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Witch trial indictment to be auctioned

1692 document may sell for over $25,000

By Colin A. Young

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 15, 2012

Margaret Scott was hanged in September 1692 after she was found guilty of witchcraft. The indictment against her will be auctioned off by a New York gallery Thursday, and is expected to sell for more than $25,000. “These things are extremely rare,’’ said Richard Trask, the archivist for Danvers, which was known as Salem Village in 1692. “In my whole professional life . . . I’ve only seen two documents like this that weren’t in institutions come to light.’’

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