SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Grace Sherwood

1660 - 1740

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Grace White Sherwood (1660–1740), called the Witch of Pungo, is the last person known to have been convicted of witchcraft in Virginia. A farmer, healer, and midwife, she was accused by her neighbors of transforming herself into a cat, damaging crops, and causing the death of livestock. She was charged with witchcraft several times. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grace Sherwood has received more than 375,967 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Grace Sherwood is the 442nd most popular social activist, the 5,580th most popular biography from United States and the 59th most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 380k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Grace Sherwood ranks 442 out of 840. Before her are Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, Sugathakumari, Pjetër Arbnori, Cesar Chavez, and Romas Kalanta. After her are Lee Radziwill, Estela de Carlotto, Donald Watson, Henriette Herz, William Lloyd Garrison, and Gotō Shōjirō.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1660, Grace Sherwood ranks 21. Before her are Friedrich Hoffmann, Francesco II d'Este, Duke of Modena, Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Francesco Maria de' Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro, Jakob Prandtauer, and Peter Schenk the Elder. After her are Francis Hauksbee, Gavriil Golovkin, Jeanne Dumée, and Edward Lhuyd. Among people deceased in 1740, Grace Sherwood ranks 19. Before her are Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst, Mastani, Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Vincent Lübeck, Ephraim Chambers, and Pietro Ottoboni.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Grace Sherwood ranks 5,580 out of 20,380. Before her are Thomas H. Ince (1880), Arthur Laffer (1940), Lori Singer (1957), Charles Martin Smith (1953), Mary Blair (1911), and Alan Lomax (1915). After her are Dennis Oppenheim (1938), Eric Adams (1960), Paul Butterfield (1942), William H. Prescott (1796), David Proval (1942), and Victor Sen Yung (1914).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Grace Sherwood ranks 59. Before her are Afeni Shakur (1947), Leonard Peltier (1944), Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826), Lester R. Brown (1934), Anna Louise Strong (1885), and Cesar Chavez (1927). After her are Lee Radziwill (1933), William Lloyd Garrison (1805), Lucy Stone (1818), Medgar Evers (1925), Phyllis Schlafly (1924), and Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954).

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