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| birth_date      = August 1611

| birth_date      =August or September 11, 1611

| birth_place      = [[Northampton]], England

| birth_place      = [[Northampton]], England

| death_date      = September 19, 1692 (aged 81)

| death_date      = September 19, 1692 (aged 81)

| death_place      = [[Salem, Massachusetts|Salem]], [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]]

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| occupation      = Farmer

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| criminal_charge  = [[Witchcraft]] (rehabilitated)

| criminal_charge  =[[Witchcraft]] (rehabilitated)

| criminal_penalty = None (died unconvicted)

| criminal_penalty = None (died unconvicted)

| criminal_status  = Innocent (case not tried)

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Giles Corey (c. August 1611 – September 19, 1692) was an English-born American farmer who was accused of witchcraft along with his wife Martha Corey during the [[Salem Witch Trials]]. After being arrested, Corey refused to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty. He was subjected to pressing in an effort to force him to plead—the only example of such a sanction in American history—and died after three days of this torture.

Giles Corey (c. August 1611 – September 19, 1692) was an English-born American farmer who was accused of witchcraft along with his wife Martha Corey during the [[Salem Witch Trials]]. After being arrested, Corey refused to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty.

Corey is believed to have died in the field adjacent to the prison that had held him, in what later became the Howard Street Cemetery in Salem, which opened in 1801. His exact grave location in the cemetery is unmarked and unknown. There is a memorial plaque to him in the nearby Charter Street Cemetery.

== The curse of Giles Corey ==

Before the Great Salem fire of 1914, the apparition of Giles Corey was reportedly seen just before the fire started. Every sheriff of Salem has either died or been forced into retirement due to the alleged curse.

 

His last words were believed to be “more weight please”, but it was most likely “I curse you and I curse Salem!”.