It is difficult to overcome the idea of death, and even more so when the presence of death is within your family. How should I explain such a complicated event to you Mary Redd, when not even your mother, Dorcas Good, will tell. As you may already know, the disastrous events called upon your family began with your grandmother, Sarah Good. Your grandmother married twice, but with her second marriage came difficulties; she had to pay dues for her former husband who passed, all while raising your mother, Dorcas, and begging for housing. This worked for a quite a while now, up until 1692 when the citizen of the town started to see Sarah and your family as a nuisance. Then on February 29, 1692, grandmother Good was arrested for afflicting Betty Parris and Abigail Williams with witchcraft. Good, and the family, were forced to defend themselves in court to the crimes that the afflicted girls accused them of doing. The defendant was thrown accusation after accusation, dodging them left and right, but what solidified the plaintiff's case was that Good’s family hinted, and Dorcas admitted, to Sarah being a witch. Your grandmother took the high route. If she had confessed to being a witch and then played with the courtroom by pointing the finger to other members of the town, Sarah would not have been hanged; however, this act would have meant drawing innocent members of the town towards their own death.…show more content… Daughter Dorcas was put into jail for over seven months which left her psychologically traumatized by the events, but even more so when Dorcas heard that her infant sibling had died in her mother's arms in jail. Sarah’s execution occurred on Tuesday, July 19, 1692, and as she stood at the gallows, Sarah screamed her last words to Reverend Nicholas Noyes, "You're a liar! I'm no more a witch than you are a wizard! If you take my life away, God will give you blood to
