Abigail Webster

1642 - 1712  (71 years)

• Name	Abigail Webster
  Birth	1641 to 1642	Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [1]
  Married	18 Jan 1661 (20 years)	Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [2, 3, 4]
  Deacon Abraham Merrill, the son of Nathaniel and Susannah (Wolterton) Merrill. He was born about 1636. He was a weaver. He became a freeman on 30 September 1662 in Newbury, Massachusetts. Abraham took the Oath of Allegiance in 1678. He was chosen in 1679 in Newbury, Massachusetts, as a Tithingman. He was elected in 1684 in Newbury, Massachusetts as a Selectman. He held this office again in 1686. In 1690, when Indian danger was immanent, the selectman of Newbury ordered his house to be designated a garrison house and fortified. After Abigail's death, in September 1713 Abraham, married second, Sarah Clements,, daughter of Robert Clements. He died on Saturday 28 November 1722. Issue: 1. Abigail Merrill (1665-1708) 2. Mary Merrill (1667-1703) 3. Elizabeth Merrill (1669-____) 4. Prudence Merrill (1669-____) 5. Hannah Merrill (1671-____) 6. Abraham Merrill (1672-1744) 7. John Merrill (1673-____) 8. Jonathan Merrill (1676-____) 9. David Merrill (1678-c1760) 10. Sarah Merrill (1679-____) 11. Susanna Merrill (1681-1681) 12. Prudence Merrill (1683-1718)
  Death	12 Aug 1712	Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [4]
  Burial	Sawyer Hill Burying Ground, Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Sawyer Hill Burying Ground,  Newburyport, Massachusetts   [4]
  HERE LYES THE BO DY OF ABIGAIL MERRILL THE WIFE OF DEA CON ABRAHAM MERRILL WHO DIED AVGVST YE 12 1712 AGED YERES 70
  Siblings	5 brothers and 3 sisters
  + 1. Mary Webster,   b. 1630, England d. 3 Feb 1709, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 79 years) ▻ Sgt. John Emery,  m. 28 Oct 1650   2. John Webster,   b. 1632, England d. 1714, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 82 years)   3. Hannah Webster,   b. 25 Dec 1635, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 3 Feb 17070/8, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   4. Steven Webster,   b. 1637, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 10 Aug 1694, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 57 years)   5. Elizabeth Webster,   b. 1639, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. After 1694, Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 56 years)   6. Abigail Webster,   b. 1641 to 1642, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 12 Aug 1712, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 71 years)   7. Israel Webster,   b. 1644, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 7 Dec 1683, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 39 years)   8. Nathan Webster,   b. 1646, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. May 1694, Bradford, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 48 years)   9. Thomas Webster,   b. 1652, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 1715  (Age 63 years)
  Half siblings	1 half brother (family of John Emery and Mary Shatswell)
  > 1. Jonathan Emery,   b. 13 May 1652, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 29 Sep 1723, Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay  (Age 71 years) ▻ Mary Woodman,  m. 29 Nov 1676
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Thomas Webster,   b. Abt 1570, Ormesby St Michael, Norfolk, England d. After 1634, England  (Age 65 years)  (Grandfather)  Judith,   b. 1578, Ipswich, Suffolk, England d. 17 Apr 1648, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 70 years)  (Grandmother)
  Person ID, Branch	I18186
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2019

  
  

  Father	John Webster,   c. 27 Jan 1605, Ipswich, Suffolk, England d. 4 Nov 1646, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age ~ 41 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Mary Shatswell,   b. 1606, England d. 28 Apr 1694, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age 88 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F257	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1Abigail Webster(1642 – 1712) 2John Webster(1605 – 1646) 4Thomas Webster(Abt 1570 – 1634) 5Margaret(Abt 1574 – ) 3Mary Shatswell(1606 – 1694) 6John Shatswell(1574 – 1642) 7Judith(1578 – 1648)

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1641 to 1642 - Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Married - 18 Jan 1661 - Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Death - 12 Aug 1712 - Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Burial - - Sawyer Hill Burying Ground, Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S67] Ancestral File (LDS), (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), Questionnable Source. [S638] Coffin, Joshua, A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport and West Newbury, (Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1845). [S621] Hoyt, David W., The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton volume I, (Providence, Rhode Island: Snow & Farnham, 1897). [S809] Merrill, Samuel, A Merrill Memorial, An Account of the Descendants of Nathaniel Merrill, An Early Settler of Newbury, Massachusetts, (Cambridge, Massachusetts: by author, 1928).