By Beth M Caruso The first person to be convicted for witchcraft crimes and hanged for it in colonial America was Alice ‘Alse’ Young, a resident of Windsor, Connecticut. Some of her powerful contemporaries made sure she was killed at the gallows in Hartford, Connecticut, on May 26, 1647, forty–five years before the Salem trials began. … Continue reading Alice ‘Alse’ Young – First Witch Hanging Victim in Colonial America