Rebecca was not mentioned in the will of Nicholas Stillwell (dated January 19, 1715).
Rebecca STILLWELL (NICHOLAS5, NICHOLAS4, NICHOLAS3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born 1675 in Gravesend, Long Island, New York, and died Abt 1715 [her husband remarried in 1702]. She married Abraham EMMONS October 20, 1693.[1]
Rebecca Stillwell was bapt Jul 14, 1678, Flatbush DRC Baptisms 1677-1754, Kings, Brooklyn, NY. She may have been born in 1678 or earlier. Her two sisters, Anna and Catarina were also baptized on July 14 1678.
Marriage
Rebecca Stillwell married Abraham Emans|Emons|Emmons, October 20, 1693, Gravesend, Kings, New York[2]
Children
Children with Abraham Emans or Emmons are:
Jan "John" Emans, b. 1694, Long Island, Queens, NY, d. May 1732, NJ
Nicholas Emans, b. 1696, Gravesend, Livingston, NY, d. 1759, Reading, Hunterdon, New Jersey.
Abraham Emons|Emans, b. 1697; d. ca. 1738[3], at his farm in Yonkers, Westchester County, NY.[4]
Isaac Emans, b. 1699
Catherine Emans, b. 1701
Death Discrepancy
Rebecca Stilwell died ca 1701/1702. possibly at Yonkers, NY
[Rebecca's last child was born in 1701. She may have died giving birth or shortly after. With so many young children to raise, Abraham needed a new wife. Abraham married Grietje Willemsen 17 August 1702. Some sources have her death at about 1715, but that date doesn't doesn't fit with this marriage.]
<Over the years, the Flatbush Dominies frequently had responsibilities to other congregations as well. Thus, they saw to the record keeping as was convenient to their travel schedule among the Dutch congregations they stewarded. Ceremonies over which they officiated, therefore, might take place within the precincts of one church, but be recorded on another congregation's books. In some cases, such records found their way into the Consistory books of a congregation, as is the case with the Flatbush Church records compiled here. Marriages were not performed in the Dutch churches but rather at the home of the bride, typically, or at some other domicile, or at the minister's home, in the case of out-of-towners. For nearly 150 years, the East Woods boers made their way west to the Flatbush Church for Sunday services and the baptisms of their children. Concurrently, nuptials performed at New Lotts by the Flatbush minister were recorded at Flatbush, or elsewhere along his route.>
Flatbush Bapt. Record:1678 Jul 14; Nicholas Stillwell, Catharina; Anna; Daniel and Richard Stillwell.
1678 Jul 14; Nicholas Stillwell, Catharina; Catharina; Adam Moth, Jan Morgan.
1678 Jul 14; Nicholas Stillwell, Catharina; Rebecca; Annetie, Martha, and Maria Stillwell
Stillwell-410 was created by Ronald Rideout through the import of Stilwell family 2014.ged on Sep 26, 2014. User ID: 8D6D54A1F8B440C6980CD0F1878A11D4FC23 Data Changed Date: 23 FEB 2013 Prior to import, this record was last changed 23 FEB 2013.
"Andries Emans Some of his Descendants in Hunterdon, Morris, and Somerset Counties New Jersey" by Caroline Bell Kratovil, "Margaret Williamson. . .d: After 1735 Freehold, N.J."
Source Information: Ancestry.com. Long Island Source Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2008; Original data: Henry B. Hoff. Long Island Source Records. From The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1987.
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