Person:Matthew Abdy (1)

Name^[1]^[2]	Matthew Abdy
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Cal 1620
Emigration^[1]	1635	On the Abigail.
Residence^[1]	1635	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	Bef 1648	Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child. to Tabitha Reynolds
Marriage	24 May 1662	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Alice Cox
Occupation^[1]		Fisherman.
Death^[1]	Aft 5 Apr 1682

The Abigail (1635)

The Abigail sailed in the summer of 1635.
Sailed:	summer 1635 from England under Master H. Hackwell
Arrived:	late summer? 1635 at New England

Passengers:
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Mathew Abdy - William Almy family - Wm Bassett - Ruth Bushell - Dennis Geere family - Tho Goade - Henry Bullocke family - Hugh Burt family - Jo. Emerson - William and John Fuller - Jo. Harbert - Edward White family - Geo. Hadborne family - Christopher Foster family - Joseph Flood family - Henry Collins family (servant Hugh Alley) - Wm Potter family - Edmond Freeman family - Philip Drinker family - Ralph Mason family - Ralph Sheppard family - Wm Tilly - Thomas Jones family - John Winthrop and wife

Resources:	Founders of New England (NEHGR) and additional pages

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 Matthew Abdy, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
1:6-8.

ORIGIN: London.
OCCUPATION: Fisherman [SLR 12:176].
BIRTH: About 1620 (aged 15 in July 1635 [Hotten 98]; aged "about 28" on 17 May 1654 [SJC Case # 236]; deposed "aged forty-eight years" on 25 June 1669 [EQC 4:157].
DEATH: After 5 April 1682 [SLR 12:176-77].
↑ Matthew Abdy, in Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939)
58.

Abdy, Matthew, Monhegan fisherman keeping his family in Boston. … Came in The Abigail, 1635; ± 28 in 1654, ± 48 in 1669; m. 1st Tabitha, dau. of Robert Reynolds, 2d 24 May 1662 Alice Cox, prob. from Maine. Ch. Mary, 1648. Tabitha, 1652. Matthew, in old age bed maker and sweeper at Harvard College, d. Dec. 1731.