Francis NURSE
1618 - 1695 (77 years)
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Name Francis NURSE Born 18 Jan 1618 Yarmouth, Norfolk, England 
Gender Male Occupation tray maker in England Reference Number ^ _UID BECFD1CA84397241855EFDDCC9E55EAB0B3F Died 22 Nov 1695 Salem Village, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Person ID I4835 SteveParker Last Modified 18 Mar 2017
Family Rebecca TOWNE, b. 21 Feb 1621, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England , d. 19 Jul 1692, Salem Village, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 71 years) Married 24 Aug 1644 Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England _UID 5A3B1C6829A31A40B7EA9C258BABB0FD841F Children 1. John NURSE, b. 1645, Salem Village, Essex, Massachusetts, United States , d. 1 Dec 1719, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 74 years)2. Rebecca NURSE, b. 1647/1648, Salem Village, Essex, Massachusetts, United States , d. 1719, Salem Village, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 71 years)3. Samuel NURSE, b. 3 Feb 1649, Salem Village, Essex, Massachusetts, United States , d. 15 Jul 1715, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 66 years)4. Sarah NURSE, b. 1652, Salem Village, Essex, Massachusetts, United States , d. 15 Dec 1699, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 47 years)5. Mary NURSE, b. 1659, Salem Village, Essex, Massachusetts, United States , d. 28 Jun 1749, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 90 years)6. Francis NURSE, b. 3 Mar 1661, Salem Village, Essex, Massachusetts, United States , d. 5 Feb 1715/1716, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 54 years)7. Elizabeth NURSE, b. 9 Jan 1665, Salem Village, Essex, Massachusetts, United States , d. 1734/1735 (Age 69 years)8. Benjamin NURSE, b. 26 Jan 1666, Salem Village, Essex, Massachusetts, United States , d. 1748, Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 81 years)9. girl NURSE, b. Abt 1667, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States 10. girl NURSE, b. Abt 1673 Last Modified 29 Mar 2021 Family ID F1739 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Came to New England before 1638. Lived some 40 years "near Skerry's" on the North River in Mass. Purchased the Bishop farm at Salem Village on 29, April 1678. (now known at the Nurse Homestead., Salem Village is now Danvers)
Film # 1433986 Nurse, Francis, "A genealogy of the Nurse Family" by John D. Ames.
U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Name: Francis Nurse
Birth Date: 18 Jan 1618
Birth Place: Bristol, England
Death Date: 22 Nov 1695
Death Place: Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Has Bio?: Y
Spouse: Rebecca Nurse
Children: John Nurse
Rebecca Preston
Samuel Nurse
Francis Nurse Jr
Benjamin Nurse
Mary Tarbell
Sarah Bowden
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Birth: Jan. 18, 1618
Bristol, England
Death: Nov. 22, 1695
Salem
Essex County
Massachusetts, USA
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"On account of the witchcraft delusion in Salem, [Francis] and his wife became historical characters. The name of Rebecca Nurse (or Nourse) is perhaps the best known of all of its unfortunate victims.
Francis Nourse was an early settler in Salem, and was a proprietor of the town 1647. He lived for forty years near Sperry's, on North River Street, between the main village and the ferry to Beverly. He was a woodworker, called a tray-maker. In those days, wooden trays and dishes were the rule; there was little pewter, less silver and china, and the plates, trays and trenchers of wood were the ordinary dishes.
He was a skilled workman, and a respectable man of great stability and strength of character. He was called frequently as umpire and arbitrator in cases of dispute over land boundaries. He served on local committees to lay out grants and highways, and on juries. He bought the Bishop farm of some three hundred acres at Salem village, April 29, 1678, and settled there. His sons all built their homes and lived on it, and were men of influence in town and church; were prosperous, and it is believed that their success in acquiring a large estate, paying for it and prospering, was the cause of the charges against wife and mother, Rebecca Nourse.
The story of her trial is well known. She was arrested and protested her innocence on the charge of witchcraft. With steadfast dignity and unwavering patience she bore the ordeal of her trial. Thirty-nine of her friends among the highest and most respectable in the town, signed a statement testifying to her blameless character and faithfulness to the church. These names have been inscribed on a tablet on the memorial recently erected over her grave in Danvers.
They jury found her not guilty, but the court reversed the verdict and condemned her to death. She was hanged on Witch Hill, and buried in the little cemetery at Danvers.
Francis Nourse married [Rebecca] on August 24, 1644...She and her husband were members of the First Church of Salem, and he was a deacon."
--- "Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts"; William Richard Cutter Published in 1908 (Page 1489).
--- Provided by Gone Too Soon [47644196]
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Parents:
Edward Norris (1580 - 1659)
Spouse:
Rebecca Towne Nurse (1622 - 1692)
Children:
John Nurse (1645 - 1719)*
Rebecca Nurse Preston (1647 - 1719)*
Samuel Nurse (1649 - 1715)*
Sarah Nurse Bowden (1651 - 1754)*
Elizabeth Nurse Russell (1656 - ____)*
Mary Nurse Tarbell (1657 - 1749)*
Francis Nurse (1660 - 1716)*
Benjamin Nurse (1666 - 1748)*
Sibling:
John Norris (1617 - 1667)*
Francis Nurse (1618 - 1695)
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Unknown
Specifically: Unknown
Created by: Ed Poulin
Record added: Apr 04, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 50647036