Abigail Dibble

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Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Alanson Hayes ← Jeremiah Hayes ← William Hayes ← William Hayes ← Abigal Dibble

In brief

Born January 19, 1666, in Stamford, Connecticut on Saturday Morning. She married August 29, 1683, Windsor, Connecticut.

Family

Father

Samuel Dibble

Mother

Abigail Graves

Spouse

George Hayes

m. 1683

Children

Abigail Hayes
b. August 31, 1684, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. Paul Tompkins
Daniel Hayes
b. April 26, 1686, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. Martha Holcombe, March 1, 1716, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Sarah Lee, May 4, 1721, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Mary ____ around 1739
d. September 23, 1756, in Simsbury, Connecticut
Sarah Hayes
b. January 1687, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. John Gosard/Gozzard
Mary Hayes
b. January 1689, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. William Rice, August 28, 1712
Johanna/Joanna Hayes
b. October 2, 1692, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. James Hillyer
George Hayes
b. March 9, 1695, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. ____
m. Sarah ____ around 1736
d. Abt. 1765
William Hayes · in this line
b. June 13, 1697, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. September 4, 1723
Samuel Hayes
b. Abt. 1699 in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Elizabeth Willcockson, July 16, 1719, in Simsbury, Connecticut
Thankfull/Thankful Hayes
b. Abt. 1700 in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Nathaniel Holcombe, October 9, 1717, in Simsbury, Connecticut
Benjamin Hayes
b. Abt. 1703 in Simsbury, Connecticut
d. October 19, 1744, in Simsbury, Connecticut
Doritha/Dorothy Hayes
b. Abt. 1706, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Abraham Dibble

Siblings

Half-siblings — children of Samuel Dibble and Hepzibah Bartlett

Hepzibah Dibble
b. December 19, 1669
Joanna Dibble
b. October 4, 1672
Samuel Dibble
b. April 13, 1675
d. February 8, 1676
Mindwell Dibble
b. February 17, 1680
Thankful Dibble
b. June 19, 1685
Patience Dibble
b. October 25, 1687

Life story

Ancestor of a President

Abigail Dibble was born January 19, 1666, on a Saturday morning in Stamford, Connecticut, daughter of Samuel Dibble, and married in Windsor in August 1683. In 1684 she and her husband arranged the sale of land in Newtown, Long Island, that she had inherited from her grandfather William Graves. Abigail's descendants include President Rutherford B. Hayes.

Sources (4)

Reverend Charles Wells Hayes, George Hayes of Windsor and His Descendants (Buffalo, New York: Baker, Jones & Co., 1884).
Norbert R. Bankert, “More on the Identity of Abigail (Graves) Dibble, and her Tragic Death and Suspicions of Witchcraft,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 155 (July 2001): 273-278; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11632/273/23548020 : accessed 9 July 2026).
Henry R. Stiles, The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut (Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1892); images, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/historygenealogi02stil : accessed 10 July 2026).
Connecticut Historical Society, Some Early Records and Documents of and relating to the Town of Windsor Connecticut 1639-1703 (Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1930); Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/someearlyrecords00conn : accessed 10 July 2026).