Show BIGOTRY AND Historic Here Kourse Was a society of jf the local takes I j tie old Nourse as is they will I their present a building whose story is i m the most dramatic in the nial life of the It was from this house in the days of ignorance and superstition that Rebecca Nourse was taken as a and The estate was originally known as the In 1680 the was built about was bought by Francis' Nourse and his Nourse had several and the prosperity of the family excited the envy of the March a warrant was issued on complaint of Edward and Jonathan Putnam for the arrest Rebec- ca Nourse for and on the following morning she was arraigned before Justices Hawthorne and She was in-dieted for having practiced certain detestable acts called witchcraft upon Mary and She was tried in the meeting One of the Ann had a fit in she charged upon the In answer to the charge of witchcraft Rebecca Nourse can say before my Eternal Father I am innocent and God will clear my to Hawthorne is Jer a one in the assembly but but if you be guilty Py God discover was then committed to the Mm and on April 11 was a with four others to Boston V of the The June and the jury a verdict of not but the crowd in the de such a clamor that the again and shortly returned a verdict of records of the First Wed was the her chains the sentence of ex- Nation wag July she was taken with eighteen others from the jail in Salem to Gallows where she was Her body was later thrown among the being recovered that night by her taken to this town and reverently July a monument to her memory was erected in the family lot near the Nourse The monument is of The die on the front is Rebecca Also these lines by Christian who for truth could all about thee owned the hideous The world redeemed from superstitious Is breathing freer for thy sake On the reverse side of the monument is this of she de- am and God will clear my Once yet falsely she suffered death July In loving memory of her Christian even then fully attested by forty of her this monument is |