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Rebecca Gibson

Female Abt 1634 -


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  • Name Rebecca Gibson 
    Birth Abt 1634  [1
    Gender Female 
    Alternate birth Abt 1635  [2
    Person ID I30698  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of EK
    Last Modified 4 Nov 2020 

    Father John Gibson,   b. Abt 1601, of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1687 (Age ~ 87 years) 
    Mother Rebecca   d. 1 Dec 1661, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Bef 1634  [1
    Family ID F7344  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Charles Stearns   d. Bef 9 Sep 1695 
    Marriage 22 Jun 1654  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 4
    Children 
    +1. John Stearns,   b. 24 Jan 1657
    Family ID F7341  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Nov 2020 

  • Notes 
    • "Rebecca and her husband Charles were accused in the defamation and slander of Winifred Holman of Cambridge on 28 March 1660. Rebecca had suffered from serious 'fits' and perhaps mental problems as well and had accused Winifred of being a witch. The jury in the two trials found Winifred Holman not guilty of witchcraft and dismissed the suit against Rebecca on the grounds that she had been 'deprived of her natural reason when she expressed those words charged on her.' Rebecca was ordered to apologize and pay a fine." [David D. Hall, Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England]

  • Sources 
    1. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.

    2. [S1889] The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass., and Their Ancestors and Descendants by John William Linzee. Boston, 1913.

    3. [S4789] Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen. Syracuse, New York, 1901., date only.

    4. [S1889] The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass., and Their Ancestors and Descendants by John William Linzee. Boston, 1913., date only.