Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post Challenge: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog. I am extending this theme in 2016 to 156 Ancestors in 156 Weeks. Here is my ancestor biography for week #132:
Abigail (Wing) White (1734-1806) is #177 on my Ahnentafel list, my 5th great-grandmother, who married #176 Jonathan White (1732-1804) in 1756.
I am descended through:
* their son #88 Humphrey White (1757-1814) who married #89 Sibel Kirby (1764-1848) in 1786.
* their son #88 Humphrey White (1757-1814) who married #89 Sibel Kirby (1764-1848) in 1786.
* their son #44 Jonathan White (1805-1850), who married Miranda Wade (1804-1850) in 1823.
* their son #22 Henry Arnold White (1824-1885), who married #23 Amy Frances Oatley (1826-1864)
* their daughter #11 Julie E. White (1848-1913), who married #10 Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) in 1868.
* their daughter #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962), who married #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) in 1900.
* their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983), who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
* their son #1 Randall J. Seaver (1943-....)
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1) PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Name: Abigail Wing[1–4]
* Alternate Name: Abigail White
* Sex: Female
* Father: Benjamin Wing (1698-1776)
* Mother: Content Tucker (1695-1738)
2) INDIVIDUAL FACTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Birth: 25 April 1734, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States[1–2]
* Death: 1806 (about age 72), Westport, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
3) SHARED FACTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Spouse 1: Jonathan White (1732-1804)
* Marriage 1: 1 January 1756 (age 21), intentions; Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States[3–4]
* Child 1: Humphrey White (1757-1814)
* Child 1: Ruth White (1758-1835)
* Child 1: Rhoda White (1761-1822)
* Child 1: Hannah White (1765-1842)
* Child 1: Holder White (1768-1853)
* Child 1: Jonathan White (1778-1846)
5) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
Abigail Wing was the fifth and last child, and the fourth daughter, of Benjamin and Content (Tucker) Wing, born in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The Dartmouth town record says[1]:
"Abigail Wing Daughter of Benjamin Wing and Content his wife
was Born the 25th day of april 1734"
Abigail Wing married Jonathan White after their announced intentions on 1 January 1756 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The Dartmouth town records say[3]:
"The Intentions of Marrage Betwen Jonathan White and Abigail Wing Both of Dartmouth was Entred with Me January the 1th 1756 - Attest Benj'a Akin Town Cler"
Jonathan and Abigail (Wing) White had six known children (Humphrey, Ruth, Rhoda, Holder, Hannah and Jonathan) born between 1757 and 1778, but only daughter Hannah was recorded in the Dartmouth town records.
Jonathan White wrote his will in 1797, and died in November 1804. His wife, Abigail White was mentioned in the will.
Several online family trees provide a death date for Abigail White as 6 August 1806 in Westport, Massachusetts. There are no death records for her in the Westport or Dartmouth vital record books or town records. There are no marriage records for an Abigail White after Jonathan's death in Westport or Dartmouth vital records.
There are no probate records for Abigail White in Bristol County (Mass.) Probate Court records.
There are no burial records or cemetery records for Abigail (Wing) White on the online cemetery records websites.
5) SOURCES
1. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), "Dartmouth, Births, Marriages, Deaths," page 200 (image 465 of 2331), Abigail Wing entry.
2. Vital records of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 ( Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society,1929-1930), Births, page 305, Abigail Wing entry, 1734.
3. Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com, "Dartmouth Births, Marriages, Deaths," no page number (image 714 of 2331), Jonathan White and Abigail Wing intentions of marriage entry, 1756.
4. Vital records of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, Marriages, Page 533, Jonathan White and Abigail Wing entry, 1756.
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