William Stoughton

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"Why endanger Templar blood when we have so many here that would see killing him as God's work?"

―William Stoughton defending his point to Samuel Parris, 1692.

William Stoughton

William Stoughton (1631 – 7 July 1701) was a colonial magistrate and administrator in Massachusetts Bay. A member of the Templar Order, he was in charge of the Salem witch trials. By 1692, he worked closely with Samuel Parris as an executioner.

Having discovered that the Assassins Tom Stoddard and Jennifer Querry had come to Salem to hunt for a precursor artifact, Stoughton encouraged the Salem townsfolk to hunt and kill the Assassins, an idea that Parris objected.

They eventually caught up to the Assassins in a swamp and Stoughton let the injured Querry go so that they could follow her to Stoddard and Dorothy's location. Stoddard, thinking that Jennifer was a traitor, attacked her. Stoughton took this opportunity to assault Stoddard and tied the trio up.

Trivia

• In the third and fourth issues of Assassin's Creed: Assassins comics, there is an erroneous identity switch, with Stoughton being called Master Parris and Parris being called Master Stoughton.