Rebecca Putnam

Generation 12 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Rhoda Slaughter ← Lois Carpenter ← Benjamin Carpenter ← Elizabeth Wilson ← Elizabeth Fuller ← Rebecca Putnam

In brief

Born May 28, 1653, in Salem Village (Danvers), Massachusetts. She married April 22, 1672, in Essex County, Massachusetts. She died September 21, 1689, in Salem, Massachusetts.

Family

Father

John Putnam

Mother

Rebecca Prince

Spouse

John Fuller

m. 1672

Spouse

John Shepard

m. 1677

Children

Elizabeth Fuller · in this line
b. August 22, 1673, in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
m. Benjamin Wilson, Abt. 1693 near Woburn, Massachusetts
d. January 11, 1766, in Ashford, Connecticut
Bethia Fuller
b. March 22, 1675[1676], in Essex County, Massachusetts

Siblings

Sarah Putnam
b. September 4, 1654, in Salem Village, Massachusetts
m. John Hutchinson in July 1672
d. August 2, 1676
Priscilla Putnam
b. March 4, 1657[1658], in Salem Village, Massachusetts
m. Joseph Bailey
d. November 16, 1704
Jonathan Putnam
b. March 17, 1659[1660], in Salem Village, Massachusetts
m. Elizabeth Whipple
m. Lydia Potter
d. March 2, 1739, in Salem Village, Massachusetts
James Putnam
b. September 4, 1661, in Salem Village, Massachusetts
m. Sarah ____
m. Mary Read, March 6, 1719[1720] in Salem, Massachusetts
d. April 7, 1727, in Salem Village, Massachusetts
Hannah Putnam
b. February 2, 1663, in Salem Village, Massachusetts
m. Henry Brown, May 17, 1682
d. c. 1730
Eleazar Putnam
b. 1665 in Salem Village, Massachusetts
m. Hannah Boardman
m. Elizabeth Rolfe, November 14, 1711
d. January 25/26, 1732[1733], in Salem Village, Massachusetts
John Putnam
b. July 14, 1667, in Salem Village, Massachusetts
m. Hannah ____
Susanna Putnam
b. September 4, 1670, in Salem Village, Massachusetts
m. Edward Bishop
Ruth Putnam
b. August 1673 in Salem Village, Massachusetts

Life story

Named in the Witch Trials

Rebecca Putnam was born May 28, 1653, in Salem Village, Massachusetts, daughter of John Putnam and Rebecca Prince, and baptized in 1667 alongside six siblings. She married twice, in 1672 and again in 1677; her first husband was John Fuller, who died in 1675 or 1676. Rebecca died September 21, 1689, in Salem — and in 1692, during the Salem witch trials, her sister-in-law Ann Putnam accused the defendant Rebecca Nurse of having caused Rebecca's death, and her husband's, through witchcraft.

Sources (3)

William Utermohlen, “Elizabeth Fuller of Salem and Woburn, Massachusetts; Rehoboth, Rhode Island; and Ashford, Connecticut – Probable Wife of Benjamin Wilson,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 178 (Spring 2024): 169-188; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/82242/169/97028178 : accessed 10 August 2026).
Eben Putnam, A History of the Putnam Family in England and America (Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press Publishing and Printing Co., 1891); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/ahistoryputnamf01putngoog : accessed 11 August 2026).
Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: Volume I (USA: Charles G. Dawes, 1943); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/dawesgatesancest00ferr : accessed 12 August 2026).