Born in Dorchester, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Daughter of Timothy Howe
and Dorcas (Smith) Howe
Sister of
Dorcas Howe, Susanna Howe, Moses Howe, Enos Howe, Dorcas Howe, David Howe and Tabitha (Howe) Whiston
Wife of
John Blackman IV
— married
1 Jan 1744 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Mother of
John Blackman, Susanna Blackman, Mary (Blackman) Adams, Moses Blackman, Lemuel Blackman, Zebiah (Blackman) Randall, Hannah Blackman, Eleanor Storer Blackman, Jonathan Blackman, Lydia Blackman, Abigail (Blackman) Adams, Andrew Blackman, James Blackman, Stephen Blackman and James Blackman
Died
at age 84
in Dorchester, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 3 Aug 2014
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Biography
Abigail Howe was born in Dorchester on 9 Sep 1730. She was the daughter of Timothy Howe (1691-) and Dorcas (Smith) Howe (1697-1770). [1]
She married John Blackman, Jr., son of John and Susannah (Maudsley) Blackman, born in Dorchester 9 Oct 1724.[2] [3] They lived in Dorchester where they had 15 children. He died in Dorchester 26 Apr 1792. She died there 14 Oct 1814.
Sources
- ↑ Birth: Dorchester (Boston, Mass.). Dorchester Births, Marriages, And Deaths to the End of 1825. <2d impression.> Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1891. HathiTrust Digital Library Page 81 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/bc.ark:/13960/t5q82302d?urlappend=%3Bseq=91
- ↑ Mass. Marriages, 1633-1850
- ↑ Daniel Wait Howe, Howe Genealogies, Vol. 2, NEHGS; Boston 1929, p12
- "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 09 July 2022, 17:55), entry for Abigail Howe (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:G87F-JNG ); contributed by various users.
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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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