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Abigail Varney (Proctor)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
Death: March 01, 1732 (94)
Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
Place of Burial: Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of John Proctor, of Ipswich and Martha H Proctor
Wife of Corporal Thomas Varney
Mother of Abigail Burnham; Mary Choate; Martha Smith?; Rachel Fellows; Hannah Varney and 1 other
Sister of John Proctor, Salem Witch Trials; Mary Hadley; Martha White; Joseph Proctor; Benjamin Proctor and 2 others

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About Abigail Varney

Abigail Proctor was the leader of a party of women who raised the frame of the meeting house at Chebacco, after an order had been issued by the general court forbidding the men from raising it. The women were arrested, acknowledged their offense, but they accomplished their purpose.

Abigail was the sister of John Proctor II who was hung in Salem as a witch.

Essex County, Massachusetts Depositions, 1636-86

Abigail declares in 1673 that she is 30 years old.


References

  1. Barber, Kathleen Canney, and Janet Ireland Delorey. “William Varney of Ipswich and Gloucester, Massachusetts.” The American Genealogist. (Jul 2006) Page 320-321. The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) < AmericanAncestors >; document attached
  2. "Ancestral File", database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/MWBC-D38 : accessed 2013-01-14), entry for Abigail PROCTOR.
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Abigail Varney's Timeline

1637
August 24, 1637
Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
1666
1666
Chebacco, Essex, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
1669
1669
Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
1670
1670
1676
1676
Chebacco, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
1682
December 24, 1682
Chebacco, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
1732
March 1, 1732
Age 94
Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
March 1, 1732
Age 94
Massachusetts, United States
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