Abigail (Delano) Cherry (1785 - 1871)

Born 10 May 1785 in Norwich, Windsor, Republic of Vermont

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Cherry Jr — married about 1803 in New York, United States

Descendants

Died 6 Apr 1871 at age 85 in Paris Hill, Paris, Oneida, New York, United States

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Biography

Abigail Delano is the daughter of Philip Delano, Revolutionary War Patriot, and Esther Boardman, born 10 May 1785 at Norwich, Windsor, Vermont.

Samuel Cherry Jr and Abigail Delano are listed under the corrected entry 479 for Jonathan Delano m. Ann/Anna Ladd, in Philip Delano of the "FORTUNE" and His Descendants in the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Generations, compiled by Muriel Curtis Cushing, Part Five, published by General Society of Mayflower Descendants 2015.

She married Samuel Cherry Jr. about 1803 in New York. They were early settlers at New Haven, Oswego, New York. The History of Oswego County, New York, records the arrival of Philip Delano and Samuel Cherry in 1813, with Samuel Cherry appointed one of the first Justices at New Haven.

Her husband died 10 Oct 1822 at Belleville, Hastings, Upper Canada. We find her on the 1850 United States Federal Census at Oswego Ward 4, Oswego, New York, living with her son-in-law Alpheus Stewart.

In 1870 she is listed as retired at Licking, Ohio, USA.

She died 6 Apr 1871 at Paris Hill, Oneida, New York, and is buried at Utica, Licking, Ohio. Her gravestone is inscribed, "Abigail Cherry, Born May 10, 1785, Died Apr. 6, 1871."

Confidence

Relation to parents set to confident on the basis of family genealogy records, and corrected entry 479 for Jonathan Delano m. Ann/Anna Ladd, in Philip Delano of the "FORTUNE" and His Descendants in the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Generations, compiled by Muriel Curtis Cushing, Part Five, published by General Society of Mayflower Descendants 2015, 2018 reprint. GSMD confirmed parents.

Sources

• History of Oswego County, New York, by Crisfield Johnson, published 1877

• 1850 United States Federal Census

• 1870 United States Federal Census

• The Margaret Tomarkin Genealogy Collection (The Bailey Family collection), located at the Kent Branch Ontario Genealogy Society, located inside the Chatham-Kent Public Library in Ontario. Documents in the Margaret Tomarkin Genealogy Collection for Samuel Cherry Jr and Abigail Delano indicate references of Letters from Alice Cherry, Galveston, Texas, and Mrs. Ross Cherry, Monroeville, Ohio

• corrected entry 479 for Jonathan Delano m. Ann/Anna Ladd, in Philip Delano of the "FORTUNE" and His Descendants in the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Generations, compiled by Muriel Curtis Cushing, Part Five, published by General Society of Mayflower Descendants 2015, 2018 reprint.

• U.S., Find Grave Index, 1600s-Current, ID 64857404