This Rebecca Homes, for whom the Kingston, Massachusetts Bay, birth record originally cited in this profile does not appear to exist, is presumed to be the Rebecca, daughter of William Holmes, christened at Scituate on 14 April of 1661 -- though a 1648 birth would mean she would by then have been about thirteen. It is assumed that this Rebecca is not the Rebecca who married Irish immigrant Thomas Amory at Boston on 9 May 1721;[1] the NEHGR shows this wife as having died in 1770, aged 80 -- yielding a birth year of about 1690, not 1648 or 1661.
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↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11703/81/235621314 (subscription)
[Later Rebecca Holmes, bp. 1769]: "Gen. 6: REBECCA HOLMES6 (Micah Holmes5, Mary Brewster4, Wrestling Brewster3, Love Brewster2, William Brewster1) " -- Barbara Lambert Merrick, comp., E Virginia Hunt, ed., Mayflower Families In Progress, William Brewster, Fifth Generation, Love Brewster, (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2003); 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, Mass., December 1620. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-2015; p. 73, https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2728/i/51964/73/0 and also p. 85, https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2728/i/51964/85/1422162605 (subscription)
[Rebecca (Churchill) Holmes]: 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, Mass., December 1620. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-2015; https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2728/i/51964/119/0
[Source questionable; no record of this Rebecca Holmes, b. 1648, found on NEHGS, nor found in the available online Kingston records as of September, 2019] Vital Records of Kingston Massachusetts to the year 1850, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911), p. 95 (birth)
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