Abigail (Marsh) Messer (1669 - 1761)

Born 21 Feb 1669 in Hingham, Massachusetts [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Abial (Mercer) Messer — married 3 Jan 1694 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 3 Mar 1761 at age 92 in Methuen, Massachusetts [uncertain]

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Biography

This profile is part of the Haverhill, Massachusetts One Place Study.

Abigail Marsh was born in about 1669 in Hingham, Massachusetts. She was the youngest child of Onesiphorus Marsh and Hannah (Cutler) Marsh.

She was adopted by her aunt and uncle - John Page and Mary Marsh Page - of Haverhill. She married Abial Mercer/Messer in January 1694/5 in Haverhill. "Mercer, Abial, and Abigail Mash, [married] Jan. 3, 1694-5." The couple had seven children: Richard, Thomas, John, Nathaniel, Theophilus, Hannah and Abigail Messer.

Abigail Marsh Mercer/Messer passed away in Methuen, Massachusetts. "Abagiel, wid. Abiel, Mar. 3, 1761, in her 90th y."

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121530219/abigail-sargent
• History of Hingham, Massachusetts, page 57
• History of Haverhill, Massachusetts, page 116
• Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, 1910), 2:218.
• Genealogy of the Family of G. Marsh, by E.J. Marsh, 1887, p.12
• Methuen Massachusetts Deaths, page 328.