Rebekah Biddle

Biography

Rebecca Cornell was born on 17 February 1755 to Gideon Cornell and Rebecca Vaughan of Newport, Rhode Island.[1]

She married Clement Biddle, son of John and Philis Biddle of Pennsylvania, on 18d 8m 1774.[2] They had thirteen children (five died in childhood).[1]

Research

According to The Rotches, Rebecca is a 'lineal' ancestor of Francis Biddle, Attorney General in the cabinet of Frankin. D. Roosevelt.[1]
No source for death.

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Rebecca (Cornell) Biddle (1755 - aft. 1824)

Rebecca Biddle formerly Cornell

Born 17 Feb 1755 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI [uncertain]

Daughter of Gideon Cornell and Rebecca (Vaughan) Rotch

Sister of Gideon Cornell

Wife of Clement Biddle — married 18 Aug 1774 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

Mother of Thomas Biddle, George Washington Biddle, Mary (Biddle) Cadwalader, Rebecca (Biddle) Chapman, Clement Cornell Biddle, Lydia Biddle, Anne Wilkinson (Biddle) Dunlap, John Gideon Biddle, James Cornell Biddle and Edward Robert Biddle

Died after 1824 after age 68 [location unknown]

Cornell-1406 created 5 Jul 2013 | Last modified 1 Jan 2020

Sources

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 John Morgan Bullard, The Rotches; (New Bedford, Cabinet Press, 1947) p. 407-408. [Copy available at (https://archive.org/details/rotchesbull00bull) or (http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005693070).]
↑ Monthly meeting records, Births - Marriages - Deaths 1699 - 1880, Society of Friends, Dartmouth Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Dartmouth, Mass.), p 518.
Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0883792.
Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls.
Arnold, James Newell. Rhode Island Vital Extracts, 1636–1850. 21 volumes. Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, 1891–1912. Digitized images from New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, page 58.
Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Burial Records, 1819-1832; Collection: Quaker Meeting Records; Call Number: MR Ph:377 [1]
Rebecca Biddle
Age 76 Birth Date abt 1755
Death Age 76 Death Date 17 Nov 1831
Death Date on Image 17 Eleventh 1831
Burial Place Pennsylvania, USA
Residence Date 18 Nov 1831
Residence Date on Image 18 Eleventh 1831
Residence Place Philadelphia Spouse Clement Biddle
Event Type Burial
Monthly Meeting Philadelphia , Arch Street
Yearly Meeting Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Meeting State Pennsylvania Meeting County Philadelphia