Abigail Davis

- Bef 1685

• Name	Abigail Davis  [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 20 Aug 1685  [4]
  Person ID	I22654	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	William Davis,   b. of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
  Mother	Mary
  Family ID	F13718	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Edward Richmond, Attorney General of Rhode Island,   b. Abt 1632, England d. Nov 1696, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island (Age ~ 64 years)
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Richmond,   b. 6 Dec 1666, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island d. 9 Feb 1717, Bristol County, Massachusetts (Age 50 years) + 2. Col. Sylvester Richmond,   b. 1672, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island d. 20 Nov 1754, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F13628	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  "She married first, Richard Ussell. On 21 May 1657 Abigil Davis petitioned the General Court alleging that her stepfather John Cowdell and her mother had forced her into marriage with Richard Ussell . The marriage was declared unlawful and she was free to marry Edward Richmond." [Chase-Wigglesworth Genealogy, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S679] The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island by John Osborne Austin. Albany, New York; 1887. Corrected edition, including corrections by John Osborne Austin and material by G. Andrews Moriarty from The American Genealogist. Baltimore: Genealogicical Publishing Co., 1969, 1978. [S5710] The Richmond Family 1594-1896 by Joshua Bailey Richmond. Boston, 1897. [S637] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden by Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999. [S2219] Chase-Wigglesworth Genealogy: The Ancestors and Descendants of Philip Putnam Chase and His Wife Anna Cornelia Wigglesworth ed. Alicia Crane Williams. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1990.