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Very possibly. We have her listed as Rebecca Shelley - but given the date and place of death - I suspect that Rebecca Addington and Rebecca Shelley are one in the same person.
I also came across an inquiry about the Addington name on a Wiccan board.
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Note: She was in prison on a charge of Mischief (Witchcraft) at thetime of her death.
AKA [Rebeckah] and [Rebecka]
"The Compendium of American Genealogy," Disk 2, Family TreeMaker' Family Archives. "Chamberlain (Chamberlin), William. (ca.1620-1706), from Eng, settled at Woburn, 1648; removed toBillerica, 1654; m 2d wife, Rebecca .. (d in prison on charge ofwitchcraft, 1692)
The following is from: the History of Billerica, Massachusettswith a
Genealogical Register by The Reverend Henry A. Haze, A.M.Boston: A. Williams and Co., Old Corner Bookstore 1883.
About Rebecca:
"This was the period of the witchcraft troubles and trials, to which,
however, the Billerica Records make no allusion. The aid givento Toothaker's family betrays his neglect of them while engagedin the Salem Fooleries; and the deaths of Mrs. RebeccaChamberline and John Durrent, "in ye prison at Cambridge." inSeptember and October 1692, suggest the inference of Mr. Farmer,that the charge on which they were imprisoned was probably witchcraft.
A Billerica woman, whose later residence had been Andover, Mrs.
Martha Carrier (hanged August 19, 1692) (Martha Carrier was condemned and hanged as a witch, on the testimonies of many people, including Roger Toothaker's son Allin.), became one of the most notable of the sufferers, being executed at the same time with the Reverend George Burroughs (hanged August 19,1692). Her bearing at the trial is distinguished by courage and good sense, and must challenge the admiration of those who examine the dreary literature of this terrible delusion. Her own child of eight testified, that her mother made her "touch the book; it was in Andrew Fuller's pasture. Elizabeth Johnson was there, her Aunt Toothaker and cousin, when she was baptized";and Roger Toothaker (died in jail June 16 1692)
(Dr. Toothaker had claimed to many people that his daughter (Martha Emerson) had killed a witch. On 18 May 1692 Salem fileda complaint against Dr. Roger Toothaker for witchcraft, and he was taken to Boston Prison. He had been accused by Elizabeth Hubbard, Ann Putnam, Jr., and Mary Walcott, who had accused many of witchcraft. Elizabeth Hubbard was the 17 year-old servant of Dr. William Griggs of Andover, a rival doctor. Dr. Griggs was a witchcraft conspirator, he used his 17 year-old servant to accuse many of witchcraft. On 28 May, Mary Toothaker, her 9 year-old daughter Margaret, Martha Carrier (Mary AllinToothaker's sister) of Andover, and Elizabeth (Jackson) Howe ofIpswich Farms (a cousin in law) were arrested for witchcraft.Roger died 16 June 1692, in Boston Prison, he had probably been tortured. There is not a record of torture, it was most likely covered up as 24 men inspected the body to confirm he died of natural causes.) bore swift witness in language too filthy for quotation. That good men could trust such testimony, and rest such action upon it, is an unexplained marvel of human credulity."
This book has many entries of our Chamberlian family. It also refers
to several sources of information about MA witchcraft history including:
1) Upham's Salem Witchcraft, Vol. II;
2) MASS Deposition in the Archives at Salem
3) Bowditch Papers, of the MA Historical Society, No. 18, and MAArchives, Vol. CXXXV.
Reverend George Burroughs was nicnamed "The Black Minister" byAbigail Williams on April 12, 1692. He was a puritan hung on Gallows hill under the accusation that he was not only a witch but the leader of the Salem coven.
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