Thomas, who was a weaver residing in Salem in 1696[5]
John Frost died before September 30, 1672[3], when Rebecca was appointed administrator of his estate[9][5]
On 9 Feb 1673 she married George Jacobs, the son of George Jacobs and his first wife (Unknown) of Salem, Massachusetts[10][3][5][11], and their children included[12]
Margaret, born November 26, 1675[12], who married John Foster[13]
"Rebecca, the wife of George Jacobs, Jr., was the victim of a partial derangement. Her daughter Margaret was already in jail. Her husband had escaped by a hurried flight, and his father was in prison awaiting his trial. She was left in a lonely and unprotected condition, in a country but thinly settled, in the midst of woods. The constable came with his warrant for her. She was driven to desperation, and was inclined to resist; but he persuaded her to go with him by holding out the inducement that she would soon be permitted to return. Four young children, one of them an infant, were left in the house; but those who were old enough to walk followed after, crying, endeavoring to overtake her. Some of the neighbors took them into their houses. The imprisonment of a woman in her situation and mental condition was an outrage; but she was kept in irons, as they all were, for eight months. Her mother addressed an humble but earnest and touching petition to the chief-justice of the court at Salem, setting forth her daughter's condition; but it was of no avail."[15]
1692, Rebecca (Andrews) (Frost) (Jacobs) was accused of witchcraft, as were her brother Daniel Andrews and her husband George Jacobs. Her brother and husband escaped Salem, but Rebecca was imprisoned, and found not guilty in January 1693[16][17][18][5][3]
Massachusetts Remediation
17 October 1710, Convictions Reversed, The General Court of Massachusetts Bay, An act, the several convictions, judgments, and attainders be, and hereby are, reversed, and declared to be null and void.[19]
17 Dec 1711, Compensation to Survivors, Governor Dudley, GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY, approved compensation to such persons as are living, and to those that legally represent them that are dead
28 Aug 1957, No Disgrace to Descendants, General Court of Massachusetts, ...such proceedings, were and are shocking, and the result of a wave of popular hysterical fear of the Devil in the community, and further declares that, as all the laws under which said proceedings...have been long since abandoned and superseded by our more civilized laws, no disgrace or cause for distress attaches to the said descendants or any of them by reason of said proceedings.[20]
31 Oct 2001, Additional Victims Included, Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives in General Court, AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE WITCHCRAFT TRIAL OF 1692, chapter 145 is hereby further amended by adding Bridget Bishop, Susannah Martin, Alice Parker, Margaret Scott and Wilmot Redd.[21]
Research Notes
Note her mother was not Rebecca Craddock as is indicated in many online trees. This is based on a deed in England that indicates a Thomas Andrews was married to Rebecca Craddock, but it was signed in 1644, well after Thomas and his wife were clearly recorded in New England, and appears to be a reference to another Thomas Andrews[3].
Her mother was Rebecca (Unknown) (Andrews) (Wyeth) Fox, widow of Thomas Andrews and Nicholas Wyeth, who later married Thomas Fox[3]
Sources
↑ Early New England Families, 1641-1700. (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013. (By Alicia Crane Williams, Lead Genealogist.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB501/i/13908/3/250755123
↑Massachusetts Vital Records Cambridge Volume 1, page 21, also found in NEHGS, which states ANDREWES (see also Andrew, Andrews) Rebecca, d. of Thomas and Rebecca, Mar. 18, 1646.
↑ 3.03.13.23.33.43.53.63.7Early New England Families, 1641-1700, by Alice Crane Williams et al (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013. (By Alicia Crane Williams, Lead Genealogist.) See Thomas Andrews (m 1641), page 3
↑Massachusetts Vital Records Cambridge Volume 2, page 16, also found in NEHGS, which states ANDREWS Rebeccah and John Frost, June 26, 1666.
