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About Rebecca Harndell
Escaped in a shallot or shallop (small boat) after husband was killed by Indians, according to legend.
MARRIAGE:
- By about 1639 to Richard Maxson
- by 1647 John Harndell (Mary, daughter of 'John Harndell,' born at Newport 6 Jul 1647 [RIVR 7:64]).
CHILDREN:
- i. JOHN MAXSON, b. abt 1639 (d. Westerly 17 Dec 1720, "in the 82nd year of his life" [Walter LeRoy Brown, The Maxson Family (n.p. 1954), 2, citing tombstone "in the Clark burying ground near the Paytucket river"]); m. by about 1667 Mary _____[Austin 342-43].
- ii. REBECCA MAXSON, b. say 1641; m. by about 1660 Hugh Mosher [Mosher Gen 1-3]
- Iii. MARY HARNDELL b 6 July 1647
notes
From http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=edmason%5...
We know little about Rebecca MAXSON HARNDELL. After her return to Rhode Island from Throgg's Neck, NY, she appeared in a record in 1644 in which she received payment for land her husband sold in Portsmouth in 1642. There she was called Goodwife MAXSON, (a title like Mrs.). (21) Rebecca was also mentioned indirectly in another land sale record. In this record, dated Jan 15, 1657, Richard MORRIS of Portsmouth sold land to Thomas BROWNELL which consisted of a parcel of land of 31 acres in Portsmouth which had been granted by the townsmen of Portsmouth to Richard MAXSON, deceased and sold by the widow of Richard MAXSON to Richard MORRIS. (15)
Comments
The Maxson Family Association states that "We know less about Rebecca and definitely nothing about her birth, her maiden name, or arrival in Boston. After Richard's death, she married John Harndell and they lived in Rhode Island or nearby Mass (possibly Bristol County). To the best of our knowledge, she did not die in N.Y."
Most of what we know of the structure of the family of this immigrant derives from the will of John Harndell. In his will, dated 9 Feb 1684/5 and proved 8 Apr 1698, "John Harndall of Newport on Rhode Island" included bequests to "my son-in-law John Maxson" and "my daughter-in-law Rebeckah Mosure the wife of Hugh Mosure of Portsmouth on Rhode Island" [Newport Town Council 5:131-2]. Austin provided an incomplete and inaccurate abstract of this will, and concluded that Rebecca was John Harndell's daughter [Austin 93]. In 1990 Mildred Chamberlain and Laura Clarenbach pointed out this error and concluded that both John Maxson and Rebecca Mosure were children of Richard Maxson, and that John Harndell must have married the widow of Richard Maxson [Desc. of Hugh Mosher and Rebecca Maxson through 7 generations, pp. 1-3 (cited above as Mosher Gen)].
There is some controversy regarding the identity of Richard Maxson's wife. She has been referred to as "Goodwife" Maxson ... as well as Rebeccah (Marbury) Maxson, a daughter of Rev. Francis Marbury. There is good circumstantial evidence that she was a half sister of Anne Hutchinson, (the "Dissenter"), which explains much of the Maxson storyline for Richard after he immigrated in 1634. However, there is no indication in the Marbury (rev. Francis Marbury, Anne's father) or the Hutchinson's (Anne's husband) family line that shows a Rebeccah Marbury marrying a Richard Maxson.
Citations
- 1.[S50] Sarah George Zakzrewski, "Sarah Zakrzewski Family Tree."
- 2.[S182] Maxson Family Association, online http://www.maxson2000.net/
- 3.[S12] Register Report, online http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sam/mosher.html#G1
- 4. The Great Migration Project
Links
http://www.citereh.com/p6.htm#i276
Rebecca (?)1,2,3 (F)
Last name unKnown, but possibly either Hutchinson or Goodwife
b. circa 1615,
Rebecca (?) was born circa 1615. She married Richard Maxson.
Her married name was Maxson.
