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Rebecca Wass (Allen)

Also Known As: "Wass;"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Chilmark, Dukes County, MA, British Colonial America
Death: May 29, 1790 (73)
Addison, Washington County, ME, United States
Place of Burial: Addison, Washington County, ME, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Col. John Allen; John Allen and Margaret Allen
Wife of Wilmot Wass and Wilmott Wass
Mother of Elizabeth Betsy Nash; Ann Smith; Margaret Mayhew; Sarah Osborn; Capt Wilmot Wass, II and 5 others
Sister of Jonathan Allen; William Allen; Elizabeth Allen; Jane Chipman; Robert Allen and 9 others

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Immediate Family

About Rebecca Wass

FATHER: Col. John Allen
MOTHER: Margaret Homes

HUSBAND: Wilmot Wass
m. 22 Mar 1733 - Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts

CHILDREN:
1. Anne Wass, 1734 – 1803
-married cousin Samuel Smith, Jr.

2. Margaret Wass, 1736 – 1818
-married Paine Mayhew

3. Sarah Wass, 1738 – aft 1770
-married Samuel Osborn, Jr.

4. Wilmot Wass, Jr., 1740 - 1826-27

5. John Wass, 1742 – 1744

6. David Moore Wass, 1744 – 1827
-married Abigail Nash

7. John Wass, 1746 – 1818
-married 2nd cousin Catherine Norton

8. Homes Wass, 1748 – bef 1777
-married Sarah Mayhew

9. Mary Wass, 1752 – 1836
-married John Coffin, Jr.

10. Elizabeth 'Betsy' Wass, 1757 – 1841
-married Joseph Nash, Jr.

11. Rebecca Wass, 1760 – died in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia-married Handley Chipman

12. Jane Wass, 1761 – 1853
-married Matthew Coffin

  • Source for all of the above information: Early Pleasant River Families of Washington County, Maine, by Leonard F. Tibbetts and Darryl B. Lamson, 1997
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Rebecca Wass's Timeline

1717
February 26, 1717
Chilmark, Dukes County, MA, British Colonial America
1734
February 8, 1734
Boston, Suffolk, MA
1734
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1736
January 24, 1736
Tisbury, Dukes, Province of Massachusetts Bay
1740
1740
West Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States
1744
1744
West Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts
1746
1746
1748
1748