She married Joseph Brewster on 28 Sep 1761[1][2]. She was in her 56th year when she passed on December 28, 1797 and is buried in the Joseph Brewster Cemetery in Setauket, Suffolk, New York, USA.[3]
birth date unknown
Sources
↑ 1.01.1North America, Family HIstories, 1500-2000:
"North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000"
Book Title: Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 148 : 1919 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 61157 #3665593 (accessed 20 August 2022)
Name: Rebecca Mills; Gender: Female; Birth Date: 1742; First Marriage Date: 1761; Death Date: 1797; Spouse: Joseph Brewster; Child: Isaac Brewster.
↑ 2.02.1Benjamin F. Thompson:
"North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000"
Book Title: A Documentary history of the family of Mills : descended from George Mills of Hempstead and Jamaica Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 61157 #2876674 (accessed 20 August 2022)
Name: Rebecca Mills; Gender: Female; Birth Date: 1 Jul 1742; First Marriage Date: 28 Sep 1761; Father: Isaac Mills; Mother: Hannah Miller; Spouse: Joseph Brewster.
↑ Headstone Inscription found at Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67639972/rebecca-brewster: accessed 20 August 2022), memorial page for Rebecca Mills Brewster (10 Feb 1735–28 Dec 1797), Find A Grave: Memorial #67639972, citing Joseph Brewster Cemetery, Setauket, Suffolk County, New York, USA; Maintained by Arleen Koello (contributor 47001400).
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rebecca by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rebecca:
Mills-14908 and Mills-9424 appear to represent the same person because: Rebecca Mills (-9424) married Joseph Brewster, b. 1735 and had a son named Joseph Brewster (1764-1808) as well as a daughter named Rebecca Brewster (who married a Woodhull) and was born 1762. I believe that some conflation has occurred, because of repetitive names in a family tree together with lovely and invaluable verbal histories. Merging these two Rebecca's can solve the problem. The profile of the younger Joseph (b. 1764) does not need to be merged.