Individual Details
Abigail
(1621 - 2 Jun 1697)
Many pedigree charts and family groups sheets list Abigail's surname as GOODY. This is incorrect. Goody is just a shorthand for Good Wife, not her surname.
Events
| Birth | 1621 | Stonehouse, Plymouth, Devonshire, England |  | ||
| Marriage | 14 Oct 1640 | Roxbury, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom - Richard Lippincott | | ||
| Historical Note | Bet 1655 and 1660 | Stonehouse Parish, Plymouth, Devonshire, England - Richard Lippincott |  | ||
| Will | 1 Jun 1697 | Shrewsbury, Monmouth, NJ | | | |
| Death | 2 Jun 1697 | Shrewsbury, Monmouth, NJ | | ||
| Burial | 5 Jun 1697 | Friends Burial Ground, Monmouth, NJ | |||
| Religion | Quaker |
Families
| Spouse | Richard Lippincott (1615 - 1683) |
| Child | Remembrance Lippincott (1641 - 1723) |
| Child | John Lippincott (1644 - 1723) |
| Child | Abigail Lippincott (1646 - 1646) |
| Child | Restore Lippincott Esq. (1652 - 1741) |
| Child | Freedom Lippincott (1655 - 1697) |
| Child | Increase Lippincott (1657 - 1695) |
| Child | Jacob Lippincott (1660 - 1689) |
| Child | Preserved Lippincott (1663 - 1666) |
Notes
Historical Note
Richard was imprisoned with other Quakers in 1655 and 1660. In February 1655 he was arrested at Plymouth, Devon, England by the Mayor of Plymouth and confined in or near the Castle of Exeter. He was released on 15 Dec 1655. Arrested another time, Richard and others were taken from a meeting at Plymouth by order of the Mayor on 4 Jan1660 and sent to the High Gaol at Exeter and were later released at the solicitation of Margaret FELL [who became the wife of George FOX].Side note: The members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) were persecuted in England. Many were imprisoned for travelling without passes. Others were fined for absence from public worship; some were inhumanly whipped or placed in stocks. In 1660, a general imprisonment (about 70 persons) began for refusing to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy. The Friends believed Christ's precept, "swear not at all," to prohibit all manner of oaths. It was said of Friends in the time of George FOX, that they were "as stiff as trees," in their refusal to pay tithes, to perform military service and to take oaths.
Will
Abigail (GOODY) LIPPINCOTT was a "woman of much force of character, and was among the first to provide by will for the liberation of slaves."Endnotes
1. McDowell Family Tree, vashrinks online [Ancestry.com], accessed 6 Sep 2009.
2. McDowell Family Tree, vashrinks online [Ancestry.com], accessed 6 Sep 2009.
3. Abigail (GOODY) LIPPINCOTT will (1697), Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Calendar of Wills, Administration, Etc.; 1600s - 1760, New Jersey State Records Building, , Burlington, NJ.
4. Mary Elizabeth Sinnott, Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and Allied Families (Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1905).
5. McDowell Family Tree, vashrinks online [Ancestry.com], accessed 6 Sep 2009.