EVB2937303: Salem Witch Trials. Salem magistrates examine of Rebecca Nurse, who pleaded innocent of using witchcraft to torment her young accusers: Ann Putmann and Abigail Williams, Elizabeth Hubbard and Mary Walcott. Rebecca was one of nineteen eventually executed for witchcraft in Massachusetts Colony in 1692. Illustration by Howard Pyle, Pyle, Howard (1853-1911) / Bridgeman Images