There are no confirmed marriage or death records for Abigail but there are the following records that suggest she married Richard Davenport.
Abigail and her husband, Richard Davenport's names appear in the administration papers of her father's estate dated March 11, 1705/06.
There is a record in the Legislators of Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780 suggesting that an Abigail Shaw, born abt 1680 and died before 1707, was the first wife of Richard Davenport, married about 1698. To confuse matters Richard married in 1707, as his second wife, Abigail Newcomb, b. 1677.
There is also in Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700, that Richard Davenport, married as his first wife, Abigail SHAW, dau John; by 1699(1700?); Weymouth/Bridgewater.
Finally, there is a birth record for DAVENPORT, (Will)iam, ch. (R)ichard and Abigail, Mar. 8, 1699. in the Weymouth (Births) - V1, Page: 93.
Abigail was born in 1672. She passed away about 1704.
Sources
Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2010). Volume: Weymouth (Births) - V1, Page: 266: Abigaill [dup. Abigail], ch. John and Alice, July 15, 1672.
Legislators of Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), (Orig. Pub. by Northeastern University Press , Boston, MA. John A. Schutz, Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court 1691–1780 A Biographical Dictionary, 1997.)
Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. CD-ROM. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001.
Ancestral File Number
Ancestral File Number: 4W01-50
genealogy records of Jean Stratton Barto.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Abigail by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Abigail: