Rebecca (Bell) Tryon (abt. 1744 - abt. 1776)

Born about 4 Jan 1744 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Tryon — married 8 Sep 1771 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died about 1776 at about age 31 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Rebecca was born about 1744. She was the first wife of Benjamin Tryon and they had one son, Benjamin. She passed away about 1776.

Sources

• Rebecca Bell in the Connecticut, U.S., Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), b. 4 Jan 1743/4, Stamford, Connecticut, dau. of Francis and Hannah Bell

• Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Stamford Vital Records, 1641-1852 p. 270-271

• Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Volume 110 Stamford, baptism 2 Sep 1750, with siblings Hannah, John, Francis, and Noah

• Rebecca Bell and Benjamin Trion in the Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, marriage 8 Sep 1771, Stamford, Connecticut

• Huntington, Elijah Baldwin. Stamford Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths (Wm. W. Gillespie, Stamford, Conn., 1874) Page 11. Birth record.

• Scofield, Blair C. & Spiers, Robert. Descendants of Richard Scofield (1613-1670) Part 2, Connecticut Ancestry (Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Stamford, Conn., May 1997) Vol. 29, No. 4, Page 171.

• Hecker, John Valentine. Genealogy of the Bell Family, NYGBR (NYGBS, 1897) Vol. 28, Page 203.