Abigail Burnham

1696 - 1724  (27 years)

• Name	Abigail Burnham
  Birth	16 Dec 1696	Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate birth	16 Dec 1697	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
  Death	2 Jan 1724	Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [3]
  Alternate death	2 Jun 1724  [1]
  Burial	Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I3393	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2016

  
  

  Father	William Burnham,   b. Between Nov 1645 and Oct 1646, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut d. 12 Dec 1702, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 57 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Loomis,   b. 7 Aug 1655, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut d. 19 Nov 1717, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	28 Jun 1681	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut   [4, 5, 6]
  Family ID	F4485	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Deacon Nathaniel Phelps,   b. 13 Feb 1692, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 14 Oct 1747, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Age 55 years)
  Children	+ 1. Martin Phelps,   b. 24 Dec 1723, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 12 Nov 1795, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F3468	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Her very rustic gravestone at Bridge Street Cemetery does seem to give her death date as "IENREY 2 1723" with a 4 superscripted next to the 3 in "1723", so we suspect her new-style date of death is indeed 2 Jan 1724.

  
  

• Sources

  [S447] American Biography: A New Cyclopedia ed. William Richard Cutter. New York: American Historical Society, 1919. [S502] Gale Ion Harris, "Captain Richard Wright of Twelve-Mile Island and the Burnhams of Podunk: Two Seventeenth-Century Connecticut River Families." The American Genealogist 67, January 1992. [S1099] Findagrave.com page for Abigail Burnham Phelps. [S447] American Biography: A New Cyclopedia ed. William Richard Cutter. New York: American Historical Society, 1919., date only. [S501] Gale Ion Harris, "Thomas and Anna (Wright?) Burnham of Hartford, Connecticut: A Note on Dubious Dates." The American Genealogist 74:33, January 1999. [S1101] Findagrave.com page for Elizabeth Loomis Burnham., "6/28/1671 in Wethersfield CT".