Abigail (Olds) Root was born in 1725 and died 15 Sep 1797. This is according to her FindAGrave entry from the Bow Wow Cemetery in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. [1][2]
She and Joshua Root were married in Sheffield, Massachusetts on 23 Nov 1757. [3]
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Sources
CT Town Birth Records
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Footnotes
↑ FindAGrave Memorial #55131540, Abigail Olds Root, created by Cheryl Hanson, July 18, 2010. A photo of the tombstone shows the inscription but is only partially legible.
↑ Name entered by Nathan Ott, Thursday, December 5, 2013.
↑ Joseph Kellog, "Vital Records of Sheffield Co.[sic], Mass.", National Genealogical Society Quarterly Vol. 27, No. 2 (June 1939), p. 44. Root, "Joshua & Abigail Old, Nov. 23, 1757", from Sheffield Record Book No. 1, p, 121),
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Nathan Ott for creating Olds-201 on 5 Dec 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Nathan and others.
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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.
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