Abigail Whitney

Not the same as Abigail Phillips

Disambiguation

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nutting-31 - Comments

The Abigail Nutting who was born May 6, 1720 and married Joseph Whitney was the daughter of Eleazer Nutting and Abigail Davis, not Ebenezer and Ruth. The latter couple had a daughter named Abigail also, born Feb 8, 1717/8. I hired a pro. genealogist to research which one married Whitney, and he found Eleazer's will, which made it clear.

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Biography

Abigail Nutting was born 6 May 1720[1] in Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Nutting Genealogy gives her birthdate as 1718. [2] She was the daughter of Eleazer Nutting (1698-bef.1740) and Abigail (Davis) Nutting (1699-1792).[3]

Abigail married Joseph Whitney (1710-1786) on 6 Dec 1736 in Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony.[4]

Abigail died of a "fever" on 30 September 1758 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.[5]

Children of Abigail Nutting and Joseph Whitney

1. Abigail Whitney2 b. 16 Aug 1740
2. Benjamin Whitney2 b. 24 Oct 1741
3. Lydia Whitney+ b. 18 Aug 1743, d. 2 Apr 1806
4. Maria Whitney2 b. 30 May 1746
5. Sibbell Whitney2 b. 25 Dec 1748
6. Rachel Whitney2 b. 6 Mar 1750
7. Joseph Whitney2 b. 26 Jun 1753, d. 28 Jan 1754
8. Joseph Whitney2 b. 28 Oct 1755
9. James Whitney2 b. 6 Dec 1757

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References

1. https://neelfamilyhistory.com/p101.htm#i594 cites
   1. [S477] Massachusetts Marriages 1633-1850.
   2. [S508] Massachusetts Town and Vital Records: pg 483.
2. Vital Records of Groton MA to Yr End 1849; Essex Institute, Salem, MA, 1926; Vol 1-Births p 157, Vol II-Marriages & Deaths p 181.
3. https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~sladenfamily/genealogy/fam/fam05732...
4. WikiTree contributors, "Abigail (Nutting) Whitney (1720-1758)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nutting-31 : accessed 17 February 2024). cites
   1. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-V7RX : 18 October 2022), Abigail Nutting, 6 May 1720; citing Birth, , Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011182.
   2. Nutting
   3. https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/141169698
   4. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-824V : 18 October 2022), Joseph Whitney and Abigail Nutting, 6 Dec 1736; citing Marriage, , Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011182.
   5. This death record was found on American Ancestors website. TEXT: Abigail Whitney death 1758, location Pepperell Middlesex, Massachusetts, US Original Text: Abigail, D. Eleazor & Abigail Nutting, w. Joseph, fever, Sept 30 1758, a. 38y, 4m, 23d.
   6. Nutting, Rev. John Keep. Space:Nutting Genealogy: A Record of Some of the Descendants of John Nutting, of Groton, Mass., (Syracuse, New York: C. W. Bardeen, 1908), pg. 72.