Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Rebecca Gibson
Abt 1634 --
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 d. Aft 1687 (Age ~ 87 years) Mother Rebecca d. 1 Dec 1661, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts 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 [1, 3, 4] Children + 1. John Stearns, b. 24 Jan 1657 Family ID F7341 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Nov 2020
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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]
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Sources - [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.
- [S1889] The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass., and Their Ancestors and Descendants by John William Linzee. Boston, 1913.
- [S4789] Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen. Syracuse, New York, 1901., date only.
- [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.
- [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.