[email protected] wrote: > Subject: > > SALEM-WITCH-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 122 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [SALEM-WITCH-L] Re: Hannah and Edw ["Dora Smith" <[email protected]] > #2 [SALEM-WITCH-L] Re: Hannah and Edw ["Dora Smith" <[email protected]] > #3 Re: [SALEM-WITCH-L]NURSE & HOULTON ["Steven P. Fulk" <[email protected]] > #4 Re: [SALEM-WITCH-L] Re: Hannah and [[email protected]] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from SALEM-WITCH-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [SALEM-WITCH-L] Re: Hannah and Edward > Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 20:49:26 EDT > From: "Dora Smith" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > I'd be interested in any evidence about earlier charges of witchcraft > against Rebecca Nurse, too. I do believe, though, that there were charges > once made against her mother. I think I may have posted something about it > to this list at some point during the earlier discussion. I don't believe I > tracked down the specifics, just took it for more of the process of how > charges like this came to be made. > > Also, as I recall, Rebecca Nurse was a Towne from Topsfield (I think I have > the name of the place right) and/or her father sided with the Putnams on > something, but were the Putnam and Towne families closely allied enough for > long enough for Rebecca to have been targeted for such charges before? > Certainly she does not seem to have been a target for such charges > previously. > > One thing that bears on this is my previous notion that Rebecca Nurse had > some role among her community, kin or neighbors as a nurse, healer, or > midwife. It could have been an informal role. After re-reading everything I > could get my hands on about her I decided I had her mixed up with one or two > other people who were charged because they were healers and midwives. But > that is the other likely reason why anyone might have made such an > accusation against her before. > > I also recall something about a neighbor's pig getting into her garden. She > yelled vigorously at the neighbors. They testified against her at the trial. > Not sure if she bewitched the pig, or the neighbors. When was that, and did > anything come of it before the trial? > > Yours, > Dora > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [SALEM-WITCH-L] Re: Hannah and Edward > Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 20:53:07 EDT > From: "Dora Smith" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > My actual question about the proportion of Putnam and Porter signatures on > that petition is would the Putnams and Porters have been this involved in a > different accusation against Rebecca Nurse. Ie, were they close enough to > her or her family in some way that they would have been that involved in a > charge that was before 1692, or would the length and nature of her father's > whichever he did to alienate the people who became the pro-Parris faction > have been likely to bring the entire Putnam clan to Rebecca's rescue like > this on an earlier charge? > > Yours, > Dora > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: [SALEM-WITCH-L]NURSE & HOULTON > Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 21:25:45 -0400 > From: "Steven P. Fulk" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > I believe it was Benjamin HOULTON, son of Joseph HOULTON & Sarah INGERSOLL > (niece of the innkeeper, Nathaniel INGERSOLL), who was involved in the pig > incident. Wasn't this right, listers? And he died rather suddenly 17 Sep > 1689 (notice this is just a couple of years before the witchcraft > accusations...) In fact his son, my ancestor, Benjamin HOULTON (jr.) was > born postumously to the widow Sarah. Seems to me that he was one of the > ghostly accusers in one of the trial documents .. the girls said that his > ghost came to them and accused (Rebecca NURSE?) of witchcraft in his death. > Please correct me if I've gotten this confused with someone else! > > ---Speaking of Benjamin & Sarah HOULTON, oes anyone happen to have dates & > ancestors for Sarah, the widow of Benjamin HOULTON (sr.)?? I know she > eventually (1706) married Benjamin PUTNAM, s/o Nathaniel PUTNAM & Elizabeth > HUTCHINSON, but I don't have her birth, death, or parents. > > Thanks :) > > Dori > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dora Smith <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, September 02, 1999 8:52 PM > Subject: [SALEM-WITCH-L] Re: Hannah and Edward > > >I'd be interested in any evidence about earlier charges of witchcraft > >against Rebecca Nurse, too. I do believe, though, that there were charges > >once made against her mother. I think I may have posted something about it > >to this list at some point during the earlier discussion. I don't believe I > >tracked down the specifics, just took it for more of the process of how > >charges like this came to be made. > > > >Also, as I recall, Rebecca Nurse was a Towne from Topsfield (I think I have > >the name of the place right) and/or her father sided with the Putnams on > >something, but were the Putnam and Towne families closely allied enough for > >long enough for Rebecca to have been targeted for such charges before? > >Certainly she does not seem to have been a target for such charges > >previously. > > > >One thing that bears on this is my previous notion that Rebecca Nurse had > >some role among her community, kin or neighbors as a nurse, healer, or > >midwife. It could have been an informal role. After re-reading everything I > >could get my hands on about her I decided I had her mixed up with one or > two > >other people who were charged because they were healers and midwives. But > >that is the other likely reason why anyone might have made such an > >accusation against her before. > > > >I also recall something about a neighbor's pig getting into her garden. She > >yelled vigorously at the neighbors. They testified against her at the > trial. > >Not sure if she bewitched the pig, or the neighbors. When was that, and did > >anything come of it before the trial? > > > >Yours, > >Dora > > > >______________________________________________________ > >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: [SALEM-WITCH-L] Re: Hannah and Edward > Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 00:56:29 EDT > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > As I understand the charges against Rebecca NURSE, they resulted froma land > squabble a few years prior to the hysteria of 1692 between some of the > PUTNAMs and the TOWNE/NURSE family. There were some in the community who > couldn't let the old settlement stand. I am sure this is just one of the > elements that went into the charges against Rebecca NURSE. > > Katrina unsubscribe