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I don't think Abiah Gillett is the correct wife here. Abiah Gillett married John Slater in 1669. She was the widow of Isaiah Bartlett (m. 1663). The Windsor Vital Records say "John Slaughter was married to Abiah that had been wife to Elisha Bartlett July 15th 69 " The Simsbury Town Records have a list "Children listed in order "there are the names of the children Borne to John Slater by Abiah his wife who was daughter of Nathan Gillit." The list shows children born between 1669 and 1682, including " John Slater the first Son of John Slater was Borne the one and Tweenty day of Febbry And one Thousand Six hund and Sixty Nine." They then both died in Simsbury in 1713 and 1716. So they aren't the couple that married in 1682, and it seems exceedingly unlikely that they were having kids in Lynn when Abiah was 60. It looks like from the data that there's a John Slafter that's the father of the children listed, and perhaps had a wife Abiah. It looks like that that Abiah should just be edited to remove the reference to the one born in Simsbury. Simsbury TR: Source:Simsbury, Connecticut, births, marriages and deaths - I got the microfilm.
--Amelia.Gerlicher 22:11, 13 June 2007 (MDT)
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