Children of Rebecca (?) and Richard Maxson:
John Maxson b. 1638, d. 17 Dec 1720
Rebecca Maxson+ b. c 1640, d. bt 29 Dec 1707 - 25 Feb 1708
Citations
[S50] Sarah George Zakzrewski, "Sarah Zakrzewski Family Tree".
[S137] Maxson Family Association, online http://www.maxson2000.net.
This source shows marriage to John Harndall as first marriage: Rebecca born in Rhode Island, married and widowed young, traveled to England, married again to John Maxson, and then returning at some time to America.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~judfan/59968.html
Rebecca -Maxson Harndall
Born: 1604, Aquidneck, Washington Co., RI
Marriage (1): John Harndall
Marriage (2): Richard Maxson in 1624 in England
Died: 1643, Throgg's Neck, NY at age 39
Rebecca married John Harndall. (John Harndall died.)
Rebecca next married Richard Maxson, son of John Maxson, in 1624 in England. (Richard Maxson was born in 1602 in England and died in 1643 in Westerly, Washington Co., RI.)
Richard came to America on the ship, " Griffen" in 1634 In the ships manifest list:
William Hutchinson and his wife,Ann Marbury Hutchinson with ten children.
Richard Maxson and his wife, Rebecca Marbury Maxson with two children.
Richard Scott and his wife, Catherine Marbury Scott.
Ann , Rebecca and Catherine were daughters of Rev. Frances Marbury and Bridget Dryden of London,England.
The names above are of importance to the Maxson lineage. Naturally there were more aboard the ship but many did not survive the trip across the Alantic.
In Sept. 1643, Ann Hutchinson and five of her children were massacred by Pequot Indians at Pelham Bay, Long Island, New York. Anns youngest child, Susanna was taken captive . She was released four years later.
- See "Ann Hutchinson" in Encyclopedia
Richard Maxson and his family escaped by small boat. Richard and his son went back to try to help Ann and her children . They also were killed by the Indians.
Rebecca and her remaining child rowed the boat to safety in Rhode Island.
More About Richard Maxon and Rebecca Marbury: Marriage: Jan 02, 1627/28, London, England.
Children of Richard Maxon and Rebecca Marbury are: +Rev. John Maxon, Sr., b. Mar 24, 1637/38, Portsmouth, Westerly County., Rhode Island, United States d.
Richard Maxon, b. 1629, d. date unknown.
Rebecca Maxon, b. 1630, d. date unknown.
[http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/t/h/r/Paul-Throgmorton-OH/WEBSITE-0001...]
Disproved Origins
“The parentage of the wife of Richard Maxson may be uncertain. While she has been shown as a child of Rev. Francis Marbury & Bridget Dryden, there are some inconsistencies of siblings' dates which may call that into question.”
Francis Marbury did NOT have a daughter Rebecca. Disconnected as their daughter Oct 2018
- Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Feb 22 2017, 16:12:25 UTC
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LBP1-F65
This is a fictitious name for Mrs. Maxson made from an old error. She was not a Marbury. She is probably the same as Mrs. Maxson. But NOT Marbury. Read the Maxson and Hutchinson scholarly sources inc. "The Great Migration."
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LBJG-S4B
Mrs. Rebecca Maxson was not a Marbury and not in the family of Rev Francis Marbury. See "The Ancestry of Anne Hutchinson,"
https://books.google.com/books?id=5dYUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=...
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-371019
Biography
Richard Maxson and his wife are believed to have come to Boston in 1634 on board the ship "Griffin". Richard was a follower, and his wife, possibly a relative, [not sister] of the religious dissenter Anne Hutchinson who also came on the Griffin.
Richard joined the Church in Boston. On 2 Oct 1634, "Richard Magson servant to our brother James Everill," was admitted to Boston church [BChR 18].
