Ancestry of
Rebecca Standish

(c1774–1801)

Rebecca Standish

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Zachariah Standish Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Olive Pool   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 18 Mar 1774 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Dec 1801 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Ward Cemetery, Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
  • Notes: 

  • The National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims has accepted at least one lineage application that gives Rebecca Standish's mother as her father Zachariah's first wife Rebecca Wood. The Mayflower silver book for John Alden, Part 5 (2016), p. 177, gives her mother as Zachariah's second wife Olive Pool. Olive was given guardianship of Rebecca in 1781 after Zachariah's death. This would indicate Rebecca's age was under 14 at the time. Rebecca's tombstone after her death in DEC 1801 was inscribed with her age being 27 years and nine months. This would place her birth around MAR 1774 some four years after her father's second marriage. This would confirm that Rebecca's mother was Olive Pool and not Rebecca Wood.

    From 1789 to 1810, a Rebeckah Standish was taxed in Plympton, Massachusetts, for a meadow of 5.5 acres. This would appear to be a different Rebecca Standish as she referred to as a widow in some of the tax lists.

• Marriages for Rebecca Standish

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  • Spouse:
  • Calvin Bryant
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Feb 1797
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Cornwall, Litchfield, Connecticut

• Sources for Rebecca Standish

  • ¹ Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934, Cemetery record for Rebecca Bryant, give cemetery location as Salisbury, Connecticut.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A108412.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/31/2021).
  • ⁴ Lineages of Members of the National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, To January 1, 1929, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1988), 108, gives Rebecca's mother as her father's first wife Rebecca Wood.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, 1783, Plympton, Tax Valuations, Olive Standish for Peleg, Rebecker and Sarah.
  • ⁶ Mayflower Deeds and Probates, 1600-1850, Probate of father Zachariah Standish.
  • ⁷ Plymouth County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1881, Case No 19189, Probate file for father Zachariah Standish.
  • ⁸ Standish, Myles, The Standishes of America, Boston, Massachusetts: Press of Samuel Usher (1895), 19, gives Rebecca's mother as father's first wife Rebecca.
  • ⁹ Wakefield, Robert S. and Russell L. Warner, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 14, Family of Myles Standish, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2007), 104.
  • ¹⁰ Woodworth-Barnes, Esther Littleford, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 5, John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2016), 177.