| Name |
Rebecca TOWNE |
| Death |
19 Jul 1692, Salem, Essex, MA |
| Birth |
bef 21 Feb 1621 |
| Father |
William TOWNE (1603-1685) |
| Mother |
Joanna BLESSING (1602-1682) |
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| Notes for Rebecca TOWNE |
| In the spring of 1693, Sir William Phips, Governor of Massachusetts, liberated 168 people in Salem's Witch Dungeon who awaiting the hangman's noose. Several of these people died shortly thereafter from their neglect and abuse while in the dungeon. By 1710, the General Court had begun to "reverse some of the convictions, judgments and attainders and declare them null and void," and in the next year or two some compensation, if inadequate, had been paid to the families of some of the sufferers. The First Church in Salem erased from their records and blotted out the excommunication of Rebecca Nurse and Giles Cory. |
| Notes for Francis (NOURSE) (Spouse 1) |
| Land Grant in Salem, Essex, MA in 1648. |
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