Abigail Clark

1633 - 1711  (~ 79 years)

• Name	Abigail Clark  [1]
  Birth	Between 1632 and 1633  [2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate birth	Abt 1632  [4]
  Death	8 Mar 1711	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I34294	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DK
  Last Modified	14 Dec 2021

  
  

  Father	Edmond Clark   d. 26 Feb 1665, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts
  Mother	[Unknown first wife of Edmond Clarke]
  Family ID	F21764	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Sargent,   b. Abt 1623   d. 9 Feb 1716, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 93 years)
  Marriage	10 Sep 1651	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts   [2, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Samuel Sargent,   b. 22 Mar 1660, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts d. Aft 1745, Hogskin Cove, now Hodgkin Cove, near Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts (Age > 86 years)
  Family ID	F20182	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  "[A] number of secondary sources, including Savage's 1860 Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England and Winthrop Sargent's 1922 Early Sargents of New England, have claimed that Walter Tybbot's daughter Agnes was the mother of Edmund Clark's daughter Abigail. Ferris, in her Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, following Babson's lead, stated that Walter's daughter Agnes married, first, a man with the last name Dike and had children by him named Elizabeth and Richard and then married, second, Edmund Clark. Ferris, like Savage and Sargent, also claimed that Agnes was the mother of Edmund Clark's daughter Abigail, in addition to his sons John and Joseph. In reliance on Savage, Sargent, and Ferris and on Ferris's estimated date of birth for Abigail Clark of 1632–1633, the entry for Edmund Clark's marriage in Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700 states that Edmund married Agnes (Dike?) Tybbot by 1632. Ferris's work, however, besides stating that Abigail Clark, supposedly Agnes's daughter from her second marriage, was born about 1632–1633, also states that Richard Dike, Agnes's son from her first marriage, was born about 1640. Although apparently unnoticed by Ferris and others, the conflict inherent in those dates suggests that the assertion that Walter Tybbot's daughter Agnes was the mother of both Richard Dike and Abigail Clark is problematic at best." [Chase W. Ashley, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S6164] Chase W. Ashley, "The English Origins of Walter Tybbot of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and His Wives and Daughters." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175:330, Fall 2021. [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931. [S1668] Vital records of Gloucester, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. Volume 1, Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1917. Volume 2, Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1923. Volume 3, Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1924. [S1689] History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann, Including the Town of Rockport by John J. Babson. Gloucester, Massachusetts: Procter Brothers, 1860.