John Youngman - Is his wife, Abigail Youngman, receiving a Widow's Pension in 1840 ?

 In the "New Hampshire Pension Roll of 1840" is listed an Abigail Youngman. She is 78 years old and living with the Jonas Blood Jr family on the 1840 census in Hollis, NH and receiving a Widow's pension.

There was a relationship between the Youngmans and the Bloods, Abigail (?) Youngman was the sister-in-law of Rhoda (Youngman) Blood, wife of Simeon Blood and sister of John and Thomas Youngman.

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