Many secondary sources list John Donnell’s daughter Abigail as the wife of Joseph Young, however, I have been unable to find any primary source to confirm this. Joseph did have a wife Abigail and they would have been married about 1697 so if this Abigail was the daughter of John then she would have had to have been the child of an earlier marriage, not the daughter of Hannah Milbury as stated by several authors. My guess is that Abigail Young’s maiden name was guessed at, as the only unattached Abigail in York at the time would have been the daughter of John Donnell. Too bad John didn’t list the married names of his daughters in his will! Also, looking at Joseph’s land transactions I can’t see where he had any dealings with the Donnell family and didn’t receive any property through his wife Abigail. So, a question mark remains next to Abigail.
Maine Court Records, 1696-1854
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Name Young, Joseph
Plaintiff/Defendant DEF
Residence York
Court York Court of Common Pleas
Date April 1737
Location 67-48
VolumeandPage 10-515-4713-YORK
Sources
Maine Deaths and Burials, 1841-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4DQ-2ZS : 4 December 2014), Lt. Joseph Young in entry for Abigail Young, 17 Oct 1746; citing reference p 23; FHL microfilm 12,836.
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Torrey's New England Marriages vol 3 p 1733 (Young/Donnell)
MARRIAGE : 1697
LOCATION : York,York,Maine,United States
VOLUME : Volume 3
PAGE : 1733
TEXT : YOUNG, Joseph (ca 1672-1734) & Abigail [DONNELL]; by 1697; York, ME {McIntire Anc. 194; Bradbury 75; Sayward 38; Stackpole 80; Young (1923) (1923) 15; Rich (1922) 30-31; GDMNH 776}
U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700
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Name Joseph Young
Gender Male
Birth Year 1672
Marriage Date 1697
Marriage Place New England, USA
Death Year 1734
Spouse Abigail Young
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Abigail by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Abigail:
The duplicate listings for her spouse follow different sources as to his parents.
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