Rebekah Rivers is the eldest daughter of Sarah and John, and she becomes Mary's best friend. She is promised to Tobias Morse, and when Reverend Johnson asks for her hand after his wife dies in childbirth, Rebekah is distraught because she is pregnant with Tobias' child. She confides in Mary who convinces her to tell her mother, and Sarah persuades John to refuse Reverend Johnson's suit. Rebekah marries Tobias, but she goes into labor early during the meeting where Mary is accused of witchcraft because Hannah Vane twists the belly of her poppet since she covets Tobias. Rebekah gives birth to a healthy daughter who she names Mary Sarah, and she plans to leave Beulah with her husband and her parents as soon as she is well enough to travel.
