Rebecca (Waters) Whitcomb (abt. 1645 - abt. 1726)

Born about 1645 in Lancaster, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Josiah Whitcomb — married 4 Jan 1665 in Lancaster, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died about 1726 at about age 81 in Lancaster, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Rebecca Waters, born about 1645, was the daughter of Lawrence Waters and Anne Linton.^[1] Anderson states that the Waters family removed from Watertown, Massachusetts to Lancaster, Massachusetts by 1645. No birth record is found for Rebecca, so she may have been born in either Watertown or Lancaster.

Rebecca married on 4 January 1664 in Lancaster to Josiah Whitcomb,^[2][3] son of John Whitcomb.^[1][4][5] They had children, all born in Lancaster:

1. Josiah, born and died 12 November 1665^[2][4]
2. Josiah, born 7 January 1666/7;^[2] died 21 March 1718/9 (see research note);^[3] married first to Mary _____ and second to Elizabeth _______^[4]
3. David, born 20 February 1668;^[2] died intestate 11 April 1730; married Mary (Hayward) Fairbanks^[4]
4. Rebecca, born 12 November 1671;^[2] married Jacob Houghton^[4]
5. Joanna, born 8 March 1674;^[2] died 24 September 1717; married Peter Joslin^[4]
6. Hezekiah, born 14 or 16 September 1681;^[2] died before 20 June 1732; married Hannah _____ and had eight children^[4]
7. Deborah, born 26 December 1683;^[2] probably died young (not named in estate division)^[4]
8. Damaris, married Nathaniel Wilder^[4]
9. Mary, named in father's will^[4]
10. Abigail, born 13 March 1688;^[2] married Josiah White^[4]
11. Eunice^[4]

Rebecca died in 1726,^[4][5] probably in Lancaster. She left a will dated 27 May 1720 and proved 15 April 1726 which names the following family members: son Hezekiah; daughters Rebecca Houghton, Mary Farnsworth, Joannah Joslin, Damaris Wilder, and Abigail White; grandchildren Eunice, Alice and Meriam Willard, daughters of Simon Willard, deceased. She named her son, Hezekiah as executor.^[6]

Research Notes

Conflation Warning

Do not conflate with Rebecca (Unknown) Whitcomb, wife of James Whitcomb of Boston. See Anderson, COMMENTS, pp. 256-257 and profile of James Whitcomb of Boston.

Vital Records

• Nourse, Henry. The Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1643-1850. Lancaster, MA: 1890.
  • p. 11
    • " Josiah sonne of Josiah Whetcombe, & Rebeccah his wife was borne 12.9.mo.1665."
    • "Josiah sonne of Josiah Whetcombe, & Rebeccah his wife was borne 7.11.1666."
  • p. 12 "David sonne of Josiah & Rebeccah Whetcombe borne, febr. 20, 1668."
  • p. 13 "Rebecca of Josiah & Rebecca Whetcomb, 12.9.71"
  • p. 14 "Johannah of Josiah & Rebecca Whetcomb, 8.1.73-4"
  • p. 15 "Deborah, Daughter of Josiah & Rebeccah Whitcomb, borne, Decemb: 26, 83"
  • p. 49 "Abigail Whetcomb y^e daughter of Josiah & Rebekkah Whetcomb was born March y^e. 13: 1687-8."

• Watertown Records (Fred G. Barker, Watertown, Mass., 1894-). Vol. 1, p. 8 (refers to a previously born Rebecca)
  • "Rebecca, d. Laurence and Anne, ––: 12m: 1639."
  • "Rebecca, d. Laurence and Anne, bur. 1: 1m: 1640. MCR"

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Vol. VII: T-Y. Boston: NEHGS, 2011, p. 254. AmericanAncestors.org($).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8} Nourse, Henry S. Early Records of Lancaster, Massachusetts. Lancaster: W. J. Coulter, 1884, pp. 315-319 (children's births); p. 320 (marriage). Archive.org.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Nourse, Henry S. The Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850. Lancaster, MA: W.J. Coulter, 1890, p. 11 (births of sons Josiah and marriage). Archive.org.
4. ↑ ^{4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12} Whitcomb, Charlotte. The Whitcomb Family in America. Minneapolis, MN: 1904, pp. 34, 396-400. Archive.org
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Crane, Ellery Bicknell, ed. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County Massachusetts with a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity. Vol. I-II. New York, NY: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1907, pp. 424-425. Ancestry Sharing Link (free access) - Ancestry Image ($).
6. ↑ "Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991", Middlesex, Probate #244454, images 654-660. Ancestry Sharing Link (free access) - Ancestry Image($): Will/probate of Rebecca Whetcomb.

See also:

• Holman, Mary Lovering. Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife Frances Helen Miller, vol. 1. Concord, NH: privately printed at the Rumford Press, 1948, pp. 94-97. Archive.org.
• The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 16, Oct 1862, p. 355. Archive.org: Lancaster Record Marriage
• Pope, Charles Henry: "Pioneers of Massachusetts"; Boston, C.H. Pope, 1900, p. 481 (parents, marriage). Archive.org
• "Find a Grave", database, Find A Grave: Memorial #50549031, Memorial page for Rebecca Waters Whitcomb (1 Feb 1644-1 Jan 1726).
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch
  • (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP8K-6R4K : 19 April 2021), Josiah Whitcombe and Rebecca Waters, 1664; citing Marriage, Lancaster, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011028.
  • (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-F25Q : 29 November 2018), Josiah Whitcomb and Rebecca, 4 Apr 1664; citing Marriage, Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007578571.
  • (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCSH-D51 : 10 November 2020), Receccah Waters in entry for Josiah Whetcombe, 4 Nov 1664; citing Marriage, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004198966.
  • (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPCH-1RRG : 19 April 2021), Josiah Whetcombe and Rebeccah Waters, 4 Nov 1664; citing Marriage, Lancaster, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011279.
  • (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCMB-LX4 : 10 November 2020), Rebeccah in entry for Josiah Whetcombe, 12 Feb 1665; citing Birth, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004198966.
  • (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC9N-8WT : 10 November 2020), Rebeccah in entry for Josiah Whetcombe, 12 Sep 1665; citing Death, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004198966.
  • (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCMB-LXN : 10 November 2020), Rebeccah in entry for Josiah Whetcombe, 7 Nov 1666; citing Birth, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004198966.
  • (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCM1-ZQR : 10 November 2020), Rebeccah in entry for David Whetoombe, 20 Feb 1668; citing Birth, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004198966.
  • (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC9M-5B2 : 10 November 2020), Rebecca in entry for Rebeccah Whitcomb, 12 Sep 1671; citing Birth, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004198966.
  • (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC9M-RX6 : 10 November 2020), Rebecca in entry for Johannah Whitcomb, 8 Jan 1674; citing Birth, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004198966.
  • (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC99-YPG : 10 November 2020), Rebekah in entry for Hezekiah Whitcomb, 14 Sep 1681; citing Birth, Lancaster, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004198966.
  • (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC99-Y56 : 10 November 2020), Rebekah in entry for Deborah Whitcomb, 26 Dec 1683; citing Birth, Lancaster, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004198966.
  • (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-DFBZ : 29 November 2018), Rebecca in entry for Josiah Whitcomb, 12 Apr 1718; citing Death, Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007578571.