Rebecca (Freeman) Wing (1694 - aft. 1757)

Born 26 Apr 1694 in Harwich, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of John Wing IV — married 24 Jul 1723 in Eastham, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died after 13 Nov 1757 after age 63 in Harwich, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

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Biography

Rebecca Freeman was born on 26 April 1694,^[1] the daughter of Deacon Thomas Freeman^[2] and Rebecca Sparrow. ^{[3] [4]}

Rebecca married Joseph Vickery. He had died intestate by 25 October 1722, when his widow and relict, Rebekah, was appointed and given powers to administer his estate.^[5]

"Rebakah Vickory" married John Wing ^[6] on July 24, 1723, at Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. The marriage was performed by the Rev. Nathaniel Stone.^[7] Mayflower Births and Deaths says that Rebecca Freeman and John Wing had six children, the first five births were recorded at Harwich.^{[8][9] [10]}The last child, Thomas, was added in the Wing Genealogy

1. Hannah, b. May 7, 1724
2. Thankful, b. August 20, 1725
3. Phebe, b. January 20, 1726/7
4. Joseph, b. August 21, 1728
5. David, b. August 10, 1732
6. Thomas, baptized 4 May 1735 Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Place and date of death undocumented but may have been in Harwich, and after 13 November 1757, when she was named in her husband's Will^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, Connecticut: Godfrey Memorial Library. Reference: Ryder, Azubah: 19 Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for genealogical data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 31 March 1926, 4016. Vol. 58, page 272.
2. ↑ Bowman, George Ernest, "Harwich, Massachusetts Vital Records," Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 3:175 citing original Harwich Volume 1, Page 22.

   "Rebeckah Freeman the dafter of Thomas Freeman was bo(rn) the 26 day of aprell in the yeare 1694."

3. ↑ Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Birth year: 1694; Birth City: Harwich, Now Brewster; Birth State: Massachusetts
4. ↑ Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, Utah: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
5. ↑ Barnstable, Massachusetts: Probate Records 1685–1789. Records of Barnstable, Massachusetts CD-ROM. Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Vol. 4, Page 69
6. ↑ Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Source number: 3631.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: LSS
7. ↑ Harwich, First Book of Record, Page 125
8. ↑ Brewster, Page 259
9. ↑ MD 6 (1904:55)
10. ↑ Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 Ancestry.com. [database on-line]. Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original data: Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Births and Deaths: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Volumes 1 & 2. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1992.
11. ↑ Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017). From Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, December 1620. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-2015. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2728/i/51962/55/1422154696

• PlymouthColony.net

• The Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History. (MD) Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- . (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010)

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKD-NTJZ : accessed 5 May 2016), Rebecca Wing, 1757; Burial, Brewster, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States of America, Old Burying Ground; citing record ID Find A Grave: Memorial #43640678, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.