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Rebecca Nurse is my grandmotherx9

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Re: Rebecca Nurse is my grandmotherx9

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 6:25AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Towne, Hayward, Nourse (Nurse), Easty, Cloyce
One of my 12th g-grandmothers was Susanna Hayward, nee Towne.
She was born in Norfolk England and immigrated with her parents and
siblings to Massachusetts. The family settled in the area around
Salem MA. Susanna died in 1678 at the age of 53.

Three of her sisters were tried during the famous Salem Witch trials
in 1692. Rebecca Nurse / Nourse and Mary Easty, my 12th great-grand
aunts were both found guilty and were both hanged. Their sister Sarah
Cloyce was accused and tried but not executed.

Rebecca was one of the oldest women tried and hung, at age 71. There
is a monument erected at her gravesite on the Nurse Homestead.

Given that all three of Susanna's sisters were tried of witchcraft, I am sure that had she been alive she would also have been tried and convicted.
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Bonnie Haley 8 Oct 2006 9:28PM GMT 
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