Family of Abraham + HARRINGTON and Rebecca + CUTLER

Husband:	Abraham + HARRINGTON (1622-1677)
Wife:	Rebecca + CUTLER (1626-1678)
Children:	Rebecca + HARRINGTON (1646-1713)
	Abraham HARRINGTON (1654- )
	Hannah HARRINGTON (1658- )
	Mary HARRINGTON (1659- )
	Sarah HARRINGTON (1659- )
	Jacob HARRINGTON (1668-1731)
	Ann HARRINGTON (1669-1731)
Marriage	1649	Cambridge, Middlesex, MA, US1

Husband: Abraham + HARRINGTON

Wife: Rebecca + CUTLER

Name:	Rebecca + CUTLER
Sex:	Female
Father:	Robert + CUTLER (1605-1665)
Mother:	Rebecca + (1604-1677)
Birth	1626	Charlton City, Worcester, MA, US
Death	18 Mar 1678 (age 51-52)	Cambridge, Middlesex, MA, US3

Child 1: Rebecca + HARRINGTON

Child 2: Abraham HARRINGTON

Name:	Abraham HARRINGTON
Sex:	Male
Birth	1 Nov 1654

Child 3: Hannah HARRINGTON

Name:	Hannah HARRINGTON
Sex:	Female
Birth	1658

Child 4: Mary HARRINGTON

Name:	Mary HARRINGTON
Sex:	Female
Birth	13 Jan 1659

Child 5: Sarah HARRINGTON

Name:	Sarah HARRINGTON
Sex:	Female
Birth	13 Jan 1659

Child 6: Jacob HARRINGTON

Name:	Jacob HARRINGTON
Sex:	Male
Birth	12 Sep 1668	Cambridge, Middlesex, MA, US
Death	26 Aug 1731 (age 62)	Cambridge, Middlesex, MA, US

Child 7: Ann HARRINGTON

Name:	Ann HARRINGTON
Sex:	Female
Birth	1669	Cambridge, Middlesex, MA, US
Death	26 Aug 1731 (age 61-62)

Note on Husband: Abraham + HARRINGTON

About 1/2 mile from the Gibson household lived the Errington family. ABRAHAM ERRINGTON was born in New Castle-on-Tyne, Northumberland, England on June 19, 1622. He first shows up in the records of Cambridge on 11/11/1646. He married REBECCA CUTLER of Charlestown in 1649 (see the Charlestown chapter), and owned a house on the east side of Brighton Street (current JFK Street), about midway between Harvard Square and Mount Auburn Street. He also owned the lot on the opposite side of the street. He was a blacksmith by trade. In 1656 he was chosen as a surveyor of highways (along with our ancestor THOMAS WISWALL who lived in Cambridge Village then), and in 1661 as town constable. He is mentioned several times in the records in lists of acerage, or for being granted permission to cut timber. His mother, ANN LIDDELL ERRINGTON, joined him or accompanied him to Cambridge. She died in December, 1653, and was buried in the Old Burying-Ground, currently at the corner of Garden St. and Mass Ave. in Harvard Square. Her epitaph reads "Here lies ye body of Ann Erinton Aged 77 yrs. decd. Decemr. 25: 1653" and has the distinction of being the oldest readable gravestone in the cemetery. The Erringtons had 9 children, 3 of them named Abraham (the first two died young) like the father and the oldest girl REBECCA like the mother. ABRAHAM was buried next to his mother with the epitaph "Here lies ye body of Abraham Erinton aged 55 y. decd May ye 9, 1677". His wife REBECCA lived another 20 years with the support of the parish. Frequent donations were made to her by the Church between 1686 and 1697, and later for her two widowed daughters. In 1689 She and her children received alms for "being under the afflicting hand of God; her sons were taken away by death, and her daughter, and a grandchild".

Sources

1	"US New England Marriages prior to 1700".

2	"Middlesex County MA Probate Record, 1648-1870 Record".

3	"MA Town and Vital Records 1620-1988 Record".

4	Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register" (NEHGS).

5	"MA Town Death Records".