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James DAVIS
(Abt 1605 – )
Mary MEANS
(Abt 1610 – )
Abigail DAVIS
(1635 –1682)

 

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Spouses & Children

1. Richard USSELL
2. Captain Edward RICHMOND

Abigail DAVIS 2
  • Born: 31 October 1635, Aquidneck Plantations, Rhode Island Colony
  • Marriage (1): Richard USSELL about 1651 1 2
  • Marriage (2): Captain Edward RICHMOND about 1657 in prob Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA 2 3
  • Died: July 1682, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island Colony at age 46 1
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bullet  Birth Notes

now Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA

bullet  Death Notes

now Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA

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bullet  Recorded Events in Her Life

  • She has conflicting death information of July 1682 and Sakonnet, Newport County, Rhode Island.
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Abigail married Richard USSELL about 1651.1 2 (Richard USSELL was born about 1630 in prob Rhode Island 4.)


bullet  Marriage Notes

"On May 20, 1657, Abigail Davis petitioned the Assembly, alleging that her step-father John Cowdall and her mother had forced her into a marriage with Richard Ussell, and later in the same year the Assembly declared that the marriage was unlawful and that she was free to marry Edward Richmond, whom she declared in her petition to be her choice. (see Colonial Records, Vol. I, p. 359, etc.)"

— from Joshua Bailey Richmond's history, p. 6 2

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Abigail next married Captain Edward RICHMOND, son of John RICHMOND and Elizabeth NICHOLAS, about 1657 in prob Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA.2 3 (Captain Edward RICHMOND was born about 1632 in prob Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire, England,3 died in November 1696 in Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA and was buried in 1696 in Richmond Cemetery, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA.)

bullet  Recorded Events about their Marriage


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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Edmund West, comp, Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000).
  2. Kirsty M. Haining.
  3. Joshua Bailey Richmond, The Richmond Family 1594-1896: And Pre-American Ancestors, 1040 –1594, Boston, Massachusetts: Published by the Compiler (W. B. Clarke & Co. Agents), 1897, Second Generation, No. 3 (Edward Richmond), pp. 6-8.
  4. Kirsty M. Haining, Estimated date. Estimates are based off of known event dates (birth dates, christening dates, marriage dates, graduation dates, retirement events, death dates, etc.) from the lives of the individual's immediate ancestors or descendants. Women are estimated to be roughly 20 years older than the birth of the first child; men are about 5 years older than their wives; siblings are estimated at 2 years apart.


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