Friday, October 27, 2017

52 Ancestors - Week 198: #277 Abigail (Fisher) Plimpton (1711-1785) of Medfield, Massachusetts

Abigail Fisher (1711-1785) is #277 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandmother, who married #276 John Plimpton (1708-1756)  in 1731 in Medfield, Massachusetts.


I am descended through:

*  their son, #138 Amos Plimpton (1735-1808), who married #139 Mary Guild (1735-1800) in 1756.
*  their daughter, #69 Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850) who married #68 Aaron Smith (1765-1841) in 1795.
*  their son, #34 Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840), who married #35 Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869) in 1826.
*  their daughter #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884)who married  #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)  in 1851.
*  their son #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) who married #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) in 1874.
*  their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
   
*  Name:                      Abigail Fisher[1–2]    
*  Alternate Name:      Abigail Plimpton[3,7]
*  Alternate Name:      Abigail Clark[5]
*  Alternate Name:      Abigail Fisher Clark[6]    

*  Sex:                          Female    

*  Father:                      John Fisher (1677-1727)    
*  Mother:                    Abigail Smith (1686-1725)  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                        10 September 1711, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[1]    
*  Distribution:             16 September 1735 (age 24), distribution from father's real estate; Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[3]    
*  Distribution:             23 November 1759 (age 48), widow's thirds set off; Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[4]    
*  Death:                      19 February 1785 (age 73), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[5]    
*  Burial:                     after 19 February 1785 (after age 73), Vine Lake Cemetery, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[6]    
*  Distribution:                   7 June 1785 (age 73), real estate distributed, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[4]    
3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:               John Plimpton (1708-1756)    
*  Marriage 1:            3 May 1731 (age 19), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[2]    

*  Child 1:                 John Plimpton (1731-1754)    
*  Child 2:                 Amos Plimpton (1735-1808)    
*  Child 3:                 Olive Plimpton (1737-1768)    
*  Child 4:                 Abner Plimpton (1742-1814)    
*  Child 5:                 Unity Plimpton (1746-1828)  

 *  Spouse 2:              David Clark (1705-1771)    
*  Marriage 2:            6 May 1771 (age 59), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[7]  

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):    


Abigail Fisher was born on 10 September 1711 in Medfield, Massachusetts, the fourth child (of seven) of John and Abigail (Smith) Fisher[1].  

She married John Plimpton on 3 May 1731 in Medfield[2], and bore him five children between 1732 and 1746.

Abigail's father, John Fisher (1677-1727) died in 1727 in Medfield, and her mother, Abigail (Smith) Fisher, died in 1726 in Medfield.  Her father's estate was probated, but had to wait until the estate of John Fisher Sr. (1652-1727), the father of John Fisher Jr. (1677-1727) was settled.  Because the real property of her father, John Fisher Jr. (1677-1727), could not be divided without prejudice, Abigail (Fisher) Plimpton's brother was awarded the real estate and ordered to pay to Abigail and her siblings  6 pounds, 16 shillings from their father's estate on 16 September 1735[3].  

After John Plimpton died in 1756, Abigail Plimpton and their son Amos Plimpton were named adminsitrators of his estate[4].  The inventory was £375, which included over £305 in real estate.  Abigail's thirds were set off in 1759[4].

Abigail Plimpton married, secondly, to David Clark on 6 May 1771 in Medfield, and they had no children[7].  David died soon after the marriage, on 22 June 1771.

Abigail (Fisher) (Plimpton) Clark died on 19 February 1785 in Medfield, Massachusetts[5].  She is buried in Vine Lake Cemetery in Medfield[6].  The inscription on her gravestone says:

"In memory of
the widow Abigail
Clark, who died Feb
19th 1785 in ye
74th year of her
age"

After Abigail (Fisher) (Plimpton) Clark died in 1785 in Medfield, the Court ordered Daniel Perry, Asa Hammant and John Baxter to divide the property that had been set off to Abigail, widow of John Plimpton.  The eldest son, Amos Plimpton received the personal and real property of his mother, and was ordered to pay his three siblings about 20 pounds each[4].
 
5)  SOURCES
 

1. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. :  New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), Births, page 50, Abigail Fisher entry.

2. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Marriages, page 139, Abigail Fisher and John Plimpton entry.

3. Suffolk County (Massachusetts) Probate Records, 1636-1899, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah; on 435 FHL Microfilm Reels., Probate Packet 5,512, John Fisher Jr. of Medfield, on FHL US/CAN microfilms 584,132 (Vol. 15), 584,137 (Vol. 25-26), and 493,466 (Vol. 32).

4. Suffolk County (Massachusetts), Probate Records, 1636-1899, Probate Packet 11,295, John Plimpton of Medfield, on FHL US/CAN microfilms 493874, 493875, 49,876, and 492890.

5. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Deaths, page, 200, Abigail Clark entry.

6. Jim Tipton, indexed database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), Vine Lake Cemetery, Medfield, Mass., Abigail Fisher Clark memorial # 17200320.

7. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Marriages, page 201, David Clark and Abigail Plimpton entry.

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NOTE:  Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2017 to 208 Ancestors in 208 Weeks.


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