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JOHN ABBE AND HIS DESCENDANTS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
Introduction v
John Abbe of Salem and Wenham 1
Second Generation 5
Third Generation 14
Fourth Generation 26
Fifth Generation 56
Sixth Generation 110
Seventh Generation 210
Eighth Generation 325
Ninth Generation 390
Unconnected Lines 407
1790 Census Lists 434
Revolutionary Soldiers 435
Appendix 438
Index 445
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FACING PAGE
Map of Windham, Connecticut frontispiece
Seal of Ship Bonaventure viii
Map of New England 1
Statue of Captain Thomas* Abbey 52
Autograph of Captain Thomas* Abbey and Town Hall of Enfield 53
Peter^ Abbey 104
Rev. Richard*^ Abbey, Mason Ellis'' Abbey and wife, Richard Newland^
Abbey, and Mrs. Emma V.'' (Abbey) Davis 126
Dr. Homer Abbey^ Davis and Mrs. Pearl V.^ (Davis) Dunham 127
Moses Cleveland*' Abbe and wife, John Randolph^ Abbe, and Charles Smith^
Abbe 140
Seal of Battle of Prescott and Old Windmill at Prescott 188
Seth Alden« Abbey 189
Harris^ Abbe and wife 194
Mrs. Susan Brown^ (Abbe) Frink 242
George Waldo^ Abbe and wife, Cleveland^ Walter^, William Colgate^,
Charles Colgate^, Robert^, and Harriet Colgate^ Abbe, and Mrs. Helen^
(Abbe) Howson between 242 and 243
Henry Gilbert^ Abbey and Edwin Alden^ Abbey 300
Henry® Abbey and Henry^ Abbey, jr 301
Mrs. Frances Maria'' Abbey Freeman and Alden® Freeman 302
Wife of Harris*' Abbe, Harris'^ Abbe, Mrs. Hannah^ (Abbe) Stephens, and
Mrs. Lydia M.^ (Abbe) Stephens 312
Mrs. Helen^ (Abbe) Howson, from the painting by Alexander 357
Edwin Austin® Abbey 372
English Abbey Coat of Arms 406
INTRODUCTION
The Abbe genealogy, as here piiblished, is the consummation of Professor Cleve-
land Abbe's life-long interest in the history of his family. Before reaching his
twentieth year he began to collect items of interest about his ancestors and the col-
lateral lines, and in spite of more or less interruption he has continued to do so all
througli his busy career. During the early sixties, Mr. William Weaver, who
was then editor of the Willimantic Journal, began the publication of what he
planned to be an exhaustive work on the old families of Windham. After pub-
lication in the Journal he corrected and republished the sketches in pamphlet
form. Mr. Weaver died before his hopes were realized and we have only a small
portion of the work, covering the families alphabetically from " A " to " Bill. ' '
His fragmentary notes on other families have been preserved in the library of
the Connecticut Historical Society where they were deposited as a gift from
his son.
From time to time other members of the family added to the items collected
by or worked up at the suggestion of Professor Abbe. A few years ago, finally
realizing that other matters demanded too much time and that he could not
arrange this material in final form, he turned over all his material to Josephine
Genung Nichols (Mrs. L. Nelson Nichols). She has arranged the data in its
present form, and added to it, as far as practicable, by extensive correspondence,
library research and examinations of the public records at some of the former
homes of the family.
Collaborators. — Most helpful contributions to this work have been made by:
Mr. Charles E. Abbe of Sara Sota, Fla., who left an invaluable collection of
records about the line of Obadiah Abbe, the basis of our history of that branch;
Miss Norah D. Abbe of Elyria, Ohio, and Mrs. John Emerson, on Eleazer and
the Abbe families of Eljrria; Miss Julia Maynard on the Vermont Abbeys and
other New England lines; Mrs. Bronson Post Reynolds, about the Jonathan
Abbey line; Mr. Richard N. Abbey on the soutliern lines; Mrs. D. Stearns
Jamison on the Harris Abbey record and portraits; Mr. Charles T. Hendriek,
whose unflagging interest and remarkable ability has secured materials hitherto
unavailable; Mr. Alden Freeman, whose love for the family is expressed in the
beautiful Thomas Abbey monument just erected on Enfield Green; Mrs. Martha
B. Hanna on the Pease family descended from Mary Abbey; Mrs. Ashbel Welch,
on the Welch family. Lack of space prevents mention of many others who have
also contributed to the work and have cheered the compiler by their kind replies.
