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Mary Tarbell (Nurse)

Also Known As: "Mary Nourse"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Town of Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
Death: June 28, 1749 (89-90)
Salem Village (present Danvers), Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, Colonial America
Place of Burial: Danvers, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States of America
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Francis Nurse and Rebecca Nurse
Wife of John Tarbell
Mother of John Tarbell, Jr.; Mary Goodale; Cornelius Tarbell; Jonathan Tarbell; Elizabeth Abbott and 1 other
Sister of John Nurse, Sr.; Rebecca Preston; Samuel Nurse; Sarah Bowden; Francis Nurse, Jr. and 2 others

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About Mary Tarbell

Mary (Nurse) Tarbell (1655 - 1749)

  • Born 1655 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay
  • Died 28 Jun 1749 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay
  • Daughter of Francis Nurse and Rebecca (Towne) Nurse
  • Sister of John Nurse, Rebecca (Nurse) Preston, Sarah (Nurse) Bowden, Samuel Nurse, Elizabeth (Nurse) Russell, Francis Nurse Jr., Sarah (Nurse) Bowden and Benjamin Nurse
  • Wife of John Tarbell — married before 1680 [location unknown]
  • Mother of John Tarbell II, William Tarbell, Mary Tarbell, Cornelius Tarbell, Jonathan Tarbell, Elizabeth (Tarbell) Abbott and Sarah (Tarbell) Hutchinson

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nurse-46

Mary (Nurse) Tarbell was involved in witch trials
Mary Nurse, daughter of Francis Nurse and Rebecca Towne born in 1655.

Mary Nurse married John Tarbell on October 25, 1678 in Salem Village, Massachusetts.

Children: John Tarbell, Jr. (III), Mary, Cornelious, Jonathan, Elizabeth, Sarah. This list is "ify" and there may be others yet to be discovered.

John Tarbell died before Mary. It is believed they are buried in the Nurse Homestead Cemetery near her parents but there is not an inscribed tombstone for Mary. In 1970 a descendant erected a marker for her husband but none for Mary.

Mary Nurse Tarbell, her husband John Tarbell, and Mary's sister Rebecca Nurse Preston and her brother Samuel Nurse testified on behalf of their mother during her Salem Witch Trial. Though originally found not-guilty, no doubt helped by the testimony given by her daughters and son-in-law, Rebecca Towne Nurse was eventually re-tried, convicted and hanged as a witch.

Parents: Father: Francis Nurse (1618 - 1695) Mother: Rebecca Towne (1622 - 1692) Spouse: John Tarbell (1652 - 1715) Children: Jonathan Tarbell (1692 - 1718) Burial: Nurse Homestead Cemetery, Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Plot: Her grave may be located where one of the unmarked field stones lies. Name

Mary Nurse[1][2] Birth

1655 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA[3] Death

28 Jun 1749 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA[4][5] Residence

United States[6][7] Marriage

: Husband: John Tarbell

Wife: Mary Nurse Marriage: Date: 25 Oct 1678 Place: Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[8][9] [10] Find A Grave: Memorial #34846251 Sources

