Rebecca Sheldon

When Rebecca Scadlock was born in 1642, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, William Scadlock, was 30 and her mother, Elinor Longe, was 29. She married William Sheldon (~1622 - 1691) in 1664, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 25 July 1720, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, at the age of 78.

Children of William Sheldon and Rebecca Scadlock:

1. Nathaniel (1663 - 1688 Salem Village)
2. Godfrey (1666 - 1690 killed by Indians)
3. Mary (born 1667) married Samuel Rea 1686
4. Lydia (born 1669 - 31 March 1746) married Ambrose Boden 14 December 1693
5. Ephraim (13 January 1670 - 14 Jan 1737 Scituate, Rhode Island) married (1) Jane Peard (2) Margaret Felton
6. Sarah (born 1671) married Zachariah Goodall, Jr.
7. Rebecca (1673 - before 1716)
8. Hepsibah (born 1680) married Skelton Felton 29 May 1712

Notes

• Daughter Mary may have been born 1664 and deceased prior to birth of a second Mary born 1667.
• Possible alternative date of birth for Nathaniel is 1665
• Possible alternative date of birth for Lydia is 1666
• Possible alternative date of birth for Sarah is 1668
• Possible alternative date of birth for Hepsibah is 1675
• There may have been an additional daughter, Susannah Sheldon (1674–1697)
• There may have been an additional son, Hepzibah

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Rebecca Sheldon was named with her brother Samuel in the 1670 will of her father in law Godfrey Sheldon.

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Godfrey_Sheldon_%281%29

Godfrey Sheldon, in Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939) 627.

"Godfrey (Sheldon), planter, Scarboro, … on 19 July 1660 Jocelyn leased 100 a. to G. S., sr., the deed mentioning G.'s dwg. and a great willow tree right ag. The dwg. of Giles Roberts. … Will (aged ±65), 13 Mar. 1663-4─3 apr. 1670, gives equally to w. Alice and s. William (exec.), he to have all eventually, pay £4 to br., 10s. to each sis. and to his w. Rebecca, and 5s. to Rebecca's br. Samuel -Scarlett- who wit. With Jocelyn. Aft. he d., neighbors depos. he wanted William to rememb. little Frank Small."

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Origins

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:William_Scadlock_%281%29

In his will, dated 7 January 1661/2 and proved 3 July 1662, “William Scadlocke of Cape Porpus” bequeathed to “my good and dear wife, Ellner Scadlocke,” “the house, land, marsh & cattle, with the appurtenances thereunto appertaining & belonging, both within doors & without …, so long as she keeps herself a widow, but if she happen to marry after my decease, then she to have” her thirds; “but if so be she die as my widow, then all my estate to be equally divided … amongst our children, by them I mean William, Susanna, John, Rebecha, Sam[u]ell, & Sarah Scadlocke” (followed by specific bequests of moveables to each of the children); “my loving wife Ellner [to be] my executrix, & my son William my executor” [MPCR 2:120-21; Maine Wills 1-2]. [{Category:Great Migration Study Project|Scadlock, William]]

Source: Great Migration 1634-1635, VOLUME : Vol. VI, R-S PAGE : 197 < AmericanAncestors >

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References

• http://spicerweb.org/genealogy/legacyfiles/2494.htm
  • Folsom, George, History of Saco and Biddeford (Saco, ME, 1830; facsimile edition 1984, Heritage Books, Bowie, MD). Page 123-124. < GoogleBooks >
• https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L63W-C8F/rebecca--scarlett-sc...
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:William_Sheldon_(12) Cites
  • 1.William Scadlock, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011) 6:197. "Rebecca Scadlock, b. about 1642 ('72 in 1714' [GDMNH 612, source not cited]); …"
  • William Scadlock, 2 William Sheldov, in Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939) 612, 627-28. "… Rebecca (Scadlock), 72 in 1714; m. William Sheldon (2). …" "Wid. Rebecca (Scadlock 2) … Her will 1716─1720, names s. Ephraim, 4 daus."
  • Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881: Online database. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014) 25166:1-5.