Joan or Abigail Merriman

A widow Lines.

Disputed Origins

Thomas Olney, Sr & Marie Olney did not have a child “Abigail” (or Joan). Ref: “ When he arrived in Boston he was accompanied by his wife, Marie Small, born 1605, who died be fore 1679, and children Thomas, Jr., age 3, and Epenetus, age 1. They had in America other ch ildren: Nebediah, Stephen, James, Mary and Lydia. (*Some sources give the wife of Thomas Olne y as Marie Ashton.)“

Was she the same as Joan or Abigail Merriman (daughter of William Olney & Joan Bird)?

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Olney-87

Besides Thomas Olney, there was only one other Olney I could find who came to New England in the early to mid 1600's. William Olney and his wife Joan Bird lived in Wallingford, CT. They have only one attested child: Abigail Olney who married Nathaniel Merriman.

grave http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=33150229

"Ancestry and descendants of William Curtis of Marcellus, N.Y. : also some allied families, Sperry, Matteson, Worden..." "she is the dau. of Abigail (Olney) Lines dau. of William and widow of Jacob Lines, and her second husband is Capt. Nathaniel Merriman."

According to Connie Fullmer, FAG contributor, "I've also found that in "North American Families" that they refer to her as both Abigail and Joane. I think she went by her middle name Joane because they name a daughter Abigail and it caused less confusion if she went by Joane. So her full maiden and married names would be: Abigail Joane Olney Lines Merriman."

Family

Joan LINES [Parents] 1, 2 was born 3 on 20 Oct 1628 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She died 4 on 8 Dec 1709 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She was buried 5 UNKNOWN in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She married 6 Nathaniel MERRIMAN in 1650 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

They had the following children:

• M i Nathaniel MERRIMAN 1, 2 was born 3 in 1646 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He died 4 on 19 Dec 1675 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
• F ii Hannah MERRIMAN
• M iii John MERRIMAN 1, 2 was born 3 on 26 Sep 1651 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He died 4, 5 on 26 Sep 1651 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
• F iv Abigail MERRIMAN
• F v Elizabeth MERRIMAN 1 was born 2 in 1657. She died UNKNOWN.
• F vi Mary MERRIMAN
• M vii John (Jo) MERRIMAN
• M viii Samuel MERRIMAN 1, 2 was born 3, 4 on 29 Sep 1662 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He died 5 on 29 Sep 1694 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
• M ix Caleb MERRIMAN
• M x Moses MERRIMAN 1, 2 was born 3, 4 in 1667 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He died UNKNOWN.
• M xi MERRIMAN 1, 2 was born 3, 4 in 1667 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He died 5 in 1667 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
• F xii Elizabeth MERRIMAN 1, 2 was born 3, 4 on 14 Sep 1669 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She died 5 on 2 Feb 1749 in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She was buried 6 UNKNOWN in Old Graveyard, Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
• F xiii Grace MERRIMAN 1, 2 was born 3, 4 in 1671 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She died UNKNOWN.
• F xiv Sarah MERRIMAN 1, 2 was born 3, 4 in 1673 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She died UNKNOWN.

Sources:

• 1. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, AFN:969K-JN, www.familysearch.com NS016823 Source Media Type: Electronic.
• 2. James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., . NS016343NSource Media Type: Book. "first name only."
• 3. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), AFN:969K-JN.
• 4. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), AFN:969K-JN.
• Families of Ancient New Haven by Donald Lines Jacobus, pg. 750, 910, 1167

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