Abigail (Bailey) Little (1724 - 1815)

Born 15 Feb 1724 in Newbury, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Moses Little 3rd — married before 1743 in Newbury, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 6 Feb 1815 at age 90 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

In 1743, when he was but nineteen, Moses Little married Abigail, daughter of Joshua and Sarah (Coffin) Bailey, of Newbury, Mass., born Feb. 15, 1724, a twin sister of Judith Bailey, who married Moses Little's elder brother Stephen. Mrs. Abigal (Bailey) Little died Feb. 6, 1815, having nearly completed her ninety-first year. Moses and Abigail (Bailey) Little had eleven children, all but three of whom lived to marry and rear families. Children:

1. Sarah, born Dec. 15, 1743, married John Noyes.
2. Michael, born Jan. 9, 1745-46, died Feb. 15, 1745.
3. Josiah, whose sketch follows.
4. Abigail, born April 2, 1749, married John Gideon Bailey.
5. Lydia, born Nov. 24, 1751, married John Atkinson.
6. Elizabeth, born Sept. 3, 1754, married (first) Lieut. John Carr and (second) Lieut. William Wigglesworth.
7. Anna, born March 20, 1757, died Aug. 13, 1775.
8. Mary, born Sept. 22, 1759, married (first) Matthias P. Sawyer, and (second) Joshua Follansbee.
9. Hannah, born May 21, 1762, married (first) Dr. Moses Sawyer, and (second) Col. James Burnahm.
10. Alice, born May 10, 1764, died May 6, 1765.
11. Moses, born Jan. 20, 1767, married Elizabeth Dummer and lived on a portion of the original Turkey Hill farm, where he died at the age of ninety.

Sources

Birth

• Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (The Essex Institute, 1911) Vol. 1, Page 31

Marriage

• Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (The Essex Institute, 1911) Vol. 2, Page 40

Death

• Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (The Essex Institute, 1911) Vol. 2, Page 641

Genealogies

• Little, George. The Descendants of George Little, Who Came to Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1640 (The Author, Auburn, Maine, 1882) Page 39 & Page 40

• Bailey-Bayley Genealogies, Desc. of John Bailey of Salisbury and Newbury MA, in Essex Antiquarian, Salem, MA: Essex Antiquarian Publication (1901), pg. 125

On-Line Profiles

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 21 June 2017, 03:54), entry for Abigail Bailey(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:MVVR-M6F); contributed by various users.