Yes, Kevin, You're right, it could be Bathsheba! If you haven't seen a copy of Increase(4)'s probate, let me say that Bathsheba is mentioned in there. She is also mentioned in the Middletown Congregational Church Records. Increase did not have a second wife. Joann Kevin K. Stephenson wrote: > Celia, Joann, & all: > > 1810 minus 45 years would be 1765...if Abigail's mom was at the bottom end of > 45+, she'd have only been ten when Abigail was born. Not likely, but within a > few years of correct. The high end during that time period would probably be > about 70. If Mom was born in 1740, and she'd have been 35 when Abigail was > born. The range is probably pretty close. > Then again, looking at Johnson's mom, Bathsheba Johnson, she was born in 1739, > and we know Increase died in 1802. Is there any reason to believe it wasn't > her?? Do we know when she died? She'd have been a widow for 8 years at the > time of the 1810 census, and about 71 years old. And what's the story on > Increase's 'other' wife? I show two wives, but no info on #2, and no death date > for Bathsheba Johnson. Am I all messed up? Could it have been one of them?? >