Rebecca Baxter

Not the same as Rebecca Risley

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LBT1-4HD/rebecca-adams-1655-1732

Rebecca Adams

Birth • 0 Sources 1655 Westchester, New York Colony, British Colonial America

Age 77 Death • 0 Sources after 21 July 1732 Westchester, New York Colony, British Colonial America

SPOUSES AND CHILDREN

Thomas Baxter 1653-1713

Marriage: 1670

Rebecca Adams 1655-1732

Children (11)

Thomas Baxter 1675-1727

Mary Baxter 1677-1715

John Baxter 1679-1727

Rebecca Baxter 1682-1771

Dorcas Baxter 1685-1760

Abigail Baxter 1687-1738

Keziah Baxter 1693-1760

Elizabeth Baxter 1693-1760

Miriam Baxter 1696-1772

Phebe Baxter 1698-1719

James Baxter
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PARENTS AND SIBLINGS

John Adams 1632-1703

Marriage: 8 May 1677 Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America

Dorcas Watson 1638-1707

Children (4)

John Adams 1654-1654

Rebecca Adams 1655-1732

Jonathan Adams 1677-

Dorcas Adams 1678-1749

Thomas Baxter Jr. married Rebecca Adams / Smith in Westchester about 1674,[5]

Rebecca and Thomas Baxter Jr. had, in Westchester:

1. Thomas, b. Aug. 14, 1675, m. Abigail _ about 1695
2. Mary, b. 1677, m. _Kinison
3. John, b. May 11, 1679, m. Mary Honeywell
4. Rebecca, b. 1682, m. John Palmer (born 22 Jan 1670-1 in Bronx) on 31 OCT 1700 in Bronx, Westchester, NY
5. Dorcas, b. 1685, m. George Tippett of Yonkers
6. Abigail, b. May 14, 1687, m. Joseph Betts before 1709, then Abraham Emmons, both of Yonkers
7. Keziah, b. 1690, m. Charles Glover
8. Elizabeth, b. July 1, 1693, m. Samuel Sands, son of Samuel and Mary Pell Sands
9. Miriam, b. 1696, m. Underhill Barnes
10. Phebe, b. 1698, m. — Drake
11. James, b. Jan. 1, 1702-3, m. Ann Gillian

Thomas Baxter died in Westchester, must have been shortly before his will was proved on January 18, 1715-16.

Origins

Not the daughter of Abigail Betts & John Adams, of Hartford

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Adams-32135

Rebecca, according to one secondary source, is considered by someone unnamed to be the daughter of John and Dorcas Watson Adams, of Hartford.[1] However, that John Adams of Hartford married Abigail Smith, and that couple is recorded as having a daughter Rebecca, but she seems to have married a different man, Richard Risley. Dorcas Watson, on the other hand, was the daughter of John Watson of Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay, married first Timothy Dwight of Medfield and second John Adams of Ipswich[2] and there are no indications that she ever got to Hartford, Connecticut. So her parentage is doubtful. More research needed.

Citations

• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~jcahill/genealogy/westchtr.htm#id5588
• The Baxter Family: Descendants of George and Thomas Baxter, of Westchester ... By Frances Baxter. Page 34. link