Per her 2nd husband's grave memorial (36795803), Rebecca's maiden name was Fletcher (daughter of John Fletcher).
Married #1 Walter Baseden on 24 April 1627 in Cranbrook, Kent, England
Married # 2 Samuel Greenhill and had 2 children, one named Rebecca who married John Shepard.
Married #3 Jeremy Adams in Hartford, Connecticut in 1639.
Children of Jeremy Adams and Rebecca Taylor
Hester
Sarah
John married Abigail Smith
Samuel
Daniel
Ellenor
Hannah∼Samuel Greenhill married in Cranbrook, Kent, 24 June 1628 Rebecca (Taylor) Baseden. They had two children: Rebecca Shepard & Thomas.
Jeremy Adams (1611-1683) married (1) by about 1637 Rebecca (Baseden) Greenhill, widow of Samuel Greenhill.
They had five children: John, Hannah Smith, Hester, Sarah Willett, & Samuel.
Savage includes a first wife before the widow of Samuel Greenhill, on the basis of his proposed early birthdates for the first two children of Jeremy Adams, but these children need not have been born as early as Savage claimed, and could easily have been born to Rebecca (Baseden) (Greenhill) Adams. Aside from the baptism of Samuel, we have no direct evidence for the birthdates of any of the children. If we assume that the other four children named in the 16 July 1653 will of Thomas Greenhill are listed in birth order, and if we arrange them at two years intervals prior to the birth of Samuel, we get the sequence given above. Since Samuel Greenhill died within two years of his arrival in 1634, Jeremy Adams could easily have married his widow in time to have a child born in 1637. And since the marriage record for John supposedly claims that he was under age in 1657 when he married, he might even be placed a year or two later.
Some sources claim that Jeremy Adams had another daughter who married Robert Sanford, to justify the bequest by Adams to his "grandson" Zachary Sanford, but this is not correct, since Zachary Sanford had married Sarah Willett, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Adams) Willett. This is made clear in the dispute between the Greenhill and Adams heirs over the estate of Thomas Greenhill, when Zachary Sanford makes the claim "in right of his wife."
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project
Find A Grave contributor Ken Young adds:
Rebecca's birth as 1608 and death as 22 Dec. 1689
Rose Klix adds:
my 9g grandmother Rebecca (Taylor) Adams I believe married Walter Baseden, before Samuel Greenhill and lastly to my 9g grandfather Jeremy Adams.
In this source (England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973) I find FHL Film Number: 2228373 which states "Rebecca Taylor Female Marriage Date 24 Apr 1627 Marriage Place Cranbrook, Kent England to Spouse Walter Baseden."
Another FaG Memorial #100627743 created by charlott jones states " Rebecca was married #1 Walter Taylor on 24 Apr 1627 in Cranbrook, Kent, England" This is the same date that the first source (above) states she married Walter Baseden.
Other versions of these sources mention her as being a Baseden, and a wife to Greenhill and Adams.
as per https://www.foundersofhartford.org/the-founders/rebecca-taylor-greenhill/
Compiled by Timothy Lester Jacobs, SDFH Genealogist
REBECCA1 TAYLOR, HARTFORD FOUNDER was born abt. 1600 in England,
Rebecca Taylor Greenhill was a Founder of Hartford by virtue of the death of her husband Samuel Greenhill before 1637, at which time his holdings passed to her. Although she is not listed in "The Original Proprietors", she is clearly listed in the Secretary's Record Book, Vol. 1, part 1, viz: "Seueral psells of land in Hartford on the River of Connecticut belonging to the Inhabitants thereof as followseth. ...Thomas & Rebecca Greenhill". She had a home lot of one acre on which stood her dwelling house, outhouses, yards or gardens, located on the corner of the road to Wethersfield and the road from the Mill to the South Meadow.
She was married three times:
first to Walter Baseden on 24 April 1627 in Cranbrook, Kent, England, who died about 17 September 1627, when he was buried;
second to Samuel Greenhill on 24 June 1628 in Cranbrook, who died before 1637 in Hartford; and
third to Hartford Founder Jeremy Adams about 1638. Her date of death is unknown, but it was prior to 4 August 1683, as she was not mentioned in her third husband's will
Married #1 Walter Baseden on 24 April 1627 in Cranbrook, Kent, England
Married # 2 Samuel Greenhill and had 2 children, one named Rebecca who married John Shepard.
