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Abiah Tobey (Fish)

Also Known As: "Abia"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Sandwich, Plymouth Colony
Death: 1771 (92-93)
Sandwich, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts
Place of Burial: Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Ambrose Fish and Hannah Tobey
Wife of Samuel Tobey, Sr.
Mother of Joanna Spooner; Deacon Cornelius Tobey; Tabitha Freeman; Major Zaccheus Tobey, Sr.; Ruth Dillingham and 5 others
Sister of Ephraim Fish; Mehitable Tobey; Seth Fish; Joanna Tupper and George Fish

Occupation: Housewife
Managed by: Private User
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Immediate Family

About Abiah Tobey

Burial record:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42915208/abia-tobey

Biography

She was the daughter of Ambrose Fish and Hannah Swift. [1]After her father's death her mother married Thomas Tobey, and Abiah and her sister Mehitabel later married Thomas's youngest sons Samuel and Gershom, who jointly inherited their father's farm, with explicit instructions on how to divide the house and barn between the two families.

Abiah married Samuel Tobey in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. They were the parents of ten children.[2]

In the 4 September 1737 will of Samuel Tobey, Abiah was named executor along with sons Jonathan and Eliakim. In the will Samuel gave "to Abiah my beloved wife ye one third of my estate both real and personal

"[2]

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fish-322

Abiah (Fish) Tobey (1678 - abt. 1771)

Abiah Tobey formerly Fish

Born 2 Sep 1678 in Sandwich, Plymouth Colony

Daughter of Ambrose Fish and Hannah (Swift) Tobey

Sister of Ephraim Fish, Mehitable (Fish) Tobey, Seth Fish Sr. and Johanna (Fish) Tupper

Wife of Samuel Tobey III — married about 1696 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Mother of Joanna (Tobey) Spooner, Cornelius Tobey, Tabitha Tobey, Zacheus Tobey, Ruth Tobey, Jonathan Tobey, Eliakim Tobey, Samuel Tobey III and Thomas Tobey

Died about 1771 at about age 92 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Fish-322 created 25 Feb 2011 | Last modifi

Sources

↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-R5FS : 3 November 2017), Abia Fish, 02 Sep 1678; citing Birth, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934221.
↑ 2.0 2.1 Tobey, Rufus Babcock and Pope, Charles Henry; Tobey (Tobie, Toby) Genealogy, p. 30-32 includes the will of Samuel Tobey. https://archive.org/details/tobeytobietobyge00tobe/page/30
"Maine, Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1980," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJ5-MFWY : 16 March 2018), Abiah Fish Tobey, ; citing Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, Cemetery, Maine State Library, Augusta; FHL microfilm 1,316,315.
Sandwich, Mass., Records, The Genealogical Advertiser (Lucy Hall Greenlaw, Cambridge, Mass., 1900) Vol. 3, Page 73.
Sandwich, Mass., Vital Records, The Mayflower Descendant (Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Boston, 1912) Vol. 14, Page 111.

GEDCOM Source

Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Births Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.; @R1@

GEDCOM Source

GEDCOM Source

Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Individual Records Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.; @R1@

GEDCOM Source

Birth year: 1678; Birth city: Sandwich; Birth state: MA

GEDCOM Source

Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Individual Records Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.; @R1@

GEDCOM Source

Birth year: 1678; Birth city: Sandwich; Birth state: MA

GEDCOM Source

Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Births Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.; @R1@

GEDCOM Source

GEDCOM Source

Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Individual Records Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.; @R1@

GEDCOM Source

Birth year: 1678; Birth city: Sandwich; Birth state: MA

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Abiah Tobey's Timeline

1678
September 2, 1678
Birth of Abiah Tobey
Sandwich, Plymouth Colony
1697
May 22, 1697
Birth of Joanna Spooner
Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
1699
September 12, 1699
Birth of Deacon Cornelius Tobey
Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
1701
November 9, 1701
Birth of Tabitha Freeman
Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
1703
January 14, 1703
Birth of Major Zaccheus Tobey, Sr.
Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
1706
September 8, 1706
Birth of Ruth Dillingham
Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
1709
May 13, 1709
Birth of Jonathan Tobey, II
Sandwich, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts
1711
October 19, 1711
Birth of Eliakim Tobey
Sandwich, Barnstable, Ma.
1715
May 8, 1715
Birth of Rev. Samuel Tobey
Sandwich, Barnstable County, Province of Massachusetts
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