Abigail (Milliken) Foster (1731 - bef. 1750)

Born 29 May 1731 in Scarborough, Cumberland, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Foster — married 26 Nov 1747 in Scarborough, Cumberland, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Died before 29 Jan 1750 before age 18 in Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Abigail Milliken was born at Scarborough, Maine, 29 May 1731, the daughter of Edward Milliken and Abigail Norman, ^[1] and sister of Benjamin Milliken, who founded the town of Ellsworth, Maine; died, probably from complications of the birth of her daughter, Abigail Foster, and buried in Scarborough, 23 Jan 1748/49.

She married Col. Benjamin Foster, at Scarborough, 26 Nov 1747, as his first wife. He was baptized at Greenland, New Hampshire, 26 Jun 1726, the son of Benjamin Foster and Wilmot Griffith; died at Machias, Maine, 4 Jul 1818.

Benjamin married (2) at Scarborough, 29 Jan 1749/50, Elizabeth Scott, baptized at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, South Church, 22 Jun 1729, the daughter of Sylvanus Scott and Sarah Moses, and sister of the Frances Scott who married Benjamin's brother, Wooden. ^{[2] [3]}

Sources

1. ↑ Portland Public Library, The Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder (S. M. Watson, Publisher, Portland, Maine, 1884-1898), Vol. 5, p. 120
2. ↑ Joseph Crook Anderson II, editor, Maine Families in 1790, Volume 5 (Maine Genealogical Society Special Publication No. 25, Picton Press, Rockport, Maine, First Printing June 1996, Second Printing January 2001, 402 pages, ISBN: 0-89725-255-1), pp. 113-115
3. ↑ George W. Drisko, Narrative of the Town of Machias, The Old and the New, The Early and the Late (Press of The Republican, Machias, Maine, 1904, 575 pages), p. 412