Abigail (Treat) Mills (1704 - 1775)

Born 11 Jun 1704 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Jedediah Mills — married 16 Jun 1726 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 2 Nov 1775 at age 71 in Shelton, Fairfield, Connecticut

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Biography

Abigail was born on 11 June 1704 at Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, daughter of Robert Treat and his 2nd wife Abigail Camp .^[1]

Marriage

16 June 1726 at Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut to Rev Jedidah Mills of Ripton Parish, Stratford.^[2]

Death

2 November 1775 at Shelton, Fairfield, Connecticut, age: 71.^[3]

Burial

Huntington, Fairfield, Connecticut.^[3]

Her gravestone reads:

The amiable consort of the Rev Jedidah Mills who after a lingering and painful disease departed this life Nov'r 2 AD 1775 in 72 year. Releas'd from earth this happy pair we trust have winged their way to taste the joys their saviour give in bright eternal day^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Treat, John Harvey, (1893) The Treat family : a genealogy of Trott, Tratt, and Treat ... Salem, MA: Salem Press [ Archive.org accessed 21 August 2016.
2. ↑ Brown, Coralynn, transcriber, Stratford, Fairfield Co.., CT, Vital Records from Barbour, 1639 - 1840 - K-Q Barbour Collection, accessed 21 August 2016.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Orcutt, Rev. Samuel, (1886) A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport Connecticut, Part II. (Fairfield County Historical Society, accessed 21 August 2016 (pp. 966-995).

See also:

• Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Records and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
• Orcutt, Samuel. A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (Press of Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, Conn., 1886)
• Treat, John H. The Treat Family, A Genealogy of Trott, Tratt, and Treat for Fifteen Generations (The Salem Press, 1893)
• Find A Grave: Memorial #21312287
• http://dunhamwilcox.net/barbour/stratford_barbour_k-q.htm Stratford, Fairfield Co.., CT, Vital Records from Barbour.

• Mills Jedidah, Rev., of Ripton Parish, Stratford, m Mrs. Abigail TREAT of Milford, June 16, 1726