In the late autumn of 1649, Jennet Wilsone, a resident of the burgh of Haddington, became caught within the judicial machinery of the Scottish witch trials. On November 28, 1649, she was processed under the case reference C/JO/2696, appearing in legal records alongside four other unnamed individuals. This period was marked by an intensified scrutiny of local populations, and Jennet was one of many inhabitants of Haddington brought before the authorities during this wave of prosecutions.
Although the surviving documentation for her trial (T/JO/143) provides no narrative details regarding the specific allegations brought against her, the administrative record confirms that Jennet provided a confession on the very day her case was registered. While the content of that statement remains unrecorded, her inclusion in this collective legal action highlights the procedural nature of the trials at the time, where multiple individuals were often processed in quick succession. Following this confession on November 28, Jennet disappears from the surviving historical record, leaving only these skeletal bureaucratic traces of her encounter with the Haddington court.