Rebecca Minot Prescott (1742–1813)[1][better source needed] was the second wife of United States Founding Father Roger Sherman.
She was the daughter of Benjamin and Rebecca Minot Prescott from Salem, Massachusetts; the niece of Roger Sherman’s brother Rev.
Josiah Sherman, and the second cousin once removed of Colonel William Prescott.
Rebecca then requested, and was chosen to make, the first official flag of the State of Connecticut[2][self-published source?]
Rebecca Sherman became the mother of eight of Roger's fifteen children: Rebecca, Elizabeth, Roger, Mehitabel, Mehitabel, Oliver, Martha, and Sarah.