Rebecca Parks

7th great-grandparent – 1 of 512 504 in this generation

(1707-1748)

Rebecca was born on 26 December 1707 in Concord, Massachusetts, to Richard Parks, 44, and Elizabeth Billings, 38. She was the 10th of 13 children.

When Rebecca was 17, her father passed away on 19 June 1725 in Concord at the age of 61.

At the age of 24, she married 33-year-old Zachariah Parker in Weston, Massachusetts.

They had two children in Weston:

1. Zachariah, Jr., b.27 October 1732
2. Ephraim, b.1 October 1733, married Deborah Sargent, had six children

Zachariah and Rebecca were in Dutchess County, New York, in 1740, where their third son, James, was born.

3. James, b. 1740 Dutchess, New York

Sometime after, they removed to Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, where Rebecca died at the age of 40, on 11 June 1748.