Abigail (Farrow) Orcutt (1670 - 1723)

Born 27 Jan 1670 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Richard Tower — married about 1692 (to 21 Dec 1702) in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Wife of John Orcutt — married 23 Nov 1719 (to 28 Apr 1723) in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 28 Apr 1723 at age 53 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Abigail, daughter of John and Mary (Hilliard) Farrow, was born at Hingham, MA on January 27, 1669/70.^[1]

She married first Richard, son of Ibrook and Margaret (Hardin) Tower, probably at Hingham around 1691/92. Abigail and Richard had five children before he passed away on December 21, 1702. Abigail was appointed administrator of his estate.^[2]

She married second Francis Horswell, as his second wife, after October 13, 1711, the date of intentions. They had no issue.^[3][4] He died prior to November 23, 1719, the date Abigail married for the third time to John Orcutt, as his third wife, on November 23, 1719.^[5][6][7]

Abigail "drowned herself in a well" on April 28, 1723 at the age of 53. An inquest jury found that she voluntarily destroyed herself.^[8][9]

Sources

Footnotes

1. ↑ History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts Vol II, p.215
2. ↑ History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts Vol III, p.257
3. ↑ History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts Vol II, p.352
4. ↑ Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, Hingham, Massachusetts, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc., Provo, UT, USA, database on-line, 2011),
5. ↑ History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts Vol III, p.98
6. ↑ Vital Records of Hingham, Massachusetts, ca. 1639-1844, (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016. Vital Records of Hingham, Massachusetts, ca. 1639-1844. Hersey, Reuben. Mss 901. R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society.)
7. ↑ Vital Records of Hingham, Massachusetts, ca. 1639-1844, (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016. Vital Records of Hingham, Massachusetts, ca. 1639-1844. Hersey, Reuben. Mss 901. R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society.),
8. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH1S-KJT : 5 November 2017), Abigiall Orcutt, 28 Apr 1723; citing Death, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 423,520.
9. ↑ Hubbard's Journal, also known as Hobart's Journal, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc., Provo, UT, USA, database on-line, 2011)

• Tower, Charlemagne, 1809-1889. Tower genealogy: an account of the descendants of John Tower, of Hingham, Mass. / compiled under the direction of Charlemagne Tower. Cambridge [Mass.] : John Wilson and Son, 1891-2003. p.73-74
• Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, William Hillard of Duxbury, Massachusetts, Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- . (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), p. 109

Bibliography

• History of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts. Thomas T Bouvé; Edward Tracy Bouvé; John Davis Long; Walter Lincoln Bouvé; Francis Henry Lincoln; George Lincoln; Edmund Hersey; Fearing Burr; Charles Winfield Scott Seymour; Hingham (Mass.). (1893). Pub. by the town.