Abigail (Vinson) Elwell (1668 - bef. 1743)

Born 28 May 1668 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Jacob Elwell — married 5 Jul 1686 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts [uncertain]

Descendants

Died before Nov 1743 before age 75 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts

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Biography

Abigail Vinson, the daughter of William Vinson and Rachel (Varney) (Cooke) (Langton) Vinson, was born 28 May 1668, in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts.^[1]

On 5 July 1686 Abigail married Jacob Elwell in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts.^[2]

On 24 July 1714 in Gloucester, Abigail Elwell, widow of Jacob Elwell and only surviving child of William Vinson, along with her children Rachel Elwell (wife of Peter Lurvey), Abigail Elwell Junr, Sarah and Hannah Elwell, sold property in Gloucester that she had inherited from her father.^[3]

Abigail died sometime before November 1743, when her children "Rachel Day alias Lurvey alias Elwell, widow of John Day, late of Gloucester, Ebenezer and Sarah Roberts of Falmouth, co. York, John and Hannah Brown of Falmouth, Joseph and Mary Brown of Gloucester and Joseph and Abigail Foster of Kingston, N.H. conveyed to William Elwell of Falmouth all claims to the estate of William Vincent or Vinson, potter, their grandfather, the estate of Jacob Elwell, their father, or the estate of Abigail Elwell, their mother, widow of Jacob Elwell and daughter of William Vincent".^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Births, in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts.: Essex Institute, 1917), p. 739.
2. ↑ Marriages, in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts.: Essex Institute, 1917), p. 58
3. ↑ Essex County (Massachusetts). Register of Deeds. Deeds, 1639-1866; index to deeds, 1640-1879 (Essex County, Massachusetts). (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971), Vol 66, p. 232; FHL #866043
4. ↑ Davis, Walter Goodwin, Compiler, and Gary Boyd Roberts, Introduction. Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting, in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia (plus Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and His Descendants). (Baltimore, Maryland, United States: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996), Vol. 2, pp. 510-11

See also:

• Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, 1620-1988 : Online publication. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
  Original data - Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Chris Varney for creating WikiTree profile Vinson-324 through the import of My-Family-8-Jul-2013.ged on Jul 8, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Chris and others.