Person:Ruth Newcomb (3)

Name^[1]	Ruth Newcomb
Gender	Female
Birth^[3]	Abt 1663	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	Bef 1683	probably Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United StatesBased on birth of eldest known child to John Copeland
Death^[2]	26 May 1742	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Newcomb, John Bearse. Genealogical Memoir of the Newcomb Family: containing records of nearly every person of the name in America from 1635 to 1874 : also the first generation of children descended from females who have lost the name Newcomb by marriage : with notices of the family in England during the past seven hundred years. (Elgin, Ill.: Printed for the author by Knight & Leonard, 1874)
p. 448.

Children of John Newcomb and 1st wife Ruth ---: Ruth, m. --- Copeland.
[Note: will abstract of father, on p. 447, names her as Ruth Copeland.]
↑ Sprague, Waldo C. Vital Records and Church Records of Braintree, Massachusetts.

COPELAND --- wid. John bur. May 26 1742
↑ Ruth Copeland is named before Hannah in her father's will, a list that appears to go in birth order. Assuming Mary is not in order because she was deceased, the date of birth of her first child suggests Ruth born about 1663.