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Rebecca (Elmer) Diggins (abt. 1692 - abt. 1726)

Rebecca Diggins formerly Elmer
Born about in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colonymap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married about 1707 in Hartford, Connecticut Colonymap
Descendants descendants
Died about at about age 33 in Hartford, Connecticut Colonymap [uncertain]
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Biography

[1][2]When Rebecca Elmer was born on February 7, 1692, in Hartford, Connecticut, her father, Edward, was 38, and her mother, Rebecca, was 27. She had four brothers and four sisters. She died in 1726 at the age of 34.

[3] 8-Jeremiah Diggins (d 1736), at Hartford, Conn., as early as 1677; at Windsor, 1681; m Mary Caldwell (1600-1736; Thos., m. Elizaberth, dau. Dea. Edward Stebbins, of Hartford);

7-Jeremiah (1678/79-1745), m. Rebecca Elmore (b 1691/92; Edwd.);
6-John (1717-73), grad. Yale, 1740; of Portland, Conn.; capt.; m 1st Hannah ____; m 2nd, Ann ____ (d 1813, ae: 87);
5-Hannah, m 1778, Dr. Thomas Welles .

[4] Describing the children, grand children and great grandchildren of Governor Thomas Welles:

Ann (twin), b 17 Dec. 1727; d. at Chatham, 23 Apr. 1813 in 87th yr. (g. s.) m. Capt. John Diggins, b. abt. 1720, d. 20 Aug. 1773 ae. 57 (g. s.), B.A. (Yale, 1740), son of Jeremiah and Rebecca Diggins of Windsor.

Sources

  1. Hale, House and Related Families
  2. The Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. VII
  3. The Compendium of American Genealogy; Vol. VII; 1942; Baltimore; Genealogical Publishing Company; 1968. p. 305
  4. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. Baltimore, MD, USA: Jacobus, Donald Lines; Genealogical Publishing Co.; 2001. p. 785
  • Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Births [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001. [Rebecca Elmer, Father: Edward Elmer, Birth Date: 7 Feb 1691, City: Hartford, CT]
  • Harris, Gale Ion. Jeremiah and Mary (Cadwell) Diggins of Hartford and Windsor, Connecticut, The American Genealogist (Barrington, RI, 1995) Vol. 70, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/13130/19/0) Page 19 & Page 24.


Acknowledgements

Elmer-261 was created by Gordon Corey Ralls Jr (1931-2020) on 8 Jun 2013.




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