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Rebecca Morehouse (Odell)

Also Known As: "Odle", "Woodhull", "Rebecca. Odell"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Death: 1696 (53-54)
Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut Colony
Immediate Family:

Daughter of William Odell, Sr., of Fairfield and Rebecca Odell
Wife of Thomas Morehouse and Lt. Samuel Morehouse
Mother of Samuel Morehouse, Jr.; Thomas Morehouse, Sr; Rebecca Hubbell; Elizabeth Sherwood; Hannah Rumsey and 6 others
Sister of William Odell, Jr.; James Odell and John Odell, I
Half sister of William Odell, (died young) and Thomas Odell

Managed by: Francis Gene Dellinger
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About Rebecca Morehouse

REBECCA2 ODELL (William1), daughter of (1) William1 and Rebecca ODELL, was born on 17 July 1642 in Concord[2], and died between 1679 and 1752. She married (AAG-3) LT. SAMUEL MOREHOUSE, son of (AAG-1) Thomas and Isabel MOREHOUSE, who was born circa 1637[3], died in 1687 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA[3, 1], and was buried in Fairfield[3]. [4, 5, 2]

Children

  • i. SAMUEL3, d. in 1732 in Stratfield, Fairfield Co.
  • ii. REBECCA, d. on 2 April 1692; m. RICHARD HUBBELL on 5 Nov. 1685.
  • iii. THOMAS; m. (SG-2) MARY HILL on 3 April 1690 in Boston, Suffolk Co.,Mass.
  • iv. ELIZABETH; m. (1) MATTHEW SHERWOOD JR.; m. (2) REV. CHARLES CHAUNCEY on 4 March 1710; m. (3) LT. RICHARD MILES on 10 April 1716 in Stratfield.
  • v. JOHN; m. (DA-14) RUTH BARLOW.
  • vi. HANNAH; m. BENJAMIN RUMSEY.
  • vii. MARY; m. ISRAEL CURTIS circa 1693.
  • viii. DANIEL, b. circa 1679, d. on 24 May 1739 in Fairfield; m. HANNAH ADAMS.
  • ix. JAMES.
  • x. ANN.

Notes

Jan. 26, 1687, Rebecka Morehouse, widow of decedent being about to marry again, acknowledged the receipt of all legacies from my son Thomas Morehouse, executor of the will of decedent. Witnesses Mathew Sherman and Jonathan Squire, page 223

Citations

  • 1. Donald Lines Jacobus, "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. I", copy online at Ancestry.com, p.419.
  • 2. Ibid., p.445.
  • 3. Cornelius Starr Morehouse, "[Ancestry and Descendants] of Gershom Morehouse, Jr., of Redding, Connecticut", 1991.
  • 4. Ibid., p.8.
  • 5. Elizabeth Hubbell Schenck, "The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut", New York, 1889, p.395
  • "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ6W-VWR : 10 February 2018), William Odle in entry for Rebecca Odle, 17 Jul 1642; citing CONCORD,MIDDLESEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0823762 IT 1.
  • Morehouse, Cornelius Starr. Ancestry and Descendants of Gershom Morehouse, Jr., of Redding, Connecticut (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven Conn., 1894) Page 8 link
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Rebecca Morehouse's Timeline

1642
July 17, 1642
Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
July 17, 1642
Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
July 17, 1642
Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts
1664
1664
Stratfield, Fairfield Co., Conn.
1666
1666
Westport, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America
1668
September 3, 1668
Fairfield, Fairfield Co., CT
1668
Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut Colony
1669
1669
1669