We thank you all once more.
A family history is never really complete or entirely satisfactory; but we feel
that we have gone to as much expense as was justified. We have made this
beginning; may others continue the work.
Professor Abbe had hoped to make this genealogA^ no mere list of the members
of the family. He would have it a contribution to the study of heredity, so
has added as much as practicable on the personal characteristics of its members
and has included many available photographs. He believes that the study of
any good clean family will bring out facts just as well wortli following up for
the development of the personality of the nation, as are the facts brought out
by the work of criminologists and social workers in the field of the mentally
deficient, etc., which show the immense value to a countiy, of the study of inherit-
ance of traits that increase state expenses for caring for such defectives.
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Arrangement. — The general arrangement of the matter is the same as is
commonly used in similar works on genealogy. We have tried to avoid unneces-
sary numbers and to simplify the work as much as possible in order to make it
useful to eveiy one. Few abbreviations are used in addition to b., m., and d., for
born, married, and died, respectively.
Dates. — Among the earlier records will be noted some double dating. Accord-
ing to the old calendar used in England and her colonies up to 1751, the year
began on March 26. In that year England followed the lead set by most European
countries and decreed that after the last day of December, 1751, the 25th day of
March should no longer be reckoned the last day of the year and that the year
1752 should begin on January 1. Accordingly in most dates prior to 1752, we find
the old year continued to March 25 with the new year annexed to it from the
first of January. This was not a uniform practice, however.
Spelling. — The spelling of the name has been a source of perplexity from the
earliest days to the present. Abbe or Abbey have been the favorite forms,
followed by Abby, Abbee, Abbe and other variations usually not authorized by
the bearer of the name. In arranging the data for publication we have made every
effort to follow the usage of each particular family in this matter; there are
many errors no doubt in records sent by someone not wholly familiar with the
usage of the family concerned. In some cases close relatives have used different
spellings, thereby adding to the chance of errors. The records of the Abbay,
Aby, and of a few other families have been added, although we do not know that
they are connected with the family of John Abbe. The name is not a common
one in England or elsewhere. It was probably a name of local derivation,
denoting one who lived at or near an abbey.
The late Dr. Edward Payson Abbe of New Bedford, Mass., believed in his
French origin. He had a coat of arms that belonged to and was used by a French
family in Normandy. This coat of arms is described as : a red eagle with beak
and legs of gold on a shield of silver. In British heraldic works the coat of
arms is given as : gules, five fusils in f esse between three escallops argent. There
are several crests, viz., a cross crosslet azure; an eagle displayed argent between
two cross crosslets or, each wing charged with a cross crosslet gules; an eagle's
head erased proper; a leopard rampant proper. The motto also varies: "Spei
mea coelo, " or " Confido conquesco. ' '
It is possible that some of the Abbes came over from France to England at
an early date; but we have absolutely no evidence that John Abbey was entitled
to use these arms, or that he ever did so.
Migrations. — It is a source of regret that so little is known of the history of
John Abbey before he emigrated to America. The Heralds' College, London,
began a search for such information some time ago, but thus far no results
have been reported. To us it seems likely that he was of or connected with the
Abbey family of Staverton (see page 433).
John Abbe, or Abbey, migrated to America at a time when many of England's
young men were coming to the new colonies either for freedom from religious
persecution, from a love of adventure, or simply from a desire to better their
condition. The brief glimpses into his life and character afforded by colonial
records, suggest that John Abbey was of the first-mentioned class. He was early
a church member and land owner in the New World and his descendants were
active for good in their communities. From the first homes in Salem and Wen-
ham, the three brothers of the second generation went out to new homes in
different sections of Connecticut, Windham, and Enfield, where each family
became prominently identified with the life of their town. As settlements were
extended into the interior, we find the Abbeys going on up the Connecticut valley,
then turning westward with the tide of settlers through central New York, then
Introduction vii
on to Ohio, as that country was opened up, and still later on to Michigan and
eventually across the continent.
