Person:Abigail Sheldon (13)

Name^[4]	Abigail Sheldon
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]	15 Mar 1743/44	Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	28 Mar 1765	Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto William Bolton
Marriage	Bef 1783	Based on birth of eldest known child to Ezra Smith (add)
Death^[2]^[3]	7 Mar 1790	Shirley, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Lynn, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1905)
Vol. 1, p. 367.

SHELDON, Abigail, d. William and Abigail, [born] Mar. 15, 1743-4.
↑ Shirley, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Shirley, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1918)
p. 207.

SMITH, Abagail, w. Ezra, [died] Mar. 7, 1792 [sic, see gravestone]. [Abgial (Sheldon) (Bolton) in 47th y., BR]
[Note: BR=Bolton Record. It is presumed the superscripted zero with a line underneath that is found on the gravestone was misread as a 2?]
↑ Find A Grave: Center Cemetery, Shirley, MA, in Find A Grave
Abigail Sheldon Smith.

In memory
of
M^rs ABIGAIL SMITH
the wife of
M^r EZRA SMITH,
who died March 7th,
179⁰ in the 47 year
of her age.
↑ Bolton, Ethel Stanwood. Shirley uplands and intervales: annals of a border town of old Middlesex, with some genealogical sketches. (Boston, Massachusetts: G.E. Littlefield, 1914)
p. 324.

William Bolton m. Reading 28 Mar 1765 Abigail, d/o William Sheldon and Abigail Goins. The widow m. Ezra Smith and continued to live on the widow's dower, d. 7 Mar 1790.