Family:Richard Cheever and Rebecca Bigelow (1)

Children

Crane and Blake provide similar lists, agreeing on five children. Blake adds a 2nd surviving James and Bartholomew born Jan. 9, 1754, where the Rutland VR provides Jan 9, 1758 (which Crane uses).

1. ↑ Blake, Francis E. (Francis Everett). History of the town of Princeton: in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1759-1915. (Princeton [Massachusetts]: The Town, 1915)
   v 2 p 56.

   Cheever Richard³ (Daniel², Richard¹), son of Daniel and Mary (Downes) Cheever... married in Holden, Jany. 2, 1750, Rebecca Bigelow... and she (died) Nov. 20, 1797, ae. 72.
   There 8 children were: Richard 1753, Bartholomew 1754, Rachel 1736, Daniel 1757, Rebecca, Jacob 1762, James d. 1776, and James.

2. ↑ Rutland, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Rutland, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1905)
   p 114.

   Biglo, Rebecca of Holdin and Richard Cheever, int. Sept. 29, 1750

3. ↑ Richard Cheever, in Crane, Ellery B. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity. (New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1907)
   v 3 p 368.

   Richard Cheever, son of Daniel (3) Cheever, was born at Boston, October 30, 1724.. He married (first), at Holden, Massachusetts, Rebecca Bigelow (Biglo). January 2, 175/1. She died November 22, 1797, aged seventy-two years.
   Children of Richard Cheever & Rebecca Bigelow: Richard 1753, Rachel, 1756, Daniel 1757, Bartholomew 1758, and James 1766.