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Elizabeth Richardson | Digital Collage | 2025-2026 In 1658, four years after Mary Lee was murdered upon the ship Charity of London , a woman named Elizabeth Richardson set sail on the ship Sarah Artch , also bound for the colony of Maryland. Like Mary Lee, Elizabeth never arrived in Maryland. She, too, was accused of witchcraft and killed aboard the ship. Elizabeth's name appears in the historic record because John Washington, great-grandfather of president George Washington,

Mary Lee | Digital Collage | 2025-2026 In 1654 a woman named Mary Lee stepped aboard the ship Charity of London , headed to St. Mary's county in the colony of Maryland. She never arrived. The journey from England to the Maryland colony was marked by dangerously poor weather and the Charity had taken on damage. It must have been horrifying for passengers and crew aboard that ship, whose lives were at the mercy of the wind and waves. It is unclear how the rumors started. There

Memory of the Accused | Digital Collage | 2025-2026 In 1635, the Maryland Assembly adopted England’s Witchcraft Act, making its practice punishable by death. In 2025, Maryland Delegate Heather Bagnall (D. Anne Arundel) introduced HJ002: Criminal Law -Witchcraft - Exoneration , which seeks to exonerate several of the colonial-era accused. ​ Despite pushback, Delegate Bagnall's legislation moves on. There is currently no marker or monument to all the women accused of witchcraf