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Brooke Adams

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Rebecca Richardson

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Brooke Adams — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 67 
  • Father:
  • Josiah Richardson 
  • Mother:
  • Dorothy -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1765 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Solomon Pratt
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Dec 1785 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts  
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  Ezra Pratt

  Solomon Pratt

  Sally Pratt

  Cynthia Pratt (Ahnentafel No:33 )

  Tilly R. Pratt

  Maria Pratt

  Elizabeth Pratt

  • Notes: 

  • Jefferson County centennial book (1905) identifies daughter Sally (Pratt) Stears as the niece of Captain Tilly Richardson. Both Rebecca Richardson and Tilley Richardson were married only three years apart at Lancaster, Massachusetts.

• Sources for Rebecca Richardson

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A095946, incorrectly gives Rebecca's brother Tilley as her father.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #092487.
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Marriage record for Solomon Pratt and Rebecca Richardson.
  • ⁴ Coughlin, Jere, Jefferson County Centennial 1905: Speeches, Addresses and Stories of the Towns, Watertown, New York: Hungerford-Holbrook Co. (1905), 401, identifies daughter Sally (Pratt) Stears as a niece of Capt. Tilly Richardson.
  • ⁵ White, Almira Larkin, Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1638-1900, Vol. 1, Haverhill, Massachusetts: Chase Brothers, Printers (1900), 518, incorrect parentage as it's unlikely that this Rebecca was born in 1848.