Abigal (Wallingford) Saunders (1726 - abt. 1756)

Born 30 Sep 1726 in Dover, New Hampshire

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Died about 7 Apr 1756 at about age 29 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

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Biography

Abigail was born in 1726.^[1] She was the child of Thomas Wallingford and Margaret Clements. Abigail probably died on 7 Apr 1756. ^[2]

Abigail's heirs received property from the estate of her father in the three divisions of the estate made on 10 September 1772, 10 October 1772 (Maine lands), and 8 December 1779. To the heirs of Abigail Sanders, late wife of Edward, went two lots of land in Portsmouth.^[3] In Maine they received 48 acres in the farm in Berwick purchased by her father of Bile Dudley at Loves Brook, plus a 100 acre lot (Lot 7, 1st Range, Berwick Commons), and half a right of land in Lebanon purchased from John Lewis. ^[4] In the 1779 division they received 1/13 part of the whole right of her father's land in Wolfeborough, also 15 acres in the 2nd division lot in Sanbornton next to her sister Margaret Goodwin's 20 acres, also all but 37 acres of a first division lot in Sanbornton (the other 37 having gone to other heirs)^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ t Dover, New Hampshire; Dover Historical Society, Vital Records of Dover, New Hampshire, 1686-1850, (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1977, originally published 1894), p.37
2. ↑ The wife of Edward Sanders Jr. died on that date, and in the Rowley birth records of their children, her husband is referred to as Edward Jr. Their last child was born a little more than a week earlier, on March 29th, so it can be supposed that she died from complications of child birth. She was deceased when her father's estate was divided amongst his widow and children on 10 September 1772; Probate Records of the Province of N.H., , File 3868.
3. ↑ Probate Records of the Province of N.H., New Hampshire Archives, File 3868.
4. ↑ John Eldridge Frost, Maine Probate Abstracts, 1687-1800 (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1991), p.687-8 (Probate 12:209, 376)
5. ↑ Probate Records of the Province of N.H., , File 3868.