When Abigail Ellenwood was born on 11 October 1769, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel Ellenwood, was 33 and her mother, Sarah Giles, was 32. She married William I. Saunders on 2 February 1792, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 11 December 1841, at the age of 72, and was buried in Hebron, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.