Rebecca Minot Prescott

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Rebecca Minot Prescott (1743 – 1793) was the daughter of Benjamin Prescott and Rebecca Minot Prescott from Salem, Massachusetts; and the niece of Roger Sherman’s brother Reverend Josiah Sherman.

Rebecca married Roger Sherman on May 12, 1763. She was his second wife. His first wife, Elizabeth Hartwell, died during childbirth.

US flag designer Betsy Ross allowed Rebecca Sherman the privilege of sewing on three of the flag’s stars. Rebecca then requested, and was chosen to make the first official flag of the State of Connecticut.

Rebecca Sherman became the mother of eight of Roger's fifteen children: Rebecca, Elizabeth, Roger, Mehitable, Mehitable, Oliver, Martha, and Sarah. Of those eight children, daughter Sarah Sherman was the mother of George Frisbie Hoar a United States Senator and Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar a United States Attorney General; daughter Elizabeth Sherman became the mother of Roger Sherman Baldwin, a Governor of Connecticut and a United States Senator and daughter Mehitable Sherman became the mother of William Maxwell Evarts, also a United States Attorney General and a United States Senator as well.