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“The majority of the people that come in day to day are ancestors,” she says, “and even sometimes find out that the same people visiting are from the same line and they're cousins.” Postcards to celebrate Rebecca Nurse's 400th birthday (Kathryn Rutkowski)

The list of descendants of Nurse includes former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, “Scrubs” actor Zach Braff and “I Love Lucy” star Lucille Ball. And now, people can easily learn about their ancestry. When she started working at the homestead at age 14, Rutkowski was surprised to see so many descendants as someone who isn’t related to anyone from the colonial era. Kathryn Rutkowski, curator and president of the Rebecca Nurse Homestead, says two types of people come to visit: People fascinated with the witch trials and descendants of Nurse from across the country and beyond. The Rebecca Nurse Homestead is the only home of someone executed during the witch trials that’s open to the public. When the Rebecca Nurse Homestead invited people to send cards for her 400th birthday, they were stunned at how many came in, mostly from her descendants.

Nurse’s home in Danvers, Massachusetts, is now a museum. Now, many people claim Nurse and the other victims as ancestors. About 200 people were tried for witchcraft in Puritan New England and 19 of them, mostly women, were hanged for the crime. In Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” the playwright notes that “gentleness exudes from” a sick, elderly woman named Rebecca Nurse.Īt age 71, Nurse became the oldest woman killed at the Salem witch trials of 16. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia) This article is more than 1 year old.

Rebecca Nurse was one of five women hanged as witches in 1692 years ago at Proctor's Ledge during the Salem witch trials.

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