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Abiah Hough

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Glenn Close — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 227 
  • Father:
  • John Hough 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Denison   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Feb 1737/1738 
  • Birth Location:
  • Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Simeon Edgerton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Nov 1758 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
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  Elizabeth Edgerton (Ahnentafel No:113 )

  Abiah Edgerton

• Sources for Abiah Hough

  • ¹ Norwich CT: Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848, Vol. 1, p. 367, Marriage record for Simeon Edgerton and Abiah Hough.
  • ² Norwich CT: Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848, Vol. 1, p. 367, Birth record for daughter Elizabeth Edgerton.
  • ³ Norwich CT: Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848, Vol. 1, p. 107, Birth record for Abiah Hough.
  • ⁴ Norwich, CT: Vital Records, FHL No 7730319, Image 648, Birth records for children of Simeon and Abiah (Hough) Edgerton.
  • ⁵ Cutter, William Richard, ed., New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Volume 4, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 2095.
  • ⁶ Hazen, Tracy Elliot and Donald Lines Jacobus, ed., The Hazen Family in America: A Genealogy, New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1947), 70.
  • ⁷ Merrick, Barbara Lambert, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 2, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2019), 237, incorrectly gives Abiah's marriage date as 25 NOV 1758.
  • ⁸ Stratton, Allen L., History of South Heroe Island: Being the Towns of South Hero and Grand Isle, Vermont, Volume II, Burlington, Vermont: Queen City Printers, Inc. (1980), 577.
  • ⁹ Walworth, Reuben H., Hyde Genealogy; or the Descendants in the Female as well as in the Male Lines, from William Hyde, of Norwich (2 vols.), Albany, NY: J. Munsell (1864), 63, 221, 616.

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