Mehitable Brewster

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/MPXT-NTP/mehitable-abell-1689...

Mehitable Abell November 1689–17 June 1756 Birth • 0 Sources November 1689 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States

Age 66 Death • 0 Sources 17 June 1756 Windham, Windham, Connecticut, British Colonial America

Mehetable in entry for Elisha Brewster, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"

SPOUSES AND CHILDREN

William Brewster 1695-1764

Marriage: 13 December 1716 Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, United States

Mehitable Abell 1689-1756

Children (6)

Hannah Brewster 1718-1762

Abel Brewster 1720-

William Brewster 1722-1726

Elisha Brewster 1725-1746

Anne Brewster 1727-1776

William F. Say Brewster 1730-1801

PARENTS AND SIBLINGS

Benjamin Abell 1650-1699

Marriage: 1678 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States

Hannah Baldwin 1654-1717

Children (8)

Abell 1671-

Hannah Abell 1679-1756

Mary Margaret Abell 1682-1751

Lydia Abell 1683-1731

Benjamin Abell II 1687-1769

Mehitable Abell 1689-1756

Jemima Abell 1692-1741

Experience Abell 1692-1775

"Mehitebel Brewster Petition 15 vs. William Brewster 1749

Petition for Divorce

To the Honorable Superior Court, Now Setting at Windham Within and for the County on the 3rd Tuesday of March 1748/9. The Petition of Mehitable Bruster of Windham in Sd County Who Humbly Shew to this Court [that] on the 13th of December 1716 She Your Petitioner Was Joyned In Mareage to one William Bruster of Labenan In Sd County With Whome Your Petitioner Lived In the Due Discharge of al the Duties of a Wife to him ye Sd William til Sum time In the Munth of March In the Year 1733: at Which Time he the Said William Without any Just Caus from Your Petitioner Given Willfuly Deserted and Left Your Petitioner With the Total Neglect of al Duties of a Husband Toward Your Petitioner Ever Since the Year 1733 Whereupon Your Petitioner pray that Your Honors Would Declare Sd Marriage of Sd William with Your Petitioner Void and that Your Petitioner be Single & unMarried as by Law You are Innabled to Do and Your Petitioner as Is Duty bound Shall Ever pray.

Dated in Windham March 20th 1748/9.

Mehitable Bruster"

Proof of Marriage submitted with Petition for Divorce:

"Lebanon June 13 1749

This may certify whomsoever it may concern that in the Church Book of the First Church in Lebanon in a page written by Mr. Samuel Welles under the Title in the top of the Page /Persons Married by me/ I find as follows. 1716 Decem 13th William Bruster Jun & Meh: Abel ------

Solomon Williams, Pastor of the First Church in Lebn."

Per Index to Divorce Records of Windham County (1726-1907), Part 1:

"William Brewster, Jr. & Mehitabel (Abel); 278."

Petition and Proof of Marriage microfilmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990.

Title: Divorce papers, 1726-1907.

Authors: Connecticut. Superior Court (Windham County)

Microfilm of original records in the Connecticut State Library, Hartford.

Subject: Connecticut, Windham - Divorce records.

Film: Divorce papers Boulay-Burdick 1726-1907 - FHL US/CAN Film [1638586]

Source: http://members.tripod.com/genealogy_2/id9.html