The ancient Nurse family graveyard is nestled among tall pine trees on the west side of the property. Visitors are welcome to walk down the old cart path to the Collins Street side of the property in order to view the burial ground. Typical of early New England farms, small plots of land were often set aside to bury family dead. Numerous generations of families are buried here, many in unmarked, or simple fieldstone-marked graves. Among the families represented are Nurse, Putnam, and Tarbell. The oldest portion of the graveyard appears to be the side closest to the cart road. It was undoubtedly here that Rebecca Nurse was secretly buried by her family, who brought her body back from Gallows Hill following her execution on July 19, 1692.
On July 30, 1885, the Nurse family dedicated the obelisk-shaped granite memorial to Rebecca's memory. The monument includes a poetic sentiment written by famed poet, John Greenleaf Whittier. In 1892 an additional monument was erected nearby remembering and naming the 40 neighbors who in 1692 signed a petition in support of Nurse.
In August 1992, the remains of another of the 1692 Witchcraft victims, George Jacobs, Sr., were also laid to rest here following a dignified ceremony in the reproduction Salem Village Meetinghouse. The remains had been unearthed in the 1950's at the former Jacobs property. Resting in quiet storage for many years, they were buried by the Danvers Alarm List Company and Salem Village Witchcraft Tercentennial Committee of Danvers, as one of several projects undertaken during the 300th anniversary observation of the witchcraft period. In May 1993, a stylized facsimile of a slate gravestone was dedicated over the remains, costs having been raised by the Danvers Alarm List Company, Jacobs and other witchcraft descendants, and interested public. The gravestone includes as an epitaph the brave words uttered by Jacobs at his examination. "Well! Burn me or hang me but I'll stand in the truth of Christ." The skull on the stone represents death, while on either side, the carved wings represent the belief that the soul would wing its way to heaven. Jacobs and Nurse stood ready with their lives not to confess to something they did not do, but to speak the truth no matter the consequences.
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