Abial Bragdon1

#3375, (circa 1692 - )
Father*Capt. Arthur Bragdon III1 (c 1670 - 1743)
Mother*Sarah Masterson1 (c 1670 - 1703)
"Bragdon, Mrs. Sarah, Wife of Capt. Arthur Bragdon and daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Cogswell) Masterson. She was assigned to the custody of an Indian minister (Prince Waxaway). She was a captive in 1699 but returned not long after. Bragdon, Abial, She was the daughter of the abovenamed, and it is presumed was taken with her mother and was returned at the same time. "

"On October 13 following [1703], about sunset the Indians suddenly stole upon the house of Arthur Bragdon in Scotland, killed his wife (Sarah Masterson) and two of his children and carried his eldest daughter, Abiel, into captivity (Pike's Journal). She was still a captive in 1711 and her fate is unknown."2 
Birth*circa 1692She was born circa 1692 at York Co., MaineG.1 

Citations

  1. [S172] Charles Edward Banks, History of York, Maine: Successively known as Bristol (1632), Agamenticus (1641), Gorgeana (1642), and York (1652) (Boston: Calkins Press, 1931–1935), Vol. I, p. 302.
  2. [S172] Charles Edward Banks, History of York Maine (Banks), Vol. I, p. 302, 315.