Rebecca (Follett) Brown (bef. 1701 - abt. 1774)

Born before 21 Jul 1701 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of William Brown — married 27 Oct 1725 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died about 1774 after about age 72 in Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Rebecca was the daughter of Abraham Follett and Sarah Callum. She was christened on 21 Jul 1701 in Massachusetts.

(Her name is variously spelled in records as Rebeckah or Rebeccah and Folitt or Follet, Folet, etc.)

She was William Brown's second wife. The Vital Record source below notes at. p. 138: “FOLLETT Rebeckah and William Brown, both of Rehoboth, married by Rev. John Greenwood Oct. 27, 1725. Int. Oct. 2, 1725.” (Note: Int. refers to when Intention to marry was filed.)

William and Rebeckah had children: Noah Brown, Isaac Brown, and Ann Brown.

She was the administratrix of her husband's estate, per the lengthy Mayflower Descendant article below in sources. This article provides excellent information on his estate and the Brown family.

Sources

• Rhode Island, Vital Extracts, 1636-1899 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Arnold, James Newell. Rhode Island Vital Extracts, 1636–1850. 21 volumes. Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, 1891–1912. Digitized images from New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. (Marriage to William)

• [Research note: I am not sure if this Rhode Island record applies to this couple and have no access to the record to check what it says - Follett-757.]

• "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FHGZ-YMJ : accessed 15 Sep 2014), William Brown and Rebeckah Folett, 02 Oct 1725; citing Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, reference ; FHL microfilm 1987644.

• Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642 - 1895, Marriages, Intentions, Births, Deaths (Part. 1 Section 1), by James N. Arnold (Providence, R.I. 1897), at p. 138, available at: https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordofreh00arno/page/138

• The Mayflower Descendant: A Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, Vol. 20, Editor: George Ernest Bowman (Boston 1918), The Estate of William Brown Of Rehoboth, Mass., pp. 178-190, available at google books. (Rebecca Follit Brown, wife, as administratrix of William Brown's estate)

• Wright Family Genealogy, Rebeckah FOLLETT, at: https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tcwlmo&id=I73360 ID: I73360 . (accessed 16 Sep 2018).

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 01 March 2020), memorial page for Rebecca Follett Wilmarth (1701–1774), Find A Grave: Memorial #201973702, citing Briggsville Burial Ground, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by CMWJR (contributor 50059520) .

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 01 March 2020), memorial page for William Brown (2 Jun 1690–26 Feb 1732), Find A Grave: Memorial #203335026, citing Newman Cemetery, East Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA ; Maintained by CMWJR (contributor 50059520) .

• Rebeckah Follett (21 Jul 1701 - 18 Apr 1774), FamilySearch profile, person ID LZ2X-XQ3, at: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZ2X-XQ3 .

• Dearborn, David Curtis. The Callum/Collum Family of Salem and Mendon, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, The American Genealogist (Barrington, RI, 1995) Vol. 70, Page 4.
• Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2

• Mayflower Society Application Database: "Community Trees," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:QV7Q-31H : accessed 11 August 2021), entry for Rebecca Follett, cites sources; "Mayflower Pilgrim Genealogies" file (2:2:2:MMXD-DP8), submitted 24 February 2020 by FamilySearch. Source: Ann Smith Lainhart, Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations - Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass December 1620 (Vol. 23 pt. 1) ([Plymouth, Massachusetts]: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2006s