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Abigail (Johnson) Farrar (abt. 1634 - abt. 1726)

Abigail Farrar formerly Johnson aka Collins
Born about in Lynn, Essex, Massachusettsmap [uncertain]
Daughter of and
Sister of , and
Wife of — married about 1655 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusettsmap
Wife of — married 3 Mar 1681 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusettsmap
Descendants descendants
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Died about at about age 92 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusettsmap [uncertain]
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Contents

Biography

Name

Name: Abigail /Johnson/[1]

Abigail Johnson was born about 1635, the daughter of Richard and Alice Johnson of Salem and Lynn, Massachusetts.[2]

Marriage to John Collins

Abigail Johnson married first John Collins, about 1655 at Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts.[3] They had sixteen children, twelve of whom survived him.[2]

Mary Collins b. 1656, died an infant
John Collins b. 1657, died an infant
Samuel Collins b. 1659, d. after 1830, m. Hannah ____, m. 2nd Rebecca (Hussey) Howland on 16 Aug 1695 at Duxbury, Massachusetts
Abigail Collins, b. 1661, d. 1693, m. married Andrew Townsend 1678
John Collins b. 1662, lost at sea with his father in 1679
Joseph Collins b. 1664, m. Margaret Downing 1686 in Salem
Elizabeth Collins b. 1666, married Elisha Bassett, (son of William Bassett) in 1688
Benjamin Collins b. 1667, living in 1680
Mary Collins Norman Hooper b. 1670, married Joseph Norman in 1688, and Henry Hooper at Marblehead
Daniel Collins b. 1671, m. 1693 Rebecca Clement
Nathaniel Collins b. 1672, m. Mary Silsbee in 1699
Hannah Collins b. 26 April 1674
Sarah Collins 26 Dec 1675
Lois Collins b. 1677, m. David Adams 1698, m. 2nd, William Waters 1705
Alice Collins b. 30 April 1678
William, born 28 June 1679 - the same year his father and brother were lost at sea. He was renamed John after the deaths of his father and brother) Collins (1679. Married Susanna Daggat at Lynn 13 March 1705

John Collins, husband of Abigail Johnson, was lost at sea on about 22 Dec 1679 and died intestate.[3] After John's death in 1679, Abigail was left a widow with 12 children.

Marriage to Thomas Farrar

Abigail (Johnson) Collins married in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, on March 3 1680/1 to Thomas Farrar (1614-1694), as his second wife.[3]

Abigail (Johnson) Collins, widow of John Collins, married Thomas Farrar 3 March 1680/81 at Lynn, Massachusetts, as his second wife.[2][3] There were no children from this marriage.[2] Thomas Farrar was a farmer who lived on Nahant Street in Lynn.[4] His first wife, Elizabeth, died 8 Jan 1680.[4]

Thomas Accused of Witchcraft

Abigail (Johnson) (Collins) Farrar's husband Thomas Farrar was accused of witchcraft in 1692.[5] He was brought before the court in Salem on 18 May 1692, accused by Anne Putnam, Jr. Thomas Farrar was imprisoned for over five months, being released on 2 Nov 1692.[5]

Death

Abigail's second husband, Thomas Farrar, died at Lynn, 23 Feb 1694.[2][4] Abigail (Johnson) (Collins) Farrar is named in his will[6], and it is believed that she died "probably at Lynn after 1694".[2]

Research Notes

Disputed husbands for Abigail (Johnson) Farrar

There is some dispute among articles and family trees, on Abigail's marriage to Thomas Farrar, as follows:

"Some would indicate that his father married Abigail Collins, but this appears to be an error and she was the first wife of Thomas Farrar Jr. "Savage makes him m. (2), Mar. 3 1681, Abigail Collins, but she was the wife of his son Thomas." [Anderson agrees with Savage, that Abigail (Johnson) Collins married the elder Thomas Farrar 1614-1692].
"Abigail must have died shortly after the marriage since he married Elizabeth Hood, daughter of Richard Hood, Sr who arrived with the Farrar Family when they immigrated to Massachusetts, on Dec 6 1682." [No evidence for such a death.]

NOTE: this is not seriously a dispute, because there is the primary evidence of the will of Thomas Farrar the elder, also the will of his son Thomas Farrar the younger. There are no primary sources showing Abigail married Thomas Farrar the younger - only a misinterpretation of the 1681 marriage record.

The marriage record can be correctly interpreted within the context of their lives and primary records, as follows.

Evidence for Resolution of Disputed Husbands:

Abigail (Johnson) Collins was born about 1634, which would make her sixteen years older than Thomas Farrar (1651-1733). It begs reason to suppose the younger Farrar would marry a woman sixteen years older, mother of twelve living children, eight of them still minors in 1681, as his first wife!
The younger Thomas Farrar (1651-1733) left no mention or provision in his will for his supposed twelve step-children, (the eight younger of whom would have been minors - some of them toddlers), if he married Abigail in 1681.
The elder Thomas Farrar (1614-1694) names his wife Abigail in his will, and provides for her with his children from his first marriage.[6]

Confusion Interpreting the Records for Thomas Farrar

Confusion with the Thomas Farrars and their wives comes from the fact that there were three successive men named Thomas Farrar.

