Born 1647 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

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Died 25 Nov 1723 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Abigail was born in 1647. She was the daughter of Joseph Andrews and Elizabeth Hatch.^[1][2]

Abigail married John Wadsworth on July 25, 1667.^[3]

On July 21, 1684, John Wadsworth and his wife Abigail, both of Duxbury, sold land of the same description as the "calves pasture" to her brother-in-law, Jared Talbut.^[2]

Abigail (Andrews) Wadsworth died at midnight between the 24th and 25th day of November 1723, in Duxbury.^[4] She is buried in Milton Cemetery, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.^[5]

Children

According to an article published in "The Mayflower descendant", by George Earnest Bowman, all of the daughters are mentioned in the inventory of the estate of Abigail Andrews Wadsworth. The title of the article is "Aaron Soule's wife Mary Wadsworth and the Marriages of Five of Her Sisters" and details the probate records for Deacon John and his wife Abigail, as well as additional links between the sisters.

The names listed, by drawing lots, in Abigail's inventory of her estate are as follows: Mary Soul, Abigail Tomson, Sarah Wadsworth, Hannah Peterson, Lydia Peterson, Grace Sprague, Hopestill Brewster and Mercy Wadsworth^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts (The Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, 1893): Vol II, p.11
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Underhill, L. A. W. (1910). Descendants of Edward Small of New England, and the allied families, with tracings of English ancestry. Cambridge: Priv. Print. at the Riverside Press. Vol II, p.695
3. ↑ Hodges, Almon D., Jr., Henry Andrews of Taunton and the Calves Pasture, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 51, 1898, p. 16-23 note: Hodges does not cite primary source for this date.
4. ↑ Duxbury (Mass.), & New England Historic Genealogical Society. (1911). Vital records of Duxbury, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. Boston, Mass: Published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society p.430
5. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #10461201
6. ↑ The Mayflower descendant : a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history. By Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Publication date 1899. Pgs 246-248.

• Holst, Frances Bartlett. Martha Wadsworth Brewster, Poet of Colonial Connecticut, Connecticut Nutmegger (Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Glastonbury, Conn., 2012) Vol. 45, Page 23.

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