“Rebekca Winslow the Daughter of Josias winslo borne the 15 July 1643.”657

She was a niece of Gov. Winslow. 552

She was also said to have died 15 July 1683 554, 555, 551 and “was buried presumably at Yarmouth, Mass., though no gravestone does, or ever has, marked her grave.” 262

“His first wife, Rebecca, died July 15th, 1683, from ailments, induced by the birth and subsequent death of her last child, Mary 1st (4) Thacher; she was probably buried in Yarmouth, Mass., although no stone marks her grave. Hon. Col. Thacher was much attached to his first wife and deeply grieved over her loss; and during the period between her death and his second marriage he composed verses in her enthusiastic praise, dated August 30th, 1683.” Extracts from these verses to be entered. 262

“REBECCA, b. Marshfield 15 July 1643 [MarVR 2]; m. by 1665 John
Thatcher (eldest child b. Yarmouth 20 May 1665 [MD 13:221]). (Savage
gives the date of this marriage as 6 November 1661, at Marshfield, but
this event does not appear in the Marshfield records.)” 656

“Returning to the ancestor of this branch of the New England Winslow family, we find one of his daus. m. to William Crow of Plymouth, another to John Miller of Yarmouth, a third, Rebecca, m. 1661, to John Thacher, also of Yarmouth, and Mary, m. 10 June, 1670, to John Tracy, who was one of the first proprietors of Norwich, Conn.” 314