Rebekah Almy

     Rebekah was born on Monday, 26 January 1671 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. She was the daughter of Christopher Almy and Elizabeth Cornell. Rebekah married 3rd "Justice" John Townsend, son of Thomas Townsend and Sarah Coles, on 28 April 1692 in Rhode Island. He moved back to Oyster Bay where his father had given him a house. His father had offered him the property at Fort Neck but he refused & said does father want me to go out of the world; he took the place in the community which his father had held - he was suveyor, recorder, supervisor & justice; The children of his first wife were sent after her death to Rhode Island to Rose, sister of his father Thomas & wife of Samuel Hayden to whom John gives a deed to pay their expenses. It is not known what happened to Philenar but Thomas & John returned to Oyster Bay & Thomas later went to Oblong, Dutchess County but nothing more is known. Rebekah departed this life on Saturday, 24 February 1703 in Oyster Bay Town, Queens County, Long Island, New York.