Abigail Balliou
(aka Barlow)
Abigail Balliou, (sometimes named Abigail Barlow depending on the source) was the second wife of John Dunham. She is named here in a John Dunham Bio.
DUNHAM, JOHN – John Dunham was born ca. 1589 (age at time of death 1668/69 was given as eighty). He was a Leiden Separatist who came to Plymouth between 1628 and 1632, probably with those who arrived from Holland in 1629 and 1630. A deacon in the Plymouth Church, he had married (1) Susan Kennedy, who died in Holland, and (2) Abigail Barlow, daughter of Thomas in Leiden on 22 October 1622. He had three children by his first wife: John, Humility and Thomas, and eight by his second wife: Samuel, Abigail, Persis, Jonathan, Hannah, Joseph, Benajah and Daniel. All the children are mentioned by Mrs. John E. Barclay, “Notes on the Dunham Family of Plymouth, Mass.,” TAG 30:143, and she carries four of them forward: John, who married a Mary; Thomas, who Mrs. Barclay believed never married, in spite of what savage and others wrote; Samuel who married (1) Martha (Beal) Fallaway and (2) the widow Sarah Watson; and Joseph, who married (1) Mercy Morton and (2) Hester Wormell. Of the other children, Abigail married Stephen Wood; Persis married (1) Benaja Pratt and (2) Jonathan Snow; Jonathan married (1) Mary Delano, and (2) Mary Cobb; Hannah married Giles Richard; Benajah married Elizabeth Tilson; and Daniel married Hannah. pp.285-286, Plymouth Colony, Its History & People, 1620-1691 by Eugene Aubrey Stratton 1986. (in print)
This author goes on to state, "Isaac Walton Dunham's Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth Mass., 1589-1669, and his Descendants is a very poorly written book, confusing, difficult to use and often erroneous." This is also the opinion of Charles Edward Banks, author of The History of Martha's Vineyard.
