ABIGAIL BELCHER

(ca. 1654-after 1732) - Ipswich, Essex co., MA; Reading, Middlesex co., MA

(Third Generation - Belcher Family)

FATHER
MOTHER
JEREMY BELCHER
MARY LOCKWOOD



BIRTH Abigail was born circa 1654 in Ipswich, Essex co., MA[50]
DEATH She died in Reading, Middlesex co., MA on 20 December 1687; she was 33 as "Gold, Abigall, w. John"[59,60].
MARRIAGE Before 1671 when Abigail was 17, she married John2 GOULD, son of John GOULD & Joanna [surname not known], in Reading, Middlesex co., MA or Charlestown, Suffolk Co., MA[1,61,62,63,64,65,66].

CHILDREN (surnamed GOULD) i. John GOULD
ii. Abigail GOULD Please see her own page.
iii. Jeremiah GOULD
iv. Daniel GOULD
v. Thomas GOULD
vi. Mehitable GOULD
vii. Mary GOULD







GENERATION Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G9) Grandmother
FAMILY NUMBER 1839
SOURCES 1. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700., (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society). [Torrey].

2. Anderson, Robert Charles, George F. Sanborn, Jr. and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635., (New England Historic Genealogical Society), [GreatMig1634-1635], I:233.

3. Ibid. 231.

4. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes, (Salem 1911-1975), [EQC], 2:69.

5. Ipswich Land Records, manuscript, Essex County Courthouse, Salem, MA, [ILR], 3:292.

6. [GreatMig1634-1635], I:231.

7. Coldham, Peter Wilson, The Complete Book Of Emigrants, (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing co., Inc., 1987), [Coldham], 138.

8. Hotten, John Camden, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality., (London 1874; rpt. Baltimore 1974), [Hotten], 59.

9. [EQC], 3:73.

10. Ibid. 3:424.

11. Ibid. 4:7.

12. Ipswich Land Records, manuscript, Essex County Courthouse, Salem, MA, [ILR], 3:209.

13. Records of the Suffolk County Court, 1671-1680, 2 vols., Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, vols. 29-30, (Boston, 1933), [SCC], 479.

14. [EQC], 49-112-1.

15. Ipswich Land Records, manuscript, Essex County Courthouse, Salem, MA, [ILR], 4:467.

16. [GreatMig1634-1635], I:233-234.

17. [EQC], 1:266.

18. [GreatMig1634-1635], I:236.

19. [EQC], 1:336.

20. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686; 5 volumes in 6, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed. (Boston: 1853-1854), [MCBR], 4:1:352.

21. [EQC], 4:72.

22. Ibid. 4:277.

23. [SCC], 640.

24. [Coldham], 340.

25. Ipswich Land Records, manuscript, Essex County Courthouse, Salem, MA, [ILR], 2:19.

26. [MCBR], 4:1:378.

27. Essex co., MA Deeds, [EssexDeeds or ELR], 2:93.

28. Ipswich Land Records, manuscript, Essex County Courthouse, Salem, MA, [ILR], 3:226-227.

29. [EssexDeeds or ELR], 4:52-53.

30. [EQC], 6:153.

30. [EssexDeeds or ELR], 5:85.

332. Ibid. 5:100-101.

33. Ipswich Land Records, manuscript, Essex County Courthouse, Salem, MA, [ILR], 5:539 .

34. The Probate Records of Essex County, [EssexProb or EPR], Case #2303.

35. [GreatMig1634-1635], I:231-233.

36. Pope, Charles Henry, The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623 to 1660, (Boston: C.H. Pope, 1908), [PopesPioneersofMEandNH], 43.

37. Savage, James A., A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862., (Boston 1860-1862; rpt Baltimore 1955), [Savage], I:156.

38. Mary & John, vols. 1+, (Toledo, OH: Mary & John Clearinghouse), [MaryJohn], 20:124.

39. [EQC], 1:93,210; 2:61; 3:270,387; 4:175.

40. Ibid. 1:124,146.

41. Ibid. 3:271.

42. [MCBR], 1:375.

43. [Savage], 1:156.

44. Hammatt, Abraham, The Hammatt Papers. No. 1-7 (printed from the Mss. In the Public Library) The Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Mass., 1633 to 1700 By Abraham Hammatt, 1854., (Ipswich, Mass.: Press Ipswich Antiquarian, 1880-1899.), [Hammatt-Ipswich].

45. Ipswich, Essex co., MA Vital Records. [IVR], 27.

46. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+), [NEHGR], 60:249.

47. Bartlett, Joseph Gardner, Belcher Families in New England, (Boston: NEHGS, 1906), [Belcher], 20.

48. Woolson, Lula May (Fenno), The Woolson-Fenno Ancestry and Allied Lines, with Bio. Sketches, ([Boston]: privately printed, 1907), [Woolson-Fenno], 98.

49. [Coldham], 139.

50. [GreatMig1634-1635], I:234.

51. [NEHGR], 11:238; 60:249; 70:104.

52. The Essex Antiquarian, (13 vols.)(n.p., 1897-1909), [EssexAnt], 6:18; 8:140.

53. Bridges, Samuel Willard, Bridges Genealogy including Britton, DeNike, ([Boston: George H. Ellis & Co. 1960]), [BridgesAnc], 14.

54. [IVR], II:489.

55. [GreatMig1634-1635], II:1193.

56. Wyman, Thomas Bellows, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, 2 vols., (Boston: D. Clapp and Son, 1879), [Charlestown], 88.

57. [GreatMig1634-1635], I:235.

58. [NEHGR], 60:251.

59. [Charlestown], 426.

60. Reading, Middlesex co., MA Vital Records [ReadingVR], 526.

61. [NEHGR], 7:26; 60:250.

62. [Charlestown], 74,426.

63. [Belcher], 21.

64. Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, The Family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield, (Lynn, Mass.: T.P. Nichols, 1895), [Gould], 322.

65. Vinton, John Adams, The Giles Memorial: Genealogical Memoirs of the Families Bearing the Names of Giles, Gould, Holmes, Jennison, Leanord, Lindall, Curwen, Marshall, Robinson, Sampson and Webb; Also, Genealogical Sketches of the Poll, Very, Carr, (Boston: H. W. Dutton & Son, 1864), [Giles], 170.

66. [GreatMig1634-1635], 1:235.

67. [Charlestown], 425.

68. The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Documentary History of 1692, (Salem, MA: The Nova Anglia Company, 2001), [SalemWitch], 384.

69. Essex Institute MSS. Collection

70. [IVR], I:36 [Ct. R.].

71. Ibid. II:42.




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