Abigail Elwell

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Biography

Abigail Vinson, the daughter of William Vinson and Rachel (Varney) (Cooke) (Langton) Vinson, was born 28 May 1668, in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts.[1]

On 5 July 1686 Abigail married Jacob Elwell in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts.[2]

On 24 July 1714 in Gloucester, Abigail Elwell, widow of Jacob Elwell and only surviving child of William Vinson, along with her children Rachel Elwell (wife of Peter Lurvey), Abigail Elwell Junr, Sarah and Hannah Elwell, sold property in Gloucester that she had inherited from her father.[3]

Abigail died sometime before November 1743, when her children "Rachel Day alias Lurvey alias Elwell, widow of John Day, late of Gloucester, Ebenezer and Sarah Roberts of Falmouth, co. York, John and Hannah Brown of Falmouth, Joseph and Mary Brown of Gloucester and Joseph and Abigail Foster of Kingston, N.H. conveyed to William Elwell of Falmouth all claims to the estate of William Vincent or Vinson, potter, their grandfather, the estate of Jacob Elwell, their father, or the estate of Abigail Elwell, their mother, widow of Jacob Elwell and daughter of William Vincent".[4]

Abigail Elwell formerly Vinson

Born 28 May 1668 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts

Daughter of William Vinson and Rachel (Varney) Vinson

Sister of Richard Vinson [half], Sarah (Vinson) Parsons [half], Hannah (Vinson) Ellery [half], Elizabeth (Vinson) Gardner [half], John Cooke [half], Rachel (Langton) Rowe [half], William Vinson [half], Mary (Langton) Day [half], Richard Vinson [half] and Thomas Vinson

Wife of Jacob Elwell — married 5 Jul 1686 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts [uncertain]

Mother of Benjamin Elwell, Rachel (Elwell) Scott, Abigail Elwell, Sarah (Elwell) Roberts, Jacob Elwell, Hannah (Elwell) Brown, Vinson Elwell, Lydia Elwell, William Elwell Sr. and Mary (Elwell) Brown

Died before Nov 1743 before age 75 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts

Profile last modified 2 Feb 2018 | Created 16 Nov 2010

Sources

↑ Births, in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts.: Essex Institute, 1917), p. 739.
↑ Marriages, in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts.: Essex Institute, 1917), p. 58
↑ Essex County (Massachusetts). Register of Deeds. Deeds, 1639-1866; index to deeds, 1640-1879 (Essex County, Massachusetts). (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971), Vol 66, p. 232; FHL #866043
↑ Davis, Walter Goodwin, Compiler, and Gary Boyd Roberts, Introduction. Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting, in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia (plus Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and His Descendants). (Baltimore, Maryland, United States: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996), Vol. 2, pp. 510-11
See also:

Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, 1620-1988 : Online publication. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data - Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
Acknowledgments

Thank you to Chris Varney for creating WikiTree profile Vinson-324 through the import of My-Family-8-Jul-2013.ged on Jul 8, 2013.

notes

In his Will written on March 19, 1685 (New Style), William Vinson had the following heirs:

• Wife Rachel
• Son John, gone and apparently unheard of, possibly dead
• Daughter Abigail, apparently unmarried
• Daughter Sarah Parsons, living
• The children of daughters Gardner and Ellary, both deceased
• "Daughter in Law" Mary Day
• John Cooke, son of "Son in Law" John Cooke

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  • Essex County (Massachusetts). Register of Deeds. Deeds, 1639-1866; index to deeds, 1640-1879 (Essex County, Massachusetts). (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971), Vol 66, p. 232; FHL #866043, Primary quality.
    • "Abigail Elwell, only surviving child of William Vinson and widow of Jacob Elwell; Children Rachel Elwell (wife of Peter Lurvey), Abigail Elwell Junr, Sarah and Hannah Elwell" See Estate for abstract

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