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About Rebecca Mosher
- Rebecca Maxson Mosher - Find A grave - D 148649818
Daughter of Richard Maxson and Unknown (Unknown) Harndell
ii. REBECCA MAXSON, b. say 1641; m. by about 1660 Hugh Mosher [Mosher Gen 1-3]
CHILDREN:
- i HANNAH2 d. after 23 Jan 1716/7; m. STEPHEN3 CORNELL (Thomas2, Thomas1). Hugh deeded land to his daughter Hannah Cornell. Children (CORNELL): WILLIAM; STEPHEN; ELIZABETH; JAMES; ?EDWARD; ?JOHN; RICHARD b.28 Jan 1702.
- ii ANN d. after 1721; m. before 30 Jan 1693 PETER LEE. They lived in Dartmouth MA and East Greenwish RI. Children (LEE): MARY b. ca. 1690; JOHN; PETER; perhaps others.
- 2 iii NICHOLAS b. ca 1666.
- 3 iv JOHN.
- 4 v JOSEPH.
- vi MARY m. New Shoreham RI 19 May 1691 JOSEPH RATHBUN, son of John and Margaret (Acres), her brother Nicholas acting as witness. Children (RATHBUN): ELIZABETH b.14May 1692; REBECCA b. 14 Mar 1694; GRACE b. 16 July 1695; MARY b. 6 Mar 1697; MARGARET b 29 Nov 1700; MERCY b. 14 Feb 1703; HANNAH b. 22 Mar 1706; JOSEPH b. 4 Oct 1707; BENJAMIN b 26 Feb 1710; Son b 1 Apr 1712, d.y; JOB b. 15 Jun 1714.
- 5 vii DANIEL.
- viii REBECCA b. ca. 1677; d. after 28 Apr 1746; m. JOHN3 KIRBY (Richard2, Richard1), b. Mar 1672; d. 1727. Children (KIRBY): RICHARD b 27 Dec 1695; JOHN b. 3 Feb. 1697/8; JAMES b. 29 Nov. 1699; SARAH b. 2 Dec 1701; REBECKAH b. 28 Nov 1703; ELIZABETH b. 21 Dec 1705; MARY b. 16 (end page 2) Dec 1707; THOMAS b 8 Mar 1710; ABIGAIL b. 27 Nov 1711 [sic]; WILLIAM b. 15 Dec 1711 [sic].
- 6 ix JAMES.[1]
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According to Great Migration 2:5, p. 103, Rebecca was born "say 1641," in Rhode Island (since the family arrived in 1634).
The following account (which is repeated in Great Migrations 2:5, 103-04) is from the highly regarded book, Descendants of Hugh Mosher and Rebecca Maxson through 7 Generations (rev. ed., 1990), compiled by M. Chamberlain and L. Clarenbach (p.1-3):
Hugh Mosher's first wife was "REBECCA MAXSON, daughter of Richard and Rebecca Maxson of Portsmouth RI; d. between 29 Dec 1707 and 25 Feb 1707/8.
"She is frequently identified erroneously as a daughter of John Harndell of Newport, probably b/c of some unfortunate omissions in the abstract of his will in Austin, Gen Dict of RI. It is dated 9 Feb 1685 and proved in 1687.
"The original, in the library of the Newport Hist Soc, in Bk 5, p. 131-2, names daughter Mary Stanton, her husband John, and their children, who received the land and buildings. It also names 'daughter-in-law Rebeckah Mosure, wife of Hugh Mosure of Portsmouth,' to whom he gave only a good ewe sheep; and 'son-in-law John Maxson,' to whom he also gave a ewe.
"Austin omitted the words 'in-law' before Rebeckah, also all mention of John Maxson. 'In-law' usually meant step at that time and it certainly does this time, for the wife of a son would have borne the name Harndell. The name of the stepson [John Maxson] identifies [his sister, Rebecca's] maiden name as Maxson.
Hugh married a second wife, "before 25 Feb 1708," which is the reason for dating Rebecca's death as "before 25 Feb 1708."
Hugh "first appears in RI records with his purchase 29 June 1660, of land in Westerly.... He had a sister Mary, who married his wife's [Rebecca's] brother John Maxson, acc to many genealogists, none of whom cites the proof. If that is correct, Hugh's mother was living with the Maxsons on 24 Oct 1677, when John Maxson was excused from jury duty b/c both his wife and his mother-in-law were ill. The mother-in-law in this instance had to be his wife's [Rebecca's] mother, rather than his stepmother b/c he had a stepfather John Harndell.
"This mother-in-law may have been the Lydia Mosher whose name precedes Rebecca Mosher [wife of Hugh] in the membership list of the Tiverton Baptist Church in 1680 for no other Lydia Mosher appears in the family until about 1695.
"Hugh probably lived for a time in Westerly, but in 1669 he was admitted freeman of Portsmouth. Town records show him there as early as 1668, and in 1670, 1673, 1676, and 1677. In 1680 he [Hugh Mosher] was pastor of the Tiverton Baptist Church (end p. 1) which served Tiverton and Little Compton RI and Dartmouth MA.
"John Harndell's will placed [Hugh Mosher] in Portsmouth in 1685. Before 16 Apr 1690 he had moved to Dartmouth, for on that day John Walley of Bristol Co wrote to Thomas Hinckley, governor of Plymouth Colony, 'He is a substantial man...whatsoever Mosier doth, he doth publicly, and makes account he can in law answer anything he hath said or done.' Deeds show him a resident of Dartmouth as late as 1708, one in 1707 giving his occupation as blacksmith. A deed of Dartmouth land on 1 Mar 1709 gives Newport as his residence.
"He made his will there on 12 Oct 1709, and it was proved in Bristol Co MA. He named his wife Sarah, his sons James, John, Nicholas, Joseph and Daniel; grandson Hugh, son of Nicholas; grandsons named Mosher; other grandsons; and mentioned daughters without naming them. They are found in his deeds of land to them.
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Rebecca Mosher's Timeline
| 1632 |
June 6, 1632
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Cucklington South Somerset District Somerset, England
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| 1637 |
February 6, 1637
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Aquidneck, Washington County, Rhode Island, Colonial America
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February 6, 1637
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Aquidneck, Washington County, Rhode Island, Colonial America
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December 16, 1666
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Probably Dartmouth, Plymouth Colony
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August 16, 1668
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Dartmouth, Plymouth Colony
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August 16, 1668
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Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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| 1673 |
November 9, 1673
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Dartmouth, Bristol County, MA, United States
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1673
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Newport, Aquidneck Island, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
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1675
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Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
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