↑New England Marriages to 1700 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. This secondary sources suggests references for further reading in Volume 1, page 584: FROST, John (-1672) & Rebecca ANDREWS, ?m/2 George JACOBS 1675; 26 Jun 1666; Cambridge {Frost (1909) 55; Sv. 2:56; Coolidge 242; Salem 3:109; Pillsbury Anc. 474; Reg. 77:279}
↑Massachusetts Vital Records Cambridge Volume 1, page 271, also found in NEHGS, which states FROST John, s. Jno and Rebeccah, Nov. 19, 1667'
↑Massachusetts Vital Records Cambridge Volume 1, page 272, also found in NEHGS, which states FROST Rebeccah, d. John and Rebeccah, Dec. 3, 1669
↑Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871 Case #8585 John Frost. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org)
↑Massachusetts Vital Records Salem Volume 3, page 387, also found in NEHGS, which states FROST Rebecka, wid., and Georg Jacobs, 9:12 m:1674
↑New England Marriages to 1700 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. This secondary sources suggests references for further reading, in Volume 3, page 844 JACOBS, George (ca 1649-) & Rebecca (ANDREWS) FROST, w John; 9 Feb 1674/5; Salem {Salem 3:109; Harmon Anc. 51; Frost (1909) 55; Foster 700; EIHC 1:53; GDMNH 373}
↑ “Salem Witchcraft : with an Account of Salem Village, and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects : Upham, Charles Wentworth, 1802-1875, Author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.” Internet Archive, January 1, 1970. https://archive.org/details/salemwitchcraftw02upha_0/page/188/mode/2up.
↑ “Salem Witchcraft : with an Account of Salem Village, and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects : Upham, Charles Wentworth, 1802-1875, Author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.” Internet Archive, January 1, 1970. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17845/17845-h/salem2-htm.html#Page_ii.480.
Charles Sumner Frost : Title: Genealogical Frost Record 1635-1906
The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011 about Rebecca Andrew
Fox, N. M.. "Notes" section, Note D, pp. 197-9, in A history of that part of the Fox family descended from Thomas Fox of Cambridge, Mass. : with genealogical records. St. Joseph, Mo.: Union Print. Co., 1899. [Repository: Ancestry.com. A history of that part of the Fox family descended from Thomas Fox of Cambridge, Mass. : with genealogical records [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.] (contains transcript of a letter written by mother, Mrs. Rebecca Fox, to Gov. Wm. Phips for her daughter's release from prison)
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There are also handwritten Massachusetts Town and Vital Records by their clerks with her birth recorded. If you need further verification that the place of birth is Cambridge, it also says she was born in Cambridge and last name is Andrewes. 18th of 2nd month 1646.
I can't photocopy it, but this is an exact (gone over several times to be sure) replica of its information. The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011 for Rebecca Andrewes (notice it isn't Andrew). Volume 009 (1855). The section is for Cambridge. Andrewes Rebecca dau. of Thomas & Rebecca borne 18 (2) 1646. That's all. The page number is 167. If you have a membership to ancestry.com you can see it for yourself in the sources section or if you know someone with a membership to NEH&G that's also a possibility. However, you aren't going to see anything I haven't given you here. There are not more of the name on this page either.
NEHGS Register, Vol. 009, page167 under Early records of Cambridge gives this: Andrews Rebecca dau. of Thomas & Rebecca borne 18 (2) 1646. If this is the second month (old dating) it would be May, if new dating, it would be February. Do you think this needs further research. NEHGS is a very good source.
Also Massachusetts Town and Vital Records gives Rebecca Andrews daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Andrews as being born on 18 March 1646. Perhaps families with all the same names??
Andrews-5742 and Andrew-91 appear to represent the same person because: The woman in these two profiles share the same birth and death dates, the same father and are both married to George Jacobs Jr. They represent the same person.
See profile for Thomas Andrews
Also Massachusetts Town and Vital Records gives Rebecca Andrews daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Andrews as being born on 18 March 1646. Perhaps families with all the same names??