Join Margo Burns at the Witch House for a discussion of Bridget Bishop, the first woman to be executed during the Salem Witch Trials, on the anniversary of her death.

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Margo Burns is the 10th-generation great-granddaughter of Rebecca Nurse, who was hanged in Salem in 1692 on the charge of witchcraft. She is the project manager and an associate editor of Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt, published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press. This work is the definitive collection of transcriptions of the legal records of the episode.