Samuel (Nourse) Nurse

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• Reference Number: NURSE FAM

Samuel — Hannah. Hannah was born 1716; died 1806. [Group Sheet]

1. Caleb (Nourse) Nurse
2. Solomon (Nourse) Nurse
3. Jeshua (Nourse) Nurse was born 1744; died 10 Aug 1820.

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• Reference Number: NURSE FAM

Notes:

Of Salem and Framingham.
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Reference:
"A Genealogy of the Nurse Family for Five Generations", 1892, John D. Ames, p
100.

According to the (NOURSE) NURSE family records, there are three John (NOURSE)
NURSE's. (1) John d.1719 m.1
Nov 1672, Elizabeth SMITH b.5 Jun 1662 d.22 Oct 1683. dau of John SMITH. (2.)
John Jr. d.1719 m.17 Aug 1677
Elizabeth VERY d.1677 dau of Samuel & Alice VERY. (3) John Jr. b.12 Oct 1673
m.1st Elizabeth GALE 01 Jun 1678
dau of John and Elizabeth SPRING. 2nd Elizabeth ?.

John (NOURSE) NURSE (3) is supposedly son of John and Elizabeth (NOURSE) NURSE
of SALEM, MA and John (NOURSE)
NURSE (1) and (2) are supposedly sons of Francis (NOURSE) NURSE and Rebecca
TOWNIE of Salem.

There is also a fourth John (NOURSE) NURSE b. 27 Aug 1701 d. 2 Aug 1785 m.
Bathsheba RUGG b.26 Oct 1703 d.24
Jul 1792 of FARMINGHAM, MA.

Children of Francis & Rebecca (NOURSE) NURSE, are listed as John b. 1719, John
Jr. b.1719, Rebecca m. 15
April 1669 to Tleomas Preson, Samuel m.15 Apr 1669 to Elizabeth SMITH., Mary
m.25 Oct 1678 to John Farbell
d.1715; Francis b. 3 Feb 1661 d. 5 fEB 1716 m.Sarah; Sarah m. Jul 1700,
Michael BOWDEN; Benjamin m. 1st
Fhoneagnil JAMESON 16 Feb 1718 & 2nd Elizabeth MORSE, a widow.

I am not sure how these John's are really related but I believe Francis &
Rebecca (NOURSE) NURSE are the
parents of John (NOURSE) NURSE m. 1672 to Elizabeth SMITH who in turn are
parents to John Jr. (NOURSE) NURSE
m. to Elizabeth Gale SPRING who in turn are parents to John (NOURSE) NURSE born
27 Aug 1701.

The (NOURSE) NURSE records also show (3) John Jr. m. to another Elizabeth.

John married Elizabeth Gale Spring 21 Feb 1700. Elizabeth was born 1 Jan 1678. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: NURSE FAM

Notes:

Of Marlborough.
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Reference:
"A Genealogy of the Nurse Family for Five Generations", 1892, John D. Ames, p
100.

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• AFN: 2P4J-NK

Notes:

Farmer, Salem Village.

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Reference:
"A Genealogy of the Nurse Family for Five Generations", 1892, John D. Ames, p
100.

John married Elizabeth Smith 1 Nov 1672. Elizabeth (daughter of John Smith) was born 5 Jun 1645; died 12 Oct 1673. [Group Sheet]

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• AFN: BVQ7-B3

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Reference:
"A Genealogy of the Nurse Family for Five Generations", 1892, John D. Ames, p
100.

Notes:

Francis Nurse was an early settler, and had lived for some forty years, "near
Skerry's," on the North River, between the main part of the settlement in the
town of Salem and the ferry to Beverly. He is described as a "tray-maker."
The making of these articles and similar objects of domestic use was an
important employment in a new country remote from foreign supply. He appears
to have been a very respectable person, of great stability and energy of
character; whose judgment was much relied on by his neighbors. No one is
mentioned more frequently as umpire to settle disputes, or arbitrator to adjust
conflicting claims. He was often on committees to determine boundaries or
estimate valuations, or on local juries to lay out highways and assess damages.

