Rebecca Nurse

Rebecca (Towne) Nurse (bp. February 21, 1621 - July 19, 1692) was baptized at Yarmouth, England, the daughter of William Towne and Joanna Blessing. She came to Salem Village, Massachusetts with her family in 1640. In about 1645 she married Francis Nurse (1618 - 1695), who was born in England. Their children were Rebecca, Sarah, John, Samuel, Mary Elizabeth, Francis, and Benjamin. Francis was a tray maker who probably also made other wooden household items. He was Salem's constable in 1672.

References

• Louis DeForest, Our Colonial And Continental Ancestors; The Ancestry of Mr. And Mrs. Louis William Dommerich, (1930), p. 187.
• Walter G. Davis, Ancestry of Sarah Johnson (1960), p. 14. The date was August 24, 1644, according to About Towne, vol. 10 (Mar. 1990), p. 6.
• Davis, Ancestry of Sarah Johnson, p. 17.
• Charles S. Tapley, Rebecca Nurse: Saint but Witch Victim (1930), p. 47.
• Davis, Ancestry of Sarah Johnson, p. 18.
• Tapley, Rebecca Nurse: Saint but Witch Victim, p. 65.
• Davis, Ancestry of Sarah Johnson, p. 19.
• Tapley, Rebecca Nurse: Saint but Witch Victim, p. 68.
• See: Enders A. Robinson, Salem Witchcraft and Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables (1992), for a complete list of those accused.
• Tapley, Rebecca Nurse: Saint but Witch Victim, p. 83.
• DeForest, Dommerich, p. 191.
• Edward James, ed., Notable American Women 1607-1950 (1971), p. 638.