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Rebecca Nurse (February 13, 1621 – July 19, 1692) was a woman who was accused of witchcraft and executed by hanging in New England during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. She was fully exonerated fewer than twenty years later.
Nov 5, 2012 · Rebecca Nurse was a 71-year-old grandmother and wife of a local artisan when she was accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. Nurse was also the sister of accused witches, Mary Easty and Sarah Cloyce, and the daughter of suspected witch Joanna Blessing Towne.
Jul 21, 2019 · Rebecca Nurse (February 21, 1621–July 19, 1692) was a victim of the notorious Salem witch trials, hanged as a witch at 71 years of age.
Rebecca Nurse was accused of practicing witchcraft, tried, and hanged in 1692. The house remained in the Nurse family until 1784, when it was sold to Phineas Putnam. Currently, the homestead belongs to the Danvers Alarm List Company, and functions as a museum.
Oct 7, 2019 · Rebecca Towne Nurse was the 2nd victim accused and executed for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. She was the wife of Francis Nurse and had several children and grandchildren. She was a well-respected citizen in Salem and was often seen as pious and above reproach.
Jun 28, 2021 · The first full biography of Rebecca Nurse, one of the most well-known victims of the 1692 Salem Village Witch-Hunt, published in 2021 – the 400th anniversary of her birth. Available now!
Rebecca Towne Nurse of Salem Village, Massachusetts, was probably the most famous of the “witches” of the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria. Rebecca was one of three sisters accused and imprisoned for witchcraft.
Jun 7, 2021 · At 71 years old, Rebecca Nurse became the oldest woman killed at the Salem witch trials of 1692 and 1693.
In A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse, the first full account of Nurse’s life, Daniel A. Gagnon vividly recreates seventeenth-century Salem, and in the process challenges previous interpretations of Nurse’s life and the 1692 witch hunt in general.
Dec 15, 2021 · “Dan has written a highly readable and first scholarly biography of Rebecca Nurse . . . Meticulously researched, Gagnon’s account traces Nurse and her family through their New World settlement; the dramatic events of her accusation, trial, and final execution; and her legacy.
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