Person:Abigail Riggs (5)

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m. 6 Jan 1726
  1. Abigail Riggs1728 - 1782
m. 8 Jan 1756
  1. Clarissa Chapman1761 -
Facts and Events
Name[1] Abigail Riggs
Married Name Abigail Chapman
Gender Female
Birth[1][2] 3 Mar 1728 Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 8 Jan 1756 Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, United Statesto Rev. Benjamin Chapman
Death[3] 10 Oct 1782 Southington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Burial[5] Oak Hill Cemetery, Southington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 16. Samuel Riggs, in Orcutt, Samuel, and Ambrose Beardsley. The History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1641-1880: with Biographies and Genealogies. (Springfield, Mass.: Press of the Springfield Printing Company, 1880)
    755.

    28. Abigail (Riggs), b. Mar. 3, 1728."

  2. Derby Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    85.

    "Riggs, … Abigal, d. Sam[ue]ll & Abigal, b. Mar. 3, 1728 [LR3:15]"

  3. Volume 107 Southington, in Connecticut, United States. Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920. (Ancestry.com (database on-line), 2013)
    90.

    "Chapman, Abigail, Mrs., d. Oct. 10, 1782, Æ 54 [2:92; T:258]"

  4.   Benjamin Chapman, in Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War for Independence. (Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society & New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005)
    Princeton:91.

    "… After an attack of smallpox in the 1770s, Abigail gradually sank into insanity, helped along by the constant and apparently vicious bickerings of her husband's former congregation."

  5. Abigail Riggs Chapman, in Find A Grave.