Abigail (Adams) Crane (1682)

Born 25 Mar 1682 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Cable — married about 1699 (to about 1714) in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut

Wife of Elijah Crane — married after 1720 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut

Descendants

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Biography

Abigail Adams is the daughter of Samuel Adams and sister to Abraham. She had 4 children with Elijah. In 1719, Abigail and her husband Elijah Crane joined in a deed with Daniel, David, and John Adams (all of Fairfield, CT) to sell the homestead of Abraham Adams, Jr.--they being his heirs.

The source documents do not provide a date of death for Abigail.

Sources

• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records (NEHGS, Boston, 2011) Vol. Fairfield, Page 1. Birth record.
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, Conn., 1930) Vol. 1, Page 164.
• "Genealogy of the Crane Family" Vol 2, Pg 27
• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
• "Pedigree Resource File," database-Documentation of birth and death information on herself, her parents, spouse and grandparents
• "The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, from the Settlement of the Town in 1639 to 1818: 1639-1700", p. 349, by Elizabeth Hubbell Godfrey Schenck-Documentation of date of birth and names of parents https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=8tULAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&authuser=0&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA349