Born in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Daughter of Lewis Lombard
and Sarah (Parker) Lombard
Sister of
Hannah Lombard, Hannah (Lombard) Sellew [half], Lewis Lombard [half] and Elizabeth (Lombard) Chapman [half]
Wife of
David Smith
— married
9 Apr 1767 in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Mother of
Sarah (Smith) Paine, Lewis Lombard Smith, David Smith Jr., Isaac Smith, Parker Smith, Harding Smith, Rebecca (Smith) McDaniel and John Smith
Died
at age 74
in Port Hood Island, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Sep 2010
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Biography
Rebecca was born in Truro, Massachusetts in 1747, the daughter of Lewis Lombard and Sarah Parker. She married David Smith in Truro, Massachusetts in 1767. She moved with David and their family to Nova Scotia in 1884, first to Guysboro, and then to Port Hood. She died in 1821.
Tombstone Inscription: "Here lies the remains of Rebecca Smith who was born in Truro NEW ENG-LAND with her husband CAPTAIN DAVID SMITH who was lost on the ice back on Port Hood in the year 1789. Who died on the 30th November A.D. 1821 in the 76th year of her age.
This stone was erected to her memory by her sons Lewis L. Parker SMITH David"
Sources
- Smith, Perley W., The Smiths of Cape Breton - A History of Port Hood and Port Hood Island with the Geneology of the Smith Family, 1610 - 1967. privately published, 1967, pp. 285.
- Massachusetts Vital Records, Truro, Marriages, http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Barnstable/Truro/aMarriagesS.shtml
- Rebecca Lombard Smith, Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176667310/rebecca-smith
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rebecca by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rebecca:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rebecca by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rebecca:
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~2.34%
Sara (Smith) Pelrine
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch YJ4773227 [compare], yourDNAportal SAR956ecc68, Ancestry member SarPelrine
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~1.56%
Jacob Smith :
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AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Jim Ballantyne :
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Brian McCarthy :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A020964 [compare], Ancestry member hotwings9
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~1.56%
Eileen (McCloskey) Cain :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A880667 [compare]
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~1.56%
Diana Silva :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member diana_195056
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~1.17%
Bryce Bigelow :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member bryce_rocks2
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~0.39%
Rob Salisbury :
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