A teenage girl, Abigail Williams, is being sharply questioned by her minister uncle, the Reverend Samuel Parris, about a wild night affair in the woods in which she and some other girls had seemed to have had contact with these evil beings.

It is like a mysterious epidemic which, starting first with Abigail and Parris, spreads inexorably with a dreadfully growing virulence through the whole town until all have been infected by it.

Abigail is a featured figure on Judy Chicago's installation piece The Dinner Party, being represented in one of the 999 tiles of the Heritage Floor.

John Quincy Adams was born on July 11, 1767 to John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams ( née Smith ) in Braintree, Massachusetts, what is now Quincy, Massachusetts.

The critic Abigail Scherer ’ s claim that “ Shakespeare ’ s Egypt is a holiday world ” recalls the criticisms of Egypt put forth by earlier scholarship and disputes them.

Susan Sarandon ( born Susan Abigail Tomalin ; October 4, 1946 ) is an American actress.

Levenson goes on to note that Ahinoam is always mentioned before Abigail and that she bears David a son before Abigail does, and concludes from this that " she was already married to David when the conflict with Nabal erupted.

Abigail, a talking sloth in the book The Magician King, is a psychopomp who leads Quentin into the Underworld in order to talk to his recently deceased friend.

Abigail and John's marriage is well documented through their correspondence and other writings.

The New Albany Classic is a USEF / FEI-sanctioned equestrian event held each September since 1998 on the estate of Leslie Wexner and his wife Abigail Wexner, founder of the event.

Sophia, making her way past the Severn, is joined by another young lady, her maid ( Abigail Honour, Mrs Honour's sister ) and a guide.

Mrs Fitzpatrick communicates her suspicions to her maid, Abigail, and is informed that the man was Jones himself.

It does not work, but it is revealed that Abigail and Proctor engaged in a previous affair and that Abigail still has feelings for him.

Elizabeth tells Proctor that he must reveal that Abigail is not who everyone thinks she is.

Proctor believes that she is accusing him of resuming his affair with Abigail.

* A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women ( 2003 ) ( ISBN 0-689-85819-1 )

Abigail is the daughter of Phillip Phillips and Hannah Stockton.

The estate is the location of the Annual New Albany Classic Invitational Grand Prix & Family Day benefiting the Columbus Coalition Against Family Violence, of which Abigail Wexner is Founder and Board Chair.

Abigail is a major character in the play The Crucible, but she is portrayed as around eighteen years old.

When it came to the confrontation with both Avengers teams, the Savage Land natives, and the heroes from the ship, Mister Fantastic and Abigail Brand used a laser to identify the heroes from the ship as Skrulls.

At the new Globe Theatre in 2001, a cast of six ( including Abigail Thaw, Mark Rylance, and Richard Hope ) used extensive doubling for the play.

Abigail Geisinger, widow of iron magnate George Geisinger, used his fortune to build a hospital and clinic intended to be a regional medical center modeled after the Mayo Clinic.

" In the essay " Librarians, Professionalism and Image: Stereotype and Reality " ( 2007 ), Abigail Luthmann views the character less favorably, stating that " he unassuming role of librarian is used as a low-visibility disguise for her crime-fighting alter-ego, and while her information-locating skills may have been useful to her extra-curricular activities no direct examples are given.

" In the essay " Librarians, Professionalism and Image: Stereotype and Reality " ( 2007 ), Abigail Luthmann views the character less favorably, stating that " he unassuming role of librarian is used as a low-visibility disguise for her crime-fighting alter-ego, and while her information-locating skills may have been useful to her extra-curricular activities no direct examples are given.

She later serves as Chief of Staff to First Lady Abigail Bartlet, giving her opportunity to get back at Josh by outmaneuvering him, having gotten used to running circles around the First Lady's prior incompetent Chief of Staff.

The rover also used its miniature thermal emission spectrometer to examine a target informally called " Abigail.

Spirit used the panoramic camera and the miniature thermal emission spectrometer to takes images of Abigail and another target called " Priscilla.

Danville resident Abigail Geisinger, widow of iron magnate George Geisinger, used her fortune to build a hospital intended to be a regional medical center modeled on the Mayo Clinic.

Alice Bach notes that Abigail pronounces a " crucial prophecy ," and the Talmud regards her as one of the Tanakh's seven female prophets.

The protagonist Abigail, a young, female, black law graduate experiences various misadventures in post-War Washington, D. C. as she assists on the President's legal defense team.

