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Story Musgrave

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Abigail Holmes

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Story Musgrave — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 93 
  • Father:
  • (probable) Zebulon Holmes 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Abigail Savell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Jan 1760 
  • Birth Location:
  • Sharon, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Dec 1809 
  • Death Location:
  • Attleborough, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elisha Morse
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Jan 1781 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Calvin Morse (Ahnentafel No:46 )

  • Notes: 

  • The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (58:258) gives the death date for Abigail Holmes as 06 MAY 1764. However, no death record has been found. Other published sources indicate this is the Abigail Holmes who married Elisha Morse, and died in 1809.

• Sources for Abigail Holmes

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A081356 and #A057150.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Foxborough, Vol. 1, p. 64, Birth record for son Calvin Morse.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Sharon, Vol. 1, p. 38, Birth record for Abagail Holmes.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Manfield, Vol. 1, p. 129, Marriage record for Elisha Morse and Abigail Homes [sic].
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Attleborough, Vol. 1, p. 697, Death record for Abigail Morse.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Cambridge, Vol. 203, p. 96, Death record for son Calvin Morse.
  • ⁷ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1904, Vol. 58, p. 258, gives Abigail's death date as 06 MAY 1764.
  • ⁸ Morse, Rev. Abner, Memorial of the Morses: Containing the History of Seven Persons of the Name . . ., Boston: Published by William Veazie (1850), 57.