When Anne Hutchinson was banished from Boston, the Maxson family went with her to Rhode Island. They were granted 36 acres of land in Newport and additional land in Portsmouth (Pocasset), where they were some of the original settlers. [2]
On 7 Feb. 1639 Richard, while a blacksmith in Portsmouth, was accused of "oppression by way of his trade" (profiteering) and "promised amendment and satisfaction."[3]
He sold their property in Rhode Island to William Roulston in 1642, but followed Anne Hutchinson to Long Island Sound before he received payment for the property. They were part of the first settlers of Throgs Neck, then called "Maxson's Point," on the north shore of Long Island Sound, in the present county of Westchester, NY.
The family lived near what is now Pelham Bay and peacefully traded with the Indians until Kieft's War of 1643. The local Indians stopped trading with the settlement and used as their excuse that they were afraid of the unconfined dogs. They then attacked the settlement and massacred many townsmen.
Richard and his family escaped by boat, but he and Richard Jr. went back ashore for supplies and were killed. Rebecca and her two remaining children made it back to Rhode Island, where in 1644 she received money from William Roulston for the property he purchased of them in 1642.
Rebecca Maxson [Mosher], daughter of Richard Maxson, blacksmith, [testified that] her father had been killed by the Indians, while she and her brother John Maxson were still infants and her mother had later married John Harndell.[4]
She married (2) by 1647 John Harndell (Mary, daughter of 'John Harndell,' born at Newport 6 Jul 1647 [RIVR 7:64]).
Unknown (Unknown) Harndell (abt. 1605 - abt. 1656)
Unknown "Rebecca" [uncertain] Harndell formerly [surname unknown] aka Maxson
Born about 1605 in England
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling%28s%29 unknown]
Wife of Richard Maxson — married 1624 (to 1643) in England
Wife of John Harndell — married 1645 in Rhode Island
Mother of Richard Maxson, Rebecca (Maxson) Mosher, John Maxson Sr. and Mary (Harndell) Stanton
Died about 1656 at about age 51 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island
Profile last modified 8 Dec 2023 | Created 30 May 2017
Unknown (Unknown) Harndell migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
Disputed Identity and Parents and Husband
It has been alleged that the name of Richard Maxson's wife was Rebecca Marbury. There is no known evidence to support this. We don't even know if the given name of Richard Maxson's wife was Rebecca -- there isn't any record that gives her name. And we have no way of knowing if her surname was Marbury. Furthermore, there is no reason to think that Francis Marbury (the father of Anne Hutchinson) had a daughter Rebecca.
There seems to be no connection via the Marbury or Hutchinson family trees, which are well documented- nor via Rev. Francis Marbury's first wife, Elizabeth Moore.
It may have been that the Maxsons were simply of like religious mind and ended up accompaning Anne Hutchinson on her journey to Portsmouth, RI and eventually to Eastchester, NY. where they both [?] died at the hands of the local American natives in 1643.
The sale in Portsmouth RI of land to her seems to address her as simply "Goodwife Maxson".
"Rebecca Marbury" should not be attached as the the daughter of Francis Marbury or unless there is some documentary evidence to support such connections.
In 1990 Mildred Chamberlain and Laura Clarenbach concluded that both John Maxson and Rebecca Mosure were children of Richard Maxson, and that John Harndell must have married the widow of Richard Maxson [Desc. of Hugh Mosher and Rebecca Maxson through 7 generations, pp. 1-3.][1]
Sources
↑ Anderson, op fit
↑ The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-35, by Robert Charles Anderson, et al. (1999-), v. 5, p. 102-104
↑ Rhode Island RICR 1:66
↑ http://jfredpeterson.com/tree/g12maxs.htm#A1
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Rebecca Harndell's Timeline
| 1615 |
1615
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England
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| 1624 |
1624
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England
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| 1637 |
February 6, 1637
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Aquidneck, Washington County, Rhode Island, Colonial America
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| 1638 |
March 24, 1638
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Aquidneck, Newport, Rhode Island, Colonial America
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| 1647 |
July 6, 1647
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Newport, Aquidneck Island (Present Newport County), Colony of Rhode Island
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| 1657 |
January 15, 1657
Age 42
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Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America
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| 1922 |
August 29, 1922
Age 307
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November 10, 1922
Age 307
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