Born in Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Daughter of George Knight
and Judith (Moody) Knight
Wife of
David Whitney
— married
after 11 Oct 1760 in Falmouth, Cumberland County, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Mother of
Joshua Whitney
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
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Biography
Abigail Knight was born on 31 October 1730 in Newbury, Massachusetts, recorded as the daughter of George and Judeth Knight.[1]
Her family removed to Falmouth, Maine (then part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay), where her father purchased land in 1733.
On 11 October 1760, David Whitney of Gorham and Abigail Knight of Falmouth registered intentions of marriage.[2] Abigail was his second wife.
Child of David and Abigail born in Gorham, Maine:
- Joshua Whitney Aug. 1761
Abigail died in Aug 1761 in Gorham, Maine.
Sources
- ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). Newbury, Vol. 1, page 265
- ↑ Vital Records from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) Vol. 17 (1863), "Records of Falmouth (now Portland), Me.," page 154.
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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:
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:
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~0.78%
~6.25%
David Lambert 
:
23andMe
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #99466
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Laurie (Blake) McQuarrie :
23andMe, GEDmatch SY4722397 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch NQ7320458 [compare], Ancestry member lbmcq
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MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch NQ7320458 [compare]
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Kenneth Jordan :
23andMe
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AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Norvin Knight :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member norvin_knight
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~0.39%
Deanna Sullivan :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member deanna_sullivan
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