Grandma Abigail's grandfathers had been early residents of New England, and she married George Stover whose father had come from Suffolk, England. They were married in Gloucester, MA in 1692 and had 12 children.
The Elwells were from Stoke Abbot, Devonshire in the southwest. After coming to America, her grandfather, Robert Elwell, held several governmental appointments.
Grandma Methible's parents came to America from England in 1635, a few years before she was born. She married Isaac Elwell and they had seven children, including Grandma Abigail, above, and lived in Gloucester, MA.
Her mother, Grandma Mary Greenoway Millet, came when she was 29, from St. Saviour, Southwark, with her husband, Thomas, and two year old son. Her parents, John and Mary Greenoway had come a few years earlier and settled in Dorchester MA where her father was a millwright, and according to one book,
"of much esteem."
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