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Abigail Farnum (Sanford)

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Birthplace: Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Death: October 02, 1773 (72-73)
Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Deacon Thomas Sanford and Christian Sanford
Wife of Moses Farnum
Mother of Hannah Reid; Abigail Harris; Jonathan David Farnum; Moses Farnum and John Farnum
Sister of Sarah Adams; Christiana Elizabeth Adams (Sanford); Mehitable Brown; Elizabeth Sanford and John Sanford
Half sister of Elizabeth Pitts

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About Abigail Farnum

Her will was allowed November 8, 1773, mentions the children

Moses and Abigail had the following children:

  1. John, born 1727-28. married (first), May 3, 1750, Elizabeth Gaskill, daughter of Samuel; married (second), July 19, 1756, Martha Comstock. Children— Joseph Noah, Stephen, Mary, and Rachel.
  2. Moses, born October 25, 1730, see forward.
  3. Mary (twin), born September 2, 1732. married Silas Taft. Children—Ephraim, Moses, Darius, Peleg, Levi, Rachel and Preserved Taft.
  4. Anna (twin), born September 2, 1732, married Benjamin Bt1ffum.
  5. Hannah (our line), born September 11, 1737, married John Reed, of Smithfield, and had ten children.
  6. Stephen, born September 19, 1739, died April 27, 1761.
  7. Abigail, born August 19, 1741, married David Harris, of Smithfield, 1761.
  8. Rachel, born January 13. 1743, married Daniel Reed, of Smithfield.
  9. Jonathan- (twin), born June 28, 1745, married Uranah Harris, September 29. 1765, at Smithfield.
  10. David (twin), born June 28, 1745, died before his father.

Mentioned in Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity

By Ellery Bicknell Crane

There appears to be no primary evidence of who Abigail's parents were. Given that Thomas Sanford was also a resident of Mendon, even serving with Moses' father as a selectman in 1721, he and his wife Christian are the most logical choice

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Abigail Farnum's Timeline

1700
1700
Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
1727
1727
1730
October 25, 1730
Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
1737
September 11, 1737
Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
1741
August 19, 1741
Uxbridge, Worcester, MA, United States
1773
October 2, 1773
Age 73
Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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