♀Abigail Goodrich

Abigail Goodrich (born 27 April 1686) was a colonial Connecticut woman of Wethersfield, the daughter of John Goodrich and Rebecca Allen. She was the sixth great-grand-aunt of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), the sister of Mary Goodrich (born 1682), his sixth great-grandmother.

Marriage and family

A compiled genealogy gives her birth at Wethersfield on 27 April 1686, as the fifth of the nine children of John Goodrich and Rebecca Allen. A compiled genealogy gives her marriage to David Curtis there on 25 April 1706, two days before her twentieth birthday, with the Rev. Stephen Mix officiating. David had been born at Wethersfield on 29 November 1682, the son of Joseph and Mercy Curtis.

The Wethersfield records give the couple two children: Allen, born 18 May 1708, and Anne, born 18 July 1710. The boy’s name was her mother’s maiden name. No record of Abigail’s death or burial is known.

Notes

Other women of the name

A Find a Grave memorial and some online family trees describe an Abigail Goodrich born on 13 November 1685, who married Samuel Pond at Branford in 1704 and died in 1721. She was a daughter of Bartholomew Goodrich and is a different woman. The same trees give Abigail a marriage on 27 April 1738 at Farmington, but that record is of Abigail Woodruff marrying David Curtis Jr., and a death on 5 February 1730 at Torrington appears there with no source.

Her husband’s name

Stiles’s history of ancient Wethersfield gives her husband as David, son of Joseph, and dates the marriage 25 April 1706.