Rebeckah (Hall) Cross (1715)

Born 26 Jan 1715 in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut

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Died [date unknown] in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut [uncertain]

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Rebecca, the wife of Wade Cross, was the daughter of Isaac Hall, Gentleman. Isaac was the son of Capt. William Hall, one of the first settlers in Mansfield, Connecticut.^[1][2]

Rebeckah Hall was born 26 Jan 1714/5^[2] and married Wade Cross.^[3]

Wade and Rebeckah owned the covenant 28 Mar 1736^[4]

In his will dated 3 Mar 1767 Waid Crofs of Mansfield, yeoman, left 1/3 of his estate to his wife Rebeckah.^[5] He is buried in the Old Storrs Cemetery, Ward Cross died 22 Apr 1773 age 72 years. There was no legible stone for Rebecca in the 1930s.^[6]

Children born in Willington, Connecticut^[7]

1. Rebeckah, d. Wade & Rebeckah, b. 9 Nov 1733. ^[7]Baptized in Mansfield 11 April 1736. d/o Wade and Rebeckah Cross.^[8][4]
2. Elenear/Elanor Cross, d. Ward & Rebekah b. 13 Feb 1735.^[7] Baptized (Eloner) in Mansfield 18 April 1735. d/o Wade and Rebeckah Cross^[8][4]
3. Mary, d. Ward/Waid & Rebeckah b. 30 July 1738.^[7] Mary m. David Johnson 26 Nov 1759^[7]
4. Peter, s. Ward & Rebeckah b. 5 Aug 1740^[7]

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Christening (13 MAR 1715) Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut,

Death: - 28 OCT 1776. Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, USA.

Marriage: 22 Apr 1732 in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut

Sources

1. ↑ Cross, Wilbur L. Connecticut Yankee An Autobiography. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1943.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Dimock, Susan Whitney. Births, baptisms, marriages and deaths, from the records of the town and churches in Mansfield, Connecticut, 1703-1850 (1898) birth p. 91
3. ↑ Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls. Wilbur Lucius Cross. Jan 23, 1933.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Mansfield First Congregational Church 1710-1892. Connecticut Church Records Index. Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut. Accessed at Ancestry as Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920. Hartford: Connecticut State Library, 1967.
5. ↑ Connecticut County, District and Probate Courts. Windham Probate Records, Vol 7-8, 1764-1775 p. 419 Waid Cross. Mansfield, 1773 #1001 Windham Probate district..
6. ↑ Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. 807-8 Old Storrs Cemetery p. 78
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5} Willington. Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Dimock, Susan W. Births, baptisms, marriages and deaths from the records of the town and churches in Mansfield, Connecticut, 1703-1850 New York: Baker & Taylor, 1898 p. 364.

• Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut . Register of pedigrees and services of ancestors the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut. (Hartford, Connecticut : Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, 1941) #463 p. 1007 Pedigree of Wilbur Cross.