Rebecca Watson

Rebecca Errington

• Gender: Female
• Birth: circa 1625 - England
• Death: November 11, 1690 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts
• Daughter of William Errington and Ann (Lidell) Errington, “widow Errington”
• Wife of John Watson, of Cambridge

Family

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50218982/rebekah-watson

Wife of John Watson, Sen., mother to Ann, John, Abraham, and Jacob, who died in 1676, 1678, 1705, and 1724; her maiden name was Errington, and she was the daughter of Anne Errington, who died 1653. (William Thaddeus Harris, Epitaphs from the Old Burying-Ground in Cambridge)

Cambridge marriages: WATSON, John and Rebecca Errington, d. Anne, ––– ––, 16––. CR1* (before 1653)

Cambridge deaths: WATSON, Rebecka, w. John, Nov. 11, 1690. a. 68 y.

Children, b. in Cambridge:

• John, b. Oct. 14, 1653, d. Nov. 25, 1678.
• Abraham, b. June 26, 1661, d. Mar. 23, 1704.
• Ann, b. Aug. 21, 1666, d. Oct. 10, 1676.
• Isaack, b. Sept. 24, 1669.
• Jacob, b. Dec. 20, 1671, d. Mar. 29, 1724

Please note that in records, the surname Errington can also be found spelled Arrington and Harrington. And Gibson can be found spelled Gipson (as it is on her husband's gravestone.)

Notes

(Has errors)

• JOHN HARRINGTON, with his wife, Ann (Clinton) [SIC: not Clinton] Harrington, and two young sons, and evidently a daughter, Rebecca, later of husband, John Watson, sailed from England for America, arriving in Boston Harbor about 1630. John, the head of the family, was drowned in Boston Harbor soon after their arrival, and before 1640, the year in which the Massachusetts Colony law was passed requiring registration of vital statistics under penalty of twenty shillings. His death seems not to be of record. The younger son, Abraham, of wife, Rebecca Cutter, and the daughter, Rebecca of husband, John Watson, both settled in Charleston, Mass., where there is record of both marriages and their deaths, together with the death of the mother, and these deaths show the relationship between the mother and the two children. (1)

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Origins

Inscription

Memento mori Fugit Hora
Here lyes ye body of
Rebkeah Watson
wife to John Watson
Aged 65 years
Died November ye 11
1690.
The memory of ye Just is blessed.

References

1. ENGLISH HARRINGTONS IN ANCESTRAL LINE OF JOHN HARRINGTON OF WIFE, ANN CLINTON, WHO ARRIVED IN BOSTON HARBOR ABOUT 1630. Compiled by Geo. H. Harrington, Austin, Texas
2. Family Data Collection - Individual Records Name: Rebecca Harrington Spouse: John Watson Parents: James Harrington, Ann Clinton Birth Place: Middlesex, Cambridge, MA Birth Date: 1625 Marriage Place: Cambridge, Middlesex, MA Marriage Date: 1646 Death Place: Cambridge, Middlesex, MA Death Date: 4 Dec 1713 Source Citation: Birth year: 1625; Birth city: Cambridge; Birth state: MA.
3. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rohl&id=I...