"Rebecca (Belt) Peddicord (1746-aft.1787) is the daughter of Higginson Belt (abt.1706-1786), whose sister was Jasper Peddicord (1731-abt.1800) 's mother. The will of Higgenson Belt was signed 15 July 1786 and proved 15 Nov 1786 in Montgomery County, MD In this will he names wife Sarah, sons John, Carlton, Higgenson, and deceased son Greenberry, and daughter Rebecca Peddicoart. (Montgomery Co wills Liber B, Folio 361) One note states that Higgenson Belt married Dorothy, widow of John Rogers by 1740."
Sources
Ancestry.com. Maryland, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1772-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. Maryland Census, 1772-1890. Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes. Text: Rebecca Belt, State: MD, County: Frederick County, Township: Lower Potomack Hundred, Year: 1776, Database: MD Early Census Index.
Reference: Maryland Rev. recds; pension clain\ms, bounty land applications, marriages of soldiers. By Harry Wright Newman. Washington, DC. 1938. (155p.): 110. Published on Ancestry.com. Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 1999. Original data: Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library. Text:
Name: Rebecca Belt
Birth Date: 1750
Birthplace: Maryland
Volume: 12
Page Number: 201
Marriage: Descendants of Richard and Elizabeth (Ewen) Talbott : of Poplar Knowle, West River, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, p. 62, pub. on Ancestry.com. Fifth generation: "Descendants of Richard and Elizabeth (Ewen) Talbott : of Poplar Knowle, West River, Anne Arundel County, Maryland" Fifth generation Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Image (accessed 2 September 2023).
Mrs. Gray Smith Harmon, Peddicord Junction (Bountiful, Utah: Family History Publishers, March 1998), 250.
Ida Morrison "Murphy" Shirk, compiler, Descendants of Richard and Elizabeth (Ewen) Talbott of Poplar Knowle, West River, Anne Arundel County, Maryland (Baltimore, Md.: Ida M. Shirk, 1927), 62.
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