Abigail (Rockwell) Doolittle (1734)

Born 3 Feb 1734 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Doolittle — married 10 Aug 1757 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

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Biography

Joseph Doolittle and Abigail Rockwell married in Ridgefield on 10 Aug 1757.^{[1] [2]}

Records of children born to Joseph and Abigail in Ridgefield include:

Daniel 12 Dec 1758^[3]

Sarah 8 Jan 1759^[4]

Reuben 19 Apr 1761^[5]

The Doolittle family in America suggests they had 12 children.^[6]

RESEARCH NOTE

A Confusion Resolved

Two girls named Abigail Rockwell, first cousins, were contemporaries in Ridgefield: the subject of this profile, Abigail daughter of Jonathan and Esther, b. 3 Feb 1734/5, and Abigail daughter of David and Elizabeth, b. 4 Jan 1740/1. The wills of their fathers make clear that it was Jonathan's daughter who married Joseph Doolittle in Ridgefield on 10 Aug 1757, while David's daughter married Josiah Hall, perhaps in some other town, before the birth of their first child recorded in Ridgefield on 21 Aug 1774.^[7][8]

Therefore, the Abigail Rockwell profiled here has been connected to her spouse Joseph Doolittle and the Doolittle children, and to her Doolittle children. Full details about this conflict and resolution can be viewed on the other Abigail Rockwell's profile.

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPS1-746N : 21 September 2019), Joseph Doolittle in entry for Abigail Rockwell, ; citing Marriage, , Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272243.
2. ↑ The Doolittle family in America (1901), pt. 2, pg. 216]
3. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74N-G4K : 9 December 2019), Joseph Doolittle in entry for Daniel Doolittle, 1758.
4. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7W8-78B : 9 December 2019), Joseph Doolittle in entry for Sarah Doolittle, 1759.
5. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74N-G4G : 9 December 2019), Joseph Doolittle in entry for Reuben Doolittle, 1761.
6. ↑ The Doolittle family in America (1901), pt. 2, pg. 217]
7. ↑ The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Records, Ridgefield, pp. 90 & 40 in transcription, citing Land Records p. 217, and Vol. 1, pp. 44 in original
8. ↑ Finch, Jesse Howell. Ancestral Lines of Chester Everts Howell, 1867-1949 of Elmira, New York, p90

• "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F7W2-BSX : accessed 17 Aug 2014), Jonathan Rockwell in entry for Abigail Rockwell, 03 Feb 1734; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.