Person:Abigail Smith (2)

Research Notes

• Abigail has also been identified as Abigail Bacon, daughter of Nathaniel Bacon.
  • cos1776 Response: Tyler³ mentions that Nathaniel Bacon did leave Abigail his estate, but he states that it was because he had no children of his own and that Abigail was his niece. He does not say who her parents were.

1. ↑ Armistead / Burwell / Carter Family, Web Page of John Marshall, www.intercall.com/~jmarshall/esmd42.htm.
2. ↑ Virginia Vital Records, Indexed by Judith McGhan, Gen. Publishing, Baltimore, 1984
   61.
3. ↑ Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., c1915)
   1:54.

   ... As he [ Nathaniel Bacon ] had no children he bequeathed his estate to his niece Abigail Smith, who married Major Lewis Burwell, of Gloucester county, and has many descendants in Virginia and the south.