Abigail GATES

1671 - 1775  (103 years)

• Name	Abigail GATES  [1, 2]
  Birth	14 Aug 1671	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	10 Mar 1775  [1]
  Notes	Excerpt from "New England Historical and Genealogical Register": Nathaniel Sparhawk lived in the part of Cambridge which became the town of Brighton. In "Historical Brighton," by J.P.C. Winship, p. 160, are found the following statements concerning Abigail. "About a year after Nathaniel's death his widow Abigail married Joseph Mayo. At his death she returned to her old home in Brighton to live with her grandson, Nathaniel. Here she lived to the great age of one hundred and six years. During the last few years of her life she was so feeble that she had to sit in a chair with a bar across the front to support her. This chair was one of the family curiosities until a few years ago, when it disappeared." Mrs. Mayo was not quite as old as is stated above. The record published in the "Pennsylvania Magazine was probably copied from a Boston paper. She was actually in her 104th year at the time of her death.
  Person ID	I23964	Main Tree
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	Simon GATES,   b. 1645, Cambridge, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts d. 26 Aug 1692, Muddy River (Brookline), Norfolk, Mass. (Age 47 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Margaret BARSTOW,   b. 24 Feb 1648/9   d. 13 Apr 1707, Brookline, Massachusetts (Age 58 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	Nov 1670  [1]
  Family ID	F08607	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Nathaniel SPARHAWK,   c. 3 Nov 1667   d. 08 Nov 1734 (Age ~ 67 years)
  Marriage	02 Jan 1693	Braintree, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Family ID	F08608	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2021

  
  

  Family 2	Joseph MAYO,   b. Roxbury, Massachusetts d. 05 Mar 1747
  Marriage	16 Oct 1735  [1, 2]
  Family ID	F08609	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2021

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 14 Aug 1671 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Marriage - 02 Jan 1693 - Braintree, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S02768] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 1966, Vol. 120. [S12781] Cecil Hampden Cutts Howard, Materials for a Genealogy of the SPARHAWK Family in New England.