Person:Abigail Harris (17)

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Abigail Harris
d.Est 1754
m. Bef 4 Feb 1723
  1. Abigail Harris1724 - Est 1754
m. 1 Oct 1741
  1. Captain Harris Hopkins1744/45 - 1820
Facts and Events
Name[1] Abigail Harris
Married Name Abigail Hopkins
Gender Female
Birth[1] Jan 1724 Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 1 Oct 1741 West Hartland, Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesAsa Hopkins and Abigail Harris were second cousins.
to Lieutenant Asa Hopkins
Death[1] Est 1754
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 18. Lieutenant Asa5 Hopkins, in Hopkins, Timothy. John Hopkins of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants. (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1932)
    59.

    "Abigail Harris … b. at Litchfield in January 1724, daughter of Captain Joseph Harris … and Mary4 Hopkins, … She d. about 1754. … Abigail Harris … chose her stepfather, Stephen Sedgwick, as guardian when she ws fourteen years of age, 10 April 1738. She was her father's sole heir, and received from him seven hundred acres of land. (Manwaring, 3:281.)"