Abigail (Hill) Allen (1670 - aft. 1740)

Born 21 Sep 1670 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Died after 13 May 1740 after age 69 in Salem, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Disputed relations/errors in print: In 1924, John Kermott Allen wrote and distributed a genealogy about George Allen of Weymouth ... Massachusetts. In profiling Ebenezer (14) Allen, the author reported his wife as, "Abigail Hill, daughter of Zebulon Hill of Gloucester."^[1]

An overview of the apparent oversight in this reporting has been posted to G2G as, "Correcting errors in print about Abigail Hill, daughter of Zebulon Hill of Salem."

Biography

Abigail, the daughter of Zebulon Hill and Elizabeth (Dyke) Hill, was born in Salem, Massachusetts on 21: 7m: 1670, ^[2] which translates to September 21, 1670 in the new style calendar.

Abigail died sometime after May 13, 1740, based on a document that she signed on that date. See 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/13744/463-co4/30029119

Research Notes

• "Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1840," database and digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2013), entry for Zebulon Hill, file 13310 (7 pp.); 1699[/1700]; in particular, indexed page "13310-2." Will mentions Philip Hill. son; Elizabeth Marston, daughter; Abigail Allen, daughter; Sarah Morgan, daughter; Benjamin Ashby, grandchild; Elizabeth Ashby, grandchild; John Hill of Beverly, brother. He writes further, "... my will is that what was willed by my son Zebulon Hill to his Brothers and Sisters shall be in according to Said Will divided amongst ..." Witnesses to the will were Robert Hale, Abigail Hill, ?Abigail Grover. ["Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1840" is one of the free collections available at AmericanAncestors.org.]
• Philip Hill &c to Abigail Hill (1708), "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-36328-567-23?cc=2106411&wc=M9QJ-NCF:n1949891552 : accessed 11 Oct 2013), Essex > Deeds 1713-1716 vol 28-29 > image 49 of 600, for Philip Hill &c to Abigail Hill [Essex County (Mass) Deeds, 28:43]. Specifies this is "Articles of Agreement made & agreed upon & confirmed" the [24 May 1708] between "Abigail Relict widow of John Hill late of Beverly .. Cooper, Decd, & administratrix to ...sd John Hills Estate on ye one party" and particular relatives of John Hill as the other party listed as "Philip Hill of Salem …, Cooper"; "Joseph Allen with Abigail his wife, Neice to ye Deceased John Hill"; "Elizabeth ___ Widow of William Marston, late of said Salem, Mariner Dec'd & Neice also to sd John Hill"; and "Joseph Morgan, Junr of Beverley aforesd, Taylor, with Sarah his wife Neice also to ye sd Deceased John Hill." The relations so listed "renounce ... and forEver Quit Claim unto Abigail Hill ... all of sd. Deceased John Hill's Estate ..." [Separately, by the will of Zebulon Hill (1699), Philip Hill, Abigail (Hill) Allen, Elizabeth (Hill) Marston and Sarah (Hill) Morgan are known the surviving children of Zebulon Hill.]
• Joseph Allen & Others to Barnabas Raymond, deed (1728/29), "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-36329-9396-18?cc=2106411&wc=M9QJ-N2G:n1107307132 : accessed 11 Oct 2013), Essex > Deeds 1734-1736 vol 68-70 > image 692 of 891, for Joseph Allen & others to Barnabas Raymond [Essex County (Mass) Deeds, 70:86]. Sale is 1/2 common right of property that "belongs to us descending from our hon'd father Zebulon Hill late of ye town of Salem aforesd, Dec'd..." Grantors as Joseph Allen, joiner, and wife Abigail [aka Abigail Hill], and Elizabeth Marston [aka Elizabeth Hill], all of Salem, and Joseph Morgan, taylor, and Sarah [aka Sarah Hill] his wife of Beverly. Witnesses were Jonathan Raymond and Zebulon Allen.
• Dean Crawford Smith, The Ancestry of Samuel Blanchard Ordway, 1744-1916, Melinde Lutz Sanborn, ed. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1990), pp. 331-338, Hill family; in particular, p. 332 for Zebulon Hill (b. bef 1629), as son of ___ Hill, and family of Zebulon Hill.

Sources

1. ↑ John Kermott Allen, "George Allen of Weymouth, Mass., 1635, of Lynn, Mass., 1636, and of Sandwich, Mass., 1637-68 : together with some of his descendants …," 72; viewed via FamilySearch Catalog (accessed 2014), for entry Ebenezer (14) Allen.
2. ↑ Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. Volume I -- Births. The Essex Institute, 1916. p. 431. (References "court records, Essex Co. Quarterly Court"). Link to page at archive.org.