Lemuel Billings (1757 - 1797)

Born 24 Jul 1757 in Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Rawson) Billings — married 3 Apr 1783 in Braintree, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 14 Oct 1797 at age 40 in Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Lemuel was born 24 July 1757, a son of John Billings and Mary Crosby of Dorchester, Massachusetts^[1]

On 3 April 1783, in Braintree, he married Mary Rawson, daughter of Jonathan Rawson and Susanna Stone^{[2] [3]}

Children included:

1. Mary, born 1783, who married William Glover
2. Eunice, born 1784, who died in 1802
3. Hannah, born 1788, who married Thomas Adams
4. John, born 1792, who married Lydia Faxon

He passed away in 1797

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). See Dorchester V1, page 156, which states Lemuel Billing the Son of John and Mary Billing was Born July 24th. 1757.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZY-FJVH : Sat Mar 09 08:42:00 UTC 2024), Entry for Lemuel Billing and Mary Rawson, 3 Apr 1783.
3. ↑ The Rawson family : a revised memoir or Edward Rawson, secretary of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, from 1650-1686, with genealogical notices of his descendants, including nine generations by Crane, Ellery Bicknell, Publication date 1875; Publisher Worcester [Mass.] : E.B. Crane. See person 498 for Mary Rawson