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Rebecca <I>Smith</I> Stillman

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Rebecca Smith Stillman

Birth
Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
7 Oct 1750 (aged 81–82)
Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Burial
Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA Add to Map
Plot
ancient burying ground (A-18-a)
Memorial ID
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Second wife of George Stillman.

Children: Rebecka Stillman, Mary Stillman Blinn, Nathaniel Stillman, John Stillman, Sarah Stillman Willard, Martha Stillman, Ann Stillman May, Elizabeth Stillman, Hannah Stillman Caldwell McLean, Lydia Stillman, and Benjamin Stillman.

Second wife of George Stillman.

Children: Rebecka Stillman, Mary Stillman Blinn, Nathaniel Stillman, John Stillman, Sarah Stillman Willard, Martha Stillman, Ann Stillman May, Elizabeth Stillman, Hannah Stillman Caldwell McLean, Lydia Stillman, and Benjamin Stillman.


Inscription

(from p. 116 of Tillotson's 1899 "Wethersfield Inscriptions" when Rebecca's gravestone was fully readable)

Here lies Interr'd
the Body of Mrs.
Rebeckah Stillman,
Relict of Mr. George
Stillman, who died
Octob'r ye 7th 1750.
Aged 82 years.

On the day Rebecca died she was then 81 years old, and Ætatis suæ (i.e., Æ, "Aged," in the XX year of her Age) 82, indicating she was born in the year 1668 AFTER October 7th.



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