Rebecca ANDREW

1646 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Rebecca ANDREW  [1, 2]
  Birth	18 Apr 1646	Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts   [3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Notes	Had three children at time of John's death. She was imprisoned during the witchcraft hysteria., Her mother, Rebeccah Fox, wrote a petition on her behalf to the Governor and Council in which she describes her daughter as having been "a person crazed, distracted, and broken in mind; and that she has been so these twelve years and upwards." It appears that there was no response to the petition, except, perhaps, to delay her trial. She remained in prison until the following January, when she was indicted, tried and acquitted. [1, 4]
  Person ID	I7507	Ellingboe
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2010

  
  

  Family ID

  F402

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• Documents

  Rebecca Andrew From the History of Cambridge, regarding her imprisonment on charge of witchcraft

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] Frost, Thomas G. and Frost, Edward L., Frost Genealogy, p. 55 (Reliability: 3). [S13] Paige, Lucius R., History of Cambridge, (Boston, H.O. Houghton and Company, 1877), pp. 353-354 (Reliability: 3). [S13] Paige, Lucius R., History of Cambridge, (Boston, H.O. Houghton and Company, 1877), p. 353 (Reliability: 3). [S13] Paige, Lucius R., History of Cambridge, (Boston, H.O. Houghton and Company, 1877), pp. 353-352 (Reliability: 3).