Ancestry of
Abigail Wright
(1723/24–1755)
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- 1st Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 1
- Father:
- Samuel Wright
- Mother:
- Abigail Goodrich
- Birth Date:
- 11 Mar 1723/1724
- Birth Location:
- Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut
- Christening Date:
- Christening Location:
- Death Date:
- 7 Nov 1755
- Death Location:
- Burial Date:
- Burial Location:
- Wethersfield Village Cemetery, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut
- Notes:
Abigail Wright should not be confused with her aunt Abigail Wright, daughter of Samuel Wright and Rebecca Crafts. Many early published genealogies make this mistake. This Abigail married Ezekiel Fosdick while the latter Abigail was still married to Joseph Miller.
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Marriages for Abigail Wright
- Spouse:
- Ezekiel Fosdick
- Marriage Date:
- BEF 10 Sep 1745
- Marriage Location:
- Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut
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Sources for Abigail Wright
- 1 Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934, Death record for Abigail Fosdick.
- 2 Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934, Cemetery record for Abigail Fosdick.
- 3 Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 307, Birth record for Abigail Wright.
- 4 Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 108, Marriage record (undated) for Ezekiel Fosdick and Abigail Wright.
- 5 Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 108, Birth record for daughter Rhoda Fosdick.
- 6 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1954, Vol. 108, p. 245.
- 7 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1863, Vol. 17, p. 264.
- 8 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1957, Vol. 111, pp. 221-222.
- 9 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1916, Vol. 70, p. 80.
- 10 Crafts, James M. and William F. Crafts, The Crafts Family: A Genealogical and Biographical History of the Descendants of Griffin and Alice Craft . . ., Northampton, Massachusetts: Gazette Printing Company (1893), 63.
- 11 Fosdick, Raymond, B., Annals of the Fosdick Family, New York: The American Historical Company, Inc. (1953), 159.
- 12 Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 1, 2nd edition, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2009), 108.
- 13 Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 356.
- 14 Wright, William Henry and Gertrude Wright Ketcham, History of the Wright Family Who Are Descendants of Samuel Wright (1722-1789) of Lenox, Mass. . . ., Denver: The Williamson-Haffner Co. (1913), 46, 48.