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Abigail <I>Morrison</I> Cheney

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Abigail Morrison Cheney

Birth
Sanbornton, Belknap County, New Hampshire, USA
Death
1 Aug 1881 (aged 85)
Ashland, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
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Ashland, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
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Bio by Beverly: Daughter of Jonathan Morrison and wife Esther Jane (Perkins) of (Steele Hill) Sanbornton NH. Abigail married Moses Cheney June 23, 1816 in Holderness NH and had 11 children.

Abigail was a founder of the underground railroad in Maine, and a phamphleteer.

(From the partial text of the Welcome Address to the Members of the Class of 2005, Bates College):
In the early 1840's, Ebenezer Knowlton, a leader of the Free Party in Maine -- a party committed to the abolition of slavery and to the expression of political and social rights for women. . . He joined intellectual strengths with other pamphleteers and young radicals -- including Abigail Cheney (Abigail Morrison Cheney), whose family had befriended Frederick Douglass, the "great emancipator," to provide leadership roles in establishing the underground railway north of Boston. Oren B. Cheney, one of Abigail Cheney's eleven children, led the underground railway at the age of twenty, became a clergyman, a State legislator and the founder and first president, in 1855, of the Maine State Seminary.

Green Grove Cemetery List: Abigail (Morrison)
Cheney, wife of Moses 1796-1881
Bio by Beverly: Daughter of Jonathan Morrison and wife Esther Jane (Perkins) of (Steele Hill) Sanbornton NH. Abigail married Moses Cheney June 23, 1816 in Holderness NH and had 11 children.

Abigail was a founder of the underground railroad in Maine, and a phamphleteer.

(From the partial text of the Welcome Address to the Members of the Class of 2005, Bates College):
In the early 1840's, Ebenezer Knowlton, a leader of the Free Party in Maine -- a party committed to the abolition of slavery and to the expression of political and social rights for women. . . He joined intellectual strengths with other pamphleteers and young radicals -- including Abigail Cheney (Abigail Morrison Cheney), whose family had befriended Frederick Douglass, the "great emancipator," to provide leadership roles in establishing the underground railway north of Boston. Oren B. Cheney, one of Abigail Cheney's eleven children, led the underground railway at the age of twenty, became a clergyman, a State legislator and the founder and first president, in 1855, of the Maine State Seminary.

Green Grove Cemetery List: Abigail (Morrison)
Cheney, wife of Moses 1796-1881

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Family Stone: Abigail Morrison, His Wife | 1796 — 1881 | Cheney
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  • Maintained by: Beverly
  • Originally Created by: BL Hughes
  • Added: Jun 7, 2011
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70963351/abigail-cheney: accessed ), memorial page for Abigail Morrison Cheney (25 Mar 1796–1 Aug 1881), Find a Grave Memorial ID 70963351, citing Green Grove Cemetery, Ashland, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA; Maintained by Beverly (contributor 48340010).