Abigail JOHNSON

Female 1802 - 1856  (53 years)


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  • Name Abigail JOHNSON 
    Born 25 Oct 1802  West Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Female 
    Died 12 Sep 1856  Coventry, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I00335  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father Daniel JOHNSON,   b. Abt 1770,   d. Abt 1834  (Age ~ 64 years) 
    Mother Freelove ARNOLD,   b. Abt 1770 
    Married Abt 1792 
    Family ID F09112  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Hiram GREENE,   b. 12 Jun 1807, Coventry, Kent County, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Oct 1829, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 22 years) 
    Married Abt 1826 
    Children 
     1. Tryphena Hoxsie GREENE,   b. 19 Aug 1827,   d. 9 Jul 1866, Coventry, Kent Co., RI Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years)
     2. Benjamin Greene,   b. Abt 1828,   d. Aft 1 Jun 1860  (Age ~ 32 years)
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F00165  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • The following is a partial quote from "Acts and Resolves of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" pub. by Henry Ward, Sec'y, 1846, p 7, January, 1846: "Upon the petition of Abigail Greene of Coventry, A. Greene, in this State, guardian of the persons and estates of Tryphenia H. Greene and Benjamin Greene, minors, children of Hiram Greene, late of said Coventry, deceased, praying for the reasons therein stated, that . . . "

      Some of our family info has her name as Abigail Matteson, but a couple of online genealogies at Rootsweb have her surname as Johnson, daughter of Daniel. If that is true, I have traced her ancestry. (This needs more research. I have not yet checked the death record at Coventry.) See Lora LaMance's book on the Greene family; she says Hiram's second wife was Abigail Johnson, d/o Daniel.

      According to the above official document, she was Abigail Greene on or about January 1846.

      The will of Daniel Johnson of West Greenwich dated 28 Nov 1833 mentions a wife named Freelove and a daughter named Abigail Greene. For this reason and the above evidence, I have placed Abigail in this family.

  • Sources 
    1. [S012433] Federal Census of 1 June 1850.

    2. [S012382] Alden G. Beaman's RI Vital Records: New Series, Vol. 6, 153.