Person:Abigail Barker (6)

1850 Census: Georgetown, ESSEX, MA, 59, NH.

1860 Census: Georgetown, ESSEX, MA, 69, NH with daughter Mary as Mrs. George Sanborn.

1870 Census: Georgetown, ESSEX, MA, 79, NH with daughter Mary Sanborn.

1878 Vital record: At Georgetown, Abigail B. 18 Nov, widow, age 88y 0m 20d of old age, b. Londonderry NH, no parents given.

Byfield Parish Cemetery headstone 25-1: Abigail Jackman, 11/18/1878. Sacred to the memory of Abigail B., wife of E.C. Jackman, who died Nov. 18, 1878, aet 88. They rest from their labors and their works do follow them.

From: http://home.att.net/~bfredrickson/maj00002.htm, Ancestors of Mary Abigail Jackman: Abigail, when the proper time came, she was sent to Byfield to attend Byfield Female Seminary. Abigail married her cousin Ebenezer Jackman, an by him had two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. Then Ebenezer died, and she became the Widow Jackman. She managed the broad acres behind the Peabody Place profitably, for there was enough money to send her daughters to boarding school, buy one of the earliest pianos in Essex County, send her daughter Elizabeth to Boston for music lessons, and Mary to her old school for art. She was born in 1790, in Londonderry, New Hampshire. When she was about ten, her mother (and she was another woman of independence) loaded up her children in a covered sleigh, and in the dead of winter drove though Pinkham Notch down the Androscoggin River to join her husband in Bethel, Maine. He had, with their oldest son, gone ahead to take up a claim on the rich intervale land along the river.

1. ↑ Lapham, William B. History of the Town of Bethel, Maine. (New England Press in collaboration with the Bethel Historical Society, Somersworth, NH, 1981. (Original edition, 1891)).
2. ↑ Http:/home.att.net/~bfredrickson/s16.htm
   Selection of photos, 8 Jun 2008.

   Reference number: MRIN 139

3. ↑ Vital Records of Essex County, MA, NEHGS 1841-1910. (MA vital records available through www.usgenweb.org/ and NEHGS.).