On July 3, 1758, Rebecca Moore, the daughter of Judge William Moore of "Moore Hall" in Pennsylvania, married the Reverend Dr. William Smith. Rebecca was a matrilineal grand-daughter of the Scottish Earl of Wemyss.
The couple had eight children, of whom six (William Moore Smith, Thomas Duncan Smith, Williamina Elizabeth Smith, Charles Smith, Richard Smith, and Rebecca Smith) lived to adulthood. The couple had a happy marriage; upon her death in the yellow fever epidemic of 1793, William Smith eulogized her as "the best of Women, the best of Wives."
Note courtesy of FAG member #48308968:
In a letter from William Smith to Benjamin Rush, dated 22 October 1793, located within the William Smith papers at the University of Pennsylvania, he describes the burial and that she was buried near Phineas Bond: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/pages/index.cfm so_id=10652&pageposition=1&level=2. The mention of this is about 11 lines up from the bottom of the first page of that letter.
The couple had eight children, of whom six (William Moore Smith, Thomas Duncan Smith, Williamina Elizabeth Smith, Charles Smith, Richard Smith, and Rebecca Smith) lived to adulthood. The couple had a happy marriage; upon her death in the yellow fever epidemic of 1793, William Smith eulogized her as "the best of Women, the best of Wives."
Note courtesy of FAG member #48308968:
In a letter from William Smith to Benjamin Rush, dated 22 October 1793, located within the William Smith papers at the University of Pennsylvania, he describes the burial and that she was buried near Phineas Bond: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/pages/index.cfm so_id=10652&pageposition=1&level=2. The mention of this is about 11 lines up from the bottom of the first page of that letter.
On July 3, 1758, Rebecca Moore, the daughter of Judge William Moore of "Moore Hall" in Pennsylvania, married the Reverend Dr. William Smith. Rebecca was a matrilineal grand-daughter of the Scottish Earl of Wemyss.
The couple had eight children, of whom six (William Moore Smith, Thomas Duncan Smith, Williamina Elizabeth Smith, Charles Smith, Richard Smith, and Rebecca Smith) lived to adulthood. The couple had a happy marriage; upon her death in the yellow fever epidemic of 1793, William Smith eulogized her as "the best of Women, the best of Wives."
Note courtesy of FAG member #48308968:
In a letter from William Smith to Benjamin Rush, dated 22 October 1793, located within the William Smith papers at the University of Pennsylvania, he describes the burial and that she was buried near Phineas Bond: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/pages/index.cfm so_id=10652&pageposition=1&level=2. The mention of this is about 11 lines up from the bottom of the first page of that letter.
The couple had eight children, of whom six (William Moore Smith, Thomas Duncan Smith, Williamina Elizabeth Smith, Charles Smith, Richard Smith, and Rebecca Smith) lived to adulthood. The couple had a happy marriage; upon her death in the yellow fever epidemic of 1793, William Smith eulogized her as "the best of Women, the best of Wives."
Note courtesy of FAG member #48308968:
In a letter from William Smith to Benjamin Rush, dated 22 October 1793, located within the William Smith papers at the University of Pennsylvania, he describes the burial and that she was buried near Phineas Bond: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/pages/index.cfm so_id=10652&pageposition=1&level=2. The mention of this is about 11 lines up from the bottom of the first page of that letter.
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"Rebecca, Wife of the Rev. William Smith"
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