Abigail (Holcomb) Bissell (1639 - 1688)

Born 6 Jan 1639 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

Wife of Samuel Bissell — married 11 Jun 1658 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 17 Aug 1688 at age 49 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Abigail Holcombe, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Unknown) Holcombe, was born on 6 Jan., 1638/9 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut.^[1]

Name: Abigail Holcombe^[2][3]

Birth: 6 Jan 1638/9 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut^[4][5]

Baptism: 6 JAN 1638/9 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut^[5]

Marriage: 11 JUN 1658 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut^[6][3]

Husband: Samuel Bissell^[3]

Wife: Abigail Holcombe

Children: all born at Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut^[3]

Child: John Bissell, born 5 April 1569

Child: Abigail Bissell born 6 July 1661

Child: Jacob Bissell born 28 Mary 1664

Child: Mary Bissell born 15 Sept 1666

Child: Samuel Bissell born 11 Jan 1668

Child: Benajah Bissell born 30 June 1671

Child: Elizabeth Bissell born 4 Jan 1677

Child: Deborah Bissell born 29 Oct 1679

Death: 17 AUG 1688 Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut^[7]

Burial: AUG 1688 Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut

Research Notes

Birth - Windsor (not Granby)

Granby was not settled until eighty-five years after the birth of Abigail Holcombe, and sixty-five years after the death of Thomas Holcombe. He never lived there. Abigail could not possibly have been born there.

Robert Charles Anderson in his Great Migration series shows Abigail Holcombe born at Windsor, Connecticut, 6 Jan 1638/9, citing Connecticut Vital Records, also found in transcription at NEHGR Vol 5 page 63. Abigail's father, Thomas Holcombe, did not purchase his land at Poquonock until 1640, and possibly did not move there until 1649 when other settlers joined him. Poquonock is on the west side of the Farmington River in Windsor, Connecticut. Thomas Holcombe never lived in Granby, Connecticut, which was not settled until 1723, when it was a part of Simsbury, Connecticut which was not settled until 1664.

The FamilySearch card showing Abigail Holcombe born in Granby^[8] is derived from a large tombstone erected in Granby by descendants of Thomas Holcombe. The many errors on it have been propagated over time and multiplied over the Internet. See Genealogical Vandalism - Thomas Holcombe's Tombstone, by George McCracken, in The American Genealogist Vol. 44, p. 58, January 1968, for details. McCracken, F.A.S.G., F.G.S.P., also documents Holcombe descendants in TAG Vol. 57.

Sources

1. ↑ The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, New England, 1620-1635, by Robert Charles Anderson, page 966
2. ↑ The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, New England, 1620-1635, by Robert Charles Anderson, page 966
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Records of Marriages and Births in the Town of Windsor, Connecticut, NEHGR Vol 5 (1851), page 63
4. ↑ Source: #S366 page 63 Windsor Births and Marriages (Accessed 14 July, 2017)
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. I-III] by Robert Charles Anderson, page 966
6. ↑ The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. I-III, by Robert Charles Anderson, page 966
7. ↑ Connecticut Marriages, 1640-1939." Database with images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 11 April 2017. Connecticut State Library, Hartford.
8. ↑ Source: #S237 Page: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WJ-J2Q Accessed 5 July, 2017 Certainty of Data: 3

• The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, New England, 1620-1635, by Robert Charles Anderson, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Provo, UT, 2013) Abigail Holcombe page 966

• Records of Marriages and Births in the Town of Windsor, Connecticut, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register: NEHGR Vol 5 (1851), page 63

• The Pettibone Registry

• S237: Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, database Publisher: FamilySearch.org [Note: Birth location (Granby) is error, see Research Notes, and actual transcription of Windsor records in NEHGR Vol 5]

• Kuhns, Maude Pinney. The "Mary and John". A Story of The Founding of Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1630. (Tuttle Pub. Co., Rutland, Vermont, 1943) Page 44.

• Manwaring, Charles William. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records (R.S. Peck & Co., Hartford, 1902) Vol. 1, Page 129-30. She is mentioned in her father's 1657 probate records as Abigail age 19.