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

Born

May 28, 1653, in Salem Village (Danvers), Massachusetts

Died

September 21, 1689, in Salem, Massachusetts

Married

April 22, 1672, in Essex County, Massachusetts

Family

Father

John Putnam

Mother

Rebecca Prince

Child in this line

Elizabeth Fuller

Children

Bethia Fuller
b. March 22, 1675[1676], in Essex County, Massachusetts

Siblings

Sarah Putnam
b. September 4, 1654, in Salem Village, Massachusetts · d. August 2, 1676
m. John Hutchinson in July 1672
Priscilla Putnam
b. March 4, 1657[1658], in Salem Village, Massachusetts · d. November 16, 1704
m. Joseph Bailey
Jonathan Putnam
b. March 17, 1659[1660], in Salem Village, Massachusetts · d. March 2, 1739, in Salem Village, Massachusetts
m. Elizabeth Whipple; Lydia Potter
James Putnam
b. September 4, 1661, in Salem Village, Massachusetts · d. April 7, 1727, in Salem Village, Massachusetts
m. Sarah ____; Mary Read, March 6, 1719[1720] in Salem, Massachusetts
Hannah Putnam
b. February 2, 1663, in Salem Village, Massachusetts · d. Abt. 1730/1731
m. Henry Brown, May 17, 1682
Eleazar Putnam
b. 1665 in Salem Village, Massachusetts · d. January 253/262, 1732[1733], in Salem Village, Massachusetts
m. Hannah Boardman; Elizabeth Rolfe, November 14, 1711
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

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.

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 1677, her second husband being John Fuller. 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).