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Abigail French (Cole)

Also Known As: "Widow Stevens"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Middletown, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony
Death: December 1727 (63)
Madison, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Henry Cole, of Wallingford and Sarah Bull
Wife of John Stevens of Killingworth and John French
Mother of Peter Stevens; Joseph Stevens; Abigail Wilson and William Stevens
Sister of Sarah Taylor; Mary Goodale; Henry Cole; James Cole; John Cole, Schoolmaster of Boston and 5 others

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About Abigail French

The children of Henry Cole and Sarah Ruscoe were:

x. ABIGAIL, b. Oct. 28, 1661, (1664) m. _____ __________ JOHN STEVENS of Killingworth, and lived there in 1688.


He married Abigail Cole (1666-Bef. 1727), daughter of Henry Cole and Sarah Rusco, in 1684.

They had 10 children:

  1. Phebe;
  2. Peter;
  3. John;
  4. Joseph;
  5. Ebenezer (1695-unknown);
  6. Dorothea;
  7. Henry;
  8. William;
  9. Abigail and
  10. Phebe.

John died in 1722 in Killingworth, Connecticut, and his widow Abigail remarried to John French and died before 1727.


  • The Early Genealogies of the Cole Families in America: (Including Coles and Cowles). With Some Account of the Descendants of James, by Hartford, Connecticut, 1635-1652, and of Thomas Cole, of Salem, Mass., 1649-1672, page 49
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Abigail French's Timeline

1664
October 28, 1664
Middletown, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony
1685
February 21, 1685
Killingworth, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony
1693
July 27, 1693
Killingworth, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony
1704
October 3, 1704
Killingworth, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony
1707
August 24, 1707
Killingworth, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony
1727
December 1727
Age 63
Madison, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony
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Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut