Rebecca (Eaton) Thomson (1749 - 1777)

Born 7 May 1749 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Richard Thompson — married 1 Sep 1772 (to 1777) in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 30 May 1777 at age 28 in Rindge, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States

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Biography

Rebecca was born 7 May 1749 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony. She was the daughter of John Eaton and Elizabeth Boutwell.^[1]

The marriage intention for Rebecka and Richard Thomson of Wilmington was published in Reading 26 Dec 1771.^[2] Their marriage was recorded in Billerica, Middlesex as in Charleston 1 Sep 1772.^[3]

Their children include:

• Rebecca, b 19 Dec 1773 Rindge, Cheshire, New Hampshire^[4]
• Richard, b 31 Jul 1775 Rindge, Cheshire, New Hampshire^[5]
• Jerusha, b 26 May 1777 Rindge, Cheshire, New Hampshire^[6]

She passed away 30 May 1777 in Rindge, Cheshire, New Hampshire shortly after the birth of a child..^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project: Middlesex, Reading Births p 79
2. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project: Middlesex, Reading Marriages p 328
3. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project: Middlesex, Billerica Marriages p 250
4. ↑ "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLP6-YP6 : 23 February 2021), Rebecca in entry for Rebecca Thompson, 19 Dec 1773; citing Rindge, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,001,048.
5. ↑ "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLP6-Y5Q : 23 February 2021), Rebecca in entry for Richard Thompson, 31 Jul 1775; citing Rindge, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,001,048.
6. ↑ "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL5J-WFS : 23 February 2021), Rebecca in entry for Jerusha Thompson, 26 May 1777; citing Rindge, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,001,047.
7. ↑ "New Hampshire, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1636-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPMX-5XGV : 9 March 2021), Rebecca Thompson, 30 May 1777; citing Death, Rindge, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records and Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 005468817.

• Memorial of James Thompson, of Charlestown, Mass., 1630-1642, and Woburn, Mass., 1642-1682; and of eight generations of his descendants by Thompson, Leander, 1812-1896. 1n; Thompson Memorial Association p. 67 His number is 163.

See also:

• Family Search profile KHXY-ZS4