Abigail (Dunham) Atwood (1627 - 1684)

Born 6 May 1627 in Leiden, Holland, Netherlands

Ancestors

Wife of Stephen Atwood Sr — married 6 Nov 1644 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony

Descendants

Died 17 Aug 1684 at age 57 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

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Biography

Abigail (Dunham) Atwood immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Abigail (Dunham) Atwood was born 1627, the daughter of Deacon John Dunham, the weaver and his second wife Abigail (Bangs) Billiou or Barlow ^{[1] [2]}.

In 1632, she migrated to New England with her parents^[1]

On November 6, 1644, she married Stephen Atwood, another Puritan migrant in Plymouth^{[3] [4] [2] [5]}. Her husband was noted in her father's will as my son-in-law Stephen Wood^[6] . The family moved to Eastham by 1654^{[7] [2]}. Their children included:

1. Abigail, born August 1645, who married Johnathan Pratt^[2]
2. John^[8], who died 1648 ^{[7] [2]}
3. Hannah^[8], born October 14, 1649, who married Jeremiah Smith^{[7] [2]}
4. Eldad^[7], born July 7, 1651, who married Anna, daughter of Mark Snow Feb 14, 1683^{[9] [8] [2]}
5. Stephen, born 1655, who married Apphia Bangs^{[7] [10] [8] [2]} (who is called Joseph in some records)
6. Medad^[7], born Jan 16, 1658^[11], who married Esther Cole^{[9] [8] [2]}
7. Daniel^{[7] [2]}

Stephen Atwood Sr, died in February 1693/4.^{[12] [9] [13]}

These sources don't provide death information for Abigail. An unsourced Find A Grave: Memorial #61941287) and online family trees provide a date in 1684, citing the Dunham genealogy, which doesn't provide this information^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, page 602 Listing for John Dunham (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995), which cites PCR 2:79 and PVR 655
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9} "Stephen Wood alias Atwood of Eastham, Massachusetts" by Alicia Crane Williams, published in "The Mayflower Descendant," Vol 46, No 2, July,1996 page 131.
3. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 Plymouth Volume 1, page 655 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016), which states STEPHEN WOOD and ABIGALL DUNHAME married 6 Nov. 1644
4. ↑ The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, page 602 Listing for John Dunham (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995), which cites PCR 2:79 and PVR 655
5. ↑ Torrey's New England Marriages to 1700 Volume 1, page 53. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015, which states ATWOOD/WOOD?, Stephen (-1694) & Abigail DUNHAM; 11 Nov 1644; Plymouth?/Eastham (WOOD in VR) {MD 6:203, 13:86, 17:113; Linnell-Snow 27; TAG 30:145; Reg. 6:43, 7:178; Cape Cod Lib. 41:2; Plymouth (Davis) 6, 43, 48, 188; Bangs 29; Dunham 13; Hamlin 307; Harris (#11) 17; Snow (1889) 4; Sv 1:78; NYGBR 27:95
6. ↑ The Mayflower descendant : a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history Volume 17 (1915), page 113-114; Published: Boston : Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899-
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6} The Hamlin Family (1639 to 1902): A Genealogy of James Hamlin of Barnstable, Mass., Eldest Son of James Hamlin, the Immigrant, Who Came from London, England, and Settled in Barnstable, 1639, 2 vols, by Andrews, Henry Franklin, (Exira, Iowa: privately printed, 1902), see page 307 for the children of Stephen and Abigail (Dunham) Atwood
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5} Dunham Genealogy by Dunham, Isaac Watson, (Norwich, Conn.: Bulletin Print, [1907]), see page 13 for the children of Abigal Dunham and Stephen Atwood
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2} First Settlers of Eastham, Mass, Volume 6, page 43 of The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.), which states Stephen Atwood, he died Feb _ 1693/4, m. _, ch. Medad, born Jan 16, 1658-9, and includes details for Medad in a separate listing on the same page
10. ↑ Dudley, Dean, History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family with Genealogical Tables and Notes (Montrose, Mass.: priv. print., 1896), page 29, listing for Apphia Bangs
11. ↑ Eastham and Orleans Vital Records, Volume 1, page 32 published in Volume 15, page 227 of the The Mayflower descendant : a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history] Published: Boston : Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899-
12. ↑ The Mayflower descendant : a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history Volume 6 (1904), page 203; Published: Boston : Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899-
13. ↑ A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May, 1962, on the basis of Farmer's Register .. by Savage, James, 1784-1873; Publication date 1860; Publisher Boston, Little, Brown and company

See also:

• Robert Charles Anderson, "John Dunham", The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol I, Boston, New England Historic Genelogical Society 1995 pp599-603.
• The American Genealogist Vol. 30 pp 148-151, "Dunham Family of Plymouth" by Mrs. John E. Barcley. see: p. 145.subscription site
• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol. 3. pg. 1217-1221)
• Find A Grave: Memorial #61941287 - Contains no headstone image or sourced bio.

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