Thomas/Murray Lineage
Notable Ancestors

Salem Witch Trials, Salem (now Danvers) Massachusetts -1692

Salem Witch Trials
Picture is in the Public Domain

   
Rebecca (Towne) Nurse
(9th Great Grand Aunt-
Sister of Mary Easty &
Sarah Towne)
1621 - 1692

Tried and Executed as a witch - Salem Witch Trials, 1692

Rebecca Nurse Headstone
Source: Salem Witch Museum

   
Mary Easty
(9th Great Grand Aunt-
Sister of Rebecca Nurse & Sarah Towne)
? - 1692
Tried and Executed as a witch - Salem Witch Trials, 1692

Mary Easty Headstone
Source: Salem Witch Museum
   
Elizabeth Howe
(Direct Relation - not verified)
? - 1692
Tried and Executed as a witch - Salem Witch Trials, 1692

Elizabeth Howe Headstone
Source: Salem Witch Museum
   
Sarah (Towne) Cloyes
(9th Great Grandmother -
Sister of Rebecca Nurse and Mary Easty)
1637 - 1703

Tried as a witch, but acquitted when trials ended - Salem Witch Trials, 1692

 

   
Sir William (Phips) Phipps
(8th Great Grand Uncle -
Son of James Phipps,
9th Great Grandfather)
(1650 - 1695
First Governor of Massachusetts Colony, presided over the Salem Witch Trials, but cancelled the investigation in 1692 when his wife was charged as a witch