Rebecca Nurse Homestead in Danvers, Massachusetts

My companion and I were visiting the Rebecca Nurse Homestead in Danvers, Massachusetts. Rebecca Nurse was a 71-year-old grand-mother hanged during the infamous Salem witch hunt of 1692-93.

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Rebecca Towne was born in Yarmouth, England, in 1621. Her family immigrated to the Colony of Massachusetts Bay c. 1638-40. She married Francis Nurse c. 1644. The couple would have eight children.

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In 1678, Francis Nurse bought 300 acres in Salem Village from Reverend Samuel Allen, of the First Church of Salem, for 400 pounds.

According to legend, the town was named after Sir Danvers Osborn, a depressive royal governor of New York, who hanged himself in 1753.

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Visitors today may tour the Nurse family’s salt-box home, restored with period artifacts, including furniture, a spinning wheel, and a large hearth.

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You may pay respects at the Nurse family cemetery on the property. While the location of Rebecca Nurse’s grave is unknown, a large monument commemorates her in the center of the cemetery.

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The cemetery also hosts the grave of George Jacobs, who was hanged for witchcraft on August 19, 1692.

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