Abraham Pinney Jr. (1735 - 1813)

Born 23 Dec 1735 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Lucretia (Barnard) Pinney — married 9 Jun 1761 in Bloomfield, Hartford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 12 Dec 1813 at age 77 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Lieutenant Abraham Pinney Jr. served with 18th Regiment, Connecticut Militia during the American Revolution.

Abraham Pinney Jr. is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A089195.

According to Connecticut Men in the Revolutionary War, Abraham Pinney Jr. served as a member of Captain Lemuel Roberts, 18th Regiment of the Connecticut Militia at the Lexington Alarm. ^[1]

He married Lucretia Barnard on 9 June 1761. ^{[2] [3]}

According to Stiles, Lt. Abraham Pinney and his first wife Lucretia Barnard Pinney had seven children: 1) Grove, b. 1762; 2) Abraham, b. 1765; 3) Israel, b. 1767; Asaph, b. 1769; Lucretia, b. 1771; Rhoda, b. 1773; and twins Elisha and Elijah.

According to The Roster of Revolutionary Ancestors of the Indiana Daughters of the American Revolution, Abraham had four wives:

• Lucretia Barnard, died about 1776
• Sarah Clark, married about 1776 - 1777
• Hester (Case) Higley, married after 1781
• Ruth Cassett Perrin

Children (as listed in The Roster of Revolutionary Ancestor)

1. Grove Pinney
2. Abraham Pinney
3. Israel Pinney
4. Asaph Pinney
5. Lucretia Pinney
6. Elijah Pinney
7. Elisha Pinney
8. Rhoda (Pinney) Griswold

By second wife

• Erastus Pinney, born 1788
• Elihu Pinney
• Sally (Pinney) Gaylord
• David Pinney - note other researchers cite his mother as Hester Case Higley Pinney
• Lois Pinney
• Horace Pinney - note other researchers cite his mother as Hester Case Higley Pinney
• Hester (Pinney) Ellsworth

Abraham (age 77) died on 12 December 1813 and was buried in St Andrew's Cemetery, Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Connecticut Men in the Revolutionary War, p. 20, 470, 472.
2. ↑ "Records of the Church in Wintonbury Parish (Now Bloomfield), Conn. (Continued)," New England Historical and Genealogical Registry 72 ( 1917); digital images (accessed 15 Jan 2016) 279.
3. ↑ Abraham Pinney Jr and Lucretia Barnard in the Early Connecticut Marriages. Ancestry.com. Early Connecticut Marriages [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Bailey, Frederic W. Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997. Ancestry Record 3719 #17068 Image
4. ↑ Burial: "Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934"
   Connecticut State Library; Hartford, Connecticut
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2900 #848536 (accessed 15 February 2024)
   Abraham Pinney burial (died on 12 Dec 1813 at age 77) in St Andrew's Cemetery, Bloomfield, Connecticut, USA.

FamilySearch. no parents See:

• "Records of the Church in Wintonbury Parish (Now Bloomfield), Conn. (Continued)," New England Historical and Genealogical Registry 72 ( 1917); digital images (accessed 15 Jan 2016) 279.
• Henry Reed Stiles, The History of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut: Including East Windsor, South Windsor, and Ellington, Prior to 1768, the Date of Their Separation from the Old Town; and Windsor, Bloomfield and Windsor Locks, to the Present Time. Also the Genealogies and Genealogical Notes of Those Families which Settled Within the Limits of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut, Prior to 1800 (Bloomfield, Connecticut: C. B. Norton, 1859), 748.
• "Records of the Church in Wintonbury Parish (Now Bloomfield), Conn. (Continued)," New England Historical and Genealogical Registry 72 ( 1917); digital images (accessed 15 Jan 2016) 279.
• Jim Tipton, Find-a-Grave, digital images (http://www.findagrave.com/  : accessed 12 Jan 2016), Find A Grave: Memorial #71439433
• Ancestry.com. Connecticut Men in the Revolutionary War [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003. Original data: Johnston, Henry P., ed.. The Record of Connecticut Men in the Military and Naval Service During the War of the Revolution 1775-1783. Vol. I-III. Hartford, CT, USA: 1889. p. 21, 470, 472.

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed May 2, 2017), "Record of ABRAHAM PINNEY", Ancestor # A089195.Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 2019-01-24), "Record of Abraham Pinney Jr", Ancestor # A089195.

• Stiles, Henry Reed, The history and genealogies of ancient Windsor, Connecticut, p. 612, found at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogi02stil#page/612/mode/2up

• Find A Grave: Memorial #71439433

• Mrs Thomas Martin Egan. A Roster of Revolutionary ancestors of the Indiana Daughters of the American Revolution : commemoration of the United States of America Bicentennial, July 4, 1976. ( Daughters of the American Revolution. Indiana Society, 1976). Volume II, Page 255. See Worldcat Entry for possible locations. A digital view is possible on Ancestry. Image

• Index of the Rolls of Honor (ancestor's Index) in the Lineage Books of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Volumes 1 to 160, Volumes 57-59, 1921. Mrs. Weltha Pinney Smith DAR# 58980 pg. 336.

• Record of service of Connecticut men in the I. War of the Revolution, II. War of 1812, III. Mexican War by Connecticut. Adjutant-General's Office; Johnston, Henry Phelps,, 1899. Men from the Town of Simsbury who served during the Lexington Alarm, April 1775.

• Record of service of Connecticut men in the I. War of the Revolution, II. War of 1812, III. Mexican War by Connecticut. Adjutant-General's Office; Johnston, Henry Phelps,, 1899. Captain Lemuel Roberts' Company pg 473.