Person:Abigail Nurse (6)

Name^[2]^[3]	Abigail Nurse
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]	23 May 1710	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	16 Apr 1734	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesto John Jacobs
Marriage	25 May 1738	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Nathaniel Porter

References

↑ Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records to the End of the year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1916-1925)
Vol. 2, p. 114.

NURSE, Abigail, d. [Samuel. CR2], jr. and Dorothy (Faulkner), [born] May 23, 1710.
↑ Davis, Walter Goodwin. The ancestry of Sarah Johnson, 1775-1824, wife of Joseph Neal of Litchfield, Maine. (Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1960)
p. 26.

Children of Samuel Nurse [#6] and Dorothy Faulkner: 1) Abigail, b. 23 May 1710, m. 16 Apr 1734 John Jacobs Jr.
↑ Several sources (e.g., Source:Porter, Joseph W. Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Porter, Who Settled at Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1635, and Allied Families, p. 247; Source:Sibley, John Langdon. Biographical Sketches of Those who Attended Harvard College (1690-1774), Vol. 17, p. 82) assume that the Abigail Jacobs who m. Nathaniel Porter was d/o John Jacobs and Abigail Waters. The father's will shows that Abigail m. a Mr. Felton. Rather, it was the widow of the father's son John, Abigail (Nurse) Jacobs, who married Nathaniel Porter as his 2nd wife. She was alive in 1761 when she submitted an accounting for his estate and had her dower set off to her, possibly the widow Abigail "Potter" who d. 7 Aug 1765 in Topsfield?