Abiah

• Name	Abiah   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I3298	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	15 Sep 2015

  
  

  Family	Andrew Ford,   b. Abt 1650, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 24 Aug 1725, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age ~ 75 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1680  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Andrew Ford,   b. Between 13 May 1681 and 12 May 1682, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 12 May 1750, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age ~ 68 years)
  Family ID	F5194	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2015

  
  

• Notes

  "Abiah's identity has long puzzled researchers. Mrs. Barclay eliminated many possible Abiahs from surrounding towns and concluded, after reading deeds and court records of the Ford family, their associates and relatives, that she was probably Abia Pierce, daughter of Capt. Michael Pierce of Hingham and Scituate and his first wife Persis Eames. In the families associated with the Fords the only 'Abia' was in the Pierce family. There is no proof of what became of Abia Pierce, who was living at the time of her father's will, 15 Jan. 1675, and was of the right age to have been the wife of Andrew Ford. She is mentioned twice in the Plymouth records, first in the will of a neighbor, Esther Woodfield, 27 May 1672, secondly in her father's will when she was still unmarried. Andrew Ford's daughter Abia, who married James Bearse, named a son Miall, possibly after her grandfather, Capt. Michael Pierce." [Elizabeth Cobb Stewart, Descendants of Andrew Ford of Weymouth, Mass., citation details below.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S584] History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, volumes 3 and 4, by George Walter Chamberlain. Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923. [S636] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 12, Francis Cooke of the Mayflower by Ralph V. Wood, Jr. Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1996; revised edition, 2014. [S605] Descendants of Andrew Ford of Weymouth, Mass. by Elizabeth Cobb Stewart. Montpelier, Vermont: Capital City Press, 1968.