Married #3 Jeremy Adams in Hartford, Connecticut in 1639.
Children of Jeremy Adams and Rebecca Taylor
Hester
Sarah
John married Abigail Smith
Samuel
Daniel
Ellenor
Hannah∼Samuel Greenhill married in Cranbrook, Kent, 24 June 1628 Rebecca (Taylor) Baseden. They had two children: Rebecca Shepard & Thomas.
Jeremy Adams (1611-1683) married (1) by about 1637 Rebecca (Baseden) Greenhill, widow of Samuel Greenhill.
They had five children: John, Hannah Smith, Hester, Sarah Willett, & Samuel.
Savage includes a first wife before the widow of Samuel Greenhill, on the basis of his proposed early birthdates for the first two children of Jeremy Adams, but these children need not have been born as early as Savage claimed, and could easily have been born to Rebecca (Baseden) (Greenhill) Adams. Aside from the baptism of Samuel, we have no direct evidence for the birthdates of any of the children. If we assume that the other four children named in the 16 July 1653 will of Thomas Greenhill are listed in birth order, and if we arrange them at two years intervals prior to the birth of Samuel, we get the sequence given above. Since Samuel Greenhill died within two years of his arrival in 1634, Jeremy Adams could easily have married his widow in time to have a child born in 1637. And since the marriage record for John supposedly claims that he was under age in 1657 when he married, he might even be placed a year or two later.
Some sources claim that Jeremy Adams had another daughter who married Robert Sanford, to justify the bequest by Adams to his "grandson" Zachary Sanford, but this is not correct, since Zachary Sanford had married Sarah Willett, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Adams) Willett. This is made clear in the dispute between the Greenhill and Adams heirs over the estate of Thomas Greenhill, when Zachary Sanford makes the claim "in right of his wife."
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project
Find A Grave contributor Ken Young adds:
Rebecca's birth as 1608 and death as 22 Dec. 1689
Rose Klix adds:
my 9g grandmother Rebecca (Taylor) Adams I believe married Walter Baseden, before Samuel Greenhill and lastly to my 9g grandfather Jeremy Adams.
In this source (England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973) I find FHL Film Number: 2228373 which states "Rebecca Taylor Female Marriage Date 24 Apr 1627 Marriage Place Cranbrook, Kent England to Spouse Walter Baseden."
Another FaG Memorial #100627743 created by charlott jones states " Rebecca was married #1 Walter Taylor on 24 Apr 1627 in Cranbrook, Kent, England" This is the same date that the first source (above) states she married Walter Baseden.
Other versions of these sources mention her as being a Baseden, and a wife to Greenhill and Adams.
as per https://www.foundersofhartford.org/the-founders/rebecca-taylor-greenhill/
Compiled by Timothy Lester Jacobs, SDFH Genealogist
REBECCA1 TAYLOR, HARTFORD FOUNDER was born abt. 1600 in England,
Rebecca Taylor Greenhill was a Founder of Hartford by virtue of the death of her husband Samuel Greenhill before 1637, at which time his holdings passed to her. Although she is not listed in "The Original Proprietors", she is clearly listed in the Secretary's Record Book, Vol. 1, part 1, viz: "Seueral psells of land in Hartford on the River of Connecticut belonging to the Inhabitants thereof as followseth. ...Thomas & Rebecca Greenhill". She had a home lot of one acre on which stood her dwelling house, outhouses, yards or gardens, located on the corner of the road to Wethersfield and the road from the Mill to the South Meadow.
She was married three times:
first to Walter Baseden on 24 April 1627 in Cranbrook, Kent, England, who died about 17 September 1627, when he was buried;
second to Samuel Greenhill on 24 June 1628 in Cranbrook, who died before 1637 in Hartford; and
third to Hartford Founder Jeremy Adams about 1638. Her date of death is unknown, but it was prior to 4 August 1683, as she was not mentioned in her third husband's will
Per her 2nd husband's grave memorial (36795803), Rebecca's maiden name was Fletcher (daughter of John Fletcher).
