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Name: Abigail Farnworth Titles and Terms: Event Type: Birth Event Date: 17 Oct 1687 Event Place: Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Residence Place: Gender: Female Age: Nationality: Race: BirthPlace: Father's Name: John Farnworth Father's Titles and Terms: Father's BirthPlace: Mother's Name: Hannah Mother's Titles and Terms: Mother's BirthPlace: Paternal Grandfather's Name: Paternal Grandmother's Name: Maternal Grandfather's Name: Maternal Grandmother's Name: Note: PAge: Record Number: Reference ID: p 168 GS Film Number: 892249 Frame Number: Digital Folder Number: 004198966 Image Number: 00252
'Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001,' database with images, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ ark:/ 61903/ 1:1:FC9S-DP2 : 3 November 2017), John Farnworth in entry for Abigail Farnworth, 17 Oct 1687; citing Birth, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL
The name 'Massachusetts' originates with native Americans in the Massachusetts Bay area (from the language of the Algonquian nation). The name translates roughly as 'at or about the great hill.' (statesymbolsusa.org)
1620 - 1627 - Plymouth Colony, New England 1628 - 1686 - Massachusetts Bay Colony 1686 - 1689 - Dominion of New England 1689 - 1692 - Massachusetts Bay Colony 1692 - 1775 - Province of Massachusetts Bay 1776 - 1788 - Crown Colony of Massachusetts Bay February 6, 1788 - Massachusetts becomes 6th U.S. state
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