Rhoda (Hitchcock) Doolittle (abt. 1752 - 1830)

Born about 24 Nov 1752 in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 1830 at about age 77 in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut

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Biography

Born in 1752, Rhoda passed away in 1785 at the age of 33 years old. She was the daughter of Benjamin & Rhoda (Cook) Hitchcock, of Cheshire, Connecticut.

Obed and Rhoda married near Cheshire, Conn just prior to the revolutionary war.^[1]. They were married by Parson Foot.

Rhoda had a twin brother, Benjamin Hitchcock.

Sources

• Doolittles of America – 259. Obed Doolittle - http://doolittlesofamerica.com/Genealogy/D4.html#i15061
• Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven (Rome, New York, Clarence D. Smith, 1923), p 773.
• Louise S Brown & Malissa R Doolittle, The Doolittle Family in America, Part VIII (Dallas Texas, 1967), p 742.
• Mrs Edward Hitchcock, Sr, Hitchcock Family, The Genealogy of the (Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, 1894), p 132.
• Church Records, p 39. First Congregational Church of Cheshire, CT, 1767 - 1858.
• Charles Henry Stanley Davis, Early Families of Wallingford, CT (Copywrite 1979), p 189.
• Early Connecticut Marriages - Obed Doolittle and Rgoda Hitchcock on 20 Apr 1774 in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut - https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=3719&h=9627&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=60541
• Find a Grave Index - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94815162/rhoda-doolittle

Footnotes

1. ↑ Entered by Kelly Harris.

Acknowledgments

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