Author: William F. J. Boardman
Call Number: R929.2 B662
REBECCA BRONSON, wife of Eliphalet Dickinson, was the daughter of Jacob Bronson (No. 102) and Mary, his wife. She was born in Farmington, Conn., in 1679; married November 24, 1697, and died May 2, 1755. Her gravestone in the Rocky Hill cemetery has the following epitaph: Here | Lies Interr'd | the Body of Mrs. | Rebeckah Dickenson, | W'do of Mr. Eliphelet | Dickenson, who died | May 2, 1775; In ye 77th | year of her Age. The inventory of her estate taken the month of her death amounted to œ19 5s. 4d. [Hartford Probate Records, XVII: 193.]
