The Salem Witch Trials slowly started to begin when the Reverend Parris' daughter and niece started to act strangely in February of 1692.
This included things like screaming hysterically and lying on the floor all of the time.
When the Reverend summoned a doctor to examine the girls, he could find nothing wrong.
The doctor then concluded that the girls were suffering from witchcraft, and the girls confirmed this.
The town then had gathered up all of the girls with the symptoms and together they accused three women. On March 1, 1692, Salem, Massachusetts authorities interrogated Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and an Indian slave, Tituba, to determine if they indeed practiced witchcraft. So began the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
Sarah Good, a poor beggar woman, Sarah Osborne, who had married her servant and rarely attended church meetings, and Tituba, an Indian slave from Barbados.
While Good and Osborne denied the accusations, Tituba confessed, and claimed there were multiple other witches by her side.
In May of 1692, the newly appointed governor of Massachusetts, ordered the establishment of a special Court of Oyer to hear and Terminer to decide on witchcraft cases for Suffolk, Essex and Middlesex counties. Presided over by judges, the court handed down its first conviction against Bridget Bishop on June 2. She was hanged eight days later on what would become later known as Gallows Hill in Salem Town. Sarah Good was hanged in July of 1692 while Sarah Osborne died in her prison cell awaiting trial. Tituba helped the girls accuse others of being a witch an therefore did not go to trial. 
