Rebecca (Baldwin) Linsley (1707 - 1806)

Rebecca Linsley formerly Baldwin aka Lindsley

Born 28 Oct 1707 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Daughter of George Baldwin and Deborah (Rose) Baldwin

Sister of John Baldwin, Phoebe (Baldwin) Bartholomew, Israel Baldwin, Elizabeth (Baldwin) Butler, Deborah (Baldwin) Johnson, Martha (Baldwin) Butler, Daniel Baldwin, Noah Baldwin and Zillah (Baldwin) Page

Wife of Matthew Linsley — married 9 Jan 1734 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut

Descendants

Mother of Samuel Lindsley

Died 16 Sep 1806 at age 98 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Father: George Baldwin; mother: Deborah Unknown

Name

Rebecca Baldwin

Sources

The genealogy of John Lindsley (1845-1909) and his wife Virginia Thayer Payne (1856-1941) of Boston, Massachusetts by Herbert Armstrong Poole (1950), pg. 215
Connecticut Town Records (Barbour Collection), 1707 & 1733/4
Baldwin, Charles Candee. The Baldwin Genealogy From 1500 To 1881 (Leader Printing Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 1881) Page 304.

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[Living Winter]

Unlikely her husband was 25 years younger than her. Perhaps Joseph John was her son instead? And perhaps this is the same Rebecca Baldwin who m. Matthew Linsley? (See unmerged match.)

There's problems with this John as her son, too, since she would have been over 70 when he was born.

posted Jan 03, 2019 by [Living Winter]

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