Abigail Andrews/Barding Graves

• BIRTH 1593
• DEATH 26 Mar 1682 (aged 88–89) Connecticut, USA
• BURIAL Burial Details Unknown
• MEMORIAL ID 38548939 photos added by Ronni Croft

Abigail Andrews Barding born Graves ca 1600 migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640) and 1st married by about 1632, William Andrews. Abigail per Jacobus was a sister of George Graves of Hartford or perhaps a sister of the first wife of George Graves.. They had 7 children: Williaam, John, Abigail, Elizabeth Grannis, Thomas, Esther Spencer, & Samuel. " 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....'"[2]

She 2nd married Nathaniel Barding, & died 26 Mar 1682/3 (unless this is the date the inventory was taken, in which case she probably died somewhat earlier). [9] She died March 20, 1680-2. She married 1) William Andrews 2) Nathaniel Bearding as his 2nd wife.

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.

Notes

Not the child of Michael Graves & Elizabeth Graves

Spouses
William Andrews 1595–1659 (m. 1632)
Nathaniel Bearding 1591–1674

Children likely all 7x b in Hartford, CT
John Andrews ca 1632 - 6/6/1690 m. 1st Lilly, 2nd Mary NN in Hartford, CT
Abigail Andrews ca 1634 - 5/1653 in Fairfield, CT
Elizabeth Andrews Grannis 1632/6–1656 m Edward Grannis of Hartford, CT 5/3/1654/5
Thomas Andrews 5/4/1638–1690/1 m Hannah Kirby, dau. of John
Esther Andrews Spencer 9/1641–3/6/1698 in Suffield, Connecticut. m Thomas Spencer of Suffield by 1655.
Samuel Andrews 10/20/1645–1/1712 m Elizabeth Spencer daughter of Sergeant Thomas Spencer;
William Andrews, probably died young with no descendants [see William's profile references]

References

1 TAG 35:56.

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

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

4 ttp://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/o/s/Robert-S-Costa-jr/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-1428.html

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

8 "ABIGAIL GRAVES, POSSIBLE SISTER OF GEORGE GRAVES" Genealogy 345 Graves Family Association. https://graves-fa.org/gen-histories/gens/gen345.html

9 New England Marriages Prior to 1700: With an Updated Introduction by Gary ... By Clarence A. Torrey, Elizabeth Petty Bentley. Page 18

10 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

11 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.

12 Andrews Families of Western CT, in The American Genealogist,by Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., F.A.S.G, vol 35 pp 55-59

13 Porter, William. Historical Notices of Connecticut (Connecticut Historical Society, 1842) No. 2, "Hartford and West Hartford", Page 13

14 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

Additional Data

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.)