Rebeckah Fisher

Brief Life History of Rebeckah

When Rebeckah Fisher was born on 25 June 1687, in Dedham, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Vigilance Fisher, was 32 and her mother, Rebecca Partridge, was 36.

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Family Time Line

Vigilance Fisher
1654–1713
Rebecca Partridge
1651–1694
Lydia Fisher
1679–1711
Vigilance Fisher Jr
1680–
Samuell Fisher
1681–
Ebenezer Fisher
1683–1709
James Fischer
1686–1734
Rebeckah Fisher
1687–
David Fisher
1690–1691
Abigail Fisher
1692–1742

Sources (2)

  • Rebecca Fisher, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
  • Rebecka Fisher, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"

World Events (3)

1776

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

1776 · The Declaration to the King

"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""

1781 · The First Constitution

Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name for a fisherman, from Middle English fis(sc)her(e) ‘fisherman’ (Old English fiscere). In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from many other languages, including German Fischer and its Slavic(ized) variant Fišer (see Fiser ), Dutch Visser , Hungarian Halász (see Halasz ), Italian Pescatore , Slovenian Ribič (see Ribic ), and Croatian Ribić or Ribar .

English: in a few cases, possibly a topographic name for someone who lived near a fish weir on a river, from Middle English fis(sc)hwere, fisshyar ‘fish weir’ (Old English fiscwer, fiscgear), or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Fisher in North Mundham, Sussex.

Irish: translation into English of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán’, a personal name meaning ‘salmon’. See Braden .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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