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Abigail SCARTH[1]
1710 - 1781 (71 years)-
Name Abigail SCARTH Birth 1710 Woodkirk, West Ardsley, Yorkshire, England, 
[2] Gender Female FamilySearch ID M77Z-HW8 war Est 1780 Wake County, North Carolina - Abigail is said to have aided the war effort of the revolution by
furnishing beef to the continental army.
Name Abigail Scarth O'ROURKE [3] Name Abigail SCARTH O'ROURKE [3] Will 17 Jan 1781 Wake County, North Carolina - SPEIGHT, Abigail will R. 15 Sep 1783 p146
In the name of God Amen. Daughter Lydia LANE: furniture and horse.
Daughter Charity GREEN: furniture. Son William SPEIGHT: furniture.
Daughter Mary MYATT: saddle. Patience GREEN: horse and furniture.
Susana McGUFFEY: furniture. Granddaughter Winnifred TURNER: horse.
Winifred HUNTER: spinning wheel. 17 Jan 1781. Abigail (x) SPEIGHT,
Executors: Son William SPEIGHT, James LANE, Wits: Joel LANE (Jurat),
Sarah (S) LANE, John (x) RENCH.
SPEIGHT, William Estate sale R. Sep 1774 p45
Farm implements; houshold goods; livestock. (Buyers unnamed). Deputy
Sheriff: Jas. JONES.
_UID 552515135990420188EAD28F5D47E5164017 Death 17 Jan 1781 Wake County, North Carolina Person ID I29044 Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy Last Modified 18 Nov 2024
Father James SCARTH, b. 14 Jan 1679, Leeds, Yorkshire, England d. 21 Jun 1757, Woodchurch Yorkshire (Age 78 years) Mother Abigail ELLIS, b. 1680, East Ardsley, Yorkshire, England d. 9 Dec 1741, Woodkirk Yorkshire (Age 61 years) Family ID F536731799 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family William SPEIGHT, b. 1715, Isle of Wight, Virginia, British Colonial America d. 1 May 1774, Swift Creek Township, Wake, North Carolina, British Colonial America (Age 59 years) Marriage Abt 1740-1744 Johnston County, North Carolina Children 1. Penelope SPEIGHT, b. Est 1742 d. Yes, date unknown 2. Lydia SPEIGHT, b. Abt 1743, Wake County, North Carolina d. Yes, date unknown3. Charity SPEIGHT, b. Abt 1745, Wake County, North Carolina d. Yes, date unknown4. William Myrick SPEIGHT, b. 25 Mar 1745, Edgecombe, North Carolina, British Colonial America d. May 1809, Dickson, Tennessee (Age 64 years)5. Patience SPEIGHT, b. Abt 1747, North Carolina d. Yes, date unknown6. Mary SPEIGHT, b. 11 Jan 1748, Edgecombe, North Carolina, British Colonial America d. 15 Jul 1834, Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina (Age 86 years)7. Sarah SPEIGHT, b. Abt 1749, Wake County, North Carolina d. Yes, date unknown8. Elizabeth "Betty" SPEIGHT, b. Abt 1750, Wake County, North Carolina d. Yes, date unknown9. Winifred SPEIGHT, b. Abt 1755, North Carolina d. Abt 1840, Wake County, North Carolina (Age ~ 85 years)Family ID F12723 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Aug 2016
- Abigail is said to have aided the war effort of the revolution by
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Notes - Biography
Abigail is said to have aided the war effort of the revolution by furnishing beef to the continental army.[1]
SPEIGHT, ABIGAIL X Ancestor #: A107238
Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Birth: CIRCA 1715
Death: ANTE 9-15-1783 WAKE CO NORTH CAROLINA
Service Source: NC REV WAR PAY VOUCHERS, #51, ROLL #S.115.126
Service Description: 1) GAVE SUPPLIES, 1780[2]
Parents
The parents of Abigail have not been identified for certain. It is speculated they are James Scarth 1679-1757 and Abigail Ellis 1680-1741.
Marriage
There is no source for her exact marriage date.
Her first child, Winnifred Speight was born in 1732 so she likely married William "William of Edgecombe" Speight in 1731. Winnefred is the first child listed in William's Will dated 2 Jul 1773.
