Alice Young

Character

Field	Value
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name	Alice Young
aliases	Alse Young
gender	Female
race	Human (ghost)
parents	Thomas and Alice Beamon
dob	15 Mar 1625 (O.S.)
dod	26 May 1647
pob	Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Kingdom of England
occupation	Midwife, apothecary
affiliations
siblings
spouse	John Young
children	Alice Young Beamon
class	Ghost
alignment

Alice Young was a puritan woman of the early Massachusetts Bay Colony, notable for being the first woman to be executed for witchcraft in the American colonies. Her trial was presided over by then governor John Winthrop, who delivered the verdict, and the case against her presented by Matthew Hopkins, English Witchfinder General. She was found guilty, and was burned at the stake atop Beacon Hill. Centuries later, the earth upon which she was executed was moved, as the hill itself was repurposed into landfill to expand the Back Bay. Atop the earth once constituting her grave was built the Ames-Webster Mansion, which she haunts to this day.