On This Day: June 22

1645: Abigail Rigby, one of my maternal 7^th great-grandmothers, daughter of John and Isabel Rigby, was born in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. She died on 1 March 1702/03 in Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. [Source: Alfred Lyman Holman, "Descendants of John Holman," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1918, 196; digital images, New England Historic and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (www.americanancestors. org : accessed 19 Jun 2011).  This is a photograph of her gravestone in Milton Cemetery posted by Scrib and Barb Kelly on the Find A Grave website:

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