Abigail Phillips1

#5137, (circa 1660 - )
Relationship7th great-grandaunt of William David Lewis
Father*Deacon Nicholas Phillips1 (1611 - )
Mother*Elizabeth Jewson1 (c 1613 - )

Family

John Blanchard b. 1660, d. 1733
Her married name was Blanchard. 
Birth*circa 1660She was born circa 1660 at Weymouth, Norfolk Co., MassachusettsG.2 
2 June 1671In Deacon Nicholas Phillips's will dated 2 June 1671, Abigail Phillips was named as an heir.3,4 
Marriage*circa 1684She married John Blanchard circa 1684 at Norfolk Co., MassachusettsG.5 

Citations

  1. [S576] History of Weymouth Massachusetts (Weymouth, Mass.: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923), vol. 4, pp. 464ff.
  2. [S571] Nicholas Phillips and Elizabeth Jepson, online http://www.peculiarpress.com/genealogy/soule/…, 11. Abigail Phillips was born about 1660. She died on 19 September 1724. Abigail Phillips and John Blanchard were married about 1685. John and Abigail (Phillips) Blanchard: Sarah, Mary, John, Samuel, Thomas, Nathaniel, Jonathan (d.y.), Jonathan, Abigail, and Nicholas. John Blanchard was born on 27 March 1660 in Weymouth, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts. He died on 10 March 1733 in Weymouth, Norfolk Co., MA.
  3. [S576] History of Weymouth (WHS), 4:465, Phillips Genealogy.
  4. [S575] New England Families, online nefamilies.com, Will: Dated 2 June 1671: “Nicholas Phillips of Weymouth, “age Sixty yeares or thereabouts having a very weake body,” made his will which was proved 3 October 1672. To eldest son Richard Phillips the marsh which is now in his possession. To his three sons Richard Joshua & Benjamin Phillips his wearing apparel. To second son Joshua Phillips £6. To third son Benjamin Philips £6; To eldest daughter Alice Shaw £l10; to my six younger children, viz., Joshua Phillips, Benjamin Phillips, Alice Shaw, Experience King, Hannah White, and Abigail Phillips, the rest of his estate to equally divided. Overseers; sons: Richard, Joshua and Benjamin Phillips. Son Richard Phillips, exeitor. “my loving brother Henry Phillips and my loving friends Thomas Dyer and Jonas Humphrey” mentioned; Witnesses: Elizabeth Shaw and Thomas Dyer, Jr.
    [Nicholas Phillips mentions Alice as his eldest daughter because his little daughter Elizabeth, who was actually his eldest daughter, was deceased prior to the family coming to America; Elizabeth, wife of Nicholas is not named in his will. She preceded him in death.]
  5. [S576] History of Weymouth (WHS), vol. 4, pp. 465.