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csziggy

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10. OMG - one of my ancestors, Henry Kenney, was on Rebecca Nurse's jury
Mon May 15, 2017, 02:35 PM
May 2017

What's really fun is that one of his grandsons married her granddaughter who was named after her - not one of my ancestors, though.

"All of Rebecca Nurses’ accusers, including Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, Jr., Ann Putnam, Sr., Edward Putnam, Thomas Putnam, Henry Kenney, Mary Walcott, and Elizabeth Hubbard were either Putnam family members or friends of the family."
http://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-trial-of-rebecca-nurse/

Some think Henry Kenney Sr. (Kinne, Kinne) was married to a sister of Thomas Putnam but I haven't found documentation of that. He married a Ann Howard who might have been a widow who had been born a Putnam. If so, she may have been one of the Ann Putnams listed above.

It is not clear if it was Henry Kinne Sr. born in England about 1624 or his son, Henry Kinne Jr. born in Salem in 1669 who served on the jury - both were alive in 1692 when Rebecca was arrested and both were active in community affairs during that period. I am descended from Henry Sr. through his son Thomas Kinne.

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