1946 (Wednesday) – Having an appointment with Brother Bennett, We went there shortly after nine o’clock. We discussed our Abigail Bishop problem. I gave him the two reports from Mr. Jacobus to read, those with some material of my own gave him and insight to our problem. We have been having a hard time to locate the parentage of Abigail Bishop, who married Aaron Sperry, my 3rd Great-Grandparents. According to the printed record in the American Genealogist, there were two James Bishop cousins, they were born, James the son of John, 1699 and James, the son of James, born in 1700, only a few months apart, in 1725/6, one James married Elizabeth Clinton, the other in 1728/9 married Abigail, and in 1731, another daughter named Abigail. In as much as the second daughter was named Abigail, the Genealogist concluded the first one must have died soon. Both of the father’s and a mother named Abigail, it certainly looked logical that the first James would marry first, in studying carefully our problem the Genealogist decided that he must have made a mistake in which James married who and that it must have been James the son of James who married Elizabeth Clinton and then in 1747 his daughter Abigail married Aaron Sperry. There is definite proof through a deed that Abigail, born 1731, is the daughter of James, son of John. The Genealogist is not to blame because of the mistake in the printed record, it was due to the poor condition of the New Haven Vital Records.
I worked for a while in the Library and then came home.
Loony Lunts and Company 