Rebecca (Howe) Calef (1754)

Born 3 Apr 1754 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Jonathan Temple — married after 17 May 1777 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

Wife of Stephen Calef — married after 17 Jun 1813 in Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Descendants

Biography

Birth

Rebecca was born, 3 April 1754, in Framingham, Massachusetts. She is the daughter of Ezekiel Howe and Elizabeth Rice. Rebecah, d. Ezekiel and Elizabeth, Apr. 3, 1754. ^[1]

Marriage

Jonathan Temple married Rebecca Howe, intentions published May 17, 1777, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jonathan and Rebecca How of Worcester, int. May 17, 1777. ^[2][3] He died 4 March 1796 at age 44 in Westminster,^[4] and she married second Stephen Caleb, intentions published in Westminster 17 Jun 1813.^[5]

Children:

1. Rebecca bo. 4 June 1788
2. Elizabeth bo. 22 Feb 1780
3. Jonathan bo. 30 Mar 1782
4. Joel bo. 30 Mar 1787
5. Thomas 22 Apr 1784
6. Phebe bo. 5 Apr 1789
7. Asa bo. 18 Apr 1792

Death

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Worcester, MA to the end of the year 1849 Birth Record
2. ↑ Vital Records of Framingham, MA to the end of the year 1849 Marriage Record
3. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch ("https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCWK-KWB" : accessed 28 March 2016), Jonathan Temple and Rebecca How, 17 May 1777; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 496,864.
4. ↑ Mass. Vital Records, Westminster Deaths, page 149
5. ↑ Mass. vital Records, Westminster Marriages, page 124

• Daniel Wait Howe, Howe Genealogies, Vol. 1, John of Sudbury and Marlborough, NEHGS; Boston;1929;), p69.
• Vital Records of Westminster, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Franklin P. Rice, Worcester, Mass., 1908)