Rebecca Boylston Gill
(1727-1798)
BIRTH
December 7, 1727
PLACE
Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America
NAME
Rebecca Boylston
DEATH
March 21, 1798
PLACE
Princeton, New Jersey
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Moses Gill
(1733-1800)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Rebecca Boylston Gill (1727–1798) was Moses Gill’s second wife and a member of Boston’s Boylston family. John Singleton Copley painted her in 1767, before that marriage; the portrait is held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. After Gill’s first wife died, Rebecca joined his household in Princeton, Massachusetts, where the couple’s estate was well known. She died there in March 1798. The New Jersey deathplace in this record appears to confuse the two Princetons.
EARLY LIFE
Rebecca Boylston Gill was born on Dec 7, 1727. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Rebecca Boylston Gill is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Rebecca Boylston Gill died on Mar 21, 1798 in Princeton, New Jersey. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Rebecca Boylston Gill died on Mar 21, 1798, in Princeton, New Jersey. Rebecca Boylston Gill was Moses Gill’s second wife and a member of Boston’s Boylston family. John Singleton Copley painted her in 1767, before that marriage; the portrait is held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. After Gill’s first wife died, Rebecca joined his household in Princeton, Massachusetts, where the couple’s estate was well known. She died there in March 1798. The New Jersey deathplace in this record appears to confuse the two Princetons. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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