Abigail Davis ¹

  General Notes:

Daughter of William and Mary Davis of Boston.

Wife of Richard Ussell. On May 20, 1657, Abigail Davis, petitioned the Assembly, alleging that her mother and step-father, John Cowdall, had forced her into a marriage with Richard Ussell. Later that year, the Assembly declared that her marriage with Richard was unlawful and that she was free to marry Edward Richmond, whom she declared in her petition to be her choice.

She then became the wife of Edward Richmond, the son of John Richmond from Ashton, Keynes, Wiltshire, England. They married in 1658, and were the parents of Sylvester Richmond.

Source: Colonial records, Vol.1, page 359
Richmond, Abigail Davis Ussell annulment

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Children of Edward and Abigail Davis Richmond:
* Abigail, born 1656, died 1744; m. (1) abt 1679, John Remington, son of John and Abigail Reminton d. 1688; m. (2) Henry Gardiner, b. 1645, d. 1744.
* Edward, born 1658.
* John, born abt. 1660, died 1738 or bef; m. Elizabeth (?).
* Mary, m. William Palmer.
* Elizabeth, born Dec. 6, 1665, died Febuary i9, 1717 m. John Palmer
* Esther, born 1669, died November 12, 1706; m. Thomas Burgess, son of Thomas and Lydia (Gaunt) Burgess, b. in 1778, d July 1, 1743.
* Silvester, born 1672; baptized at Little Compton, R. I., Nov. 3, 1700.
* Sarah

Children of Edward and Elizabeth Bull Richmond:
* Henry
* Ann

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Photo requests for Abigail's headstone are often requested; sadly, it has been lost to the ages.

A new history of the Richmond Cemetery confirms
there is no surviving gravestone for Abigail, only broken markers with no certainty that it is actually her grave. "Two of the unidentified graves are marked only with ledger stones. Capt. Edward Richmond outlived two wives, Abigail Davis and Amy Bull. One might speculate that these are their graves. Three graves have broken markers\emdash granite head and foot stones\emdash and no information has been found."

The oldest known gravestone in Little Compton is from 1690; Abigail died in 1682.

Abigail married Captain Edward Richmond, son of John Richmond and Elizabeth Nicholas, in 1658. (Captain Edward Richmond was born in 1632 in England, died in Nov 1696 in Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA and was buried in Richmond Cemetery, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA.)