When Rebecca Reynolds was born on 27 October 1737, in Stonington, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, James Sackett Reynolds, was 37 and her mother, Phebe Fowler, was 27. She married Azariah Crandall Sr. on 15 April 1755, in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1782, in Pawling, Pawling, Dutchess, New York, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Beekman Cemetery, Poughquag, Beekman, Dutchess, New York, United States.