Rebecca Winthrop Saltonstall

  • Province of Massachusetts Bay

Born in Boston in 1712, Rebecca Winthrop Saltonstall was a granddaughter of Wait Still Winthrop and Joseph Dudley, linking her to two of New England's most prominent colonial families. She marries Gurdon Saltonstall Jr and became the matriarch of a large New London-Norwich lineage, raising children who extend the Winthrop-Dudley-Saltonstall network across southeastern Connecticut. Rebecca died in Norwich, closing a life situated at the center of the colony's political, clerical and mercantile circles. - AsNotedIn

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Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1712/11/12 In Boston's harbor town, where salt wind threads through narrow streets, Ann Dudley Winthrop brings forth her daughter Rebecca, a new child of the Winthrop and Dudley lines, born into the colony's steady world of magistrates, ministers and kin. Born
1713/01/11 The infant Rebecca Winthrop is baptized in New London, Connecticut Colony, entering the records of a community tied to the Winthrop and Saltonstall families. Faith
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