Abigail Miner was the fourth child of James Miner and Abigail (Eldredge) Miner of Stonington, Connecticut. Her birth date is not certain; the Barbour Collection lists it as 15 Aug 1714[1], whereas Wheeler published it as 18 Aug 1715 [2]. Other, less reliable sources present other dates.
Abigail married John Fanning III, son of John II & Deborah (Park/Parke), on 14 Apr 1740 at Stonington, Connecticut. They had perhaps as many as 8 children, at least two of whom are probably profiled correctly at present:
Joshua Fanning, b. 6 Sep 1748; married Ann Read; d. 7 Mar 1778
Simeon Fanning, b. 21 Oct 1750; d. Apr 1778 @ Wilmington, N. Carolina
Thankful Fanning, b. 19 Aug 1752; d. 1837 @ Batsto, New Jersey
Lucy Fanning, b. 27 Sep 1755; married William Watson; d. 5 Jun 1834 @ Germantown, Pennsylvania
W.F. Brooks, in his History of the Fanning Family (1905), wrote a 5-page section devoted to John Fanning [3], in which the tribulations of this family are illustrated. In brief, following several business ventures in the Groton and Stonington area, in Apr 1766 they moved to Walpole, Hampshire, and later moved to Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey. There, imbued with patriotic fervor, John Fanning and several members of his family were not fortunate in their outcomes from the American Revolutionary War.
After John was imprisoned, just after the beginning of the war and never to return to his family, Abigail soon died, about 27 Sep 1777, at Little Egg Harbor.
Sources
↑ White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Town name. (Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.) p. 246
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DNA Connections
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: