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Last NameCORNELL
First NameREBECKA (WIDOW)
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Cemetery NumberPO600
Cemetery NamePORTSMOUTH LOCATION UNKNOWN
Birth Day0
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Birth Year1600c
Death Day8
Death MonthFEB
Death Year1673
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Notes[Quaker records: was killed strangely at Portsmouth in her house. Was twice viewed by the Crowns Inquest digged up and buried again by her husband's grave in their own land. See the essay "A Murder, So Vile (or was it?)" in John T. Pierce Sr.'s "Historical Tracts of the Town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island," Portsmouth, RI, 1991, pp. 61-62 for more details of her death. Her son Thomas was convicted of her murder and hanged. His request to be buried in the family plot was denied, and he was to be buried either 10' from West Main Rd. or near the gallows (the latter in Newport).] died: BURNED - PORTSMOUTH
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