Abigail Bartholomew Paine

• BIRTH 6 Dec 1672 Branford New Haven County Connecticut, USA
• DEATH 13 Jan 1752 (aged 79) Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
• BURIAL Woodstock Hill Cemetery, Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
• MEMORIAL ID 7997328 photos added by Nikita Barlow

Abigail Bartholomew was christened on Dec 8,1672, the daughter of Lieut. William Bartholomew and Mary Johnson Bartholomew of Hatfield,MA. As a child, Abigail and several other people were captured during the Indian raid on Hatfield, MA, taken to Canada on Sep 19,1677 and held captive for several months by the Indians. All were ransomed for £200. Twice married, twice widowed, and the mother/stepmother of a large family abigail raised before dying "in the 80th year of her age".

Shortly after her 18th birthday she married her 1st husband Joseph Frissell on Jan 11,1691/2 at Woodstock,CT. This was one of the earliest marriages there. Joseph was the son of James Frissell and Mary Busketh Frissell. During their 13-year marriage they had 9 children together before he died on May 13,1704. Widowed in her early thirties, she married again within five years 2nd husband, Samuel Paine, a widower with several children, on Jan 18,1708/9 in Woodstock,CT. The mature newlyweds' blended family was later increased by two children born of this second marriage.

Abigails slate stele gravestone is extraordinary in that it features neither a winged death's head nor a soul effigy in its tympanum, but a clock with Roman numerals, its hands at the Roman numerals XII and VI. Like the pick and shovel and the crossed bones images which also adorn her stone, the clock is a mortality symbol akin to the more commonly seen hourglass.

Inscription
"Here lies the Body of
Mrs. ABIGAIL PAINE
Relict Widow of
Mr. SAMUEL PAINE
She Died Jan. ye 13th
1752 in the 80th
Year of Her Age"

Parents
William Bartholomew 1640–1697
Mary Johnson Bartholomew 1642–1705

Spouses
Joseph Frissell 1660–1704 (m. 1691)
Samuel Paine 1662–1735 (m. 1709)

Siblings
Isaac Bartholomew 1664–1727
Andrew Bartholomew 1670–1755
Elizabeth Bartholomew Chamberlain 1675–1746
Benjamin Bartholomew 1677–1748
Joseph Bartholomew 1682–1724

Children 11x with Joseph 9x*, Samuel 2x**

• John Frissell -
• Sarah Frissell -
• Abigail Frissell -
• Hannah Frissell Foote -
• Joseph Frissell Jr -
• Mary Frizzell Cummings 1701–1731
• Benjamin Frissell -
• Ebenezer Paine 1711–1789
  • Ebenezer Paine -
  • Rebecca Paine Cleveland -

Acknowledgments

Kevin Avery Nov 13, 2009 Findagrave member #47024642
Neal Gardner, Findagrave member #47316673

References

1 Woodstock Vital Records

2a https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7997328/abigail-paine

2b http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=44276886