At the time, Sarah Good was pregnant and when she was condemned to hang, she was allowed to wait for the execution until the birth of her child. While she was jailed, her four year-old daughter Dorcas Good was also accused of witchcraft and was imprisoned. Dorcas Good, Sarah's daughter, who was only four years-old at the time, was forced to testify against her, claiming that she was a witch and she had seen her mother consorting with the devil. When allowed the chance to defend herself in front of the twelve jurors in the Salem Village meeting house, she argued her innocence, proclaiming Tituba and Osborne as the real witches. Sarah was the first of three accused women to testify but never confessed guilt.
On 1 March 1692, Good was tried for witchcraft. When Reverend Samuel Parris asked “Who torments you?” the girls eventually shouted out the names of three townspeople: Tituba, Sarah Osborne, and Sarah Good. The girls claimed they had been bitten, pinched, and otherwise abused by her. Sarah was accused of witchcraft on 25 February 1692, when Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Parris claimed to be bewitched under her hand. If the resident refused, Good would walk away muttering under her breath. She was often associated with the death of residents' livestock and would wander door to door, asking for charity. Also a poor man, the Goods lived a life of homelessness and begging, earning Sarah a reputation as an unsavory person, who was described by the people of Salem as being filthy, bad-tempered, and strangely detached from the rest of the village. After he died, Sarah married William Good. Her first marriage was to a poor indentured servant named Daniel Poole who died in debt in 1686.
However, her father's estate became entangled in litigation leaving Sarah Good in poverty. Sarah (Solart) Poole Good (1653-1692) - One of the first three women to be accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials of 1692, Sarah Good was born to a prosperous innkeeper named John Solart on 11 July 1653.
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