Abigail Pierce

(between 1636 and 1638 - March 1709/10)
Date this page was last edited=25 Jan 2014
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Ancestors of Martha Josselyn (1909 - 2007)
Abigail Pierce was born between 1636 and 1638.1

Abigail Pierce married Charles Stockbridge, son of John Stockbridge and Anne Kendall, about 1657.1 Abigail Pierce and Charles Stockbridge sued one Joseph Turner in 1669 for defamation and slander, claiming that Turner had called Charles "a coocally rogue" and a "coocally raskall" and Abigail "as very a strumpett as any in New England" and "a brasen faced whore." Turner was found guilty and fined £100.2

Abigail Pierce died in March 1709/10 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.1

Children of Abigail Pierce and Charles Stockbridge

Citations

  1. [S393] Roger D. Joslyn, "Descendants of John Stockbridge", 187.
  2. [S393] Roger D. Joslyn, "Descendants of John Stockbridge", 190.
  3. [S393] Roger D. Joslyn, "Descendants of John Stockbridge", 192.
  4. [S393] Roger D. Joslyn, "Descendants of John Stockbridge", 193.


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