Abigail came to Australia in 1971 to appear in the female lead in There's a Girl in my Soup in Perth.

The film earned Rozema a Director ’ s Guild of Canada Award nomination for Best Director and New York Times critic A. O. Scott hailed Abigail Breslin for turning in one of the top five female performances of the year.

* MGySgt Abigail D. Olmos, who on August 13, 2004 became the first female Master Gunnery Sergeant in the history of the Marine Corps.

Abigail Faulkner Sr. was pregnant and given a temporary reprieve ( some reports from that era say that Abigail's reprieve later became a stay of charges ).

Several others, including Elizabeth ( Bassett ) Proctor and Abigail Faulkner, were convicted but given temporary reprieves because they were pregnant.

Abigail would be given up for adoption to the Nash family in 1784.

The last episode is set 11 months after the events of the previous episode, after Cath having given birth to her baby Abigail.

After Jill steals Abigail and claims she has given birth, the arrival of Floella, Glen and Cath threatens to unravel her web of lies.

* Front of name: Sometimes a nickname can come from the front: Chris from Christopher / Christina, Ed from Edward / Edmond / Edgar / Edwin, Iz or Izzy from Isaac / Isaiah / Isidore / Izale / Isabel / Isabella, Joe or Jo from Joseph / Josephine / Joanna, Abby from Abigail, Nick or Nico from Nicholas, Peg from Peggy, Sam from Samuel / Samantha / Samson

After the family's announcement of Pauline's illness, Jeanne assumed the pen name Abigail Van Buren ; from 1987 until her mother's retirement, Jeanne had been co-writing the column with her mother.

She chose the name " Abigail Van Buren " because she was inspired by the Bible and a president.

Her chosen first name was from the Old Testament for Abigail the widow of Nabel who later married King David.

John declined Abigail's " extraordinary code of laws ," but acknowledged to Abigail, " We have only the name of masters, and rather than give up this, which would completely subject us to the despotism of the petticoat, I hope General Washington and all our brave heroes would fight.

In 1831, the town's name was changed to " Newstead ", reportedly on the advice of Abigail Fillmore, who was fond of the poetry of Lord Byron.

Miss Abigail J. Scott, best known by her married name as the suffragist Abigail Scott Duniway, was the first teacher.

Dee Dee Wilde knew the name was still marketable and kept Pan's People alive as she continued to dance with and manage a new group of girls: Pauline Crawford, Abigail Higgins, Patricia McSherry, Francesca Whitburn and Sarah Woollett.

When rumors begin to circulate that there is witchcraft in the town, Abigail and Betty Parris began to name people as having been in league with the devil, which was the most common way a " witch " was identified, to save themselves.

In the genealogical lists of the Books of Chronicles, there is a man named Nadab, whose brother is married to a person named Abihail ; it is possible that the name Abigail ( אבגי ִ ל ) is a corruption of Abihail ( א ֲ בי ִ הי ִ ל ), so that it more closely describes the character of the wife, since Abigail roughly means joy of my father, suggesting positive characteristics, while Abihail means only my father is strength.

Rather than the name of his wife was Abigail ( ש ׁ ם א ִ ש ׁ ת ּ ו ֹ אבגי ִ ל ) the account in the Books of Samuel may have originally read the name of the chief of Abihail ( ש ׁ ם שר אביהי ִ ל ), and told of a clan named Abihail, which left a political alliance with the Rechabites ( represented by Nabal / Nadab ) to join the Kingdom of Judah ( represented by David's band of men ).

After Abigail died, Peter conducted his own investigation into her death and spent the rest of his life protecting her from being the subject of salacious gossip, threatening legal action against anyone who tried to use her name in damning articles or books about the Tate-LaBianca murders.

Elizabeth Bear, whose novel New Amsterdam is set in a ( quite different ) alternate timeline where magic works, acknowledged her debt to the Darcy stories by giving her protagonist, a forensic sorceress, the name Abigail Irene Garrett.

Abigail Kawānanakoa is the name of:

Around this time, she changed her name to " Maria Abigail ", which would eventually become, simply, " Maria ".

Her mother ’ s name was Abigail Ludington.

Abby's full birth name is Abigail Marjorie Wyczenski.

Records indicate that the name of his wife was Hester Hurd ( found in some documents to be listed as Eester, Estar, and Ester ), with whom he had three children: Seth, Asahel, and Abigail.

Abigail ( full name Abigail Zsiga ) is a Hi-NRG dance music singer born in England.

After which, Abigail decided it was time for a change and added her last name to her recordings.