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Abigail Bissell

Generation 11 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Alanson Hayes ← Mabel Phelps ← Mary Eno ← David Eno ← Abigail Bissell

In brief

Born July 6, 1661, in Windsor, Connecticut. She married December 26, 1678, in Windsor, Connecticut. She died April 19, 1728.

Family

Father

Samuel Bissell

Mother

Abigail Holcomb

Spouse

James Eno

m. 1768

Children

James Eno
b. September 23, 1679, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. Mary Grant, April 5, 1703, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. Hannah Phelps/Birge, July 15, 1708, in Windsor, Connecticut
d. May 1762, in Union, Connecticut
Anne/Ann/Anna Eno
b. April 10, 1682, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. Joseph Case, April 6, 1699, in Simsbury, Connecticut
d. June 10, 1760, in Simsbury, Connecticut
William Eno
b. January 5, 1684, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. Mary North (sibling of Rebecca North (3876)) around 1709 in Farmington, Connecticut
m. Mehitable ____
d. Abt. May 1763
Abigail Eno
b. March 1686, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. Samuel Phelps, April 3, 1707, in Windsor, Connecticut
d. Abt. 1750
Mary Eno
b. May 5, 1691, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. Samuel Humphrey/Humphreys
m. Joseph Cornish, May 5, 1726, in Simsbury, Connecticut
d. September 16, 1731, in Simsbury, Connecticut
John Eno
b. January 5/April 4, 1693, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. Frances ____ around 1726
d. 1757 in Simsbury, Connecticut
Samuel Eno
b. July 7, 1696, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. Eunice Marshall, December 24, 1735, in Windsor, Connecticut
d. August 17, 1778, in Windsor, Connecticut
Susannah Eno
b. May 16, 1699, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. Joseph Phelps, March 3, 1715, in Windsor, Connecticut
d. October 17, 1761, in Hebron, Connecticut
David Eno · in this line
b. August 12, 1702, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. Mary Gillett, October 20, 1726, in Simsbury, Connecticut
d. June 1745 in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada

Siblings

John Bissell
b. April 5, 1659
m. Abigail Filley, April 26, 1680
d. 1684
Jacob Bissell
b. March 28, 1664
m. Mary Gillett (sister of William Gillett (7757))
d. August 1, 1689
Mary Bissell
b. September 15, 1666
m. Daniel Owen, January 24, 1681
m. John Pettibone, December 17, 1690
m. Hezekiah Porter, January 27, 1700
d. June 24, 1718
Samuel Bissell
b. January 11, 1668
d. March/May 17, 1697[1698]
Benajah Bissell
b. June 30, 1671
Elizabeth Bissell
b. January 1667
m. ____ Root
Deborah Bissell
b. October 29, 1679
m. Thomas Moore, December 12, 1695
m. Stephen Pettibone, March 24, 1703[1704]
Hannah Bissell
b. September 18, 1682
m. Nathaniel Phelps, March 20/28, 1700
d. February 24, 1717
Josiah Bissell
Joshua Bissell
Joseph Bissell

Life story

A Contested Inheritance

Abigail Bissell was born July 6, 1661, in Windsor, Connecticut, and married James Eno, later living in Simsbury and, in her final years, with her daughter Mary and son-in-law in that town. When James died in 1714, Abigail and her son presented his will for probate, but her sons-in-law contested it on the grounds that it left too little to the couple's daughters. Around 1715 her own nephew sued her for ten pounds from her late father's estate. Abigail died April 19, 1728, having given her final wishes orally to her sisters shortly before her death, leaving her possessions to her four daughters and her unmarried son Samuel.

Sources (2)

Douglas C. Richardson, The Eno and Enos Family in America (1973); digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/16006/images/dvm_GenMono002712-00001-0 : accessed 4 July 2026).
Edward Payson Jones, Genealogy of the Descendants of John Bissell of Windsor, Connecticut by 1640 (Winsted, Connecticut: Roderick Bissell Jones, 1939); digital images, Digital Maine Repository (https://digitalmaine.com/books/33/ : accessed 23 July 2026).