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Rebecca (Aslett) Johnson (1652 - 1728)

Rebecca Johnson formerly Aslett aka Aslebee
Born in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Baymap
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of and
Sister of , , , , and
Wife of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Wife of — married 15 Dec 1674 in Andover, Essex County, Province of Massachusettsmap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , , , , and
Died at age 76 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Baymap
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Biography

Rebecca was born in Andover, Massachusetts Bay, on 6 May 1652, to parents John and Rebecca.[1]

She married Timothy Johnson in Andover on 15 Dec 1674.[2][3][4]

Rebecca took care of the meeting house in Andover, and after her husband's death in 1688, she did all she could to take care of her children (ages 1 to 11 years) and tend to the farm, until her son Timothy was old enough to take charge of his father's duties.[5]

No primary record of Rebecca's date of death has been found. She was accused of witchcraft in 1692, during that dark period of Andover's history.[6] Bailey (1880) does not record that she was one of those executed as a result. Find A Grave's date of death for Rebecca is 17 Jun 1728, at age 76.[7]

Rebecca was deceased when her brother John made his will, 17 June 1728.[8]

Massachusetts Remediation

  1. 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.[9]
  2. 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
  3. 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community, and further declares that, as all the laws under which said proceedings...have been long since abandoned and superseded by our more civilized laws, no disgrace or cause for distress attaches to the said descendants or any of them by reason of said proceedings.[10]
  4. 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.[11]

Sources

  1. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850, "Andover Births", Andover-V1, p 41 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7646/41/141255816
  2. ↑ "Marriages in Andover from 1647 to 1700: Vital Records from The NEHGS Register, V. 3, p. 66. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB522/i/21067/66/426668727
  3. ↑ New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 2, p. 863 (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. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21175/863/426892629
  4. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850, "Andover Marriages", Andover-V2, p 202 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7647/202/141279137
  5. ↑ Abbott, Charlotte Helen, "Early Records of the Johnson Family of Andover Also Jones" in: Abbott Genealogies, p. 2. Available online: https://www.mhl.org/sites/default/files/files/Abbott/Johnson%20Family.pdf
  6. ↑ Bailey, Sarah Loring (1880) Historical sketches of Andover, (comprising the present towns of North Andover and Andover), Houghton, Boston, Mass., p 200
  7. ↑ Find A Grave Website, Memorial # 167011086, accessed 17 Sep 2018: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167011086?search=true
  8. ↑ Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.): https://www.americanancestors.org/DB515/i/13744/935-co2/30036512
  9. ↑ “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.
  10. ↑ https://www.mass.gov/doc/resolves-of-1957-chapter-145/download
  11. ↑ https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2001/Chapter122




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