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Rebecca Belknap Stetson

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• • Grandmother of Benton MacKaye — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7 
  • Father:
  • Jesse Stetson 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Dickerman   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Mar 1808 
  • Birth Location:
  • Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • Sep 1867 
  • Death Location:
  • Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Nicholas Medbery
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Sep 1837 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Mary Ellen Keith Medbery (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Sources for Rebecca Belknap Stetson

  • ¹ Annals of an Era, Percy MacKaye and the MacKaye Family, 1826-1932: A Record of Biography and History, Hanover, New Hampshire: Published under the Auspices of Dartmouth College (1932), 435, 478.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newburyport, Vol. 1, p. 259, Birth record for daughter Mary Ellen Medbury.
  • ³ Barry, John Stetson, A Genealogical and Biographical Sketch of the Name and Family of Stetson: from the year 1634 to the year 1847, Boston: W.A. Hall and Company (1847), 41.
  • ⁴ Dickerman, Edward Dwight and George Sherwood Dickerman, Dickerman Genealogy: Descendants of Thomas Dickerman, an Early Settler of Dorchester, Massachusetts, New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Press (1922), 118.
  • ⁵ MacKaye, Percy, Epoch: The Life of Steele MacKaye, Genius of the Theatre, In Relation to His Times and Contemporaries, Vol. 2, New York: Boni and Liveright (1927), xxxix (appendix).