Abigail Barding

Not the child of Michael Graves & Elizabeth Graves

Abigail (Graves) Bearding migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

It is also believed that George Graves had another sister, Abigail Graves, who first married William Andrews[5] and secondly married Nathaniel Barding[6], both in Hartford, CT or vicinity. (See further discussion in the Appendix.)

Abigail Graves was born 1610 in England, and died March 20, 1680/81. She married 1) William Andrews 2) Nathaniel Bearding as his 2nd wife.

Children of Abigail Graves and William Andrews are:

1. John Andrews b. say 1632; died 6 June 1690;[3] m. (1) Lilly & (2) Mary #1[4]
2. Abigail Andrews b. say 1634, bur. Fairfield May 1653, called daughter of William of Hartford.[3][4]
3. Elizabeth Andrews, b. say 1636; married 3 May 1655, Hartford, Edward Grannis.[9][3][4]. Her marriage record calls her of Farmington, daughter of William of Hartford. Edward Grannis later moved to New Haven and married 1662 Hannah Wakefield. He died 10 Dec 1719.[3]
   1. Child: Joseph Grannis b. Hartford 31 Mar 1656, must have died young.[3]
4. Thomas, born 4 May 1638, in Hartford[9]; settled in Middletown; died 1690/91; married Hannah Kirby.[3][4]
5. Esther Andrews, born Sept 1641 in Hartford[9]; married Thomas Spencer Jr. by 1655; died 6 March 1697/8, in Suffield, Connecticut.[3][4]
6. Samuel, was born 20 Oct 1645, at Hartford[9]; died between 1 Jan 1711/2 and 29 Jan 1711/2; married Elizabeth Spencer, daughter of Thomas of Hartford.[3][4]
7. ? William Andrews, ? probably died young.[2] Only mentioned in the F.H. Andrews Genealogy, but left no descendants anyway.[2]

Notes

Abigail per Jacobus was a sister of George Graves of Hartford or perhaps a sister of the first wife of George Graves.

Marriage:

Abigail was the widow of William Andrews, of Hartford. She married 2nd Nathaniel Bearding.

SOURCE: James Hammond Trumbull, editor, The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884, Volume 1 (Boston, Massachusetts: Edward L. Osgood, 1886), page 230. Retrieved: 3 May 2011 from Google Books

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William Andrews died in 1659. His will dated April 1, 1659. Inventory taken Aug. 3, 1659. Amount 211£, 14s, 11d. His second [sic: only] wife was Abigail Graves, aunt of George Graves of Hartford. After his death she married Nathaniel Barding, who lived on Lord's Hill, and who died about 1674.

Date of death might be March 20, 1682.

http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/u/r/Milbrey-O-Burgett/WEBSITE-0001/U...

" the three sons of William Andrews by his wife, Abigail, are well established in a conveyance dated 20 Jan 1674/75, Abigail referred to the 'natural love to my son John Andrews and my son Thomas Andrews and my son Sam Andrews and my son-in-law Thomas Spencer Junior and in pursuance of the Last Will and Testimony of my loving husband William Andrews....'"

http://www.gravesfa.org/gen345.htm

Burial: Unknown

Created by: Linda Mac Record added: Jun 20, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 38548939

References

1. "ABIGAIL GRAVES, POSSIBLE SISTER OF GEORGE GRAVES" Genealogy 345 Graves Family Association. https://graves-fa.org/gen-histories/gens/gen345.html
2. New England Marriages Prior to 1700: With an Updated Introduction by Gary ... By Clarence A. Torrey, Elizabeth Petty Bentley. Page 18
3. http://www.gravesfa.org/gen065.htm
4. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/o/s/Robert-S-Costa-jr/...
5. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mscheffle... (dead link)
6. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38548939/abigail-andrews_barding
7. WikiTree contributors, "Abigail (Graves) Bearding (1610-1683)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Graves-1046 : accessed 07 March 2024). Cites
   1. TAG 35:56.
   2. Great Migration 1634-1635, A-B. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume 1, A-B, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. pp 63-67
   3. Manwaring, Charles William. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records.Volume 1. Hartford District 1635-1700. Hartford, Conn., R.S. Peck & Co., Printers, 1904.
   4. 35:56 Andrews Families of Western CT, in The American Genealogist,by Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., F.A.S.G, vol 35 pp 55-59
   5. Porter, William. Historical Notices of Connecticut (Connecticut Historical Society, 1842) No. 2, "Hartford and West Hartford", Page 13