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Rachel Whiton

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Dave Cowens — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 773 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Whiton 
  • Mother:
  • Joanna May   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Jul 1700 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Jan 1792 
  • Death Location:
  • Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Rickard
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Oct 1721 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Lemuel Rickard (Ahnentafel No:386 )

  Theophilus Rickard

  Samuel Rickard

  Lazarus Rickard

  Elizabeth Rickard

  Rachel Rickard

  Rebecca Rickard

  • Notes: 

  • Rachel Whiton's maiden name is also seen as White.

    Rachel Whiton is called Rachel Farrar in Plympton VR. Her mother married Nathan Farrow which might explain the name Farrar in the Plympton vital records.

• Sources for Rachel Whiton

  • ¹ Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, 2017, Vol. 65, No. 1, p. 87.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 595.
  • ³ Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet, comp., Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, Revere, Massachusetts: unknown (1912), 130.
  • ⁴ Van Antwerp, Lee Douglas and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 9, Francis Eaton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1996), 121.
  • ⁵ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 7, 2nd ed., Peter Brown, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 75-76.