Abigail Davenport

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From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Davenport-34

There are no confirmed marriage or death records for Abigail but there are the following records that suggest she married Richard Davenport.

Abigail and her husband, Richard Davenport's names appear in the administration papers of her father's estate dated March 11, 1705/06.

There is a record in the Legislators of Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780 suggesting that an Abigail Shaw, born abt 1680 and died before 1707, was the first wife of Richard Davenport, married about 1698. To confuse matters Richard married in 1707, as his second wife, Abigail Newcomb, b. 1677.

There is also in Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700, that Richard Davenport, married as his first wife, Abigail SHAW, dau John; by 1699(1700?); Weymouth/Bridgewater.

Finally, there is a birth record for DAVENPORT, (Will)iam, ch. (R)ichard and Abigail, Mar. 8, 1699. in the Weymouth (Births) - V1, Page: 93.

Children of John Newcomb & Ruth

Genealogical and Personal Memoirs: Relating to the Families of Boston and ... By William Richard Cutter. Page 925. < GoogleBooks >

• Genealogical memoir of the Newcomb family : containing records of nearly every person of the name in America from 1635 to 1874. Page 447. https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/29862582?h=88fb58