Rebecca Rhodes was the daughter of Zachariah Rhodes was a Commissioner sent from Massachusetts to Rhode Island August 21, 1648. He was born in 1603, and died April 10, 1666. He married March 7, 1646, Joanna Arnold, born February 27, 1617, and died in 1692. It is thought Rebecca was born on January 27, 1650/1, but no birth record is found in either Providence or Pawtucket where her parents resided. [1][2][3][4]
Rebecca married first on February 2, 1671, Nicholas Power at Providence, Rhode Island. [5] Nicholas was the son of Nicholas (1) and Jane Powers, of Providence. [3][4][2]
Nicholas was killed in the Great Swamp Fight by a bullet from his own command on December 19, 1675. [3][4]
She married second, on December 7, 1676 Daniel Williams. Daniel was born February 15, 1641/2, son of Roger and Mary (Bernard) Williams, [1][6][4][2]
Daniel Williams died on May 14, 1712. [5][1][4][3]
Nicholas Power Jr., born in 1673; died May 18, 1734 [5]; married first Mary Hale/Haile of Swansea; married second Mary/Mercy Tillinghast, daughter of Peleg and Lydia (Taylor) Tillinghast . [3][4]
↑ 1.01.11.21.3 Anderson, Robert Charles. Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1995 p. 2009-10 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010)
↑ 2.02.12.2 Chatfield, Carrie. Some Records of the Northrup and Tucker Families of Rhode Island: With Notes on Intermarrying Families, D. Clapp & son, Boston, Massachusetts, 1914
↑ 3.03.13.23.33.43.53.6 Arnold, James N., editor. The Narragansett Historical Register: A Magazine Devoted to the Antiquities, Genealogy and Historical Matter Illustrating the History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Volume 7, Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, 1889 p. 17-18
↑ 4.004.014.024.034.044.054.064.074.084.094.10 Austin, John Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers who Came Before 1690 (with Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation), Genealogical Publishing Co., Albany, NY, 1887 p. 5
↑ 5.05.15.25.35.45.55.6 Arnold, James N. Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, First Series: Births, Marriages and Deaths: Providence County, Vol. 2. Narragansett Historical Publ. Co., Providence, Rhode Island, 1892
↑ 6.06.1 Andrews, Henry Porter, compiler. The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9, Volume 1, G.W. Ball, printer, Saratoga Springs, 1893 p. 246
↑ The Newport Historical Magazine, Volumes 1-2, Newport Historical Publishing Company, Newport, Rhode Island, 1881p. 161-2
↑ Turner, Henry Edward editor, The Rhode Island Historical Magazine, Volume 1, Newport Historical Publishing Company, Newport, Rhode Island, 1881 p. 161-2
↑ Browning, Charles H. Americans of Royal Descent: Collection of Genealogies Showing the Lineal Descent from Kings of Some American Families, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1911 p. 15
↑ 10.010.110.210.310.410.5 Austin, John Osborne. Ancestry of Thirty-three Rhode Islanders (born in the Eighteenth Century): Also Twenty-seven Charts of Roger Williams' Descendants to the Fifth Generation, and an Account of Lewis Latham, Falconer to King Charles I; with a Chart of His American Descendants to the Fourth Generation, and a List of 180 Existing Portraits of Rhode Island Governors, Chief Justices, Senators, Etc., J. Munsell's Sons, Albany New York, 1889 p. 105-115
Cutter, William Richard. New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 3, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1914 p. 1116-7
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