WOMEN IN HISTORY - SALEM WITCH TRIALS: REBECCA NURSE

Woman accused and convicted of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692

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DATE OF BIRTH

February 13, 1621

PLACE OF BIRTH

Great Yarmouth, England

DATE OF DEATH

July 19, 1692

PLACE OF DEATH

Salem, Massachusetts

HIGHLIGHTS

Rebecca Nurse is one of the most unlikely persons to be accused as a witch in the Salem Witch Trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts, 1692. She was a devout Puritan, homemaker, mother of eight children, and a highly respected member of the community. Reasons are many for the rise of witchcraft accusations during that time and nineteen innocent victims fell to the hysteria. Rebecca shares what life was like in Salem, as a Puritan, as a wife, as a New World settler and how politics, religion, economics and human nature all converged to create the “perfect storm” for this unfortunate and tragic blot in our nation’s history.