I wonder if your Abigail could be a descendant of Thomas Haines, Haynes, etc, who married Sarah Rea or Ray? Have you read Dr. Rea's Journal in the Essex Institute? I believe it starts in Volume 18. The Essex Institute series on the Ropes family also includes information on this family. This series starts in Volume 7, I believe. Even more very interesting material on the family starts in Volume 1 involving the Ingersoll family. I say "I believe" because I only copied parts of each of these series. Thomas and Sarah are the ancestors of many of the West Jersey Haynes/Haines family members. Their history is better documented than most because the expiration of a life estate granted in an Ingersoll will required some kind of legal proceeding to cure title to the Essex County, MA land. At first, the investigator thought that some of the heirs of James Hinds of Salem had inherited the land but he ultimately concluded that the correct ancestor was William Haynes of Bedfordshire, England. A discussion of this proceeding may be found in the Boston Transcript, Item #6532. This is a series of newspaper genealogy columns that appeared in the Boston Transcript. The copy in my library is on paper fiche which is almost impossible to read and totally impossible to copy. Perhaps you can find a better copy somewhere. Good luck! Barbara