Rebecca Freeman

Descendant of Elder William Brewster, "Mayflower" Passenger and Mary Brewster, "Mayflower" Passenger

Rebecca Prence

• Gender: Female
• Birth: May 22 1627 Plymouth Colony
• Marriage: Apr 22 1646 Sandwich, Plymouth Colony
• Death: Before July 18 1651 Sandwich, Plymouth Colony
• Father: Governor Thomas Prence, Jr.
• Mother: Patience Brewster
• Husband: Edmond Freeman, Jr. - Married 22 April 1646

Children:

• Patience Burgess (born Freeman)
• Rebecca Perry (born Freeman)

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The Brewster genealogy, 1566-1907; a record of the descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower."

Rebecca, m. Apr. 22, 1646, as first w., Edmund Freeman, Jr., son of Edmund and Elizabeth Freeman, of Plymouth. He was b. in Eng. She "died soon after giving birth to her only child." Res. Sandwich, Mass. "He was deputy to the General Court from Sandwich, 1669, seven yrs."

Ch., b. at S.:

• 1 Rebecca* Freeman, d. Apr. 16, 1738; m. Ezra Perry, who d. Jan. 31, 1729-30. 7 chn.

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A genealogical profile of Thomas Prence], (pub. Plimoth Plantation and New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Citations

1. The Descendants of Elder William Brewster, Part 1, Generations 1 through 4, Barbara Lambert Merrick, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth MA, 2014, p. 143
2. https://First Settlers of Eastham, Massachusetts
3. William Richard Cutter, A. M., Genealogy - Boston and Eastern Massachusetts (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, 1908)
4. Susan E. Rosner - 1996 2nd editions, Mayflower Increasings CONT
5. History of the Town of Duxbury, Massachusetts
6. Cape Cod Library, vol. 1, The Prince-Howes Court Cupboard
7. Winsor, Justin. A History of the Town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, With Genealogical Registers, published online by Ancestry.com, The Generations Network, Inc., Provo, UT, 2007. Originally published Boston, 1849, reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1995.
8. Jones, Emma C. B. The Brewster genealogy, 1566-1907; a record of the descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower." ruling elder of the Pilgrim church which founded Plymouth colony in 1620. vol. 1. New York : The Grafton Press, 1908, p. 21 < Archive.Org >
9. http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prence-8
10. Thomas Prence - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Prence “Thomas Prence married four times. He married his first wife, Patience, on August 5, 1624. Patience was the daughter of William Brewster. They had four children before she died of a "pestilent fever" in 1634. The children were named Rebecca, Thomas, Hannah and Mercy.[36]”
    1. Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620–1691, (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), pp. 340, 341
    2. 5. A genealogical profile of Thomas Prence], (pub. Plimoth Plantation and New England Historic Genealogical Society. Retrieved 2013-03-23 Archived 2012-11-01 at the Wayback Machine. < PDF >