Abigail (Torrey) Scranton (1727 - 1778)

Born 26 Dec 1727 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America

Ancestors

Wife of Timothy Scranton — married 23 Nov 1748 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 10 Nov 1778 at age 50 in New Haven County, Connecticut

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Biography

Abigail Torrey^[1] was born 26 Dec 1727 in Boston, Massachusetts.^[2] She was the daughter of Samuel Torrey and Abigail.^[3][4][5]

She married^[6] Timothy Scranton on 23 Nov 1748 in Guilford, Connecticut.^[7][8]

She died 10 Nov 1778 in Madison, Connecticut.^[9][10]

She is buried in North Madison West Side Cemetery, North Madison, New Haven County, Connecticut.^[11]

Research Notes

See Timothy Scranton for list of children.^[12]

Sources

1. ↑ Alvan Talcott, Families of Early Guilford, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's,, Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000, vol 2, p 1039. " ... of Boston, Mass ..."
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," database on-line, Ancestry.com (: accessed 14 October 2017), Abigail Torrey; Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook); Boston. City Document No. 43. p.184.
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," database on-line, Ancestry.com (: accessed 14 October 2017), Abigail Torrey; Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook); Boston. Births, 1689-1744.
4. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQXV-F72 : 4 December 2014), Abigail Torrey, 26 Dec 1727; citing BOSTON,SUFFOLK,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0014734 V. 24.
5. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHY9-V24 : 4 December 2014), Abigail Torrey, 26 Dec 1727; citing Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, 307; FHL microfilm 592,866.
6. ↑ Alvan Talcott, Families of Early Guilford, vol 2, p 1039.
7. ↑ "Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)," database on-line, Ancestry.com (: accessed 14 October 2017), Timothy Scranton; Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003. Original data: White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002; Guilford Vital Records; p. 273 references Vol 2, p. 65.
8. ↑ Scranton: Page 23
9. ↑ Alvan Talcott, Families of Early Guilford, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's,, Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000, vol 2, p 1039. " ... of Boston, Mass ..."
10. ↑ "Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920," database on-line, Ancestry.com (: accessed 14 October 2017), Abigail Scranton; Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003. Original data: Connecticut. Church Records Index. Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut.; Volume 063 Madison; Vol 1, p. 193.
11. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 27 November 2017), memorial page for Abigail Torrey Scranton (26 Dec 1727–10 Nov 1778), Find A Grave Memorial no. 174119044, citing North Madison West Side Cemetery, North Madison, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Mookie (contributor 47515129) . Find A Grave: Memorial #174119044
12. ↑ Scranton: Page 23

See also:

• Scranton, Erastus. A Genealogical Register of the Descendants of John Scranton of Guilford, Conn., who died in the year 1671 (Case, Tiffany and Co., Hartford, 1955)

• Torrey, John Genealogical notes, showing the paternal line of descent from William Torrey (James S. Horton, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1885) p.12

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