Abigail 3 Holden

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A daughter of Bethia Burnap (b. 1677) and Thomas Grover (1668-1739), Abigail married Simon Holden (1700-1782) on 18 May 1736 in Charlestown.

The couple had nine children:

• John (d. 1782);
• Elizabeth (1739-1826; married John Tufts);
• Simon (1737-1752);
• Nathaniel (1742-before 1794; married Margaret Ervin);
• Abigail (1744-1773; married Ammi Cutter);
• Charles (1746-1816; married Sally Bishop);
• Thomas S. (1749-1807; married Margaret Spurgeon);
• Hannah (1752-1801; married her sister's widower Ammi Cutter); and
• Sarah (1757-1791; married Samuel Thomas Smith).

The children remained in New England, except for Thomas, who migrated, first to South Carolina, where he married Margaret Spurgeon in Laurens County on Christmas Day 1773, and where he had large landholdings, and then (by 1800) to the Mississippi Territory, settling half a mile from the Florida border in Wilkinson County.

Her husband's Simon's memorial on Findagrave says that he had a marriage subsequent to his union with Abigail, but this is not correct. Abigail was the executor of his estate when he died in 1786, killed by a falling tree. He had providentially made his will in 1782 and she is named in it. Since he was 36, and she 23, when they married, it is possible he had an earlier marriage but I can find no record of such.

Abigail's parents were both born in Massachusetts. Her Burnap grandfather, Thomas, had emigrated from Hertfordshire, England and married (in Concord on 3 December 1663) a native of Reading, MA, Mary Pearson. Her Grover grandfather, Thomas, was born in Charlestown in 1643 and married Sarah Chadwick, a Malden native, on 23 May 1668. Thomas Grover's father, also named Thomas, had emigrated from Chesham in Buckinghamshire and married (in 1642 in Malden) Elizabeth Smith, also from Chesha

GEDCOM Note

GEDCOM Note

A daughter of Bethia Burnap (b. 1677) and Thomas Grover (1668-1739), Abigail married Simon Holden (1700-1782) on 18 May 1736 in Charlestown. The couple had nine children: John (d. 1782); Elizabeth (1739-1826; married John Tufts); Simon (1737-1752); Nathaniel (1742-before 1794; married Margaret Ervin); Abigail (1744-1773; married Ammi Cutter); Charles (1746-1816; married Sally Bishop); Thomas S. (1749-1807; married Margaret Spurgeon); Hannah (1752-1801; married her sister's widower Ammi Cutter); and Sarah (1757-1791; married Samuel Thomas Smith). The children remained in New England, except for Thomas, who migrated, first to South Carolina, where he married Margaret Spurgeon in Laurens County on Christmas Day 1773, and where he had large landholdings, and then (by 1800) to the Mississippi Territory, settling half a mile from the Florida border in Wilkinson County.

Her husband's Simon's memorial on Findagrave says that he had a marriage subsequent to his union with Abigail, but this is not correct. Abigail was the executor of his estate when he died in 1786, killed by a falling tree. He had providentially made his will in 1782 and she is named in it. Since he was 36, and she 23, when they married, it is possible he had an earlier marriage but I can find no record of such.

Abigail's parents were both born in Massachusetts. Her Burnap grandfather, Thomas, had emigrated from Hertfordshire, England and married (in Concord on 3 December 1663) a native of Reading, MA, Mary Pearson. Her Grover grandfather, Thomas, was born in Charlestown in 1643 and married Sarah Chadwick, a Malden native, on 23 May 1668. Thomas Grover's father, also named Thomas, had emigrated from Chesham in Buckinghamshire and married (in 1642 in Malden) Elizabeth Smith, also from Chesham.

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