Rebecca GIBSON
- Born: 1635, Hertfordshire, ENGLAND
- Marriage: Charles STEARNS in Jun 1654 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, MA
- Died: 1681 at age 46
Noted events in her life were:
• Legal: accused of witchcraft, 1660, MA. Rebecca and Charles Stearns were involved in a witchcraft controversy thirty years prior to Salem. "Rebecca (Gibson) Stearns sounded rather 'out there' in the court records.
"Rebecca and her husband Charles were accused in the defamation and slander of Winifred Holman of Cambridge on 28 March 1660. Rebecca had suffered from serious 'fits' and perhaps mental problems as well and had accused Winifred of being a witch. The jury in the two trials found Winifred Holman not guilty of witchcraft and dismissed the suit against Rebecca on the grounds that she had been 'deprived of her natural reason when she expressed those words charged on her.' Rebecca was ordered to apologize and pay a fine." - Witch-hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England," by David D. Nall.
[http://www.laddfamily.com/16116.htm]
• See also. http://www.shohola.com/Gibson/ or http://faculty.ycp.edu/~tgibson/gibson/
http://www.laddfamily.com/16116.htm
Rebecca married Charles STEARNS in Jun 1654 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, MA. (Charles STEARNS was born in 1620 in Suffolk, ENGLAND and died in 1696 in Salem, Essex County, MA.)
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