English farmer accused of witchcraft (c. 1611 – 1692)
This article is about the English farmer accused of witchcraft. For the band of the same name, see Giles Corey (band).
Not to be confused with Giles Coren.
Giles Corey
The pressing of Giles Corey
Born
Northampton, England
Baptized
16 August 1611
Died
19 September 1692(1692-09-19) (aged 81)
Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Cause of death
Pressed to death
Occupation
Farmer
Criminal charges
Witchcraft (rehabilitated)
Murder (reduced to unreasonable force and fined)
Spouses
Margaret
(died 1664)
Mary Bright
(m. 1664; died 1684)
Martha Rich
(m. 1690)
Children
5
Giles Corey (bapt.Tooltip baptized 16 August 1611 – 19 September 1692) was an English farmer, petty thief, and tried murderer who was accused of witchcraft along with his wife Martha Corey during the Salem witch trials. After being arrested, Corey refused to enter a guilty or not guilty plea. He was subjected to pressing in an effort to force him to plead—the only example of such a sanction in American history—and died after three days of this torture. Because Corey refused to enter a plea, his estate passed on to his sons instead of being seized by the local government.
Corey is believed to have died in the field adjacent to the prison that had held him, in what later became the Howard Street Cemetery in Salem, which opened in 1801. His exact grave location in the cemetery is unmarked and unknown. There is a memorial plaque to him in the nearby Charter Street Cemetery.
GilesCorey (bapt.Tooltip baptized 16 August 1611 – 19 September 1692) was an English farmer, petty thief, and tried murderer who was accused of witchcraft...
Outside of this, he has released solo work primarily under the names GilesCorey and Black Wing, and has been involved in various short-lived bands. In...
wealthy farmer GilesCorey in the year 1690. Benoni lived with Martha and her husband Giles, so town members were aware of him. Giles also had a controversial...
were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, GilesCorey, died under torture after refusing to enter a plea, and at least five...
respected local woman Rebecca Nurse, and the Putnams' neighbor, farmer GilesCorey. The villagers, who had not heard the argument, assume that the singing...
were killed when bystanders, out of mercy, sat on them. In America, GilesCorey was pressed to death between 17 and 19 September 1692, during the Salem...
played Anthony Cooper on the ABC television series Lost, as well as GilesCorey in the premiere episode of the original WGN America series Salem. Tighe...
1830s. Historical figure Cotton Mather makes an appearance in the story. GilesCorey of the Salem Farms (1868), a play by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)...
Festival on the day before the ensemble was scheduled to perform as GilesCorey. Outside of music, Barrett runs a real estate marketing agency and Macuga...
the direct death of 20 Salem residents: 19 were hanged, while another, GilesCorey, was pressed to death. Her father, Samuel Parris, was a well-known minister...
('We are renaissance children becalmed beneath the Bridge of Sighs'). GilesCorey, an American slowcore band, likewise mentions this bridge in their song...
Somerset Maugham's novel The Razor's Edge in 1984. In 1996, he appeared as GilesCorey in The Crucible, and in 1997 he appeared alongside Robert Carlyle and...
during the Salem witch trials in 1692. Nineteen were hanged, and one, GilesCorey, was pressed to death. Altogether, about 200 people were tried. Bridget's...
Medal four times GilesCorey (1611–1692) and Martha Corey (1620–1692), husband and wife executed in the Salem witch trials Irving Corey (1892–1976), Canadian...
Sarah Proctor, William Proctor, Benjamin Proctor, Woody Proctor, GilesCorey, Martha Corey, Job Tookey, and Wilmont Redd. Five of these people were executed...
old when she was arrested for witchcraft on April 18, 1692, along with GilesCorey, Mary Warren, and Bridget Bishop. Prior to living in Salem Village (now...
Oyer and Terminer to preside over the interrogation under torture of GilesCorey, who was pressed to death for refusing to stand trial for witchcraft...
disputed historicity). Crushing By a weight, abruptly or as a slow ordeal. GilesCorey and John Darren Caymo were killed this way. Disembowelment Often employed...
can be seen in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, where the character GilesCorey was pressed to death by large stones because he remained silent, neither...
their conversion of Chinese people to the Christian Faith. April 18 – GilesCorey, Mary Warren, Abigail Hobbs and Bridget Bishop, all residents of Salem...
Mary Warren, began to have fits, saying she saw the spectre (ghost) of GilesCorey. John Proctor was dismissive of her claims (as he was of all the accusations)...
Common, June 19, 1656. Sketch by F.T. Merril, 1886 GilesCorey being crushed to death, 1692 Martha Corey was executed in 1692 The Trial of George Jacobs...
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