"Abigail (Stone), b. about 1672; m. Capt. Robert Briscoe of Beverly before 1692; d. June 1, 1724, aged fifty-two. Capt. Briscoe was a man of large wealth and of prominence in the community, serving the town as selectman, assessor, treasurer and representative to the General Court. He presented the town with a bell in 1712 and the church with a silver communion cup in 1718, and the elegance of his house was still remembered a century after his death. A street and a school (Briscoe Hall) in Beverly bore his name in the middle of the nineteenth century. His second wife was Elizabeth (Leavitt) Dudley of Exeter, to which town Capt. Briscoe moved his residence. He died in 1729, and remembered by will Zachariah, Samuel and Robert Stone, Abigail Stevens and Elizabeth Ober, nephews and nieces of his first wife, and also left £20 to the poor of Beverly. His widow m. Rev. John Odlin."
