Six Women of Salem (81 page)

overview life/times (before 1692),
3
–
15

Rebecca Nurse Memorial Association,
378

wedding,
9

Nurse, Rebecca/childhood

church/Puritanism and,
5
,
6
,
8
,
10
,
264

in Great Yarmouth,
3
–
5
,
7

in New England/family members,
7
–
9

parents/siblings,
3
–
5
,
7
–
8

Nurse, Rebecca/“witchcraft”

accusations against,
126
–
127
,
128
,
129
–
130
,
131
–
133
,
144
,
156
,
169
–
170

arrest, questioning, “victim” afflictions,
133
–
139
,
227

burial,
280
–
281

excommunication from church,
264
–
266

jail,
141
,
153
,
155

sentence/hanging,
273
–
274
,
277
–
280

trial/verdicts,
259
–
261
,
262

Nurse, Samuel

background,
9
,
14
–
15
,
253

clearing mother’s name/reparation,
375
,
377
,
391

Parris/church and,
253
,
358
,
359
–
360
,
361
,
369
–
370
,
371
–
372
,
373
,
374

See also
Nurse family and Rebecca

Osborn, Sarah

accusations against,
77
,
106
,
111
,
112
,
113
,
116
,
169
–
170

arrest/hearings,
108
–
109
,
115
–
116
,
117

jail,
115
,
118
,
119
,
188

Parker, Alice

accusations/arrest,
23
,
147
,
190
–
192
,
193
–
194
,
293

fits of catalepsy,
78
,
91

trial/hanging,
319
–
322
,
328
,
329

Warren and,
76
,
77
–
78
,
79
,
190
–
192
,
315
,
318
–
319
,
321
–
322

Parris, Betty/Abigail Williams afflictions

accusing Tituba,
104
–
105
,
106
–
107

afflictions description,
87
,
92
,
103
,
107
,
109

cause and,
92
,
95
,
101
–
102

fortune-telling and,
93
–
94
,
95
–
96

remedies and,
92

Sibley/anti-witch cake,
102
–
103
,
104
,
140
,
144

Parris, Elizabeth (Eldridge),
69
,
70

Parris, Samuel

apology,
370

background,
66
–
67

leaving Salem ministry,
373

as minister,
67
,
69
–
70
,
71
–
72
,
87
–
89
,
96
,
142
–
143
,
275
,
298
,
335

Nurse family and,
253
,
342
,
351
,
358
–
362
,
369
–
370
,
371
–
372
,
373
,
374
,
387

opposition/support,
370
–
372

sending daughter away,
127

supporting witch trials and,
275
,
298
,
351
–
352
,
372

Tituba/other slaves,
66
–
67
,
68
,
69
,
70
,
74
,
87
,
351

Petitions for accused,
218
–
219
,
239
,
254
–
255
,
260
,
269
,
271
,
272
,
276
,
285
–
286
,
287
–
288
,
294
,
298
,
323
,
325
–
326
,
336
,
338
,
346
–
347
,
352
–
353

Phips, William,
72
,
252
,
271
–
272
,
273
,
286
,
300
–
301
,
310
,
311
,
341
–
342
,
348
,
357
,
362
,
363
,
375
–
376
,
381

Plagues,
5
,
10

Pope, Bethshua,
120
,
121
,
127
,
128
,
129
,
134
–
135
,
137
,
154
, 
157
–
158

Poppets,
23
,
189
,
191
,
231
,
235
,
244
,
268
,
324

Porter, Jonathan and Eunice,
10

Procter, Elizabeth

accusations, arrests, jail,
142
,
145
,
146
,
152
,
153
,
293
,
295
,
341

after witch trials,
395
–
396

Warren and,
75
–
76
,
79
,
80
,
81
–
82
,
134
,
142

Procter, Elizabeth/John

confiscated property,
302
–
304
,
350

Warren’s testimony against,
82
,
142
,
163
,
166
–
167
,
189
,
291
–
292
,
293
–
294

Procter, John

arrest/jail,
154
,
155
,
322

background/marriages,
79

Procter, John (
continued
)

beating Warren,
124
–
125
,
134
,
141
–
142