Abijah Moore (1705 - 1759)

Born 22 Dec 1705 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Annah (Ward) Moore — married 29 Oct 1729 in Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 18 Dec 1759 at age 53 in Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America

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Biography

Abija Moore (b. 1705), was a physician in Middletown, who died 12/18/1759. Abija was the son of Richard Moore of Needham and Oxford Mass, and Mary Collins (b. 6/16/1672). Mary Collins was the 5th daughter of Samuel and Mary (Marvin) Collins (d. 1713/14), daughter of Reynold Marvin of Lyme CT, then a part of Saybrook.^[1]

Abijah married Annah Ward on 9 October 1729 in Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut.^[2]

Abija and Anna had 12 children. After Anna passed,^[3] Abija married Mrs. Abigail Goodwin (presumably a widow).^[4]

Abijah was born in 1704. He passed away in 1759.

• Residence (1705) Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Sources

1. ↑ #Dexter, #Book, #Daniels
2. ↑ Marriage: "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955"
   citing Page: it 1 p 47; Digital film/folder number: 007615715; FHL microfilm: 1513707; Record number: 212; Packet letter: F
   FamilySearch Record: F7PP-C6G (accessed 29 July 2023)
   FamilySearch Image: 3QS7-89VP-5QYL Image number 00107
   Abijah Moore marriage to Annah Ward on 9 Oct 1729 in Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut.
3. ↑ Death of wife Anna Moore: "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
   citing Digital film/folder number: 007592427; FHL microfilm: 3346; Record number: 341; Packet letter: F
   FamilySearch Record: F7V2-6Y6 (accessed 29 July 2023)
   Abijah in death record for wife Anna Moore 29 Nov 1755 in Connecticut.
4. ↑ Marriage: "Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997"
   citing Digital film/folder number: 007615715; FHL microfilm: 1513707
   FamilySearch Record: F75S-N92 (accessed 29 July 2023)
   Abijah Moore marriage to Mrs. Abigail Goodwin on 9 Mar 1756 in Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut.

• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records (NEHGS, Boston, 2011) Vol. Middletown, Page 318. Death record.
• Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College: With Annals of College History, October 1701 - May, 1745, Volume 1, By Franklin Bowditch Dexter (Henry Holt & Co. 1885), pp. 331-332, Link.
• The New England Historical and Genealogical Register'", Volume 57, Google Book, Link
• Daniels, George F.. History of the Town of Oxford, Massachusetts. Oxford, Massachusetts: by the author, 1892.
• Collins, James Wade Ferris. The Family and American Descendants of Deacon Edward Collins of Cambridge, Medford, and Charlestown, Massachusetts, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2020) Vol. 174, Page 261.
• "Public Member Trees", database, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/119016776/person/240175735932/facts : accessed 21 October 2018), profile for Dr. Abijah Moore.
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K2JM-HBL
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 29 November 2023, 20:33), entry for Abijah Moore (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:K2JM-HBL ); contributed by various users.