The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

(surname unknown) · ◉ direct ancestor

♀Rachel (surname unknown)

Died about 1670.

Rachel (died about 1670) was the second wife of Edward Spalding (died 1670), an early settler of Braintree and Chelmsford in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She was the eighth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her son Andrew Spaulding (1652–1713). Her surname and origins are not known.

According to a Spalding family genealogy published in 1897, her children by Edward were Benjamin, born at Braintree in 1643, Joseph in 1646, Dinah in 1649 and Andrew in 1652; the birth of Andrew in 1652 has not been found in a town record. As that genealogy prints Edward’s will, dated 13 February 1666, he left her his house, its land and meadow for her life, “and after her decease to Andrew Spalding, my youngest sonne”, together with his lot in the Newfield and his movable goods for life, and made her his sole executrix. Edward died on 26 February 1670, and the genealogy records that Rachel “died soon after him”, so that when the will was proved on 5 April 1670 administration was given to his sons John and Edward.

Family time line

◉ Rachel (surname unknown) –abt 1670
◉ Edward Spalding –1670 ⚖
No marriage recorded
○ Benjamin Spalding 1643–
○ Joseph Spalding 1646–
○ Dinah Spalding 1649–
◉ Andrew Spaulding 1653–1713

Recorded events

EventWhenWhereEvidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read
from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so
not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Death abt 1670 from a compiled source

Sources

  • Spalding, Charles Warren, The Spalding Memorial: a genealogical history of Edward Spalding of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay and his descendants (Chicago, 1897) (archive.org spaldingmemorial1897spal) — Death, about this person, family with Edward Spalding

Line of descent

Descendants

  1. Benjamin Spalding 1643–
    1. Edward Spalding 1672–1740
    2. Elizabeth Spaulding 1680–1724
      1. Benjamin Wheeler 1703–1770
        1. Ephraim Wheeler 1738–1821
  2. Joseph Spalding 1646–
    1. Hannah Spalding 1674–1747
      1. Hannah Shepard 1695–1775
        1. Rachel Marsh 1717–1790
        2. Eunice Marsh 1726–1768
  3. Dinah Spalding 1649–
  4. Andrew Spaulding 1653–1713
    1. Andrew Spaulding 1678–1753
      1. Andrew Spaulding 1701–aft 1768
        1. Andrew Spaulding 1729–
        2. Hannah Spaulding 1731–
        3. Abigail Spaulding 1734–bef 1749 ✧
        4. Mary Spaulding 1736–
        5. Joanna Spaulding 1738–
        6. Henry Spaulding 1740–1749 ✧
        7. Ephraim Spaulding 1742–
        8. Benjamin Spaulding 1745–
        9. Ruth Spaulding 1746–1790
        10. Solomon Spaulding 1748–
        11. Henry Spaulding 1750–
        12. Abigail Spaulding 1754–
      2. Jacob Spaulding 1703–
        1. Susanna Spaulding 1730–1776
        2. Abigail Spaulding 1735–1813
      3. Henry Spaulding 1703–
      4. Josiah Spaulding 1706–
      5. Ephraim Spaulding 1708–
      6. Isaac Spaulding 1710–
      7. Abigail Spaulding 1712–
      8. Johanna Spaulding 1712–
      9. James Spaulding 1714–
        1. Silas Spaulding 1757–1812
      10. David Spaulding 1717–
      11. Benjamin Spaulding 1720–
      12. Sarah Spaulding 1723–
        1. Samuel Comings 1742–1826
    2. Henry Spaulding 1680–
    3. John Spaulding 1682–
      1. Job Spaulding 1714–
        1. Lucy Spaulding 1757–1825
    4. Rachel Spaulding 1685–
      1. Ebenezer Butterfield 1707–
        1. Mary Butterfield 1748–1844
      2. William Butterfield 1712–
        1. William Butterfield 1737–1799
      3. Mary Butterfield 1723–1783
        1. Joanna Fletcher 1747–1842
    5. William Spaulding 1688–
    6. Johannah Spaulding 1689–
      1. Andrew Fletcher 1721–1759
    7. Benoni Spaulding 1691–
      1. Rebecca Spaulding 1722–1781
        1. Abel Adams 1746–1792
    8. Mary Spaulding 1695–1698 ✧
    9. Hannah Spaulding –1677