RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE VICTIMS OF THE WITCH TRIALS OF COLONIAL CONNECTICUT.

Resolved by this Assembly:

That the General Assembly recognizes that residents of colonial Connecticut were falsely accused of practicing witchcraft in the seventeenth century and that such persons were tried, convicted and sometimes sentenced to death for such offense, and declares that, although these accusations, prosecutions, trials and executions cannot be undone or changed, no disgrace or cause for distress should attach to the heirs of those persons.

Statement of Purpose:

To recognize that the witch trials of the seventeenth century resulted in victims.