Women - Hunterdon County, New Jersey

ABIGAIL ROBERTS
Abigail Roberts was born in 1791 and began a career of evangelism in Ballston, NY
in 1816.
Her preaching was said to be spellbinding and, probably because of that and the
perceived threat to established religions, she was many times denied the pulpit. Her
message was simple -- she preached a simple Christian doctrine which became
annoying to her fellow men preachers.
Abigail Roberts moved to New Jersey where she continued her preaching. It was
she who was instrumental in establishing the Christian churches at Locktown, Milford,
Little York and Finesville.
By 1830 she was stricken by severe rheumatism. Her preaching continued on a
limited basis for many more years. As the disease progressed she gave up the pulpit
and moved with her family to Dunmore, PA. where she died in 1841.
In 1855 her body was exhumed from her Pennsylvania grave and reinterred in the
cemetery in Milford, NJ where she rests today.
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