Person:Abigail Abbott (15)

Watchers
  • F.  Nehemiah Abbott (add)
  • M.  Sarah Foster (add)
m. 2 Nov 1714
  1. Abigail Abbott1721/22 - 1784
m. 7 Nov 1749
  1. Amos Lawrence1750 - 1798
  2. Nehemiah Lawrence1752 - 1786
  3. Samuel Lawrence1754 - 1827
  4. Asa Lawrence1756 - 1759
Facts and Events
Name[4] Abigail Abbott
Gender Female
Birth[1][5] 26 Jan 1721/22 Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United StatesCitation needed
Christening[2] 29 Jan 1721/22 Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 7 Nov 1749 to Amos Lawrence
Death[3] 6 Jan 1784 Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. Lawrence, Robert Means. Historical sketches of some members of the Lawrence family: with an appendix. (Boston: Rand Avery, 1888)
    p. 88.

    "His [Nehemiah Abbott] daughter Abigail was born Jan. 26, 1721, and was baptized when three days old." She m. Amos Lawrence.

  2. Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Record of births, marriages, and deaths to January 1, 1898. (Boston, Massachusetts: Wright and Potter Printing, 1898)
    p. 1.

    Abbott, Abbot, Abott, Abot
    Abigail, bp. Jan. 29, 1721.
    [Note: assumed to be 1721/22 based on typical usage and age at death.]

  3. Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1926-1927)
    Vol. 2, p. 239.

    LAWRANCE, Abigail, w. Capt. Amos, [died] Jan. 6, 1784. [in her 63d y. GR2]
    [Age 62, so born about 1722.]

  4. Hudson, Charles, and Lexington Historical Society (Massachusetts). History of the town of Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, from its first settlement to 1868. (Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Houghton Mifflin, 1913)
    Vol. 2, p. 1.

    Children of Nehemiah Abbott and 1st wife Sarah Foster: 4) Abigail, b. Lexington 26 Jan 1721, m. 7 Nov 1749 Amos Lawrence of Groton.

  5. Note: the Lexington records show the baptism, but not the birth. No birth record is found, in particular, nothing in Lincoln, MA. So the basis for the specified birth date is unknown.