Abigail (Cushman) Robbins (1737 - aft. 1798)

Born 3 Apr 1737 in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Robbins — married 4 Dec 1755 in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay

Wife of Lemuel Crooker — married after 1773 in Carver, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died after 1798 after age 60 in Carver, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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Biography

Abigail was born April 3, 1737, the daughter of Robert Cushman and Mercy Washburn of Kingston, Massachusetts^{[1] [2] [3]}

On December 4, 1755, she married Benjamin Robbins, the son of Jeduthan Robbins and Rebecca Crocker of Plymouth, Massachusetts^{[4] [5] [6]}, and their children included:

1. Joseph, born December 12, 1757^[7], who married Elizabeth Stephens, daughter of Edward Stephens of Plymouth^[5]
2. Mercy, who died young^[5]

In 1762, Benjamin and Abigail were members of an extended family group that included his brother James, who emigrated to Nova Scotia, where they were among the founders of Yarmouth Township^{[5] [8] [9] [10] [5] [6]}

The family settled on Chebogue Point, where Benjamin Robbins drowned before the land grants were issued 1767^[9], likely in 1765^[5]. His widow, Abigail Robbins, appears in the land records as a grantee of the town ^{[8] [9] [10] [6]}.

On November 3, 1766, she appeared in Kingston land records in the sale of land inherited in her father's estate as as Abigail, widow of Benjamin Robbins, a child of Robert Cushman^[2]

She returned to Massachusetts and married a widower, Lemuel Crocker of Pembroke and Carver, Massachusetts (near Plymouth)^[6][5]. No more children are noted in these sources.

In 1780, Abigal and Lemuel Crocker deeded her land in Yarmouth to David Hersey. In 1788, her son Joseph, now a blacksmith, returned to Yarmouth with his family and bought the same land back from David Hersey. ^[6][5]

Abigail (Cushman) (Robbins) Crocker did not return to Chebogue^[5]. She was living in Carver when Lemuel Crocker wrote his will on September 8, 1795, and when her widows dower was administered in July of 1798^[11]

766 viii Abigail6 Cushman, born on 3 Apr. 1737 in Kingston,[147] married 1.) Benjamin Robbins, of Plymouth, son of Jeduthan and Rebecca (Crocker) Robbins (Jr.), of Plympton,[148] on 4 Dec. 1755 in Kingston.[149] He was born on 7 Nov. 1732 in Plympton.[150] He drowned in Yarmouth, NS, before 1766, and she remarried to 2.) Benjamin Crocker, of Carver, MA.[151] He was living in Carver in the 1790 federal census.[152] No death or probate records were found for either of them in Plymouth County. Abigail supposedly had one son by Benjamin Robbins born in Yarmouth, NS, who returned to Carver, MA, with his mother, his name unknown.[153]

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Kingston, Volume 1, page 52, also found in NEHGS, which states Cushman, Abigaill, d. Robert and Mercy, Apr. 3, 1737
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017). From Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-2015. See Robert Cushman, Volume Allerton Isaac (#17) page 79
3. ↑ MF, 17:79: Mayflower Births and Deaths lists Mayflower Families in Progress as birth source
4. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Kingston, Volume 1, page 202, also found in NHEGS, which states Cushman, Abigail and Benjamin Robbins of Plymouth, Dec. 4, 1755. [Robins [of] Plymouth
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8} Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Genealogies : Transcribed from the Yarmouth Herald, by George S. Brown; prepared for publication by Martha & William Reamy, assisted by John McDonald Hilton ... et al.; published in Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., c1993. ISBN: 0806313722; page 100
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4} New Englanders in Nova Scotia by Fred E Crowell, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010.) See Robbins family page 105, and Cushman family page 189, among other references
7. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Plymouth, Volume 1, page 239 found in Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016), which states Joseph Robbins the father abovesaid born in Kingston Dec. 12th 1757
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} A History of the County of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia By John Roy Campbell Publisher J. & A. McMillan, 1876.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2} Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; a sequel to Campbell's History by Brown, George S. (George Stayley); Topics Yarmouth (N.S.); Publisher Boston, Rand, 1888; Collection robarts; toronto; Digitizing sponsor MSN; Contributor Robarts - University of Toronto; Not in copyright
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} Wright, Esther Clark, 1895-. Planters And Pioneers. rev. ed. [Canada: s.n.], 1982
11. ↑ Will of Lemuel Crocker Case #5262, Plymouth County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)