Caption: "The sheriff
brought the witch up the broad aisle, her chains clanking as she
stepped." Description: This drawing illustrates a scene in John Musick's book The Witch of Salem in which Rebecca Nurse is brought in chains to the meeting house where the Rev. Nicholas Noyes pronounces her excommunication before the congregation. Source: The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad. By John R. Musick. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1893: 275. Artist: F. A. Carter. |
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Caption: "Trial of Rebecca
Nurse" Description: Diorama depicting the trial of Rebecca Nurse, shown seated in the dock at the right, the magistrates in the center, and the "afflicted" girls at the left. Source: 35mm slide © Salem Witch Museum, 1999. |
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Caption: "The
Towne Sisters" Description: Plaster statue depicting Rebecca Towne Nurse, Mary Towne Esty, and Sarah Towne Cloyse, wearing shackles. The statue is located in the Salem Wax Museum of Witches and Seafarers, Salem. Artist: Yiannis Stefinarkis, ca. 1970. Source: Photograph by Benjamin C. Ray, 2001. |
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Description: Photograph of
Vanessa Redgrave (center), as Sarah Cloyce; Phyllis Thaxter
(right), as Rebecca Nurse; and Kim Hunter (left), as Mary
Easty. Source: Video Cassette cover. Three sovereigns for Sarah. Videorecording. Night Owl Productions. Producer, writer, Victor Pisano. Director, Philip Leacock. Publication info: Alexandria, VA : PBS Video, [1990]. |
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Description: Rebecca Nurse
Homestead, Danvers, Massachusetts. Source: Photograph by Benjamin C. Ray, 2001. |
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Description: Rebecca Nurse
Memorial, erected 1885. Located in the Rebecca Nurse Homestead
cemetery, Danvers, Massachusetts. The inscription on the monument
reads: Rebecca Nurse, Yarmouth, England 1621. Salem, Mass., 1692.
"O Christian Martyr/who for Truth could die/When all about
thee/owned the hideous lie!/The world redeemed/from Superstition's
sway/Is breathing freer for thy sake today." From the poem
"Christian Martyr," by John Greenleaf Whittier. Source: Photograph by Benjamin C.. Ray, 2001 |
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Description: Nurse Family
Association, dedication of the Rebecca Nurse Memorial, erected
July, 1885. The tall granite memorial is located in the cemetery of
Rebecca Nurse Homestead, Danvers, Massachusetts Source: Photograph, courtesy of the Danvers Archive Collection. |