Editing Giles Corey (section)

== Aftermath ==
Corey's wife Martha was [[Hanging|hanged]] three days later on 22 September 1692. She had a son from a previous marriage named Thomas; he showed up as a petitioner for loss and damages resulting from his mother being executed illegally during the witch trials. He was awarded £50<!-- ({{Inflation|index=UK|value=50|start_year=1723|r=}})--> on 29 June 1723.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hoyt|first=Albert Harrison|title=The New-England Historical and Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LxKCmTq3cZwC&pg=PA337|volume=XXVI|year=1872|publisher=New-England Historic, Genealogical Society|page=337}}</ref>

The gruesome and public nature of Corey's death may have caused residents of Salem to rethink their support for the witch trials.<ref name="curse2"/> Giles was absolved of the crime in 1712. Martha was not.<ref name="Magotra">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/salemwitchcrafti00mago/#page/n15 |title=Salem witchcraft in American drama |last=Magotra |first=Corrinne |publisher=Kansas State University |year=1987 |pages=13–14}}</ref>

Although Corey's refusal to plead meant that his estate was protected from seizure, it was reported that Sheriff Corwin nevertheless [[extortion|extorted]] his family by falsely claiming that he could still confiscate the property. In 1710, Corey's daughter Elizabeth and her husband John Moulton<ref name="coryfamsoc.com"/> filed a lawsuit seeking damages from Corwin's estate. Her statement to the court read, "After our father's death, the sheriff threatened to seize our father's estate, and for fear, that we complied with him and paid him eleven pounds six shillings in money."<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/essexinstitutehiv1esse |title=Essex Institute Historical Collections |publisher=Essex Institute |year=1859 |location=Salem, Massachusetts |pages=[https://archive.org/details/essexinstitutehiv1esse/page/56 56]–57}}</ref>