Abraham Toppan

- 1672

• Name	Abraham Toppan  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	5 Nov 1672	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I21407	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	13 Sep 2024

  
  

  Family	Susanna Taylor,   b. Abt Sep 1606   d. 20 Mar 1689, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 82 years)
  Marriage	28 May 1632	St. Michael-at-Plea, Norwich, Norfolk, England   [4]
  Children	+ 1. Dr. Peter Toppan,   b. Aug 1633   d. 3 Nov 1707, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 74 years) + 2. Jacob Toppan,   b. 24 Dec 1645, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts d. 30 Dec 1717, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 72 years)
  Family ID	F12698	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated to New England in 1637 with his wife Susanna, children Peter and Elizabeth, and a servant, Anne Goodin. They settled at Newbury. He was not, as previously claimed, a son of William Toppan of Aiglethorpe, Yorkshire and his wife Cecelia. In 2007, Brandon Fradd (citation details below) showed that this claim, put forth in an 1879 article in the The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, had been based on baptismal records concocted by the notorious genealogical fraudster Horatio Gates Somerby.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2663] Brandon Fradd, "Abraham Toppan Was Not a Yorkshire Man." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 161:92, 2007. [S3675] The Descendants of Henry Sewall (1576-1656) of Manchester and Coventry, England, and Newbury and Rowley, Massachusetts by Eben W. Graves. Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2007. [S2662] Tappan-Toppan Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Abraham Toppan of Newbury, Massachusetts, 1606-1672 by Daniel Langdon Tappan. Arlington, Massachusetts, 1915. [S1791] The Ancestry of Abel Lunt, 1769-1806, of Newbury, Massachusetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1963.