"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.)"