Rebecca (Cary) Allen (1665 - 1697)

Born 30 Mar 1665 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Allen III — married 7 Dec 1685 (to 29 Oct 1697) in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 29 Oct 1697 at age 32 in Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Rebecca Cary was born the daughter of John (II) & Elizabeth Godfrey Cary of Bridgewater in the Plymouth Colonies in 1665. ^[1] Her parents had migrated into the New World from England. She was one of 11 known siblings.

On 2 December 1685, she married Samuel Allen (III)^[2] and had a large family of six children with him, two of whom died in infancy. She died three days after the birth of her last child who was unnamed and also died in birth in the year 1697. The record of her death says she "Changed This life for a better." ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). Accessed through Ancestry here. Also available here listed in Bridgewater births Data text: Bridgewater Births - Rebecka, ch. John, Mar.30, 1665. page 70.
2. ↑ Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). Accessed at Ancestry here. Also available here listed in Bridgewater marriages Data text: Bridgewater Marriages - Samuel Jr. and Rebecka - [Rebecka Cary, P.R. 109], Dec. 2, 1685 - Intention not recorded.
3. ↑ Verbatim Version of Bridgewater, Plymouth, town Record

See Also

• Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Holt, 1885) Vol. 1, Page 551 Data text: TIMOTHY ALLEN, the eldest child of Timothy Allen, of that part of Norwich, Connecticut , which is now Newent Society, in Lisbon, and grandson of Samuel and Rebecca (Carey) Allen, of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, was born, August 31 , 1715.

• S2375940657: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=27624422&pid=258

• S998: Cary, Seth C. John Cary the Plymouth Pilgrim (Boston, Massachusetts: Seth C. Cary, 1911)

Acknowledgements

This profile was created through the merges of the import of Spurlock 20110318.ged on 19 March 2011, WikiTree profile Cary-265 created through the import of The BTM Tree.ged on Jun 26, 2011 by Carolyn Trenholm, the import of Shortened files.ged on 30 December 2010, and the import of MASTER2011WIKITREE.GED on 27 January 2011.