature to handle any remaining trials of accused witches in Massachusetts.
December 1692
December: Abigail Faulkner, Sr., petitioned the governor for clemency. She was pardoned and released from prison.
December 3: Ann Foster, convicted and condemned on September 17, died in prison.
Rebecca Eames petitioned the governor for release, retracting her confession and stating she had only confessed because she had been told by Abigail Hobbs and Mary Lacey that she would be hanged if she did not confess.
December 10: Dorcas Good (arrested at 4 or 5 years old) was released from prison when £50 was paid.
December 13: A petition was sent to the governor, council and general assembly by prisoners in Ipswich: Hannah Bromage, Phoebe Day, Elizabeth Dicer, Mehitable Downing, Mary Green, Rachel Haffield or Clenton, Joan Penney, Margaret Prince, Mary Row, Rachel Vinson, and some men.
December 14: William Hobbs, still maintaining his innocence, was released from jail in December when two Topsfield men (one a brother of Rebecca Nurse, Mary Easty and Sarah Cloyce) paid a bond of £200, and left town without his wife and daughter who had confessed and implicated him.
December 15: Mary Green was released from jail on payment of a bond of £200.
December 26: Several members of Salem Village church were asked to appear before the church and explain their absences and differences: Joseph Porter, Joseph Hutchinson Sr., Joseph Putnam, Daniel Andrews and Francis Nurse.
