George Jacobs (1620-19 August 1692) was an accused witch who was hanged after the Salem Witch Trials.
Biography[]
George Jacobs was born in 1620 in England, and he became a colonist in the New England region of America, settling in Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. A gentle old man who was forced to walk with two sticks, Jacobs was not suspected of being a witch until 1692, when Ruth Putnam accused him of sending his spirit into her room and laying upon her on her bed. He denied that he was a witch, which led to him being condemned as a witch and sentenced to death. On 19 August 1692, he was executed by hanging.