Rebecca (Unknown) Bangs (abt. 1615 - bef. 1677)

Wife of Edward Bangs — married about 1636 in Massachusetts [uncertain]

Descendants

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Rebecca (Unknown) Bangs migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Disputed Origin

Wikitree Puritan Great Migration project states that the conclusions of (the author) Robert Charles Anderson are to be followed, unless more recent information indicates otherwise. Of Edward's wife Rebecca, Anderson has in his Comments for Edward Bangs: "Citing a supposed entry in the Hobart diary, Mary Walton Ferris suggested that Rebecca (Unknown) Bangs was Rebecca Hobart (1611-?), daughter of Edmund Hobart of Hingham, but this entry may not have existed, and the identity of Rebecca (____) Bangs remains unknown."^[1]

For an analysis of this disputed origin, see Rebecca (Unknown) Bangs Disputed Origins

Biography

Rebecca's parents, birth date, marriage date and death date are all guesses as the only known reference to Rebecca, the wife of Edward Bangs, is found in a deed of 22 June 1651.In 1651 Edward Bangs sold to Mannasses Kemton 40 acres for £13 "neare Brownes Rock...furthermore Rebeckah the Wife of the said Edward Banges doth...giue her free consent vnto the sale..." In that deed Edward Bangs is joined by his wife Rebecca in selling land in Plymouth to Manasses Kemton, to which "Rebeckah the said wife of Edward Banges" consented.^[2]

About all that can be said concerning Rebecca is that she married Edward Bangs before 22 Jun. 1651, and therefore she was the mother of the twins born 15 Oct. 1651.

A birth date of "about 1615" is based on the assumption that the birth of Edward's oldest child, Joshua Bangs, was born about 1637 (which itself is a guess) and that Joshua was indeed Rebecca's child. If Joshua was born about 1637 and was Rebecca's child, then Rebecca's birth was probably sometime before 1617 and was probably in England.

She apparently died prior to 19 Oct. 1677, as Edward Bangs' will was dated October 19, 1677, which mentions children and grandchildren but does not mention a spouse.^[3][4]

Sources

1. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 Volumes I-III:90, digital images by subscription AmericanAncestors.org.
2. ↑ David Pulsifer, ed., “Deeds, &c, Vol. 1, 1620-1651,” 95, in Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England : Printed by Order of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Vol. 209, (New York: AMS Press, 1968), digital image of transcription available Archive.org.
3. ↑ "Wills 1633-1686 vol 1-4," 3:2:106-07 Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967, State Archives, Boston, digital images 448 and 449 of 616 by subscription FamilySearch.org.
4. ↑ Dean Dudley, History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America : With Genealogical Tables and Notes, Tracing the Descendants, Male and Female, from the Pilgrim Ancestor, Edward Bangs of Plymouth and Eastham : Illustrated with Numerous Fine Engravings (Massachusetts: Dean Dudley, 1896) 15-16, digital images by subscription at FamilySearch.org