The first is Thomas Farrar I (1576 - 1621), born and died in England and married to Athelred.
Their son Thomas (II/Jr.) (1614 - 1694) is referred to in Massachusetts records as Thomas or Thomas Sr. His son Thomas (III) is referred to as Thomas Jr. in records. Both Thomas Sr. (II/Jr.) and Thomas Jr. (III) married women by the name of Elizabeth. Thomas Sr. (II/Jr.) married Elizabeth of unknown last name. Their son Thomas Jr. (III) married on Dec 6, 1682, Elizabeth Hood, daughter of Richard Hood Sr. who moved to Massachusetts with them in 1640. All of the people mentioned here were born in England. Those who immigrated did so in 1640.[7][8]

Disputed parents for Abigail Johnson

Robert Charles Anderson shows Richard Johnson of Charlestown and his wife Alice as separate persons from Richard Johnson of Salem and Lynn and his wife (Unknown). BUT -

On 12 Nov. 1666 Alice, widow of Richard Johnson & John Collins mother-in-law, gave all of her housing and lands to her natural son Samuel Johnson of Lynn and her son-in-law John Collins of Lynn [44 - citing Essex LR 3:23][9]

Note: Further work needs to be done, to reconcile the conflicting interpretations regarding Richard Johnson of Charlestown and Richard Johnson of Salem and Lynn.

Sources

  1. ↑ Source: #S-944804509 New England, Salem Witches and Others Tried for Witchcraft, 1647-1697, by Richard Godbeer (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Richard Johnson of Lynn and some of his Descendants, by Jane Thayer Friedman, TEG Vol 11, page 84
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Henry Collins of Lynn, by Carolyn Martino and Marcia Lindberg, TEG Vol 10 (1990), page 200-202
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Descendants of John Collins, of Charlestown, R.I., pages 8-9
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 New England, Salem Witches and Others Tried for Witchcraft, 1647-1697
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Thomas Farrar, Sr., Probate Record #9263,(5 pages), 3 Apr 1694, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
  7. ↑ John Hood of Lynn, Mass. and some of his descendants, Boston, Mary Jane Hood, (Published by the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass, 1909), page 3
  8. ↑ The Register of the Lynn Historical Society, Volumes 10-12 By Lynn Historical Society article Early Lewis, Broad and Nahant Streets page 60 - 61
  9. ↑ Henry Collins Sr. & Richard Johnson of Lynn, Massachusetts & some of their descendants, compiled by DORIS R. SHERIDAN Troy, NY 12180 Dody11@prodigy.net
  • Source: S-944804509 Repository: #R-1549812381 Title: New England, Salem Witches and Others Tried for Witchcraft, 1647-1697 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc . Original data: Original information from surviving legal records from the towns and villages in question and appearing in Godbeer, Richard, comp. The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England: Appendices A & B. [Information taken from Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum, eds. The Salem Witchcraft Papers: Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak. 3 vols. New York, NY: 1977.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  • The Essex Genealogist. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) Henry Collins of Lynn, continued, by Carolyn Martino and Marcia Lindberg, TEG Vol 10 (1990), page 200-202

See Also

  • Source: S65 Author: Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp Title: Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data - With some noted exceptions all marriage records in this collection can be found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and may be available through FamilySearch.org; Repository: #R2
  • Source: S69 Author: New England Historic Genealogical Society Title: Massachusetts, Town Marriage Records, 1620-1850 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data - Vital Records of Bellingham Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904. Vital Records of Granville Massachusetts to the Year; Repository: #R2
  • Source: S21 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; Repository: #R2
  • Repository: R2 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com

Other Sources

  • Gorton, Adelos,. The life and times of Samuel Gorton : the founders and the founding of the Republic : a section of early United States history and a history of the colony of Providence and Rhode Island plantations in the Narragansett Indian country now the state of Rhode Island, 1592-1636-1677-1687 : with a genealogy of Samuel Gorton's descendants to the present time. Philadelphia: unknown, 1907.
  • Source: S-2140484333 Repository: #R-2140484335 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Trees Note: Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=15720285&pid=307991194
  • Repository: R-2140484335 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com Note:


Acknowledgments

  • Thank you to Bob Fredrickson for creating WikiTree profile Johnson-17717 through the import of FredricksonFoutsOrthJohnson Family Tree_2013-03-24_01.ged on Mar 24, 2013.
  • Thank you to Bob Fredrickson for creating WikiTree profile Johnson-17141 through the import of FredricksonFoutsOrthJohnson Family Tree_2013-02-22.ged on Feb 22, 2013.
  • Johnson-23798 was created by Mary Pressley Carpenter through the import of Thomson-Luhman Family Tree.ged on Jan 26, 2014.
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April (Dellinger) Dauenhauer
: Would the profile managers here please read the bio & sources for Richard Johnson
Abigail Johnson and
Thomas Farrar?
Newly added sources & footnotes provide clarity on relationships between Abigail and her 1st husband John Collins and her 2nd husband Thomas Farrar.

