Rebecca Rawson, was b. May 23, 1656.The sad story of her marriage and death is related in a "Memorial of the Rawson Family," by Judge Joseph Rawson, of Rhode Island. "There was one Thomas Rumsey,who came from England to Boston, and pretended to be the son of Sir Thomas Hale, Jr., nephew to Lord Chief Justice Hale, and made a respectable appearance. He appeared to be well acquainted with Sir Thomas Hale's family, and, being a person of handsome address, paid his devoirs to Miss Rebecca Rawson, who was accounted one of the most beautiful,polite and agreeable young ladies then in Boston, as was related by many of her contemporaries, and particularly by Mr. Callendar, father of the Rev. Mr. Callendar, Anti-Pedo-Baptist Minister in Rhode Island. As she was descended from one of the first families in Boston, she thought herself good enough to make the young Lord a wife. They were married, and being handsomely furnished, embarked for England, where they safely arrived. Soon going on shore in a dishabille, leaving her trunks and other things on board the vessel, she went to a relation of hers, where they lodged the first night. In the morning he arose early, taking the keys of her trunks, and telling her that he would go and send her things on shore, that she might be dressed before dinner. He sent the trunks up, and she waited with impatience for him to bring her the keys until one or two o'clock in the afternoon, but he not coming, she broke open the trunks, and, to her inexpressible surprise, found herself plundered and stripped of every thing and her trunks filled with combustible matter, which put the whole family in great consternation ; on which her kinsman ordered up his carriage, and they went to the place where she stopped with her husband the night before, he having told her that he had some business there. She inquired for Sir Thomas Hale,Jr., and was told that he had not been there for some time past. She said she was sure he was there the night before, for she was there with him. They said it was a mistake, but that one Thomas Rumsey was there the night before, with a young lady, and that he had gone home to his wife and family at Canterbury, and she never saw the villain more. She had one child by him, which she left with her sister in England, that sister having no children. During her thirteen years' residence in England, she learned many curious works, such as painting on glass, &c. Her ingenuity, industry and pride, procured her a genteel living, and she was not dependent on her friends for support. On her return to her native place, Boston, by way of the Island of Jamaica,in one of her uncle's ships, the ship being about to sail thence for Boston, in the morning of the great earthquake at Port Royal, A. D. 1692, she was swallowed up, together with the whole ship's company, excepting her uncle, who, being on shore just completing the settlement of his accounts of his voyage." Rebecca Rawson and her father are prominent characters in "Stray Leaves from Margaret Smith's Diary, in the Colony of Massachusetts," published 1849. The form of a diary is chosen for a very interesting story, illustrative of old times in the Colony. Rebecca had by Thomas Rumsey, as before remarked, one child, left with her sister in England. From: E. B. Crane's "The Rawson Family, a Revised Memoir of Edward Rawson" (1875).