Born in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Ancestors 
Daughter of Benoni Garfield
and Abigail (Stearns) Garfield
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
James E. Jones
— married
26 Dec 1728 in Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Mother of
Lemuel Jones, James Edwin Jones III, Abigail (Jones) Raymond, Eunice (Jones) Mirick, Sarah (Jones) Moore, Jonathan Jones and Solomon Jones
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 19 Aug 2014
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Biography
Abigail was born on 5 Mar 1707 to Benoni and Abigail (Stearns) Garfield in Watertown, MA.[1]
She married James Jones on 26 Dec 1728 in Weston, MA.[2] In the next 21 years they had seven children, all of whose profiles are attached to this one. They did not harmonize and James migrated with son James to North Carolina sometime after the birth of their youngest child, Sarah - probably sometime around 1750.[3]
Research Notes
- Maternal relationship is confirmed by a triangulated group on GEDmatch consisting of Amanda Beauchamp, Mike Beauchamp, and Michael Yates, who share a 20 cM segment on chromosome 18. The most-recent common ancestors shared by all three are Isaac Stearns and Mary (Barker) Stearns.
- 33 ABIGAIL STEARNS, b., Apr. 16. 1680; md., Jan. 10, 1706-7, Benoni Garfield, son of Capt. Benjamin and Mehitable (Hawkins) Garfield. She d., July 11, 1710, leaving one child: (a) Abigail Garfield, b.. Mar. 5, 1707-8; md., Dec. 6, 1728, James Jones, of Weston, Mass.[4]
Sources
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4NW-VF8 : 10 November 2020), Abigail Gearfield, 5 Mar 1708; citing Birth, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009514.
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH7Z-Z5K : 10 November 2020), Abigail Garfield in entry for James Jones, 26 Dec 1728; citing Marriage, Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009671.
- ↑ Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Henry Bond, MD, 2nd Ed., Boston, 1860, NEHGS. http://archive.org/details/genealogiesoffam00bond. Pg. 232, also pp. 312, 317-318
- ↑ Genealogy and memoirs of Isaac Stearns and his descendants by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen. Published 1901 by Courier Printing Co. in Syracuse, N.Y. https://archive.org/stream/genealogymemoirs00vanw pg. 29
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Abigail by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Abigail:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Abigail by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Abigail:
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~6.25%
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