Abigail Jacques

1673 - Bef 1763  (< 89 years)

• Name	Abigail Jacques  [1]
  Birth	11 Mar 1673	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 24 Jan 1763	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [5]
  Person ID	I34277	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DK
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	Henry Jacques,   b. Abt 1619, England d. 24 Feb 1687, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 68 years)
  Mother	Anne Knight,   b. Bef 5 May 1631   d. 22 Feb 1705, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age > 73 years)
  Marriage	8 Oct 1648	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [4, 6]
  Family ID	F20173	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Benjamin Knight,   b. 21 Aug 1668
  Marriage	Abt 1692  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Isaac Knight,   b. 15 Jan 1695, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F20172	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Abigail Jacques and her husband Benjamin Knight were second cousins, both of them descended from William Knight and Elizabeth Carter. In The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton (citation details below), Walter Goodwin Davis says of Henry Jacques' daughter Abigail "that she is not mentioned in the will of her father in 1686 makes her suggested marriage to Benjamin Knight, with no date given, very questionable." However, as a W. Harris points out in the comments to her Wikitree page, Henry's will does in fact mention her: "[A]nd to my daughter Abigail I give £60 to be paid by my executor after her marriage". She was thirteen when her father made her will, and fourteen when he died.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5450] A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury from 1635 to 1845 by Joshua Coffin. Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1845. [S2717] Massachusetts births and christenings, 1639-1915, on familysearch.org. [S534] Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, Volume II, Marriages and Deaths. Salem: The Essex Institute, 1911. [S5882] Ancestral Lines from Maine to North Carolina by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015. [S5451] Essex County, Massachusetts, Probate Records, 1648-1890, on ancestry.com. [S1427] The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton, 1775-1847, Wife of Capt. Abel Lunt of Newburyport, Massachuetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1947.