Rebecca Burwell
(1746-1806)
BIRTH
May 29, 1746
PLACE
DEATH
August 1, 1806
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Lewis Burwell
(1711-1756)
MOTHER
Mary Willis Burwell
(1714-1746)
HUSBAND
Jaquelin Ambler
(1742-1798)
CHILDREN
Mary Willis Ambler Marshall
(1766-1831)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Rebecca Burwell Ambler (1746–1806) was orphaned young and raised in Yorktown by her aunt Elizabeth Burwell and William Nelson. Thomas Jefferson admired her as “Belinda,” but she married merchant Jaquelin Ambler in 1764. During the Revolution the family fled British forces; daughter Eliza’s letters preserve their hardships and sketches of her parents. Her daughter Mary Willis married John Marshall. Land records preserve her place in the Ambler household.
EARLY LIFE
Rebecca Burwell was born on May 29, 1746. 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 Burwell 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 Burwell died on Aug 1, 1806. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Rebecca Burwell died on Aug 1, 1806. Rebecca Burwell Ambler was orphaned young and raised in Yorktown by her aunt Elizabeth Burwell and William Nelson. Thomas Jefferson admired her as “Belinda,” but she married merchant Jaquelin Ambler in 1764. During the Revolution the family fled British forces; daughter Eliza’s letters preserve their hardships and sketches of her parents. Her daughter Mary Willis married John Marshall. Land records preserve her place in the Ambler household. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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