Person:Rebecca Prence (13)

m. 5 Aug 1624
  1. Rebecca PrenceBef 1627 - 1648
  2. Hannah Prence1628 - Bef 1698
  3. Mercy Prence1631 - 1711
m. 22 Apr 1646
  1. Rebecca FreemanEst 1647 - 1738
  2. Patience FreemanAbt 1647 - Aft 1705
Facts and Events
Name Rebecca Prence
Gender Female
Birth[4] Bef 22 May 1627 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 22 Apr 1646 Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United Statesto Edmund Freeman, Jr
Burial[5][7] 23 Mar 1648 (probably) Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

She and her sister Mercy married brothers (Edmund and John Freeman).

References
  1.   Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).
  2.   Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Increasings for Three Generations. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1989).
  3.   Kardell, Caroline Lewis, compiler, and R. A. Lovell. Vital records of Sandwich, Massachusetts to 1885. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996).
  4. The Division of Cattle in 1627, in Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy, History and Biography
    1:150.

    Lot 5 of the division of cattle 1 Jun 1627, lot 5, includes "Thomas Prince", "Pacience Prince", and "Rebecka Prince", so born bef. 1 Jun 1627.

  5. Plymouth Colony Vital Records, in Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy, History and Biography
    15:26.

    [Section heading: "Sandwich burials, probably"] Reb[worn]eman buried the 23'd of march. [The footnote directs us to introductory notes which place this in colonial year 1647, i.e. 1647/8, and says it is "undoubtedly 'Rebecca Freeman'".]

  6.   Merrick, Barbara Lambert, and E. Virginia Hunt. William Brewster of the Mayflower: and his descendants for four generations. (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1994)
    Page 25, 2000.
  7. This burial record is likely hers. It is consistent with the fact that her husband remarried 18 Jul 1651.