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Abigail (Russell) Cook (1690 - 1764)

Abigail Cook formerly Russell
Born in Branford, New Haven, Connecticutmap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 3 Oct 1716 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut Colonymap
Wife of — married 6 Aug 1733 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 73 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colonymap
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Biography

Abigail was born in 1690.[1] She is the daughter of Samuel Russell and Abigail Whiting.

She married 03 Oct 1716 at Derby Joseph Moss[2]

She signed a dowry agreement regarding the estate of Samuel Cooke on 9 March 1747/48.[3]

She is a slaveholder.

Her will is dated 5 June 1761 in Ridgefield and proved on 28 March 1764 in Danbury. She mentions her daughter Dorcas Ingersoll (bequeathing her enslaved black woman Dinah), her granddaughters, Abigail Botsford, Isabella Cane, Mary Kent, Lucy Kent, Sarah Kent, and Sarah Ingersoll, Dorcas Ingersol., Mary Ingersol, Abigail Ingersol, Hannah Ingersol, and Esther Ingersol, and her daughter in law Ann Silaman (Note: her second husband, Samuel Cook's daughter), and her grandsons Moss Kent, and Elisha Kent. Her inventory was recorded on 7 April 1764 in Danbury.[4]

Sources

  1. "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WL-6F7 : 9 December 2019), Abigail Russell, 1690.
  2. "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPQC-9VSB : 21 September 2019), Abigail Russel, ; citing Marriage, , Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272244.
  3. “Probate Records, v. 6-8, 1717-1750”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G92K-T286  : 26 April 2021), , FHL microfilm 007627301, image 424, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 7, 1721-1750, Page 334-335.
  4. “Probate records v. 1-3 1744-1782”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-892K-TN9Z : 16 February 2023), FHL microfilm 007627321, image 149-150, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 1, 1739-1767, Pages 278-280.
  • Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 5, p 1219.
  • Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 268.
  • Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 746.




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