Rebecca Capen

1748 - 1833  (85 years)

• Name	Rebecca Capen
  Alternate birth	14 Jul 1747  [1]
  Birth	3 Jul 1748	Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate death	6 Dec 1832	Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [1]
  Alternate death	5 Dec 1833  [3]
  Death	6 Dec 1833  [2]
  Burial	Pearl Street Cemetery, Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [2]
  Person ID	I41857	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	Jonathan Capen,   b. 23 Jul 1724, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 27 May 1813, Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 88 years)
  Mother	Jerusha Talbot,   b. 6 Oct 1721   d. 8 Oct 1817 (Age 96 years)
  Marriage	20 Nov 1746	Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [3]
  Family ID	F24504	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elijah Wentworth,   b. 30 Dec 1744, Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. Jul 1810, Canaan, Hancock, Maine (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	20 Jul 1769	Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Elijah Wentworth,   b. 26 Sep 1775, Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. Nov 1863, St. Joseph, Berrien, Michigan (Age 88 years)
  Family ID	F24491	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2025

  
  

• Notes

  The Wentworth Genealogy (citation details below) notwithstanding, her gravestone as shown on her Find a Grave page clearly gives her death date as 6 Dec 1833.

  
  

• Sources

  [S170] The Wentworth Genealogy, English and American by John Wentworth. Boston: Little, Brown, 1878. [S8058] Find a Grave page for Rebekah Capen Wentworth. [S8063] The Capen Family: Descendants of Bernard Capen of Dorchester, Mass. by Charles Albert Hayden. Minneapolis, 1929. [S170] The Wentworth Genealogy, English and American by John Wentworth. Boston: Little, Brown, 1878., date only.