On 24 Aug 1774 when Daniel Hezekiah was 32, he second married
Abigail Johnson (61688) , daughter of
Isaac Johnson (52350) (23 Jun 1731-14 Sep 1805) &
Abigail Shipman (Dec 1731-1810), in Congregational Society, North Haven.
55 Born ca 1757 in Wallingford, CT. Abigail died in North Haven, CT on 17 Sep 1834.6
Was Abigail the daughter of Isaac and Abigail Johnson?55 If so, she was the neice of Rebecca Johnson, Daniel Doolittle’s first wife.
This story must refer to a different Abigail Johnson unless the dates are off:
“At the time of the persecution of the Baptists in New England about 1754 when Abigail was a girl, she was taken from her home near Wallingford with her sister in the night and carried off to New Haven in a cart where they were shut up on jail on the charge of ‘worshiping God contrary to the law.’” 358
“Widow Doolittle’s dowry distributed 1809 [the year after her husband Daniel died]; names heirs in the following order: Giles, Johnson, Sarah Chatterton, Daniel, Michael, Rebecca Russell, Nathan, Abigail Hinman, Rhoda Woolcot, Isaac, Mary Hamlin, John, Stephen, Lois Phelps, Elizabeth, Abraham, Jacob. In olden times a numerous posterity was a thing to be desired; and the results of change in climate and surroundings which make a race more prolific is seen among them. Families of over 20 children were not rare, but many infants died as the stock was slow in becoming acclimated to the rigorous climate. The old homestead in which one or more of the Daniels of this line dwelt was still sanding near North Haven a few years ago [as of 1894].”358