Abigail Turner

Abigail ?? [Pierce?] was born in Charlestown, MA ca 1636/38 [104] and died in Mar 1709/10 in Scituate, MA. [116]

Her parents are not known (see Discussion below).

Married:

1. about 1657 to Charles Stockbridge, son of John Stockbridge and Ann ??
2. about 1692 to Nathaniel Turner [140]

Children of Abigail ?? and Charles Stockbridge:

1. John Stockbridge3 (1659-1659/60)
2. Abigail Stockbridge+ (1660/61-1743)
3. John Stockbridge4 (1662-)
4. Charles Stockbridge4 (1663/64-)
5. Sarah Stockbridge4 (1665-)
6. Thomas Stockbridge+4 (1667-1717/18)
7. Elizabeth Stockbridge4 (1670-)
8. Joseph Stockbridge4 (1672-)
9. Benjamin Stockbridge4 (1677-)
10. Samuel Stockbridge4 (1679-)

Discussion

Suggested she was dau of Anthony and Margery (Pierce?) Eames of Marshfield. Their daughtre Persis Eames was first wife of Capt Michael Pierce who in will of 1675 names “my brother Mark Eamer and my brogther Charles Stockbridge” She also could have been sister of Pierce’s second wife Ann or of Pierce himself [NEHGR 133:187 Descendants of John Stockbridge; Plym Col Wills 3:2:8]

Who was Abigail? d. of Anthony and Margery Pierce? Or Abigail James Pierce, b. ca. 1636 Hingham, d. of Michael and Ann Pierce? Or Abigail James, daughter of Hannah James who later married Captain Michael Pierce as his second wife? [Pane-Joyce Genealogy]

Parent possible profiles:

• unknown James
• Capt. Anthony Eames

Notes

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.

Sources

• Family of John Stockbridge & Ann Stockbridge

Citations

• [104] Roger D. Joslyn, “The Descendants of John Stockbridge,” New Eng. Hist. Gen. Reg., 133 (1979): 93-101, 187-193, 286-293; 134 (1980): 70-73, 135-147, 228-236, 291-298; 134 (1981): 36-44, 121-132.
• [116] Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, NEHGS, Boston, 1909, two volumes.
• [140] Barbara Lambert Merrick, “Plymouth county Probate Records and Files,” Mayflower Descendant, 49 (2000):154-157, Probate records are deposited at the Massachusetts State Archives.

Probate record for the estate of Charles Stockbridge: [1: 344: OS Docket # 19,472 contain the appraisal/division]. The appraisal of the estate of Charles Stockbridge, deceased, which by settlement of his estate were to belong to Samuel and Benjamin Stockbridge, when the youngest son came of age, they rendering to their mother [now Abigail Turner] rent during her life time, was dated 1 August 1700. Appraisers: John Bryant, William Perry, Zachariah Damon who made oath to the appraisal/division on 15 March 1700/1.