Wow, I just watched a show on TV about the Salem witch trials and they had a segment about Rebecca Nurse (originally spelled Nourse), who I'm a descendant of. Her maiden name was Towne, which is the family name of my paternal grandmother (so of course that's not my last name). But my dad told me there have always been Rebeccas in his family in every generation that were named after her (I have a cousin named Rebecca and that was also my grandmother's name).
And a few years ago, my aunt in Massachusetts sent me copies of all the documents, which was cool. There's some house that belonged to the Nurse family that's now a historical site or something like that. I guess you can read about it on Wiki if you're interested.
Anyway, that aside, I need to do more laundry today.
This post has been edited by Tenseigamoon: Sep 6 2008, 22:19
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