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Mercy was one of the afflicted girls and a servant in Thomas Putnam's home. Her time at the Putnam's house she befriended Ann Putnam Jr. In the winter of 1692 Putnam started behaving strangely having seizures and suffering fits Lewis took notice. In February a local doctor determined that the girl was bewitched. She didn't officially accuse anyone until she named Elizabeth Proctor on March 26. Mercy and the other afflicted girls turned on one of their own Mary Warren on April 18th after she hinted that they were lying about their afflictions.  During Elizabeth's trail the girls accused Warren for helping Proctor. Lewis accused nine people and officially testified against 16 case during the Salem Witch Trials.

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Ann is the eldest daughter of Thomas and Ann Putnam. She was one of the first to join two girls as an “afflicted child”. Too young to testify, her father and other men of the Salem village church did so for her. She was 12 years old at the time, fourteen years later she would confess that she lied, deluded by the devil. She was responsible for the death of Rebecca Nurse, and many other accused women. Her family, being socially prominent, is believed to have had great influence on the names of the accused.

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Elizabeth was the wife of John Proctor and also accused of witchcraft. In late March Abigail Williams and Mercy Lewis claimed that Elizabeth visited them in spirit and tormented them. In April she was moved to a different jail in Boston due to overcrowding along with Rebecca Nurse and other women. Mary Warren testified against Elizabeth during the trial that their spirits beat, pinched and choked her at night. On August 5, 1692 she was found guilty and sentenced to death for witchcraft. But because she was pregnant she was not executed.

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Rev. Samuel Parris was a reverend who is widely believed to be one of the main causes of the Trials. He was father to Betty Parris and uncle Abigail Williams, who had began showing strange behavior. After being told by a physician the behavior was the work of the Devil, he became convinced that witches resided in Salem and would preach about it at his sermons. It is suggested that he may have had the power to prevent the Trials from taking place, but he instead encouraged them. He testified against nine people overall: Tituba, John Wilard, Martha Corey, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse,  Martha Carrier,  John and Elizabeth Proctor,  and Sarah Cloyce.

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Abigail Williams was one of the first accused girls in the Salem Witch Trials. During the trials she was eleven years old and lived with her uncle Rev. Samuel Parris. After supposedly being involved in practices she began to have fits and behave strangely, like saying invisible spirits were pinching her. In the witch trials she and several other girls turned on John Proctor and accused him of witchcraft. After continuing to accuse people she disappears from the hearings.

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Judge Thomas Danforth was a judge who infamously examined Elizabeth Proctor in her trial. He also oversaw the trials of many others accused of witchcraft.

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Mary was the servant of John and Elizabeth Proctor during the witch trials. She testified against others accused of witchcraft until she was then accused herself. She had the symptoms of the other girls accused. After they stopped, she began to accuse other girls of faking and lying about their fits and strange behavior, turning them against her.

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Thomas was believed to be the “Ringleader” of the Salem village witch hunts.  He was previously a sergeant in the local militia and had previously fought in King Phillip’s war. He married Ann Putnam and together they had 10 children. Their eldest daughter, Ann Putnam, Jr., started to act strange with other girls and the doctor declared them bewitched. In total, him and his daughter accused and testified against 105 people. Historians believe they accused neighbors and enemies for revenge.

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Rebecca was a victim of the Salem witchcraft delusion, and was excommunicated July 3rd by her church. Married to Francis Nurse, her and her husband were involved in town disputes and made many enemies. When meetings of witch trials began, the family absented themselves from them, out of disgust, and Rebecca was soon denounced. On July 19th, Rebecca was executed in Gallows Hill.

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John was a really successful farmer and he was also the first man to get called a witch during the Salem witch Trials. Some say the reason for John's witchcraft was jealousy during his affair with Abigail Williams. On April 11, 1692 on three charges of witchcraft against Mary Walcott, Mary Warren and Mercy Lewis and was taken in up court that same day. Abigail Williams, testified that Proctor’s spirit tortured and afflicted them and the other girls during his examination. A few months after he went to jail three of his children were accused of witchcraft. On July 23, 1692 wrote a letter to the clergy of Boston pleading with them to appoint different judges or move the trials to Boston where he felt they would get a fair trial. In his letter he was explaining how tortured the prisoners especially towards his son. But by time Boston ministers looked over his letter it was too late to save Proctor's life. He was convicted of witchcraft and hung in August 5, 1692.
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Tituba was a slave from South America and she also was the first woman to be accused for of witchcraft in 1692 by Abigail Williams and Betty Parris. Sources suggest that Tituba was named a witch because she practiced voodoo and taught some of the Salem girls fortune telling, but there was no evidence saying that she did.  In February 1692 Abigail and Betty started having strange fits and complaining about pain. After the girls accused Tituba and three other women for bewitching them, Tituba along with the women were arrested. During her confession she claimed that she had conversations with evil pigs, dogs, and rats who ordered her to do there bidding. Many sources including herself say that she was forced to confess after being beaten by Samuel Parris her master. Her case never went to trail and she stayed in jail.

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Prior to the trials, Corey was a successful farmer. When the trials began, his own wife was accused of witchcraft and he testified against her. However, when he was then accused of witchcraft himself, he remained mute and wouldn't give a plea. Because of this, he was then tortured to death and his trial never got to continue.

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John Hale was a reverend in Salem  at the time of the Trials. Unlike many other religious figures at the time, he was opposed to the Salem Witch Trials after having witnessed the execution of Margaret Jones as a child, and his opposition grew once his second wife, Sarah Noyes, was accused of witchcraft. He went on to write about the a novel titled "A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft".

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Francis was a tray-maker, who lived in Salem for forty years since 1638. Married to Rebecca Nurse, he bought a farm for her and their eight children where they moved. The Nurse family made lots of enemies, who took advantage of witchcraft frenzy, which started in 1691. On July 19th, his wife became a victim of the witch trials.

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Judge John Hathorne was the Executive Chief of the Trials. He was known as cruel and went to great lengths to get convicted witches to confess. After the Trials ended, he showed no remorse.