The Government Has Declared Me a Wizard

Susannah North (Martin) was hanged at the Salem witch trials by the government. Susannah Martin portrayed reading her Bible in the Salem jail.Caption: “Who turned, in Salem’s dreary jail,/Her worn old bible o’er and o’er.” Source: Mabel Martin: A Harvest Idyle. By John Greenleaf Whittier, Boston: Houghton, Mifflen & Co. 1876, p. 43. Artist, Mary A. Hallock.