Rebecca Prince

Generation 13 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 ← Rebecca Prince

In brief

She married September 3, 1652, in Salem, Massachusetts.

Family

Spouse

John Putnam

m. 1652

Children

Rebecca Putnam · in this line
b. May 28, 1653, in Salem Village (Danvers), Massachusetts
m. April 22, 1672, in Essex County, Massachusetts
m. December 6, 1677, in Salem, Massachusetts
d. September 21, 1689, in Salem, Massachusetts
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

A Witness for Rebecca Nurse

Rebecca Prince, stepdaughter of John Gedney, married in Salem, Massachusetts, in September 1652. In 1680 she and her husband hosted the newly arrived minister George Burroughs and his wife Hannah for nine months, and Rebecca gave Hannah cloth to make clothing for the family, recalling later that the couple's marriage seemed troubled and that Burroughs treated his wife harshly despite her devotion. In 1692, during the Salem witch trials, Rebecca and her husband testified about the deaths of their own daughter and son-in-law and spoke in defense of the accused Rebecca Nurse's good character. The family joined the newly independent Salem Village church in 1689.

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).