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Abigail <I>Atwood</I> Shurtleff

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Abigail Atwood Shurtleff

Birth
Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
29 Nov 1826 (aged 71)
Carver, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Carver, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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Daughter of Lt Nathaniel Atwood and Abigail Shaw, wife of Benjamin Shurtleff married June 7, 1773 in Plympton. She died at 8 pm.
She weighed 275 pounds, as did most her sons.
"Mrs Shurtleff was said to be an exceptionally large woman and a majority of her children resembled her in that respect. It was said she and her eight sons weighed a ton. They actually totaled 2014 pounds. She was broad in her views and much in advance of the times in which she lived.
While Mrs Shurtleff was waiting her turn in line, a man jostled her aside and stepped in front of her. She would allow no such impudence from the other sex and seizing him by the coat collar and the seat of his trousers threw him into the brook."
Mother of:
* Benjamin 1774-1847, weighed 214 pounds
* Nathaniel 1776-1858, weighed 220 pounds
* Stephen 1777 1780
* Barzillai 1780-1855, weighed 240 pounds
* Abigail, Mrs Francis Atwood 1782-1864
* Flavel born 1784-1845, weighed 210 pounds
* Ruth 1787-1873, died unmarried
* Lot 1789-1864
* Charles 1790-1840
* Samuel Atwood 1792-1873
* Hannah, Mrs Abijah Lucas 1794-1876
* Milton 1796-1842, weighed 230 pounds

1912 Shurtleff genealogy ID 67
Daughter of Lt Nathaniel Atwood and Abigail Shaw, wife of Benjamin Shurtleff married June 7, 1773 in Plympton. She died at 8 pm.
She weighed 275 pounds, as did most her sons.
"Mrs Shurtleff was said to be an exceptionally large woman and a majority of her children resembled her in that respect. It was said she and her eight sons weighed a ton. They actually totaled 2014 pounds. She was broad in her views and much in advance of the times in which she lived.
While Mrs Shurtleff was waiting her turn in line, a man jostled her aside and stepped in front of her. She would allow no such impudence from the other sex and seizing him by the coat collar and the seat of his trousers threw him into the brook."
Mother of:
* Benjamin 1774-1847, weighed 214 pounds
* Nathaniel 1776-1858, weighed 220 pounds
* Stephen 1777 1780
* Barzillai 1780-1855, weighed 240 pounds
* Abigail, Mrs Francis Atwood 1782-1864
* Flavel born 1784-1845, weighed 210 pounds
* Ruth 1787-1873, died unmarried
* Lot 1789-1864
* Charles 1790-1840
* Samuel Atwood 1792-1873
* Hannah, Mrs Abijah Lucas 1794-1876
* Milton 1796-1842, weighed 230 pounds

1912 Shurtleff genealogy ID 67

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