Abigail (Coffin) Fitch (1683 - 1736)

Born 9 Jul 1683 in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Jedidiah Fitch — married 13 Sep 1701 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 25 May 1736 at age 52 in Nantucket, Nantucket, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Abigail (Coffin) Fitch descends from Tristram Coffin Sr, a Nantucket founder.

Abigail and her husband gave a release to Nathaniel Barnard, citing that Peter Coffin died November 1699, leaving considerable estate to his wife Elizabeth and her four children, Tristram, Abigail, Eunice and Jemima. But the will was disallowed by John Gardner, Esq., then Judge of Probate, and the widow was appointed administratrix. She married Nathaniel Barnard 2 Dec 1702 before any settlement had been made of the estate of her first husband, "which by the death of John Gardner, Esq. was rendered impossible"; she, the said Elizabeth, dying before any other person could be appointed Judge of Probate, and four days after the death of Tristram Coffin, only son of Peter, who a little before his death had married Hannah Brown of Nantucket, which made the settlement still more difficult; before the decease of Elizabeth, Jedidiah Fitch had married Abigail, the oldest daughter of Peter Coffin. Hannah, the widow of the brother Tristram, was now the wife of Jonathan Pinkham. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Nantucket Lands and Land Owners, by Henry Barnard Worth, publ. 1901 by Nantucket Historical Association

• Vital Records of Nantucket, Massachusetts

• Coffin, Louis, ed. The Coffin Family. (Published by Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, Mass., 1962). Fourth Generation of Line A of Peter Page 121

• Nantucket Historical Association Barney Genealogical Record Person I3656