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Abiah Claghorn (Lombard)

Also Known As: "Abigail", "Lumbert", "Lumbard"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: probably, England (United Kingdom)
Death: August 21, 1677 (42-43)
Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Plymouth Colony, Colonial America (Committed suicide by hanging - mentally ill)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Bernard Lombard and Mary Lombard
Wife of James Claghorn
Mother of James Claghorn, Jr.; Mary Davis; Elizabeth Claghorn; Robert Claghorn; Sarah Pray and 3 others
Sister of Joshua Lombard; Mary Lewis; Martha Manter; Jabez Lombard; John Lombard and 2 others

Managed by: Gwyneth Potter McNeil
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About Abiah Claghorn

was born in 1634 in (prob.) Scituate, MA. She died on 21 Oct 1677 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA. (751) Some references has the month of death as Aug. "Mr. Claghorn's genealogy says Abia died 21 Aug 1677. This is an error because although the Plymouth Court Records are dated '21 of the 8th, 1677,' they used the Julian calendar which began with March, and the eighth month in today's Gregorian calendar would be October." (Bonnie Hubbard)

Claghorn Study has first name of Abigail; Judy Goldbaum has Abiah; Bonnie Hubbard has Abigaill but states that she was "familiarly known as Abia.". Last name also spelled Lumbard, Lombart; Bonnie Hubbard uses the last name of "Lumbert" and gives the following explanation:

"Most modern references to this family spell the name Lombard but the earliest settlers generally wrote Lumbert or Lumber (which is how they pronounced it). Other spellings included Lumbart, Lumbard, Lambard, and Lambert." (Bonnie Hubbard, Lumbert Chapter)

"Abia had been born about 1634. Plymouth Colony Records, p. 42, state: 'James Cleaguehorne and Abigaill Lumbert marryed the sixt of January, 1654.' Banks, p. 81, says that James Claghorn's time was sold to Bernard Lumbert some time before 1654. 'He retaliated on his master by taking his daughter Abiah to wife.' I have no idea why Banks phrased it like this. They moved to Yarmouth about 1662 and I have found nothing more about her until her death, although Banks says she had 'for some time been mentally afflicted.' This opinion may have derived from the fact that Abia took her own life. The story is told in the Plymouth Colony Court Records, p. 249. Her children, Elizabeth, age 19, and Robert, age 16, had found her in an upper room hanging from the collar beam. This was in October 1677. She was about 43 years old. The records do not even mention her own name - just 'wife of James Claghorne of Yarmouth.'" (Bonnie Hubbard, Lumbert Chapter)

http://www.wheelerfolk.org/keithgen/d17.htm#P37



Daughter of Thomas Lumber Lombard and Joyce Nell Lombard. Wife of James Claghorn, Sr. Mother of James Claghorn; Mary Davis; Elizabeth Claghorn; Sarah Claghorn; Robert Claghorn; Shubael Claghorn; Thomas Claghorn and Experience Claghorn. Sister of Mary Lewis; Martha Martin; Thomas Lumbert and Caleb Lombard. Half sister of Eleanor (Eliony) Hawes; Jemima Lombard; Bernard Lombard; Martha Manter (Lombard); John Martin Lombard; and Jabez Lombard.

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Abiah Claghorn's Timeline

1634
1634
probably, England (United Kingdom)
1654
January 29, 1654
Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay
1655
October 26, 1655
Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Plymouth Colony
1658
April 1658
1659
January 3, 1659
Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, American Colonies
1661
October 20, 1661
1663
1663
Barnstable, Cape Cod, Plymouth Colony
1665
1665
1667
1667