Rebecca Wright

1604 - Bef 1640  (< 36 years)

• Name	Rebecca Wright  [1]
  Birth	1604  [2]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate birth	1606  [2]
  Death	Bef 2 Nov 1640	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut   [2]
  Alternate death	Bef 3 Nov 1640	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut   [3]
  Person ID	I31211	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	7 Sep 2025

  
  

  Father	Samuel Wright,   b. Bef 17 Dec 1570   d. Bef 10 Jun 1606 (Age < 35 years)
  Mother	Rebecca Rogers
  Marriage	Abt 1603  [2]
  Family ID	F22715	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rev. Samuel Stone,   b. Bef 30 Jul 1602   d. 20 Jul 1663, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut (Age > 60 years)
  Marriage	5 Jun 1629	Cranham, Essex, England   [2]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Stone,   b. Abt 1638, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut d. Aft 1687 (Age > 50 years)
  Family ID	F18526	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Sep 2025

  
  

• Notes

  3 Nov 1640 is the date on which the Rev. Thomas Hooker, noting her death, wrote that "she smoaked out her days in the darkness of melancholy."

  
  

• Sources

  [S8389] Gale Ion Harris, "The Children of Captain Joseph1 Fitch and Mary (Stone) Fitch of Hartford and Windsor, Connecticut." The American Genealogist 68:1, 1993; 68:95, 1993., calls her the Rev. Samuel Stone's "unknown first wife". [S6775] Jesse Tarbert, "The Identity and English Ancestry of Rev. Samuel Stone's First Wife: Rebecca Wright, Granddaughter of Rev. Richard Rogers." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 176:388, Fall 2022. [S1680] George E. McCracken, "The Salem Gardners: Comments and Clues." The American Genealogist 30:155, 1954.