Brief Life History of Abigail
When Abigail Manchester was born on 9 February 1769, in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Capt Isaac Manchester, was 37 and her mother, Abigail Brown, was 36. She died in October 1853, in Westport, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 84.
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- Abigail Manchester, "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"
- Abigail Manchester, "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925"
- Abigail Manchester, "Rhode Island, Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"
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World Events (8)
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · Rhode Island Declares Independence
Rhode Island declares independence from Great Britain on May 4, 1776, making it the first colony to do so officially.
1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
Name Meaning
1 English: habitational name from a place in Nottinghamshire. The early forms, from Domesday Book to the early 13th century, show the first element uniformly as Mam-, and it is therefore likely that this was a British hill-name meaning ‘breast’ ( compare Manchester ), with the later addition of Old English feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’ ( see Field ) as the second element. The surname is now widespread throughout Midland and southern England and is also common in Ireland.
2 Irish: when not an importation of 1, this is an altered form of the Norman name Manville ( see Mandeville ).
3 Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Mansfeld, a habitational name for someone from a place so called in Saxony.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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