CHILDREN
She had eight children with William "William of Edgecombe" Speight
Will of Spouse Dated 2 Jul 1773
She is mentioned as follows in the Will dated 2 Jul 1773 of William "William of Edgecombe" Speight
" I lend unto Abigail my Well beloved Wife the use and profit of the Plantation whereon I live with the Land in that Tract thereunto Adjoin being by Estemation two hundred and forty Acres and two Negroe Men both Named Dick and One Negroe Woman Named Sarah, and two feather Beds and furnitures thereto belonging and Six Cows and their Calves two Steers and three Yearlings and three Mares One Rhoan One Bay & One Black in Coular and One black Horse or Gelding and all my Hogs raised at the said Plantation One Iron pot and One third part of my Pewter and One side Saddle, and my Plantation Tools, & Casks and Six Chairs and One Disk and One Small walnut Table and One pine Do and One linin Wheel and One Woollen Do and One washing Tubb and One water pail and One piggin, which use or lent of the above said things to my above said Wife. I desire may be and remain for and during her Widowhood or Natural Life and no longer."
Death
17 JAN 1781 (Will date, not death date)
Wake, North Carolina, United States
DAR Record: ANTE 9-15-1783
Will of Abigail Speight
In the name of God amen. January the 17th 1781
I Abigal Speights of the County of Wake in the
State of North Carolina being very sick and
Weak of body but of sound and perfect mind
and memory and calling to mind the certainty
of Death and the uncertainty of the time thereof do
Make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament
in the manner and form following, first and principally
I Recommend my Soul to the great God that gave
it and my body to be decently buried at the
Discretion of my Executors hereafter named
and as to my worldly goods that God has been pleased
to bless me with I give and dispose of in manner
and form following
Imprimus I give and I bequeath to my daughter Liddia
Lane my black horse called Jack my desk and Looking Glass
Item I give to my daughter Charity Green one
feather bed and furniture one square walnut
table and three flag bottom chairs
Item I give to my son William Speights one Large
Black walnut chest and one Book cald
The Explanation of the New Testament
Item I give to my daughter Mary Myatt my riding
side saddle
Item I give to my daughter Patience Green one feather
bed and furniture nor Rone mare calld
Nanie & one Iron Pott. and all my Puter ware
Item I give to Susanna McGuffie one feather bed
and two two year old Heiffers
Item I give to my granddaughter Winnefred Hunter my linen wheel
Item I give to my granddaughter Winifred Turner one young Rone mair two year old next
Spring
Item I give and bequeath the rest and remainder
the rest of my estate of what nature or kind soever
not herein already bequeathed to be Equally
Divided amongst all my children—— and I do
hereby nominate and appoint my son William
Spights and James Lane the Executors of this my
Last Will and Testament hereby revoking and
Disannulling all other will or wills by
me made Ratifying this and only this to be
my Last Will and Testament in witness
whereof I have hereunto Sett my hand and
Seal the day and year above Witness___
Signd and seald and declared Her
to be the Testators. Abigal x Spights SEAL
Last Will in presence of Mark
Joel Lane (Jurat)
Sarah S Lane
His
John X Rench
Mark
Wake County September Term 1781. Then was the Execution of the within Will duly proved in Open Court by the Oath of Joel Lane and Witness thereto and ordered recorded. J. Rice ClkCo.
--Recorded in the Clerks Office of Wake County in Book
-- A page (146) this 15th September A Dom 1783. J. Rice ClkCo.[3]
Research Notes
SHE WAS NOT ABIGAIL SCARTH OF WEST YORKSHIRE ENGLAND
Some Family Trees incorrectly claim that she was a woman named Abigail Scarth. This is not correct as Abigail Scarth lived her entire life in Yorkshire, England.
Abigail Scarth 1711– 1798[4]
BIRTH 15 APR 1711 • Woodkirk, Yorkshire, England
DEATH 16 JUN 1798 • Morley, Yorkshire, England
- Biography
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Sources - [S1074] Roy Edward BROWN ; Ballwin, MO, Roy Brown.
- [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 12 Sep 2024), entry for Abigail SCARTH, person ID M77Z-HW8. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2023), entry for Abigail SCARTH, person ID M77Z-HW8. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1074] Roy Edward BROWN ; Ballwin, MO, Roy Brown.