Person:Abigail Hallock (1)

Abigail Hallock was named in William Hallock's will as "my youngest daughter". That is the last record for this Abigail.

There have been assertions made, particularly by the Hallock Genealogies, that Abigail-3 Hallock, the daughter of William-2 Hallock, was the wife of Caleb Horton, and mother of his children. This apparently stems from a marriage record in the Salmon Records, dated 23 Dec, 1696. This marriage, if it were involving that Caleb and that Abigail, was at a time where the person in that marriage could not have been the mother of any of his children. They had all been born by that time. He was alone in the 1698 Southold census, so if it were he in that marriage, she had died within a year or two of that marriage. McLaurin, in his Horton Genealogy, argues that the Caleb Horton and Abigail Hallock were a different Caleb and Abigail, of the next generation.

The first wife of Caleb Hallock, and mother to all of his children, is unknown. A Caleb Horton did marry an Abigail Hallock on 23 Dec 1696, but that may have been (and probably was) another Abigail and/or another Caleb. Even if the Abigail-2 (daughter of Wm-1) was the Abigail Hallock of that marriage record, and Caleb-2 Horton were the groom, which is not likely, this was a late life marriage for Caleb and she was not the mother of any of his children.

1.   Sweezy.net.
2.   Descendants of Barnabas Horton of Southold, Bank McLaurin, Jr
   181-187, 1995.

   A recap: There is no record of any kind found for the first wife of Caleb Horton and mother to his children. His 1698 will mentions wife Hester.