Married #1 Walter Baseden on 24 April 1627 in Cranbrook, Kent, England
Married # 2 Samuel Greenhill and had 2 children, one named Rebecca who married John Shepard.
Married #3 Jeremy Adams in Hartford, Connecticut in 1639.
Children of Jeremy Adams and Rebecca Taylor
Hester
Sarah
John married Abigail Smith
Samuel
Daniel
Ellenor
Hannah∼Samuel Greenhill married in Cranbrook, Kent, 24 June 1628 Rebecca (Taylor) Baseden. They had two children: Rebecca Shepard & Thomas.
Jeremy Adams (1611-1683) married (1) by about 1637 Rebecca (Baseden) Greenhill, widow of Samuel Greenhill.
They had five children: John, Hannah Smith, Hester, Sarah Willett, & Samuel.
Savage includes a first wife before the widow of Samuel Greenhill, on the basis of his proposed early birthdates for the first two children of Jeremy Adams, but these children need not have been born as early as Savage claimed, and could easily have been born to Rebecca (Baseden) (Greenhill) Adams. Aside from the baptism of Samuel, we have no direct evidence for the birthdates of any of the children. If we assume that the other four children named in the 16 July 1653 will of Thomas Greenhill are listed in birth order, and if we arrange them at two years intervals prior to the birth of Samuel, we get the sequence given above. Since Samuel Greenhill died within two years of his arrival in 1634, Jeremy Adams could easily have married his widow in time to have a child born in 1637. And since the marriage record for John supposedly claims that he was under age in 1657 when he married, he might even be placed a year or two later.
Some sources claim that Jeremy Adams had another daughter who married Robert Sanford, to justify the bequest by Adams to his "grandson" Zachary Sanford, but this is not correct, since Zachary Sanford had married Sarah Willett, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Adams) Willett. This is made clear in the dispute between the Greenhill and Adams heirs over the estate of Thomas Greenhill, when Zachary Sanford makes the claim "in right of his wife."
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project
Find A Grave contributor Ken Young adds:
Rebecca's birth as 1608 and death as 22 Dec. 1689
Rose Klix adds:
my 9g grandmother Rebecca (Taylor) Adams I believe married Walter Baseden, before Samuel Greenhill and lastly to my 9g grandfather Jeremy Adams.
In this source (England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973) I find FHL Film Number: 2228373 which states "Rebecca Taylor Female Marriage Date 24 Apr 1627 Marriage Place Cranbrook, Kent England to Spouse Walter Baseden."
Another FaG Memorial #100627743 created by charlott jones states " Rebecca was married #1 Walter Taylor on 24 Apr 1627 in Cranbrook, Kent, England" This is the same date that the first source (above) states she married Walter Baseden.
Other versions of these sources mention her as being a Baseden, and a wife to Greenhill and Adams.
as per https://www.foundersofhartford.org/the-founders/rebecca-taylor-greenhill/
Compiled by Timothy Lester Jacobs, SDFH Genealogist
REBECCA1 TAYLOR, HARTFORD FOUNDER was born abt. 1600 in England,
Rebecca Taylor Greenhill was a Founder of Hartford by virtue of the death of her husband Samuel Greenhill before 1637, at which time his holdings passed to her. Although she is not listed in "The Original Proprietors", she is clearly listed in the Secretary's Record Book, Vol. 1, part 1, viz: "Seueral psells of land in Hartford on the River of Connecticut belonging to the Inhabitants thereof as followseth. ...Thomas & Rebecca Greenhill". She had a home lot of one acre on which stood her dwelling house, outhouses, yards or gardens, located on the corner of the road to Wethersfield and the road from the Mill to the South Meadow.
She was married three times:
first to Walter Baseden on 24 April 1627 in Cranbrook, Kent, England, who died about 17 September 1627, when he was buried;
second to Samuel Greenhill on 24 June 1628 in Cranbrook, who died before 1637 in Hartford; and
third to Hartford Founder Jeremy Adams about 1638. Her date of death is unknown, but it was prior to 4 August 1683, as she was not mentioned in her third husband's will
Married #1 Walter Baseden on 24 April 1627 in Cranbrook, Kent, England
Married # 2 Samuel Greenhill and had 2 children, one named Rebecca who married John Shepard.
