Rebecca Minot Prescott
(1743-1813)
BIRTH
1743
PLACE
Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts Bay
DEATH
1813
PLACE
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
FAMILY
FATHER
Benjamin Prescott
(1717-1778)
MOTHER
Martha Day
(1779–1806)
HUSBAND
Roger Sherman
(1721-1793)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Rebecca Prescott Sherman (1742–1813) was Roger Sherman’s second wife, marrying him at Danvers, Massachusetts, in May 1763. The daughter of Benjamin Prescott and Rebecca Minot, she joined his New Haven household and had eight children, in addition to his surviving children by Elizabeth Hartwell. Rebecca outlived Sherman by twenty years; family genealogy and burial records preserve her identity and dates. Her father graduated from Harvard in 1736.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Rebecca Minot Prescott’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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 Minot Prescott 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. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Rebecca Prescott Sherman was Roger Sherman’s second wife, marrying him at Danvers, Massachusetts, in May 1763. Rebecca outlived Sherman by twenty years; family genealogy and burial records preserve her identity and dates. Rebecca Minot Prescott died in 1813, in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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