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Abigail Phillips

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of James Taylor — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 95 
  • Father:
  • John Phillips 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Williams   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 May 1776 
  • Birth Location:
  • Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Oct 1861 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jonathan Pratt
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Mar 1797 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Betsey Bishop Pratt (Ahnentafel No:47 )

• Sources for Abigail Phillips

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Mansfield, Vol. 1, p. 47, Birth record for Abigail Phillips, gives mother's name as Abigail.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Mansfield, Vol. 1, p. 135, Marriage record for Jonathan Pratt and Abigail Phillips.
  • ³ Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, Volume 3, (Chicago: J. H. Beers and Company (1912)), 1342, incorrectly gives mother's name as 2nd wife Priscilla.
  • ⁴ Lothrop, Thomas J., The Nicholas White Family, 1643-1900, Taunton, Massachusetts: C. A. Hack and Son (1902), 153-154, incorrectly gives mother's name as 2nd wife Priscilla.