Married #3 Jeremy Adams in Hartford, Connecticut in 1639.
Children of Jeremy Adams and Rebecca Taylor
Hester
Sarah
John married Abigail Smith
Samuel
Daniel
Ellenor
Hannah∼Samuel Greenhill married in Cranbrook, Kent, 24 June 1628 Rebecca (Taylor) Baseden. They had two children: Rebecca Shepard & Thomas.
Jeremy Adams (1611-1683) married (1) by about 1637 Rebecca (Baseden) Greenhill, widow of Samuel Greenhill.
They had five children: John, Hannah Smith, Hester, Sarah Willett, & Samuel.
Savage includes a first wife before the widow of Samuel Greenhill, on the basis of his proposed early birthdates for the first two children of Jeremy Adams, but these children need not have been born as early as Savage claimed, and could easily have been born to Rebecca (Baseden) (Greenhill) Adams. Aside from the baptism of Samuel, we have no direct evidence for the birthdates of any of the children. If we assume that the other four children named in the 16 July 1653 will of Thomas Greenhill are listed in birth order, and if we arrange them at two years intervals prior to the birth of Samuel, we get the sequence given above. Since Samuel Greenhill died within two years of his arrival in 1634, Jeremy Adams could easily have married his widow in time to have a child born in 1637. And since the marriage record for John supposedly claims that he was under age in 1657 when he married, he might even be placed a year or two later.
Some sources claim that Jeremy Adams had another daughter who married Robert Sanford, to justify the bequest by Adams to his "grandson" Zachary Sanford, but this is not correct, since Zachary Sanford had married Sarah Willett, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Adams) Willett. This is made clear in the dispute between the Greenhill and Adams heirs over the estate of Thomas Greenhill, when Zachary Sanford makes the claim "in right of his wife."
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project
Find A Grave contributor Ken Young adds:
Rebecca's birth as 1608 and death as 22 Dec. 1689
Rose Klix adds:
my 9g grandmother Rebecca (Taylor) Adams I believe married Walter Baseden, before Samuel Greenhill and lastly to my 9g grandfather Jeremy Adams.
In this source (England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973) I find FHL Film Number: 2228373 which states "Rebecca Taylor Female Marriage Date 24 Apr 1627 Marriage Place Cranbrook, Kent England to Spouse Walter Baseden."
Another FaG Memorial #100627743 created by charlott jones states " Rebecca was married #1 Walter Taylor on 24 Apr 1627 in Cranbrook, Kent, England" This is the same date that the first source (above) states she married Walter Baseden.
Other versions of these sources mention her as being a Baseden, and a wife to Greenhill and Adams.
as per https://www.foundersofhartford.org/the-founders/rebecca-taylor-greenhill/
Compiled by Timothy Lester Jacobs, SDFH Genealogist
REBECCA1 TAYLOR, HARTFORD FOUNDER was born abt. 1600 in England,
Rebecca Taylor Greenhill was a Founder of Hartford by virtue of the death of her husband Samuel Greenhill before 1637, at which time his holdings passed to her. Although she is not listed in "The Original Proprietors", she is clearly listed in the Secretary's Record Book, Vol. 1, part 1, viz: "Seueral psells of land in Hartford on the River of Connecticut belonging to the Inhabitants thereof as followseth. ...Thomas & Rebecca Greenhill". She had a home lot of one acre on which stood her dwelling house, outhouses, yards or gardens, located on the corner of the road to Wethersfield and the road from the Mill to the South Meadow.
She was married three times:
first to Walter Baseden on 24 April 1627 in Cranbrook, Kent, England, who died about 17 September 1627, when he was buried;
second to Samuel Greenhill on 24 June 1628 in Cranbrook, who died before 1637 in Hartford; and
third to Hartford Founder Jeremy Adams about 1638. Her date of death is unknown, but it was prior to 4 August 1683, as she was not mentioned in her third husband's will
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