Abigail Rickard (also spelled Richard) was born about 1655 at Plymouth, Massachusetts, to Giles Rickard and Hannah Dunham. She died May 14, 1740(NS) at Hingham, Massachusetts. She married James Whiton (or Whiting) about 1676 at Hingham, Massachusetts.
The following is a summary of the family of James and Abigail Whiton:
The Whiton family in America : the genealogy of the descendants of Thomas Whiton, 1635, p. 23, by Whiton, Augustus Sherrill, Published by the Whiton Family Association, 1932. Salt Lake City : Digitized by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 2013.[1]
Source: Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records, Author: Edmund West, comp. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000 at http://www.Ancestry.com.
Source: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Yates Publishing, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - This unique collection of records is derived, found at http://www.Ancestry.ca
Source: Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Trees Note: Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=3920139&pid=616
This person was created through the import of fitzmaster032511.ged on 27 March 2011.
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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:
Richard-783 and Rickard-53 appear to represent the same person because: Same person. No parent conflicts to prevent a merge. In the early Plymouth records, the family name was definitely Rickard. "Richard" is an alternate spelling (or possibly a misreading of the records).
I am changing Abigail's parents (on Richard-783) from John Rickard and his mother Judith Cogan to Giles Rickard Jr and his wife Hannah Dunham. This makes more sense and it is consistent with sources -- see http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr05/rr05_038.html#P9997 for a summary.
I changed Abigail Richard (Richard-783) and Abigail Rickard (Rickard-53) from rejected match to unmerged match because I believe they are actually the same person. Parents currently don't match, but Abigail Richard's parents are clearly wrong (because Judith Rickard did not marry her son and have a child with him when she was age 61).