Ancestry of
John Steinbeck

Author of The Grapes of Wrath

Rebecca Rolfe

View famous kin of Rebecca Rolfe

• • 5th Great-grandmother of John Steinbeck — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 165 
  • Father:
  • John Rolfe 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Scullard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Feb 1661/1662 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  • 13 or 23 NOV 1751 
  • Death Location:
  •  
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  •  
  • Spouse Name:
  • William Cutter
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 5 Mar 1681 
  • Marriage Location:
  •  
  • Child:

  Samuel Cutter (Ahnentafel No:82 )

• Additional marriages for Rebecca Rolfe

  ---

  • Spouse:
  • John Whitmore
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 1 Apr 1723

• Sources for Rebecca Rolfe

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1882, Vol. 36, p. 144.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 2000, Vol. 75, p. 185.
  • ³ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 284.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#66 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: New England Ancestors of Depression-Era Novelist John Steinbeck", (accessed 10/15/2014).
  • ⁵ Williams, Edward H., Jr., Robert Williams of Roxbury, Mass. and His Descendants, Newport, Rhode Island: Reprinted from The Magazine of New England History (1891), 10.