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Before Salem, Pennsylvania’s first and only witch trial involved a Delco woman

Nine years before the Salem witch trials, the first and only people to stand trial for witchcraft in Pennsylvania were two women from present-day Delaware County.

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• Kenny Cooper October 29, 2021

Ridley Creek meets the Delaware River. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

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For those keeping score of Delco’s quirks at home, they can add a witch trial to the county’s growing list.

The woman who recently shed new light on this little-known gem of Delaware County history is Carla Welsh.

Exhausted and burnt out from working in the medical field, the Springfield resident has developed a new passion digging into Delco history. Equipped with a library card and a knack for public land records research, Welsh recently investigated Pennsylvania’s only witch trial involving a Delco woman — which happened nine years before the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.

A passion for researching led Carla Welsh to discover that Pennsylvania’s only witch trial happened before the infamous Salem Witch Trials, and her Facebook post on the piece of Pa. history went viral. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Inspired by a Facebook group, Delaware County PA History, Welsh was determined to find a local tale from the past people would find interesting.

Welsh searched for the word “witch” on NewspaperArchive.com and found a Chester Times article titled “Witches and Their Art in This County” from April 15, 1902 that identified the “Witch of Ridley Creek” as a Swedish settler by the name of Margaret Mattson.

Mattson lived on a farm with her husband, Neels. In 1683, she was accused of bewitching farm animals and “saying strange incantations while boiling meat in a great caulderon,” according to the now-discontinued newspaper.

Mattson wasn’t the only person faced with witchcraft allegations. Another Swedish woman, Yeshro Hendrickson, was also accused.

“I found this pretty interesting because I’ve lived in Delco my whole life and I’ve never heard of this story. So I did a post about it, and my post kind of blew up,” Welsh said.

While the newspaper article laid out many of the facts of the story, Welsh went the extra mile by locating the old Pennsylvania Provincial Council minutes and bringing the case some much-needed context. A section from the Pennsylvania Provincial Council minutes. (Google Book Search)

She even used FamilySearch.org to find the land records from old Chester County deed books and confirmed that the Mattsons lived in a wooded area by Crum Creek at the edge of the Delaware River in present-day Eddystone Township. The area no longer sports green forests — it’s now an industrial park.

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