Elliot Woodward, Kimball, Henrietta D. Witchcraft Illustrated. Geo A. Kimball, Mays, Dorothy A. Goss, K. Greenwood Press , My great grandma was Edith May Russell.
Doing our family tree I found out Rebecca was my 8th great grandmother. How very terrified she and her sisters must of been. Shes my 10 great grandmother too! She knows its just for laughs. I am also a descendant.
I have a book written in by Charles Sutherland Tapley all about the family and the trial. And also it gives a list of the descendants from each child. Rebecca Preston then had Charles A Towns of Park Ridge , IL, who is collecting records of the descendants of William and Joanna Blessing Towne, parents of Rebecca Nurse, now has a record of 15, descendants of Rebecca Nurse and believes that these are at least 30, descendants of this worthy woman.
This was taken from the book. This was very helpful, thank you! I once lived in Danvers Mass and of all places on Putnam Street. Two years ago I took my family to see the Nurse home on Pine street. This place has a very earthy smell too it and seemed to always have a hazy cloud hovering above it.
The trees are majestic and you could almost go back in time just stand under one. As a direct descendant of Rebecca Nurse, I appreciate the depiction of her as dignified and the court proceedings as unconscionable. I am so appreciative of thorough research of these despicable acts and am beginning to see parallels in our own society.
A few years ago I learned that I was descended from the Putnam family. Ann Putnam Jr. So over years and half a country away, these two families have shared an almost 20 year friendship that turned into a loving and respectful relationship. Martha C. This is the most delightful news to me, how God can bring unity to families over the generations. I pray your relationship with your boyfriend is flourishing. My husband is a descendant of Rebecca Nourse. Rebecca Nurse was my 8th great grandmother.
I descend from their son Samuel. They are my 5th great grandparents. She was my 9th great grandmother, through Bathsheba Nurse Newton, daughter of Joseph Nurse who fought in the Revolution. Nicholas Noyes the minister who accompanied the accused persons to their deaths, was a distant uncle, as I am descended from his sister Hannah Noyes.
Wait Winthrop, one of the Judges was a distant cousin. Rebecca Towne Nurse is my 8th great-grandmother through her son Benjamin. This is very, very interesting! He also rented a large acre farm which he gradually bought over his lifetime. The family was regular church members and were held in high esteem by the community. However, they had, unfortunately, been involved in a number of land disputes with the powerful Putnam family.
This took the village by surprise as Rebecca, who was 71 years old at the time, had acquired a reputation for exemplary piety in the community.
Although a large number of friends, neighbors, and family members wrote petitions testifying to her innocence, she was tried for acts of witchcraft in June In her trial, she, like others accused of witchcraft, represented herself since she was not allowed to have a lawyer represent her. Though a number of community members testified on her behalf, the young Ann Putnam, Jr.
Governor Phips pardoned her but was later persuaded to reverse his decision by several men from Salem. Rebecca married Francis Nurse, who also came from Yarmouth, around They raised four sons and four daughters on a farm in Salem Village, now Danvers, Massachusetts, 10 miles inland from the bustling port community of Salem Town, now Salem.
All but one of their children were married by Nurse, a member of Salem Church, was known for her piety but also for occasionally losing her temper. She and the Putnam family had fought in court several times over land. During the witch trials, many of the accused had been enemies of the Putnams, and Putnam family members and in-laws were the accusers in many cases.
Public accusations of witchcraft in Salem Village began on Feb. The first accusations were leveled against three women who weren't considered respectable: Tituba , an enslaved Native American; Sarah Good , a homeless mother; and Sarah Osborne, who had a somewhat scandalous history.
Both women were church members and respected, prominent members of the community. Nurse was arrested and examined the next day. Nurse was then indicted for witchcraft. She was accused and arrested on April 8. On April 21, another sister, Mary Easty or Eastey , was arrested after defending their innocence. Another deposition detailed accusations of afflictions on March 21 and 23 caused by Nurse's specter.
On June 1, townsperson Mary Warren testified that George Burroughs , Nurse, Elizabeth Proctor , and several others said they were going to a feast and that when she refused to eat bread and wine with them, they "dreadfully afflicted her" and that Nurse "appeared in the room" during the taking of the deposition.
A "preternathurall Excresence of flesh" was reported on the first three. Nine women signed the document attesting to the exam.
A second exam later that day stated that several of the observed physical abnormalities had changed; they attested that on Nurse, the "Excresence Again, nine women signed the document. The next day, a grand jury indicted Nurse and John Willard for witchcraft. A petition from 39 neighbors was presented on Nurse's behalf, and several neighbors and relatives testified for her. Witnesses testified for and against Nurse on June 29 and The accusers and spectators protested loudly when the verdict was announced.
The court asked the jury to reconsider the verdict; they found her guilty after reviewing the evidence and discovering that she had failed to answer one question put to her perhaps because she was nearly deaf. She was condemned to hang.
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