Individual Details

Marriage

After some twenty years of married life death came to claim Joane and leave besides the sorrow and vacancy in the family circle, the want of tender motherly care and help and encouragement of a loving wife. On July 2, 1663, after a proper time, he married again and found in Abigail Moss one to take the place left by Joane. She was born April 10, 1642, daughter of John Moss of New Haven. He was afterwards one of Abraham's colleagues in founding Wallingford and died in 1707 at the remarkable age of 103 years. The new couple continued to reside at New Haven until after the birth of their second son, when they laid out a tract of land about twelve miles north of the village and soon removed theither. It is recorded that they paid the Indians for the property, although the colonists already held the title to all that section, through a treaty made with the Sachems Momaugin and Montonwese by Rev. John Davenport and Governor Eaton in 1638. The homes of the early settlers were good and substantial, at least 18 feet long and 16 feet wide, with 9 feet between joints and were built of untrimmed logs, as ax and auger were the principal tools used in their construction. . . . . . .