Rebecca Chester

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Rebecca Ralston, the second daughter of Robert and Sarah (nee Clarkson) Ralston, was born March 3, 1791, and married, June 1, 1818, Rev. John Chester, son of John and Elizabeth (nee Huntington) Chester, who was born August 17, 1785. His father, Col. John Chester, was a graduate of Yale; sat in the Connecticut Legislature, being speaker at one time; served with distinction as a Captain at the Battle of Bunker's Hill; was afterwards, June 20, 1776, commissioned Colonel of the Connecticut State Regiment, Continental Line; was a member of the Council of Connecticut, 1788-91, and again in 1803; served as Supervisor of the district of Connecticut for ten years, 1791-1801, and was for some time County Judge of Probate. The son, Rev. John Chester, graduated from Yale in 1804; studied theology under Rev. Joseph Lyman, D. D.; was licensed to preach in 1807, and was ordained and installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Hudson, New York, November 21, 1810, where he remained until November 3, 1815, at which time he became pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, in Albany. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Union College in 1821. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in 1823. Dr. Chester died in Philadelphia, January 12, 1829; his widow, nee Ralston, at Dedham, Massachusetts, October 28, 1856. Six children resulted from this union, all daughters, as follows: Sarah Ralston, Elizabeth Huntington, Hannah Chauncey, Mary Wells, Rebecca Ralston and Maria Dorsey, of whom the last-named died in infancy. The others all married.

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