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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Abigail Whitmore |
| Gender |
Female |
| Christening[1][4][5] |
3 Jul 1659 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Birth[2][5] |
3 Jul 1660 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Marriage |
9 May 1683 |
Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United Statesto Samuel Wilcox |
| Death[1][3][4] |
19 Jul 1687 |
Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 John Wilcox, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952)
807.
"… Abigail Whitmore, bapt. at Cambridge, Mass., 3 July 1659, d. 19 July 1687, dau. of Francis and Isabel (Parker) Whitmore."
- ↑ Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year of 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1914-15)
Vol. 1, p. 754.
WHITMORE, Abigail, d. of Francis and Isabell, [born] July 3, 1660.
- ↑ "Middletown Vital Records" (NEHGS), in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
p. 496.
WILCOX, WILCOCKE, WILCOCK, WILCOCKS, WILLCOCK, WILLCOCKS, WILLCOX
Abigaill, w. of Samuell, d. July 19, 1687. [LR1 48]
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
4:534, 4:547.
WHITMORE, oft. WETMORE
FRANCIS, Cambridge ... m. Isabel, d. of Richard Park of Cambridge, freem. 1654, had ... Abigail, bapt. 3 July 1659 ... Abigail m. 9 May 1683 Samuel Wilcox of Middletown.
Samuel [Wilcox], Middletown ... m. 9 May 1683 Abigail, d. of the first Francis Whitmore, had ... Francis and Abigail tw. 5 July 1687 ... the mo. d. in a fortnight aft. their b.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Handwritten Cambridge Records, Vol. 1, p. 505 shows 3 Jul 1660. This is not the original record, but a copy made sometime later, presumably because the original was wearing out.
Printed version of Cambridge Church records, p. 16 shows a baptism 3 Jul 1659.
The dates are such that it is possible that one Abigail was born sometime before July 1659, baptized, died as an infant, and another was born 3 July 1660. Looking at sibling births with Samuel in May 1658, the birth of another child in 1659 is possible, but would be slightly unusual coming so soon after a surviving child. On the other hand, a birth in 1660 fits the typical every two year cycle that is seen in many colonial families and so if only one Abigail is postulated, 1660 seems more likely.
Normally church records are more reliable, being in chronological order, but that is not true in this case, as the records seem to be recorded in family groups.
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