Abigail Johnson

- 1834

• Name	Abigail Johnson  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	17 Sep 1834	New Haven, CT   [2]
  Person ID	I13495	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Isaac Johnson,   b. 23 Jun 1731, Wallingford, New Haven, CT d. 19 Apr 1813, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Abigail Shipman,   b. Dec 1731, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America d. 1810, New York, United States (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	11 Dec 1755	Harwinton, Harwinton, Litchfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America
  Family ID	F5906	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Daniel Doolittle, (iii) <,   b. 10 Nov 1741, Wallingford, New Haven, CT d. 17 Dec 1808, New Haven, CT (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	24 Aug 1774  [2]
  Children	1. Abigail Doolittle, <,   b. 3 Apr 1775, New Haven, CT d. 1 Aug 1842 (Age 67 years)   2. Rhoda Doolittle, <,   b. 28 Jun 1777, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States d. North Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States   3. Isaac Doolittle, <,   b. 15 May 1779, New Haven, CT d. Yes, date unknown   4. Mary Doolittle, <,   b. 30 Mar 1781, New Haven, CT d. 3 Jun 1858, White Oak, Farmington, Hartford, CT (Age 77 years)   5. John Doolittle, <,   b. 20 Dec 1783, New Haven, CT d. Yes, date unknown   6. Stephen Doolittle, <,   b. 22 Nov 1785, New Haven, CT d. 29 Aug 1861, North Haven, New Haven, CT (Age 75 years)   7. Lois Doolittle, <,   b. 1 May 1788, North Haven, New Haven, CT d. Yes, date unknown   8. Elizabeth Doolittle, <,   b. 10 Oct 1790, North Haven, New Haven, CT d. 22 Feb 1867, Livingston Co., MI (Age 76 years)   9. Abraham Doolittle, <,   b. 30 Sep 1792, North Haven, New Haven, CT d. Abt 1874, Clay, Onondaga, NY (Age 81 years)   10. Hannah Doolittle, <,   b. 21 Feb 1794, New Haven, CT d. 29 Apr 1794, New Haven, CT (Age 0 years)   11. Jacob Doolittle, <,   b. 13 Jul 1796, North Haven, New Haven, CT d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F5881	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2026

  
  

• Notes

  Was Abigail the daughter of Isaac and Abigail Johnson? If so, she was the neice of Rebecca Johnson, Daniel Doolittle’s first wife. “At the time of the persecution of the Baptists in New England about 1754 when Abigail was a girl, she was taken from her home near Wallingford with his sister in the night and carried off to New Haven in a cart where they were shut up on jail on the charge of ‘worshiping God contrary to the law.’” ... Widow Doolittle’s dowry distributed 1809; names heirs in the following order: Giles, Johnson, Sarah Chatterton, Daniel, Michael, Rebecca Russell, Nathan, Abigail Hinman, Rhoda Woolcot, Isaac, Mary Hamlin, John, Stephen, Lois Phelps, Elizabeth, Abraham, Jacob. In olden times a numerous posterity was a thing to be desired; and the results of change in climate and surroundings which make a race more prolific is seen among them. Families of over 20 children were not rare, but many infants died as the stock was slow in becoming acclimated to the rigorous climate. The old homestead in which one or more of the Daniels of this line dwelt was still sanding near North Haven a few years ago [as of 1894].”

  
  

• Sources

  [S1044] Genealogy information submitted to WMGS by Bobbi Schirado, "Tree: Schirado," members database, Western Michigan Genealogical Society, (http://trees.wmgs.org/index.php: accessed ), ., Accessed; 22 October 2011; http://trees.wmgs.org/getperson.php?personID=I26099&tree=Schirado. Was Abigail the daughter of Isaac and Abigail Johnson? If so, she was the neice of Rebecca Johnson, Daniel Doolittle’s first wife. “At the time of the persecution of the Baptists in New England about 1754 when Abigail was a girl, she was taken from her home near Wallingford with his sister in the night and carried off to New Haven in a cart where they were shut up on jail on the charge of ‘worshiping God contrary to the law.’” ... Widow Doolittle’s dowry distributed 1809; names heirs in the following order: Giles, Johnson, Sarah Chatterton, Daniel, Michael, Rebecca Russell, Nathan, Abigail Hinman, Rhoda Woolcot, Isaac, Mary Hamlin, John, Stephen, Lois Phelps, Elizabeth, Abraham, Jacob. In olden times a numerous posterity was a thing to be desired; and the results of change in climate and surroundings which make a race more prolific is seen among them. Families of over 20 children were not rare, but many infants died as the stock was slow in becoming acclimated to the rigorous climate. The old homestead in which one or more of the Daniels of this line dwelt was still sanding near North Haven a few years ago [as of 1894].”  [S1044] Genealogy information submitted to WMGS by Bobbi Schirado, "Tree: Schirado," members database, Western Michigan Genealogical Society, (http://trees.wmgs.org/index.php: accessed ), ., Accessed; 22 October 2011; http://trees.wmgs.org/getperson.php?personID=I26099&tree=Schirado.