Abigail (Rogers) Bixby (1697 - 1758)

Born 5 Jul 1697 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Province

Ancestors

Wife of Nathan Bixby — married 25 Nov 1718 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Province

Descendants

Died 5 Nov 1758 at age 61 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Province

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Biography

Abigail was the child of Jeremiah Rogers,^[1] and Abigail Trescott Weeks Rogers, b. 5 July 1697, likely in Salem.^[2]

Nathan Bixby married Abigail Rogers in Salem on 25 Nov 1718.^[3]

Nathan and Abigail settled in Topsfield, where they had:^[4]

• Nathan, b. 23 Oct 1719, died young
• Amos, b. 13 Nov 1722
• Abijah, b. 8 Sep 1725
• Abigail, b. 19 Mar 1727-8
• Nathan, b. 18 Aug 1730
• Solomon, b. 26 Oct 1732

Abigail Bixby, presumably this person, died in Topsfield on 5 Nov 1758, characterized in church records as "an aged woman."^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Arlin Nusbaum, Aug 11, 2011
2. ↑ Birth record not yet found
3. ↑ Essex, Vital Records of Salem Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, p. 112
4. ↑ Essex. Vital Records of Topsfield, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, pp. 16, 17, 18, 22
5. ↑ Essex. Vital Records of Topsfield, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, p. 206

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• "Jeremiah Rogers was a wheelwright, and lived in Salem as early as 1681. fn.Jeremiah Rogers; married Abigail ____, lived on the southwest corner of Town House Square; was living 1717; children: Abigail; married Nathan Bixby of Topsfield; 2. Love, born Nov. 9, 1693; married Zachariah Curtice of Boxford Oct. 30, 1709; 3. John, baptized Jan. 1703-4; H.C.[Harvard College], 1705[admitted, not graduated - see Harvard alumni list]; minister at Boxford from 1709 to 1750; removed to Leominster; married Susanna Marston March 24, 1710; died in Leominster in 1755; had children, one of whom was Rev. John Rogers of Leominster." (Sidney Perley, A History of Salem Massachusetts, vol.3 1671-1716, Salem, Mass: Sidney Perley, 1928, p. 172, url: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/Perley/vol3/images/p3-172.html)

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