Issobell Young (c.1565 - February 1629) was a wife of a tenant farmer residing in the village of East Barns in the parish of Dunbar, Lothian, Scotland.
Issobell Young married George Smith, a portioner, who occupied a section of land for farming that is part of a larger estate.
The family lived in a large household that included land and livestock, employing over fifteen members of staff to assist with farming crops and animals.
"[2] Residents of East Barns believed she engaged in witchcraft for personal gain to secure higher status in the community by thrusting her fellow neighbours into misfortune, despair, and poverty.
Despite her insistence on being a good, moral Christian woman that would not hurt or ill-wish her neighbours, she was found unanimously guilty on only one charge - witchcraft.