Dorothy Faulker and the Merging of Two Families, with speaker Mary-Louise Bingham
The life of Dorothy Faulkner is rich and full from the time of her birth at Andover. Speaker Mary Bingham will speak about Dorothy's early life and her traumatic witchcraft accusations as a child. Dorothy's story continues with her marriage to Samuel Nurse Jr in Salem Village, and the climate and environment in which her growing family lived and survived on the Nurse Family Homestead until her death. Learn how her legacy lived in generations that followed, weaving the thread that tied the witch-hunt of 1692 to the Revolutionary War.
Speaker Mary-Louise Bingham (mary.bingham@endwitchhunts.org) is a descendant of 3 women convicted of the crime of witchcraft, who were hanged at Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692.
As a result of years of her own historical research, she's become a passionate advocate who educates regarding historical and modern witch-hunts. She is a board member of https://endwitchhunts.org, who works to spread awareness of harmful practices utilized around the world where vulnerable people are being murdered due to accusations of witchcraft. Mary-Louise's role is to connect globally with other advocates in various organizations and for tracking cases in the U.S. where innocent people are murdered because they are believed to be possessed by a demon.
She is a past tour guide at the Rebecca Nurse Homestead in Danvers, MA where she continues to give presentations on the life of Rebecca’s sister, Mary Estey and more recently, Dorothy Faulkner Nurse. She has also given FaceBook Live presentations on the life of Sarah Wildes, who was hanged at Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, as well as the boundary dispute between Salem Village and Topsfield, shedding misconceptions as to how that issue played out between the Putnams, Estey and Towne families.She is also writing a book on the life of Sarah Wildes
Mary-Louise is a proud member of the Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project which passed House Joint Resolution 34, “Resolution Concerning Certain Witchcraft Convictions in Colonial Connecticut,” which passed, May 25, 2023. This was the first Resolution of its kind to pass both the Connecticut House and Senate in the U.S. with overwhelming favor thanks to the dedicated and hardworking authors, historians and descendants who helped along the way.