Inscription: w/o Isaac

Rebecca

wife of

Isaac Higbee

died

Nov 26, 1869

ae. 86,

NOTE: Rebeckah is actually the correct name. Her records also show both Rachel and Rebecca. She was listed on Phelps & Servin's Vol 1., pg. 362, as Rachel Phelps, W3171, b. 1783 in Pompey, NY, m. _ Higley [Higbee].

Rebeckah's parents were Timothy PHELPS V and Persis BAXTER.

Wife of Isaach HIGBEE.

Married on 19 Jun 1803.

They had several children.

1. Persis HIGBEE Hiscock

2. Polly HIGBEE White

3. Sarah Ann HIGBEE Shattuck

4. Isaac Jackson HIGBEE

5. Baxter Harlow HIGBEE

6. David C HIGBEE (no proof that his middle name is Comstock)

8. Correl (Carryl) HIGBEE died young

This PHELPS lineage descends from William PHELPS of Crewkerne, England who immigrated to Dorchester on Mary and John in 1630 and then moved to Windsor, Connecticut five years later. William Phelps and several others founded Windsor.

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NOTE: Daniel Comstock HIGBEE does not belong to this family, he is the eldest child of Isaac Higbee and Mary "Polly" Comstock - this entire family moved Berrien Co., Michigan (#95306401). His siblings include Mary Paulina "Polly" HIGBEE, Francis Xavier "Alva" HIGBEE, Ann Marilla HIGBEE Squires, Lucy Laura HIGBEE DeVoe Barber, and Martha HIGBEE.

NOTE: The birthplace of the children of Timothy and Persis (Baxter) Phelps is given as Pompey, Onondaga County, New York; however, these children were born from 10 to 20 years before Timothy moved to Pompey. The 1855 New York State Census lists the birthplace of their daughter, Rebeckah as Saratoga County, New York--but she was born in 1783 while Saratoga County was not created from Albany County until 1791. The 1855 census information is valuable in that it helps confirm that the Timothy Phelps in Cambridge Town, Albany County 1790 was her father, and the family had moved westward to Charlton Town, Saratoga County by the time of the 1800 census.