Absalom Gifford (1733 - aft. 1790)

Born 27 Aug 1733 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut

Ancestors

Died after 1790 after age 56 in Herkimer, New York, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Absolam Gifford b. 27 Aug 1733 Norwich, New London, Connecticut^[1] was the son of Jeremiah Gifford and Martha Hough

No marriage have been located but it is likely that the Absolom Hough Gifford, born 1766 and died in 1849 in Herkimer County, New York is his son.

His son was a soldier in the Revolution serving in a Connecticut Regiment in 1782.

Absalom Gifford^[2]

• Pension Year: 1833
• Application State: New York
• Applicant Designation: Widow's Pension Application File
• Archive Publication Number: M804
• Archive Roll Number: 1068
• Total Pages in Packet: 30

Notes:

• 1790^[3]: Fredericksontown, Dutchess, New York, United States. Absolom Gifford 1-2-1

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74M-P7P : 11 February 2018)
2. ↑ U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKP-9ST : accessed 2 May 2019), Absolom Gifford, Fredericksontown, Dutchess, New York, United States; citing p. 10, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 6; FHL microfilm 568,146.

• Hough, William W., The Descendants of William Hough Jr. of Connecticut, Third Son of William and Sarah (Calkins) Hough, Connecticut Nutmegger (Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Glastonbury, Conn., July 2014) Vol. 47, No. 1, Page 7.