Rebecca was the daughter of Comfort Whiting and Grace Liscom of Stoughton, Mass. She m. Stoughton 2 Dec 1784 Peter BILLINGS, b. Stoughton 18 May 1767, d. c. 1805. The federal census records portray an interesting story about this family. Peter's name appears on the 1790 and 1800 censuses in Canton, but thereafter it is Rebecca's name that appears: 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, and 1860. However, there is a like-aged man living with her in 1810, and perhaps 1820. Is this a brother or father? The assumption is that Peter was living in 1800, but dead by 1810. In 1850 Rebecca was living with Rachel Hewitt, 58, and two Hewitt children; in 1860 she was living only with Rachel Hewitt, aged 68. I assume this was her daughter.
Rebecca was the daughter of Comfort Whiting and Grace Liscom of Stoughton, Mass. She m. Stoughton 2 Dec 1784 Peter BILLINGS, b. Stoughton 18 May 1767, d. c. 1805. The federal census records portray an interesting story about this family. Peter's name appears on the 1790 and 1800 censuses in Canton, but thereafter it is Rebecca's name that appears: 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, and 1860. However, there is a like-aged man living with her in 1810, and perhaps 1820. Is this a brother or father? The assumption is that Peter was living in 1800, but dead by 1810. In 1850 Rebecca was living with Rachel Hewitt, 58, and two Hewitt children; in 1860 she was living only with Rachel Hewitt, aged 68. I assume this was her daughter.
Family Members
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Rebecca Billings Lawrenson
1787–1879
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Mary "Polly" Billings Horton
1789–1866
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Rachel Billings Hewett
1792–1865
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Nancy Billings Thayer
1794–1854
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Hannah Billings Tucker
1797–1825
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Clarissa Billings
1800–1826
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Catherine Billings Tucker
1802–1868
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Sarah White (I) Billings
1804–1806
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Sarah White (II) Billings
1806–1810
