Abigail Hawks

See also Abigail Hawks. Says she was Daughter of Ephraim and Abigail, the wife of Captain Eleazer Hawks (1693 - 1774), and the mother of Paul Hawks (c.1736 - d.).

(If this is true, then she didn't marry William Mariner and she's not part of our family.)

Biography

Abigail Wells, daughter of Ephraim and Abigail (Allis) Wells, did NOT marry Eleazar Hawks.

Abigail Wells, daughter of Ephraim and Abigail (Allis) Wells, did marry William Mariner.

Below is a verbatim excerpt from “Corrections to Genealogies in Print” (NEXUS [New England Historical and Genealogical Society], Vol. XI, pages 109-110:

HAWKS - Imogene Hawks Lane [author of], John Hawks, a Founder of Hadley, Massachusetts (1989), p. 49, states [IN ERROR] that Abigail WELLS, w. [wife] of Eleazar-3 HAWKS (and mother of 13 children, b. 1715/6-1741), was the daughter of Ephraim & Abigail (ALLIS) WELLS of Deerfield, Mass. and Colchester, Conn. Deerfield VRs [vital records] contain a marr. [marriage] rec. [record] of Abigail WELS [sic, WELD?] to Eleazar Hawks 24 Nov. 1714. but she cannot be the WELLS-ALLIS dau. [daughter]. This Abigail, then ae. [age] 17, was. b. [born] Colchester, Conn. 20 Feb. 1697 (after her parents removed from Deerfield), m. Colchester 17 Jan. 1721 William MARINER, and had at least seven ch. [children] b. [born] there. She d. [died] before 1781, when her younger bro. [brother] Thomas WELLS wrote his will (see TAG [The American Genealogist] 37[1961]: 43-44), bequeathing to sister Hannah GUN and to heirs of siblings of Ephraim WELLS, Joshua WELL, Abigail MARINER, Mary DAY, Sarah WAY, Lydia ROWLEY, & Rebecca EDGERTON. I have found no Abigail WELLS of the correct age to have m. [married] Eleazar HAWKS in 1714. Compilers of the published Deerfield VRs may have misread the surname WELD for WELS. - Submitted 17 March 1993 by Barbara Jean Mathews, 18 Blossom Street, Lexington, MA 02173

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Abigail (Wells) Mariner (1687 - 1768)

Abigail Mariner formerly Wells

Born 20 Feb 1687 in Colchester, Connecticut

Daughter of Ephraim Welles Sr. and Abigail (Allis) Wells

Sister of Ephraim Wells Jr., Mary Welles, Sarah (Welles) Way, Joshua Welles, Thomas Welles, Hannah (Welles) Gunn, Elizabeth (Welles) Brown, Lydia (Welles) Rowley and Rebeckah (Wells) Edgerton

Wife of William Mariner — married 27 Jan 1722 in Colchester, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Mother of Ephraim Mariner

Died 2 Feb 1768 at age 80 in Colchester, Hartford, Connecticut

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