↑ #S-1799646540: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=sarmemberapps&h=82185... Death date: 28 Jun 1749 Death place: Salem Village, Massachusetts Residence date: Residence place: United States APID: 1,2204::821854
↑ #S-1799646540: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=sarmemberapps&h=10648... Birth date: Birth place: Salem, Massachusetts Death date: Death place: Salem, Danvers, Massachusetts Residence date: Residence place: United States APID: 1,2204::1064869
↑ #S-1799646540 Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=sarmemberapps&h=10648... Birth date: Birth place: Salem, Massachusetts Death date: Death place: Salem, Danvers, Massachusetts Residence date: Residence place: United States APID: 1,2204::1064869
↑ #S-1799646540 Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=sarmemberapps&h=82185... Death date: 28 Jun 1749Death place: Salem Village, Massachusetts Residence date: Residence place: United States APID: 1,2204::821854
↑ #S-1799646540 Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=sarmemberapps&h=10648... Birth date: Birth place: Salem, Massachusetts Death date: Death place: Salem, Danvers, Massachusetts Residence date: Residence place: United States APID: 1,2204::1064869
↑ #S-1799646540 Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=sarmemberapps&h=10648... Birth date: Birth place: Salem, Massachusetts Death date: Death place: Salem, Danvers, MassachusettResidence date: Residence place: United States APID: 1,2204::1064869
↑ #S-1799646540 Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=sarmemberapps&h=82185... Death date: 28 Jun 1749Death place: Salem Village, Massachusetts Residence date: Residence place: United States APID: 1,2204::821854
↑ Source: #S-1799602304 Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=mamarriages_ga&h=7091... Note: Data: Text: Marriage date: 25 Oct 1678Marriage place: Salem, Essex, Massachusetts APID: 1,7853::709159
↑ Source: #S-2121252160 Page: Birth year: 1653; Birth city: Watertown; Birth state: MA. Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genepool&h=4815983&ti... Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1653Birth place: Watertown, Middlesex, MADeath date: 25 March 1715Death place: Salem Village, MAMarriage date: 25 October 1678Marriage place: Salem, Essex, MA APID: 1,4725::4815983
↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 12 March 2019), memorial page for Mary Nurse Tarbell (1657–28 Jun 1749), Find A Grave: Memorial #34846251, citing Nurse Homestead Cemetery, Danvers, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Anna Schultheis Bertram (contributor 47006901). S-1799646540: U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls Note: APID: 1,2204::0 Ancestry Family Trees https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/4478194/person/-39... https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/41952610/family https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/587811/family Source: S-1799602304 Repository: #R-2144665381 Title: Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850 Author: Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data - With some noted exceptions all marriage records in this collection can be found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and may be available through Famil Note: APID: 1,7853::0 Repository: R-2144665381 Name: Ancestry.com Address: 360 West 4800 North, Provo, UT 84604 Note: Source: S-2121252160 Repository: #R-2144665381 Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records Author: Edmund West, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000. Note: APID: 1,4725::0 Source: S-2137300626 Repository: #R-2144665381 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Trees Note: Data: Text: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/587811/family Source: S-2137300626 Repository: #R-2144665381 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Trees Note: Data: Text: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/587811/family Repository: R-2144665381 Name: Ancestry.com Address: 360 West 4800 North, Provo, UT 84604

https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Salem/aMarriagesN.shtml "(NURSE (Nourse)) Mary, and John Tarbell, Oct. 25, 1678. CTR"

https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Salem/aDeathsT.shtml "(TARBELL (Tarball)) Mary, June 28, 1749, in her 96th y. PR17"

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Mary Tarbell's Timeline

1659
1659
Town of Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America

The exact date of birth of Mary Nurse (future Mary Tarbell) to father Francis and mother Rebecca Nurse is unrecorded, as is the date of baptism. The infant has two older brothers (an older boy named John - age 14, and a boy named Samuel - age 8), and two older sisters (a girl named Rebecca - age 12, and a young girl named Sarah - age 6).

1661
February 3, 1661
Town of Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

As with most people from this period, Francis' actual birth date is unrecorded. His actual birth to father Francis and mother Rebecca Nurse likely took place within one or two months of his recorded baptismal date of February 3. The infant had two older brothers (a young man named John - age 16, and a boy named Samuel - age 12) and three older sisters (an older girl named Rebecca - age 14, a girl named Sarah - age 10, and a toddler named Mary - age 2).

(A note on English "double dates" - the old English calendar before 1752 used to change year on March 25. The first date indicated the English year, which differed between January 1 and March 24 from what the rest of the world followed. As what appeared to be some sort of compromise, English officials would double date their documents, and the rest of English society followed. Because the computer date system inflexibly changes years only on January 1, in order to maintain a proper chronology, the second date should be used.)

1665
January 2, 1665
Town of Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

As with most people from this period, Elizabeth's' actual date of birth to father Francis and mother Rebecca Nurse is unrecorded. Her actual birth likely took place within one or two months of her recorded baptismal date of January 9, 1664/1665. The infant had three older brothers (a young man named John - age 19, an older boy named Samuel, and a toddler named Francis - age 3), and three older sisters (a young woman named Rebecca - age 17, an older girl named Sarah - age 13, and a young girl named Mary - age 5).

1666
1666
Town of Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

As with most people from this period, Benjamin's actual date of birth to father Francis and mother Rebecca Nurse is unrecorded. His actual birth likely took place within one or two months of his recorded baptismal date of January 26, 1665/1666. The infant had three older brothers (a young man named John - age 20, a young man named Samuel - age 16, and a young boy named Francis - age 4) and four older sisters (a young woman named Rebecca - age 18, an older girl named Sarah - age 14, a young girl named Mary - age 6, and an infant named Elizabeth - age 13 months).

1680
August 9, 1680
Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony