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Thomas Oliver

Second husband of Bridget Bishop, victim of the Salem witch trials · Lived 1601 to 1679 · aged 78

Thomas Oliver was the second husband of Bridget Bishop, who on 10 June 1692 became the first victim of the Salem witch trials. He is a major link in the old and well-known theory that his widow, Bridget Bishop, was executed on trumped up charges because her in-laws were jealous of what she had inherited from him.

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Upham's History of the Salem Witchcraft Trials makes clear that her marriage to Thomas Oliver is a determining factor in the witchcraft prosecution of Bridget Oliver Bishop.

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Lived 1601 to 1679 · aged 78