Person:Abigail Elderkin (2)

Abigail Elderkin

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m. Abt 1629

Facts and Events

Name	Abigail Elderkin
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]^[2]	13 Sep 1641	Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Christening^[1]	19 Sep 1641	Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage		to Sergeant John Betts
Divorce	14 Oct 1672	Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesfrom Sergeant John Betts

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Goldthwaite, Charlotte. Boardman Genealogy, 1525-1895: The English Home and Ancestry of Samuel Boreman, Wethersfield, Conn.; Thomas Boreman, Ipswich, Mass. : With Some Account of Their Descendants (Now Called Boardman) in America. (Hartford, Conn.: William F. J. Boardman, 1895)
pages 145-47.

'Sergt. John Betts of Wethersfield and Huntington, L. I. ... married, date unknown, Abigail, daughter of John Elderkin, born at Dedham, Mass., Sept. 13, 1641. The Dedham church record reads: "Abigail ye Daughter of our sister Elderkin, being a member of ye church at Linn, at hir request was bapt. 19. 7. 1641." ... There was estrangement between him and his wife [about 1662], ... John Betts attempted to live again with his wife, but the records of the Court from 1669 to 1671 show that she was incorrigible, and he was granted a divorce, Oct. 14, 1672.'
↑ Hill, Don Gleason, Editor. The Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths, and Intentions of Marriage: in the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts, Volumes 1 & 2. 1635-1845 With an Appendix Containing Records of Marriages Before 1800, Returned from Other Towns, Under the Statute of 1857. (Dedham, Mass.: Town of Dedham, 1886)
pages 1-2.

'1641 ... Abigall, the Daughter of John Elderkin & his wife, borne the 13 of the 7 mo.'
Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (1963)
page 66.

'BETTS, John (?1627-1690) & 1/wf Abigail [ELDERKIN] (1641-); ca 1660/65, 24 Oct, div 1672; Wethersfield, CT'