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Abigail Howland (Fish)

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Birthplace: Sandwich, Barnstable County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America
Death: September 07, 1806 (88)
Sandwich, Barnstable, MA, United States
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Daughter of Nathaniel Fish, III and Dorothy Fish
Wife of Justus Howland
Mother of Benjamin Howland; Elizabeth Howland; Lemuel Howland; Nathaniel Howland; Ellis Howland and 1 other
Sister of Sarah Fish; Nathaniel Fish, Jr and Jonathan Fish

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Abigail Howland formerly Fish
Born 5 Jan 1718 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Baymap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of Nathaniel Fish and Dorothy (Ellis) Fish
Sister of Sarah Fish, Nathaniel Fish, Jonathan Fish, Simeon Fish [half], Stephen Fish [half], Content (Fish) Hamblin [half], Thomas Fish [half] and Abigail C. Fish [half]
Wife of Justus Howland — married about 1736 [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Lemuel Howland and Abigail Howland
Died 7 Sep 1806 at age 88 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United Statesmap
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Biography

Abigail Fish was born on 05 January 1718 in Sandwich, Barnstable, (then) Province of Massachusetts Bay, the daughter of Nathaniel and Dorothy (Ellis) Fish.[1]

She married Justus Howland, son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Justus) Howland, about 1736.[2]

Abigail Howland died on 07 September 1806, aged 90, in Sandwich. [3]

Children: (there may be others)

Lemuel Howland, son of Justus and Abigail (Fish) Howland, born Sandwich 28 Oct 1742, baptized there 19 Dec 1742, and died there 5 Jan 1803 aged 61 years. He was a descendant of John(2) Howland[2]
Alice, daughter of Justus Howland of Sandwich and his (unnamed) wife, was baptized in the Barnstable Church on 01 November 1747.[4]
Sources

↑ C.L. Kardell & R.A. Lovell, Jr., Vital Records of Sandwich MA to 1885 (NEHGS, Boston, MA: 1996), p. 99.
"Abigail Fish daughter of sd Nathanll & Dorothy Fish born 5th day of January 1717/18."
↑ 2.0 2.1 Ann Smith Lainhart & Jane Fletcher Fiske, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, John Howland, Vol. 23, part 3, p. 215 (Link by $ubscription to AmericanAncestors.org), cites White, MF5Gen Vol. 2:169 for earlier lineage.)
↑ Kardell & Lovell, VRs of Sandwich p. 1440, original in 1st Cong. Society records p. 108.
"[Deaths] Abigail Howland Sept 7 1806 [age] 90"
↑ "Barnstable, MA: Church Records, 1639-1892." Records of Barnstable, Massachusetts. CD-ROM. Boston, MA.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.), p. 144. (Link by $ubscription to AmericanAncestors.org)
"Alice, of [blank] wife of Justus Howland - Sandwich
Nov 1. 1747."
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Thank you to Brad Fisher for creating WikiTree profile Fish-1844 through the import of Hervey W Fisher Family Tree_2013-11-28.ged on Nov 28, 2013.

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Abigail Howland's Timeline

1718
January 5, 1718
Sandwich, Barnstable County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America
1737
November 18, 1737
Sandwich, Barnstable, MA, United States
1739
December 13, 1739
Sandwich, Barnstable, MA, United States
1742
October 28, 1742
Sandwich, Barnstable, MA, United States
1745
January 6, 1745
Sandwich, Barnstable, MA, United States
January 6, 1745
Sandwich, Barnstable, MA, United States
1806
September 7, 1806
Age 88
Sandwich, Barnstable, MA, United States
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Sandwich, Barnstable, MA, United States