Rebecca (Southworth) Nichols (1721 - 1757)

Born 14 Oct 1721 in Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Ezra Lee — married 9 Oct 1740 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut, British Colonial America [uncertain]

Wife of Isaac Nichols — married 10 Feb 1756 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 30 Jun 1757 at age 35 in Derby, New Haven County, Connecticut

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Biography

Rebecca was born in 1721. She is the daughter of Samuel Southworth and Abigail Unknown. She passed away in 1757.

Ezra who married a Miss Southard of Lyme, and had by her several children, one of whom married the Rev. Richard C. Graham, of Dedham, Mass., and after his death, a Mr. King of Palmer, Mass.; another daughter married the Rev. Moses Baldwin, also of Palmer. ^[1]

Married (1) Ezra Lee

Married (2) Ephraim Hinman

Married (3) Isaac Nichols

Birth

1721. ^[2], ^[3], ^[4]

Christening

December, 1721. Baptized in the Bristol Church. ^[3]

Marriage

Spouse: Ezra Lee. ^[1],
1740. ^[5], ^[3]

Death

1757. ^[6], ^[4]

In 1774, her heirs received a distribution from her brother, Eleazer's estate.^[7]

Burial

~01 July 1757 - ^[6]
xxx Cemetery
city, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA.
Plot: .

Research Notes

1. The town of Bristol was transferred from Massachusetts to Rhode Island in 1747.
2. Father: Samuel Southworth. ^[3], ^[4]
3. Mother: Abigail Unknown. ^[3]
4. Mother: Abigail Giles. ^[4]
5. Rebecca is #1947 in the Webber book. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Hill: Page 5.
2. ↑ .
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5} Webber: Page 197.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Source: #OR01 LDS PRF.
5. ↑ .
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} .
7. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 15-16, 1764-1775”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-Y939-H  : 21 June 2022), FHL microfilm 007627304, image 430, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 16, 1767-1775, Page 344.

• Hill, William H. Genealogical Table of the Lee Family (Weed, Parsons & Company, Albany, New York, 1851).
• Webber, Samuel Gilbert. A genealogy of the Southworths (Southards) descendants of Constant Southworth (Boston, Mass.: Fort Hill Press, 1905).

See also: OR01 Pedigree Resource File. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:37D4-YK7 : accessed 2017-02-09), entry for Rebecca /Southworth/. Retrieved 08 February 2017.