When Abigail Knight was born on 15 April 1697, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Benjamin Knight, was 28 and her mother, Abigail Jaques, was 24. She married Jonathan Pearson on 24 January 1722, in Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 14 October 1774, in Newbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 77.