Abigail Shepardson

GEDCOM Note

Biography ==Abigail, the daughter of William and Rebecca Vinton Richardson, was born at Woburn in 1709.≤ref>"Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4NV-KB3 : 15 January 2020), Abigail Richardson, 1709.≤/ref> She married John Shepard as his second wife≤ref>Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Shepard Families of New England, Volume I. New Haven, CT: New Haven Colony Historical Society. 1971. Page 21. https://archive.org/details/shepardfamilieso01shep/page/20/mode/2up...≤/ref>at Attleboro in1708.≤ref>"Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4NV-KB3 : 15January 2020), Abigail Richardson, 1709.≤/ref>≤ref>Vital Records of Attleborough Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1934. Page 550. https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Bristol/Attleborough/Images/Attlebor...≤/ref>

Abigail died one month after daughter Mercy's birth.≤ref>"Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH8H-FY3 : 17 January 2020), Abigail Shepard, 1730.≤/ref>

Children

1. Abigail b 05 Aug 1729
2. Mercy b 26 Oct 1732

Research Notes==Abigail's death record was mistranscribed; in the handwritten record cited above, it's clearly meant to be 1732, not the 1730 as written. The birth records of Mercy and Mary are also suspect; the handwritten record has them born within two months of each other.≤ref>"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9979-WQZG?cc=2061550&w... : 13 July 2016), Norfolk > Wrentham > Births, marriages, deaths 1681-1807 > image 57 of 506; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston.≤/ref>

Sources

≤references/>* ≤span id='Shepardson'>≤/span>Shepardson, Francis Wayland. The Shepardson Family, Some Miscellaneous Records of Several Generations (Chicago, Nov. 15, 1912) Page 5