Abigail Edwards Metcalf (1707-1764) - Find a Grave Memorial

Abigail Edwards Metcalf

Birth

25 Dec 1707

East Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA

Death

24 Sep 1764 (aged 56)

Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut, USA

Burial

Old Cemetery

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Abigail Edwards, dau. of Rev. Timothy Edwards and Esther Stoddard, b. Dec. 25, 1707 at East Windsor, Conn. She was the maternal gr.dau. of Rev. Solomon Stoddard of Northampton, Mass. and paternal gr.dau. of Richard Edwards, Esq. of Hartford, Conn. She d. Sept. 24, 1764 at Lebanon, Conn., Æ 57.

On Oct. 25, 1737 at East Windsor, Conn., Abigail m. William Metcalf, Esq., s. of Jonathan Metcalf, Jr. and Hannah Avery, b. Aug. 17, 1708 at Lebanon, Conn. where he d. June 15, 1773, Æ 65. They had five children of record at Lebanon, Conn.:

• i. Abigail Metcalf, b. Apr. 2, 1739, d. Aug. 29, 1800.

• ii. William Metcalf, Jr., b. June 14, 1742, d. in youth July 5, 1750.

• iii. Eliphalet Metcalf, b. July 10, 1744, d. in infancy in May 1745.

• iv. Lucy Metcalf, b. May 25, 1746, d. Apr. 13, 1818.

• v. Eliphalet Metcalf, b. Nov. 25, 1747, d. Mar. 15, 1834; m. Dec. 21, 1775 at Lebanon, Conn., Mary West, dau. of Dea. Joshua West and Elizabeth Williams, b. June 11, 1754 at Lebanon where she d. Mar. 12, 1835. Ten children of the family.

Inscription

Although Abigail's gravestone is now nearly unreadable, from Goodwin's "Genealogical Notes" it says:

Here lies the body of
Mrs. Abigail Metcalfe
wife of William Metcalfe
Esq. Pious, virtuous,
faithful in life, and by
faith in Jefus pass'd
through Death with Re
fignation to the will of
God, and cheerful hope
of blefsednefs in him,
Sept. 24th 1764 in ye
57th year of her Age.

On the day Abigail died she was 56 years old, and Ætatis (i.e., Æ, "Aged," in the XX year of her Age) 57.

It is understandable why Abigail's inscription says what it does. Her father and grandfather Stoddard were ministers, her husband William was educated at Harvard for the ministry, but chose a business career instead, and her brother was the famous Rev. Jonathan Edwards, President of Princeton Univ. and father of New England's religious "Great Awakening" in the mid-1700s.