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- ↑ Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1916)
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Packard, Zebulun and Rebecca Richardson, Mar. 15, 1764. [Zebulon, PCR]
- ↑ The records of this marriage do not indicate that Rebecca was of a different town. However, there is very little Richardson activity in Bridgewater. The only family listed in Source:Mitchell, Nahum. History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts is that of Winslow Richardson who married 1763 Rhoda Johnson. The fact that Winslow's and Rebecca's marriages occur about the same time suggests they could be brother and sister from the same family, and indeed Winslow had a sister named Rebecca of an appropriate age. Additionally their younger brother Stephen is called "of Bridgewater" when he married in 1767. Source:Vinton, John Adams. Richardson Memorial, p. 221, gives no information about Rebecca beyond her birth date, suggesting she is otherwise unaccounted for, and therefore seems to be a good, if speculative, match. There is no proof, of course, and not likely to be much to find if this proposed identification is correct. Both her mother and father appear to have died before she married, ruling out chances of a will giving her married name, and the heirs appears to have sold some if not all the real estate before this marriage took place.
Based on the identification of Rebecca as the wife of Zebulon Packard, she would then have m. (2) 1774 Silas Kinsley of Easton as recorded in the Bridgewater VRs, and then, according to an excellently footnoted website, possibly m. (3) Edward Hayward in Easton. According to Source:Chaffin, William Ladd. History of the Town of Easton, Massachusetts, p. 211, Ensign Silas Kinsley died 19 May 1775 in the opening days of the Revolutionary War, and according to Source:Easton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Deaths, and Marriages by Families, 1697-1847, p. 151, "Mr. Edward Hayward & Mrs. Rebeckah Kinsley, both of Easton, were married 6 March 1777 by A. Campbell". But attaching those two marriages to Rebecca Richardson would depend on the marriage of this page being accepted first.
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