Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth
BIRTH
1755
East Windsor, Connecticut
DEATH
August 4, 1818
Hartford, Connecticut
FAMILY
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Ellsworth, Abigail Wolcott
(1755-1818)
Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth (1755-1818) was a member of a prominent Revolutionary-era family and the spouse of Oliver Ellsworth. Oliver Ellsworth was a public official, lawyer, and judge whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. Surviving documentation is strongest in genealogical, family, estate, and marriage records rather than in a separate public biography. Including Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
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HUSBAND
Oliver Ellsworth
(1745-1808)
Martin Ellsworth
(1783-1857)
Henry Leavitt Ellsworth
(1791-1858)
William W. Ellsworth
(1791-1868)
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DIED:
Hartford, Connecticut
Aug 4, 1818
Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth was born on Feb 8, 1755 in East Windsor, Connecticut. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth died on Aug 4, 1818 in Hartford, Connecticut. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.