Abigail Allen
Wife of Henry Wheeler of Salisbury, Massachusetts, where she was born in 1639/40, and mother of Ann Wheeler, who married Thomas Riggs; by 1696 she was a widow, of Boston. Probably a daughter of William Allen and Ann Goodale.
Life
- 1639Born4 Jan 1639/40, Salisbury, Massachusetts
"4: 11m: 1639"; the eleventh month is January.
documentedproven - c. 1659Married Henry Wheelerc. 1659compiledprobable
Family
- Father
- William Allen
"Abigail, d. Willi[am] and Ann, 4: 11m: 1639" (Salisbury VR p. 13).
- Mother
- Ann Goodalecompiledprobable
- Spouse
- Henry Wheeler
The parents of the twins of 1667 are recorded as "Hen[ry] and Abigail".
documentedproven3 children
Pedigree
Notes
Wife of Henry Wheeler of Salisbury; “a wid., of Boston, 1696” (Hoyt).
She was the eldest of the twelve children of William Allen and Ann Goodale, born 1639/40-1658/9. Her sister Martha married Richard Hubbard, who later deeded Salisbury property to her as “Abigail Wheeler of Boston, wid. of Henry Wheeler” (Hoyt).
She and Henry Wheeler had twelve children between 1659 and 1685, among them the twins Ann (later the wife of Thomas Riggs Jr. of Gloucester) and James, born 27 May 1667 (Savage 4:497).
Mollie's typescript
Mollie's Allen chart gives her birth on 4 Jan 1639/40 and her marriage to Henry Wheeler.
ABIGAIL ALLEN(2) William 1) Born Jan. 4, 1639-40 Married Henry Wheeler (2)
p. 174 →
Checked against the records
- DisprovenHenry Wheeler's widow was Widow Ann Wheeler of Boston, 1696
Hoyt names the widow of Boston in 1696 as Abigail: Henry's wife Abigail Allen, as Mollie's own chart has her.
Read it in the book, p. 175 →