On 29 April, 1678 Francis Nurse became at one stroke a major Salem Village
landowner by purchasing, on credit, a rich 300-acre farm located near Salem.
Francis Nurse paid off his mortgage right on schedule. His economic rise after
1678 is documented in the Village tax lists; his 1690 tax went up 39 percent
from that of 1681, and in 1695 it rose by another 16 percent.

The house on this land had an interesting history. Before his purchase the
"mansion" or "cottage" was the scene of social intercourse among the choicest
spirits of the earliest age of New England. Here the first owner Allen Bishop
and, after him, Chickering, entertained their friends. Here the fine family of
Richard Ingersoll was brought up. Here Governor Endicott projected plans for
opening the country, and the road that passes its entrance gate was laid out by
him. To this same house young John Endicott brought his youthful Boston bride.
Here she came again, fifteen years afterwards, as the bride of the learned and
distinguished James Allen, to show him the farm which, received as a "marriage
gift" from her former husband, she had brought as a "marriage gift" to him.
Here the same Allen, in less than six years afterwards, brought still another
bride. In all these various and some of them rather rapid changes, it was, no
doubt, often the resort of distinguished guests and the place of meeting of
many pleasant companies. During the protracted years of litigation for its
possession, frequent consultations were held within it; and in 1692, for twelve
years, it had been the home of a happy harmonious and prosperous family,
exemplifying the industry, energy and enterprise of a New England household.

Francis Nurse had been involved during the 1670's in a protracted timber dispute
with Nathanial Putnam over some mutually bounded acreage. He was elected to a
Village Committee which took power at the end of 1691. These were factors that
contributed to Ann Putnam's accusation of Francis' wife of witchcraft.
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Reference:
"Salem Possessed, The Social Origins of Witchcraft", 1974, Paul Boyer & Stephen
Nissenbaum, p 149, 200.
"A Genealogy of the Nurse Family for Five Generations", 1892, John D. Ames, p
96-100.

Francis married Rebecca Town 24 Aug 1644, , Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. Rebecca (daughter of William Towne and Joanna (Jone) Blessing) was born 21 Feb 1621, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England; was christened 21 Feb 1621, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England; died 19 Jul 1692, Salem Village, Essex County, Massachusetts; was buried Abt 19 Jul 1692, Salem Village, Essex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Rebecca was in the eyes of those who knew her well the very essence of what a Puritan mother should be. Deeply pious, she was so steeped in Scripture that the country roughness of her speech - she had a Chaucerian fondness for triple negatives - was often shot through with a poetical Scriptural quality. It was not merely a matter of lugging in texts, but a deep, instinctive poetry of
feeling that overflowed into her simple, pregnant speech. When Rebecca spoke it was as if one of the grand women of the Old Testament were speaking Naomi or Ruth amid alien corn (Rebecca herself remembered her birthplace, Yarmouth, England), or the beloved Rachel, or indeed her own namesake.

In her home life she had resembled the wise woman of Proverbs, and her children she had reared with loving devotion to both their spiritual and temporal welfare. Now in her old age they rose up and called her blessed, not only her four sons and four daughters, but what perhaps the super most tribute, her three sons-in-law and four daughters-in-law.

This is not to say that she was altogether a saint. Even the Bible women, as anyone can discover by examining Scripture closely, had their off days. The years had made Rebecca hard of hearing and infirm; when she was ill and did not clearly understand what was said to her, she could sometimes lose her temper.

Rebecca was one of 19 hanged as witches in the infamous Salem Witch Trials. Her trial is most often cited for the injustice of this trying period. Recent evidence indicates the accusers were suffering from ergot poisoning.

The night of the hanging, her family secretly removed her body from a mass grave to their family farm.
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Reference:
"The Devil in Massachusetts", 1989, Marion L. Starkey, p 78-84, 159-165, 175-176, 189.
"Salem Possessed, The Social Origins of Witchcraft", 1974, Paul Boyer & Stephen Nissenbaum.

Notes:

Of Chester and Sudbury, Massachusetts.
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Reference:
"A Genealogy of the Nurse Family for Five Generations", 1892, John D. Ames, p
100.