Abigail Gibbs

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Abigail, b. about 1677; d. before 19 Nov. 1741 when her widower mar. (2) at Wareham, Mary Besse; mar. 24 Nov. 1697 Jireh3 Swift; lived Wareham, but were members of the Sandwich First Church, where their first seven children were baptised 8 Oct. 1710. Children, sur­name Swift; 1. Alice, b. 23 July 1698; mar. 21 Nov. 1721 James4 Crocker of Barnstable. 2. Susannah, b. 6 Oct. 1699: mar. 11 Dec. 1730 Joseph Isham. 3. Jabez, b. 16 March 1700/1; d. Kent, Conn., 12 Nov. 1769; mar. 9 Oct. 1729 Abigail4 Pope. 4. Zephaniah, b. 6 March 1702/3; d. 9 May 1781; mar. 30 Sept. 1724 Lydia3 Chipman. 5. William, b. 5 July 1705; d. 1748; mar. (1) ca. 1732 Kezia Rider and (2) ca. 1741 Abigail Burges. 6. Nathaniel, b. 14 March 1707/8; d. Warren, Ct., 13 March 1790; mar. 14 Sept. 1730 Abia Tupper. 7. Jireh, b. 23 Nov. 1709; d. Acushnet 16 March 1782; mar. 9 Oct. 1730 Deborah Hathaway (d. testate, New Bedford 1794). 8. Job, b. 3 Oct. 1711; d. Sharon, Mass. 14 Feb. 1801; mar. 20 Jan. 1733/4 Sarah4 Blackwell. 9. Silas, b. 2 Aug. 1713; d. Lebanon, Conn. 24 Sept. 1794; mar. there 16 Oct. 1735 Abigail Tupper. 10. Lydia, bapt. 28 Aug. 1715; mar. Antipas Hammond. 11. Isaac, b. 3 May 1720; d. Bridgewater 22 Nov. 1811; mar. 1749 Susannah (Keith) Ames. 12. Rowland, b. 24 March 1721/2; d. Lebanon, Conn., 13 Feb. 1795; mar. 5 Dec. 1745 Mary Dexter of Falmouth. [Thomas1 Gibbs of Sandwich, Mass. (ca. 1615-1693) by Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, NEHGR 123, 1969]

Abigail married Deacon Jireh Swift, son of William Swift and Ruth Parsons, on 26 Nov 1697 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA ²⁴⁵.^,380 (Deacon Jireh Swift was born in 1665 ³⁸⁰ and died in Apr 1749 in Wareham, Plymouth, MA ^245,380.)