In 1636 Francis Weston was granted this land and laid out a farm on it. Governor John Endicott purchased the property in 1648, and in 1678 Francis and Rebecca Nurse moved here and built a house. In March 1692, 71-year-old Rebecca was accused by children of Salem Village of practicing witchcraft. Upon hearing the accusation, she exclaimed, “I am innocent as the child unborn, but surely what sin hath God found out in me unrepented of that He should lay such an affliction upon me in my old age?” Despite the aid of her relatives and friends, she was tried, found guilty, and hanged on July 19, 1692, and her body was secretly brought back here for burial. On April 19, 1775, Rebecca’s great-grandson Francis Nurse marched from here to the Lexington Alarm, which began the American Revolution.