Despite the fact her great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother was convicted centuries ago of entertaining "familiarity with Satan," Bernice Telian is continuing her fight to clear her ancestor's name.
Mary Barnes and 10 others were convicted of witchcraft and hanged in the gallows between 1647 and 1663 but now their descendants are fighting to get their names cleared, citing the fact that witchcraft isn't actually a crime, according to WilmingtonFAVS.
Telian said she discovered her grandmother's past about five years ago when she was researching her family tree and has fruitlessly petitioned the legislature to repeal her seventh grandmother's conviction.
"I'd like to see this happen in my lifetime," Telian said of her grandmother's exoneration.
Telian isn't alone in her fight. Back in 2006, Virginia resident Belinda Nash fought for the exoneration for Grace Sherwood, who was tied up and dropped in the river in 1706, USA Today reported in 2006.
Despite the fact that Connecticut began hanging witches about 40 years before the famed Salem witch trials, it's one of the last to recognize the wrongfully convicted women.
Massachusetts began clearing convicted sorceresses in 2001 when state legislature exonerated five women in November 2001, The New York Times reported at the time.
Shari Kelley Worrel's eighth grandmother was hanged in Massachusetts on suspicion of witchcraft and called one of the most ''impudent, scurrilous, wicked creatures in the world" by Puritan leader Cotton Mather, according to the Times.
"I want to make sure that people know she was not a witch," Worrell told the Times. "History will now record her as being what she really was.''
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