The Puritan Great Migration Project is responsible for managing all profiles of immigrants to New England from 1620 to 1640. PGM relies on Robert Charles Anderson's Great Migration volumes as final authority in case of conflicting opinions.

Martino & Lindberg, authors of "Henry Collins of Lynn and His Descendants", TEG 10:200 assign Abigail as dau. of Richard Johnson-963. Anderson disagrees, says Johnson-693's wife and children are unknown.

Anderson shows Abigail and her 3 siblings as children of Richard Johnson-36067 of Salem and Lynn.

What to do?

Go with Anderson and merge Abigail Johnson-25143 into her duplicate under the other father?

Ask in G2G for ideas?

Thanking you in advance for your help,

April

posted by April (Dellinger) Dauenhauer
April (Dellinger) Dauenhauer
To clarify - Abigail Collins-7656 was born to Richard Johnson-58850 of Salem and Lynn about 1635. She married first John Collins, and they had sixteen children (four died young).

After John Collins was lost at sea in 1679, Abigail married second Thomas Farrar, who died 23 Feb 1694, as his second wife. Here, her profile is connected to his son who died in 1733 - the wrong Thomas Farrar.

I understand there is some text stating that the son was her husband, but genealogists in The Essex Genealogist Vol 10 page 200 and Vol 11 page 84 say she married the widower Thomas Farrar 3 Mar 1680/1 after the death of his first wife Elizabeth and that he died 23 Feb 1694.

I hope this can be resolved. Please send me any questions and I will work with you.

posted by April (Dellinger) Dauenhauer
April (Dellinger) Dauenhauer
Collins-7656 and Johnson-17141 appear to represent the same person because: research published in The Essex Genealogist Vol 11, pages 82-84, show that Collins was not her last name at birth, and she was born much earlier than 1660 - she was born about 1635, the eldest child of Richard and Alice Johnson of Salem and Lynn, Massachusetts. Abigail was married first to John Collins, about 1655, and they had sixteen children. John Collins and his son John were both lost at sea in 1679, and Abigail was left a widow with twelve children (four had died young). The year after her husband's death, Abigail married Thomas Farrar. See TEG Vol 10, page 200, TEG Vol 11, page 84, and other sources listed on Abigail Johnson-17141. I hope this detach and merge can be done. Please contact me with concerns
posted by April (Dellinger) Dauenhauer
April (Dellinger) Dauenhauer
This profile has ten of the sixteen children of Abigail Johnson who married John Collins.

Abigail Johnson-17141 has four others. Her profile is connected to Richard Johnson of Salem and Lynn, identified as the father of Abigail (Johnson) Collins by Richard Charles Anderson in his 2015 The Great Migration Directory page 186 (through the sources he cites there).

If this profile would be disconnected from Richard Johnson of Charlestown, it could be merged with Johnson-17141, and all the siblings would be connected to their two parents. Please see the expanded list on Johnson-17141 to verify the children.

Thank you,

April

posted by April (Dellinger) Dauenhauer
April (Dellinger) Dauenhauer
Collins-7656 and Johnson-17141 appear to represent the same person because: research published in The Essex Genealogist Vol 11, pages 82-84, show that Collins was not her last name at birth, and she was born much earlier than 1660 - she was born about 1635, the eldest child of Richard and Alice Johnson of Salem and Lynn, Massachusetts. Abigail was married first to John Collins, about 1655, and they had sixteen children. John Collins and his son John were both lost at sea in 1679, and Abigail was left a widow with twelve children (four had died young). The year after her husband's death, Abigail married Thomas Farrar. See TEG Vol 10, page 200, TEG Vol 11, page 84, and other sources listed on Abigail Johnson-17141. I don't know more than the published genealogists, who state Thomas Farrar's first wife was Elizabeth, and that she died 8 Jan 1680, and that Thomas subsequently married Abigail Johnson, widow of John Collins. I've posted all the sources I could find.
posted by April (Dellinger) Dauenhauer
Stawski-25 Andrea (Stawski) Pack
Johnson-23798 and Johnson-17141 appear to represent the same person because: This is the same person
posted by Andrea (Stawski) Pack
Stawski-25 Andrea (Stawski) Pack
Abigail Collins and Thomas Farrar married March 3 1680/81 Lynn - Marriages Image of page 101
posted by Andrea (Stawski) Pack
Stawski-25 Andrea (Stawski) Pack
Johnson-25143 and Johnson-17141 appear to represent the same person because: Clear Duplicate lower number 17141 no other people listed
posted by Andrea (Stawski) Pack
Justice-1158 Hrh Prince Robert Justice
bob i found a Abigail johnson who is my aunt birth 1815 thinking Vermont or RI marred a murphy
posted by Hrh Prince Robert Justice

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