Abigail Minis

Abigail Minis (August 11, 1701 – October 11, 1794) was a businesswoman and landowner, prominent in Savannah, Province of Georgia, during the American Revolutionary War. She was a European immigrant, along with her husband, Abraham Minis, to the newly settled colony of Savannah, in 1733. Despite their not knowing if they would be received, General James Oglethorpe, founder of the colony, allowed Minis and her family entry and granted them land.

Her financial support and hospitality to the rebel troops during the war meant she was considered a Revolutionary hero.

Descendants of the Minises have lived in Savannah ever since.

Life and career Minis, an Ashkenazi Jew of German origin, was born in 1701. He had no descendants.

Oglethorpe granted the family land, and Abraham's name appears in the general conveyance of town lots and farms that was implemented in December 1733, which makes it one of the earliest deeds in the colony.

Minis ran multiple businesses after becoming widowed, and she supplied the rebel troops with provisions during the Revolutionary War's siege of Savannah.

When Savannah fell to the British in December 1778, she was accused as being a supporter of the rebellion. in Savannah. She was 93. and a different cemetery to that of her husband, who is interred in the city's former Bull Street Cemetery. It was located at the northwestern corner of today's Bull Street and Oglethorpe Avenue and is today marked by a memorial.

Descendants Minis' great-grandson (son of Philip's son Isaac), also named Abraham, built several properties in Savannah in the 19th century. He was "one of Savannah's leading merchants and a citizen of the highest integrity and social influence."