Anyone good at history, please help me. Google on the name "Mary Walcott"?

In the Salem colony the role of teenage girls was strictly regimented. However, the girls making the accusations received a great deal of attention and good treatment. Think of some of the female teenage rock and movie stars and how they are treated.

Salem at the time was separated into two groups. Most of the "witches" came from the group not in power. It wasn't until the wife of the governor was targeted that the hysteria was curtailed.

"Karlsen suggests that many of these girls, being either orphaned or partially orphaned, feared for their social and economic security. Walcott allied herself with the interests of the influential Putnam family in Salem Village. An alliance with such a powerful dynasty ensured economic viability for the uncertain future she faced. Mary Walcott is an example of how teenage anxiety about the future could manifest itself in the form of socially destructive behavior."

http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/salem/people/mwalcot...

Walcott wasn't as active as some of the other girls. However she was an effective witness and accuser. Karlsen's point is well made. Walcott no doubt made a rational decision to participate

She was one of the witnesses at the Salem Witch Trials of Salem, Massachusetts in the years 1692 and 1693 whose evidence sent many individuals to the gallows. She was the daughter of Captain Jonathan Walcott (1639-1699), and his wife Mary Sibley (1644-1683), both of Salem, and appears to have been about seventeen years old when the allegations started in 1692. Her aunt, Mary (Woodrow) Sibley the wife of Samuel Sibley (1657-1708), was the person who first showed Tituba and her husband John Indian how to bake a witch cake to feed to a dog in order that she and her friends might ascertain exactly who it was that was afflicting them. March 11, 1692 – "Mary, the wife of Samuel Sibley, having been suspended from communion with the church there, for the advices she gave John to make the above experiment, is restored on confession that her purpose was innocent." At the trials, she was said to be calm, but subsequently critics have accused her of everything from compromise to actually being a witch who foiled her potential adversaries by distracting their attention away from herself onto innocent persons. She later married a one Isaac Farrar son of John Farrar of Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts on April 29, 1696, had several children, and eventually moved to and settled in the town of Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. There are no records of their death, however, and no gravestone to mark their grave.