Rebecca (Lapham) Howland (1707 - 1736)

Born 5 Oct 1707 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Barnabas Howland — married 30 Apr 1724 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

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Biography

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Rebecca was a Friend (Quaker)

Rebecca Lapham was born to John Lapham and Mary Russell at Dartmouth, Massachusetts on 5d 8m 1707 [5 Oct 1707].^[1][2]

She married Barnabas Howland, son of Benjamin Howland, on 30d 2m 1724 [30 Apr 1724].^[3]

Rebecca Lapham (John, John) was born 5 Aug 1707(sic), the daughter of John and Mary Russell Lapham. She married Barnabas Howland at Dartmouth,30 Apr 1724, Barnabas was born 16 Sep 1699, the son of Benjamin & Judith (Sampson) Howland. He died 19 Feb 1773. Rebecca died 9 Jul 1736. Their children are listed as:

1. Judith born 14 Jan 1725; married 29 Jul 1744, Joseph Russell
2. Benjamin born 25 Jun 1727; married 1) 27 Jan 1747, Anne Briggs; 2) 28 Mar 1770, Silvester Allen Smith, widow of Levi Smith
3. Elizabeth born 20 Mar, 1729; married 22 Oct 1749, William Smith
4. Sylvia born in 1732; married in 1748, Jonathan Smith Jr.
5. Gideon born 29 May 1734; died 5 Feb 1823; married 18 Mar 1754 Sarah Hicks
6. Lydia born 9 Sep 1735."^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Monthly meeting records, Births - Marriages - Deaths 1699 - 1880, Society of Friends, Dartmouth Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Dartmouth, Mass.), p 5.
2. ↑ Vital Records of Dartmouth, Massachusetts to the year 1850. NEHGS, Boston: 1930. Volume I - Births. p. 148.
3. ↑ Monthly meeting records, Births - Marriages - Deaths 1699 - 1880, Society of Friends, Dartmouth Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Dartmouth, Mass.), p 225.
4. ↑ "Laphams in America" compiled and written by Bertha Bortle Beal Aldridge Victor NY 1932-1953; pp21-22

See Also

• Emery, William M. The Howland Heirs (E. Anthony and Sons, Inc., New Bedford, Mass., 1919) Page 10: "Her brother John married Barnabas' sister Desire."

• WLNK WikiTree Note: https:/www.wikitree.com/wikiLapham-314.

The following is an exerpt from William Lapham's Lapham Family Register, page 19:[1]

"FAMILY 2 (SEE FAMILY 1) RHODE ISLAND, MASS. John Lapham 2, (John 1) b. 1677, son of John and Mary Mann Lapham; m. Apr. 3, 1700, Dartmouth, (prob. in Apponegassett Meeting House) Mary Russell b. 1683; d. May 1752 (Dartmouth Town Rec.) Friends rec. say, dec'd Feb. 1, 1748. She was the dau. of Joseph and Elizabeth Fobes Russell of Dartmouth. John owned considerable land in Smithfield, and was called John of Dartmouth, where all of his fourteen children were born, and most of them were married there. Children : I (5) Elizabeth 3, b. July 29, 1701; m. Amos Taber. ll (6) John 3, b. Oct. 2, 1703; m. (1) Desire Howland, (2) Rachel White. lll (7),. Thomas 3, b. Dec. 10, 1705; m. Abigail Wilbur. IV (8) Rebecca 3, b. Aug. 1707; m. Barnabas Howland. V (9) Joseph 3, b. Sept. 1709; m. Mary Ballou. VI Mary 3, b. 1711; Un m. VII (10) Francis 3, 5. Alug. 10, 1713; m. Nathaniel Bowdish. VIII (11) Benjamin 3, b. Sept. 24, 1715; m. Lydia Ballou. IX (12) Ruth 3, b. May 3, 1718; d. 1757; m. Seth Sherman. X (13) Bathsheba 3, b. May 21, 1720; m. John Gifford. XI (14) . Joshua 3, b. Mar. 9, 1721; m. Hannah Sherman, dau. of David and Abigail Sherman. XIl (15) Hannah 3, b. Oct. 14, 1723; m. (1) Joseph Brown (2) Jacob Aldrich (3) Richard Estes. XIII Sylvia 3, b. Feb. 15, 1726. XIV (16) Elizabeth 3, b. 1731; m. Benjamin Sherman."