"The Barnett, Wood-Tunnell, Allison-Bixby Family" :Information about Samuel Nurse
Samuel Nurse (b. 1649, d. 15 Jul 1715)
Notes for Samuel Nurse:
Samuel Nurse inherited his parents property.
Samuel Nourse (704) was a Salem attorney who tirelessly argued for years for "taking off the attainder" to vindicate his mother Rebecca's reputation, saying that his "honored and dear mother had led a blameless life from her youth up." A member of the Danvers congregation, he and his brother-in-law John Tarbell (712) were called before the church by Rev. Samuel Parris on August 14, 1692 for not participating in the Lord's Supper and perhaps not even attending church at all. Samuel and John immediately walked out of the meeting. Not really surprising, for Parris had supported the execution of Samuel's mother a month before, and his home was the favorite gathering place of the "afflicted girls," which included Parris' wife and daughter.
Friends and relatives of the Nourse clan, claiming that they "ought not to hear" Parris, forced him to resign his pastorate in June 1696. Then the congregation discovered no one was willing to take his place in the strife-riddled congregation. Finally in desperation, the church called a day of fasting and prayer on October 12, 1697, and God responded by bringing a new pastor, Rev. Joseph Green. Green led the church through a "Meeting of Peace" in restoring the offended brothers to fellowship, forgiving any offense of theirs by saying the church "looked on it as nothing" and that "it should be buried forever." With satisfaction, Green noted in his journal on February 5, 1699, that Samuel Nourse, John Tarbell and their families had received the Lord's Supper in that church for the first time in more than six years. Samuel's wife Mary Smith (705) was the second of three daughters of John Smith (1410), a Quaker, and his wife Margaret Buffum (1411), who married three sons of Francis and Rebecca Nourse.
Samuel Nurse married Mary Smith on Apr. 5, 1677 in Salem MA