Abigail (Hutchinson) Merchant (1709 - aft. 1750)

Born 2 Aug 1709 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of John Davenport — married 24 Aug 1732 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Wife of William Merchant — married 22 Dec 1749 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died after 1750 after age 40 in Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Abigail was born in 1709, the daughter of Captain Thomas and Sarah (Foster) Hutchinson, in Boston of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where she was raised.

Abigail would marry twice in her life. She married her first husband, John Davenport, the son of Addington and Elizabeth (Wainwright) Davenport, in 1732 in Boston. They would have one child:

Abigail (Davenport) Prout (1733- 1786)

John died on November 27, 1735, at 32 years of age.

Abigail, was married on December 22, 1749, to her second husband, William Merchant. They would have at least one child:

Sarah (Merchant) Richardson (1750- )

Abigail would live beyond the birth of her daughter Sarah but no death or burial records have been found.

Sources

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DCT3-PF2M : 10 November 2020), Abigall Hutchinson, 1709.

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-KMDY : 29 November 2018), John Davenport and Abigail Hutchinson, 1732; citing Marriage, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011046.

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQXV-XP6 : 14 January 2020), Abigail in entry for Abigail Davenport, 1733.

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-NS75 : 29 November 2018), William Marchant and Abigail Davenport, 1749; citing Marriage, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011046.

• Wilcox, Wayne H.M., Captain Thomas Hawkins, Shipwright, of London and Dorchester, Massachusetts, and Three Generations of His Descendants, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1997) Vol. 151, Page 215.

• Davenport, Henry Genealogical Notice of The Descendants of Eleazer Davenport, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1850) Vol. 4, Page 116.

• Family Search Profile on Abigail Hutchinson [1]