Rebeckah ‘Rebecca’ Weston

Descendant of Mayflower passenger George Soule

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Soule-60

Rebecca Soule was born about 1657 (based on age at death) in Duxbury, Massachusetts, daughter of John Soule and Rebecca (Simmons) Soule.[1][2] Her father, John Soule, gave land to his sons, during his lifetime, but gave daughter Sarah one cow and nothing to his other daughters. The court distributed his small remaining estate among his daughters or their heirs. The settlement was signed 6 Mar 1707/8 by Adam Wright on behalf of his children by his wife Sarah, deceased; Rebecka Weston; and John and Rachel Cobb.[3]

"Edmon Weston" married "Rebekah Soul" on 13 Dec. 1688, in Plymouth.[1][4][5][6] He was the son of Edmund Weston and his wife.[1]

They lived in the part of Plymouth that became Plympton in 1707.

Edmund died intestate in 1727. The distribution of his estate named widow Rebeckah Weston of Plympton and children of Edmund: Nathan Weston, Zachariah Weston, John Weston, Edmund Weston and Benjamin Weston all of Plympton; Thomas Darling of Middleboro and Rebeckah his wife.[1][7][8]

Rebekah Weston, wife of Edmund, daughter of John Soule, died Nov. 18, 1732, in her 76th year, in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, New England.[1][9]

Family

She married Edmund Weston (1660-1727) 12 December 1688 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

The six children of Rebecca Soule and Edmund Weston (First five were recorded in both Plymouth and Plympton):

1. Nathan Weston (b. 8 Feb 1688/9 -1754); m Desire Standish (1689-1766)
2. Zachariah Weston (b. 16 Dec 1690 - 1763); m Mehitable Shaw (1694-1764)
3. Rebecca Weston (b. 31 July 1693 - 1782)
4. John Weston (b. 27 July 1695 - 1723)
5. Edmond Weston (b. 21 Oct 1697 - 1773)
6. Benjamin Weston (b. 14 Nov. 1701 - 1773)

References

1. https://familypedia.fandom.com/wiki/Edmund_Weston_(1660-1727)
2. https://familypedia.fandom.com/wiki/Rebecca_Soule_(1659-1732)
3. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Soule-60 cites
   1. George Soule of the Mayflower and his Descendants for Four Generations. Originally compiled by John E. Soule and Milton E. Terry. Revised by Louise Walsh Throop. Mayflower Families in Progress. Seventh Edition. Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2015. pp 9, 16
   2. October 4, 1656, and July 1656 are sometimes listed but these dates are not accepted by the Mayflower Society.
   3. [PCPR II 87, 97] "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," at FamilySearch (image 58, image 60. State Archives, Boston. Probate records 1702-1710, vol. 2, images 58 and 60 of 106.
   4. Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850. Plymouth - V1, Page(s): 85. at American Ancestors
   5. "Plymouth, Mass, Vital Records." The Mayflower Descendant 13:204 (1911)
   6. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RSB-TFC?cc=2061550&wc... : 13 July 2016), Plymouth > Plymouth > Births, marriages, deaths 1699-1754 vol 1A > image 81 of 181; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston. 18889 copy of original records.
   7. "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997D-FCSY?cc=2018320&w... : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1724-1731 and 1838-1842 vol 5-5T > image 195 of 596; State Archives, Boston.
   8. "Edmund Weston's estate" The Mayflower Descendant 24:20. [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB407/i/12761/20/24515932 link AmericanAncestors
   9. Vital Records of Plympton Massachusetts to the year 1850. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1923. p 532
   10. Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 - Plymouth (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2010).
   11. Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 Plympton (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2010).221-225
   12. Weston, Thomas. "The Descendants of Edmund Weston of Duxbury Mass., for Five Generations." NEHGR. 41:286 (1847)