People/Characters Dorcas Good

Dorothy Good (historically referred to as Dorcas Good; born ca. 1687/1688) was the daughter of William Good and Sarah Good (née Solart). Dorothy and her mother Sarah were accused of practicing witchcraft in Salem at the beginning of the Salem witch trials in 1692. Only four years old at the time, she was interrogated by the local magistrates, confessed to being a witch and purportedly claimed she had seen her mother consorting with the devil.While in jail, she watched her mother give birth, her newborn sister dying and then seeing her mother being led away to her death.

By the time she was finally released at five years of age, Dorothy was severely psychologically disturbed. In 1710, William Good successfully sued the Great and General Court for health and mental damages done to Sarah and Dorcas, ultimately receiving thirty pounds sterling, one of the largest sums granted to the families of the witchcraft victims

From 1708 to 1715 she lived with Benjamin Putnam's household. After that, she sometimes lived with other people, spent time in the house of correction (workhouse). She gave birth to at least two out-of-wedlock children children, Dorothy (1720) and William (1725), who were indentured. She vanishes from the records in 1738; on August 14 1761, a woman named Dorothy Good was found dead in a bog meadow outside of New London, Connecticut. It is unknown if this is either Dorothy Good of Salem
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