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".