Abigail (Frost) Moody (1684 - bef. 1723)

Born 1684 in Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of William Moody — married 30 Dec 1714 (to before 27 Jun 1723) in Berwick, York, Massachusetts Bay

Biography

Abigail, married Joshua Fryer by January 1691 when she was named in her father's will as Abigail Fryer.^[1][2] They resided in Kittery, Maine.^{[3] [4]}

Abigail married as her second husband William Moody. On 9 December 1714, a prenuptial agreement was made, a marriage shortly to be solemnized, between William Moody gentleman of Newbury, Essex County, and Abigail Fryer widow of Berwick, York County, with witnesses Stephen Sewall of Salem and Jeremiah Wise of Berwick, where William was to receive £100 of her estate and she to retain the remainder of her own estate and that of her former husband, Joshua Fryer.^[5] Intentions were published in Newbury on 11 December 1714,^[6] and they were married on 30 December 1714 in Berwick.^[7]

Abigal Moodey, wife of Mr William Moodey of Newbury, made her will on 20 May 1721, proved 27 June 1723. She made bequests to her brothers Charles and John Frost and to each of their daughters named Abigail; her sisters Mehetebel Peirce, Lydia Greenleef and Mary Hill; "cousins" Mary Wise wife of Jeremiah of Barwick (Berwick), and Hannah Wainwright wife of Capt. John Wainwright of Haverhill and her daughter Abigail Wainwirght. "Brothers" Thomas Pearce and John Greenleef to be executors. Witnesses were John Dummer, Mary Peirce and Deborah Goodridg.^[5]

Based on Abigail's will, she had no surviving children from either of her marriages.

Deacon William Moody died on 06 February 1729/30 in Byfield parish, Newbury.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ William M. Sargent, Maine Wills 1640-1760, (Portland, ME: Brown Thurston & Co., 1887) Vol. 1:114-118.
2. ↑ York County Probate file #6294
3. ↑ Clarence A. Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (CD version) (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 2001)

   FRYER, Joshua & Abigail [FROST] (-1723), m/2 William MOODY; by 1690/1?, by 1690; Kittery, ME, citing {Kittery 415; Frost 231; Goodhue Anc. 126; GDMNH 246, 249; Evans (1940) 70}

4. ↑ New England family history : a magazine devoted ... v.1 (1907-08). p. 8
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.) [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB515/i/13788/18545-co23/0 Essex County Probate Records file #18545, Abigail Moodey
6. ↑ Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1911), Vol. 2:334

   "Moodey, William, Dea., and Mrs. Abigail Frier of Berwick, int. Dec. 11, 1714."

7. ↑ Rev. Everett S. Stackpole, "Berwick (Maine) Marriages," NEHGR Vol. 55(1901):310
8. ↑ Newbury VRs, Vol. 2:664