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Abigail 3 Holden (Grover)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Death: circa 1791 (73-82)
Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Burial: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Thomas Grover, III and Bethia Grover
Wife of George Simon Holden of Holden's Beach, NC
Mother of Abigail Cutter; Thomas Simon Holden; Hannah Cutter; Thomas Holden; Elizabeth HOLDEN and 7 others
Sister of Sarah Ann Stearns
Half sister of Abigail Grover

Managed by: Martin Severin Eriksen
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About Abigail 3 Holden

GEDCOM Note

A daughter of Bethia Burnap (b. 1677) and Thomas Grover (1668-1739), Abigail married Simon Holden (1700-1782) on 18 May 1736 in Charlestown.

The couple had nine children:

  • John (d. 1782);
  • Elizabeth (1739-1826; married John Tufts);
  • Simon (1737-1752);
  • Nathaniel (1742-before 1794; married Margaret Ervin);
  • Abigail (1744-1773; married Ammi Cutter);
  • Charles (1746-1816; married Sally Bishop);
  • Thomas S. (1749-1807; married Margaret Spurgeon);
  • Hannah (1752-1801; married her sister's widower Ammi Cutter); and
  • Sarah (1757-1791; married Samuel Thomas Smith).

The children remained in New England, except for Thomas, who migrated, first to South Carolina, where he married Margaret Spurgeon in Laurens County on Christmas Day 1773, and where he had large landholdings, and then (by 1800) to the Mississippi Territory, settling half a mile from the Florida border in Wilkinson County.

Her husband's Simon's memorial on Findagrave says that he had a marriage subsequent to his union with Abigail, but this is not correct. Abigail was the executor of his estate when he died in 1786, killed by a falling tree. He had providentially made his will in 1782 and she is named in it. Since he was 36, and she 23, when they married, it is possible he had an earlier marriage but I can find no record of such.

Abigail's parents were both born in Massachusetts. Her Burnap grandfather, Thomas, had emigrated from Hertfordshire, England and married (in Concord on 3 December 1663) a native of Reading, MA, Mary Pearson. Her Grover grandfather, Thomas, was born in Charlestown in 1643 and married Sarah Chadwick, a Malden native, on 23 May 1668. Thomas Grover's father, also named Thomas, had emigrated from Chesham in Buckinghamshire and married (in 1642 in Malden) Elizabeth Smith, also from Chesha

GEDCOM Note


GEDCOM Note

A daughter of Bethia Burnap (b. 1677) and Thomas Grover (1668-1739), Abigail married Simon Holden (1700-1782) on 18 May 1736 in Charlestown. The couple had nine children: John (d. 1782); Elizabeth (1739-1826; married John Tufts); Simon (1737-1752); Nathaniel (1742-before 1794; married Margaret Ervin); Abigail (1744-1773; married Ammi Cutter); Charles (1746-1816; married Sally Bishop); Thomas S. (1749-1807; married Margaret Spurgeon); Hannah (1752-1801; married her sister's widower Ammi Cutter); and Sarah (1757-1791; married Samuel Thomas Smith). The children remained in New England, except for Thomas, who migrated, first to South Carolina, where he married Margaret Spurgeon in Laurens County on Christmas Day 1773, and where he had large landholdings, and then (by 1800) to the Mississippi Territory, settling half a mile from the Florida border in Wilkinson County.

Her husband's Simon's memorial on Findagrave says that he had a marriage subsequent to his union with Abigail, but this is not correct. Abigail was the executor of his estate when he died in 1786, killed by a falling tree. He had providentially made his will in 1782 and she is named in it. Since he was 36, and she 23, when they married, it is possible he had an earlier marriage but I can find no record of such.

Abigail's parents were both born in Massachusetts. Her Burnap grandfather, Thomas, had emigrated from Hertfordshire, England and married (in Concord on 3 December 1663) a native of Reading, MA, Mary Pearson. Her Grover grandfather, Thomas, was born in Charlestown in 1643 and married Sarah Chadwick, a Malden native, on 23 May 1668. Thomas Grover's father, also named Thomas, had emigrated from Chesham in Buckinghamshire and married (in 1642 in Malden) Elizabeth Smith, also from Chesham.

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Abigail 3 Holden's Timeline

1713
August 23, 1713
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
1737
January 6, 1737
Cambridge Middlesex Massachusetts, Colonial, America
1739
September 15, 1739
Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, Colonial America
1742
July 26, 1742
Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
1744
September 28, 1744
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1745
March 5, 1745
Pickens, Pickens, South Carolina, Colonial America
1746
June 19, 1746
Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Colonial America
1749
May 8, 1749
Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1752
August 5, 1752
Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States