John Hale was born in June of 1636, in Charleston, Massachusetts. John attended Harvard College in Boston and later graduated in 1657. John was ordained as the minister of the Church of Christ in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1667.
Throughout his life, John studied witchcraft in the hopes of destroying it some day. In 1692 he began prosecuting people for witchcraft, but later in that same year, became an advocate against the trials – seeing that his wife, Sarah Noyes Hale was accused of being a witch. Sarah was later acquitted during the downfall of the trials.
After the death of his wife in 1697, John wrote A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft, which criticized the Salem witch trials of 1692.
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