Abigail Shove

Abigail BUSHNELL was born ABT 1680 in Fairfield County, CT. She was the daughter of Francis BUSHNELL and Hannah SEYMOUR.

She married Seth SHOVE AFT OCT 1697, son of George SHOVE and Hopestill NEWMAN. He was born 10 DEC 1667 in Taunton, Bristol County, MA, and died 3 OCT 1735 in Danbury, Fairfield County, CT. He was buried in Wooster Cemetery, Danbury, Fairfield County, CT.

Children

1. Hannah SHOVE b: ABT 1708
2. Lydia SHOVE b: ABT 1712
3. Seth SHOVE

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Notes

From http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sanford-s...

Torrey identifies Mary Drake as Seth Shove's first wife and says of her "living 1 May 1699?" Torrey also says Seth's second marriage occurred "b. 1695?" However, Abigail Bushnell was under 18 at the time of her father's death and she chose Thomas Taylor for her guardian October 1697. Therefore Seth's marriage to Abigail must have occurred after October 1697, and perhaps after 1 May 1699. This would also mean that daughter Mary was probably the child of his first wife Mary Drake.

Rev. Shove spent five years at Silsbury, and was appointed the first minister at Danbury Connecticut in 1696.
The inventory of the estate of "the late Revd Mr. Seth Shove of Danbury" was presented 10 December 1735. It mentions Madam Abigail Shove, wid. Hannah Starr, Lydia Boughton, and Mary Shove, minor. It concludes with the amounts which his daughters "Mary Minor hath had ... and Hannah Starr ... and Lydia Bouton...." (Fairfield PR 8:348-350).

He was buried in the old Wooster Street Cemetery, the first cemetery in Danbury.

• Bushnell Family Genealogy. Ancestry and Posterity of Francis Bushnell (1580-1646) of Horsham, England and Guilford Connecticut Author: George Eleazer Bushnell Abbrev: George Bushnell Publication: Nashville TN: George Eleazer Bushnell, 1945 : Bushnell Genealogy Page: p. 50 link to PDF file https://www.cga.ct.gov/hco/books/Bushnell_Family_Genealogy.pdf