Appendix. — Some items of historical interest which it was not desirable to
include in the body of the record but which we are happy to be able to contribute
to the family history, have been placed in the Appendix. On pages 406 to 434
we have concisely arranged practically all collected items that might be of use
to a future historian. Any information serving to complete these items will be
welcome.
CLEVELAND ABBE,
Washington, D. C.
JOSEPHINE GENUNG NICHOLS,
New York, N. Y.
The following is a list of the more important sources of information that have
been consulted in preparing this work:
Public records in Salem, Wenham, Springfield, and Granby, Mass. ; Willimantic,
Willington, Ashford, and Hartford, Conn. ; Albany, Syracuse, Utica, and Jamestown,
N. T.
U. S. Census lists of 1790 as published ; and originals of later censuses on file in
Washington, D. C.
New England Historic and Genealogical Register. See index vols.
Connecticut Historical Society Collections.
Vital Records of Wenham, Mass., to the end of the year 1849. Salem, Mass., 1904.
227p. 8°.
Weaver, Wm. L. History of ancient Windham, Ct. Genealogy, part 1. Willimantic,
Conn., 1864. 112p. 8°.
Lamed, Ellen D. History of Windham Co., Conn. Worcester, Mass., 1874, 1880.
2v. 8°.
Woodicard, W. E., editor. Records of Salem Witchcraft. Roxbury, Mass., 1864.
2v. sq. 8°.
Middlesex Co., Conn., Commemorative biographical record of. Chicago, 1903. lOOlp.
Allen, F. A. The history of Enfield, Conn. Lancaster, Pa., 1909. 3v. 4°.
Utiles, Henry R. The history of ancient Windsor, Conn. New York, 1859. Vol. 2.
922p. 8°.
Dimock, S. W. Births, baptisms, marriages and deaths from the records of Mansfield,
Conn. New York, 1898. 475p. 8°.
Storrs, R. 8. Centennial celebration of * * * Longmeadow, Mass., * * * town gene-
alogy. Hartford, Conn., 1884. 321, 97p. 8°.
Smith, J. M. History of the town of Sunderland, Mass. Greenfield, Mass., 1899.
684p. 8°.
Cole, J. R. History of Tolland Co., Conn. New York. 1888. 922p. 4°.
Andreics, . A genealogical history of John and Mary Andrews * * *. Chicago,
1872. 652p. 8°.
Loomis, Elias. The descendants of Joseph Loomis * * *. New Haven, 1875. 611p.
8°.
Loomis, Elias. The descendants (by the female lines) of Joseph Loomis. New Haven.
1880. 2v. 8°.
Pease, Rev. David & A. S. A genealogical and historical record of the descendants of
John Pease, Sen., last of Enfield, Conn. Springfield, Mass., 1869. 401p. 8°.
Fretz, Rev. A. J. A brief history of John and Christian Fretz * * *. Elkhart, Ind.,
1890. 607p. 8°.
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sq. 8°.
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New York, 1897. 597p. 8°.
Deming, Judson Keith. Genealogy of John Deming of Wethersfield, Conn. Dubuque,
Iowa. 694p. 8°.
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Bidicell, Edwin W. Genealogy of the first seven generations of the Bidwell family in
America. Albany, N. Y., 1884. 4°.
Ripley, Eezekiah W. Genealogy of a part of the Ripley family. Newark, N. J., 1877.
48p. 8°.
Phelps, 0. 8. & Servin, A. E. The Phelps family of America * * *. Pittsfield, Mass.,
1899. 2v. 8°.
Terry, 8. Notes of Terry famihes in the U. S. A. Hartford, Conn., 1887. 343p. 8°.
Sterling, Albert Mack. The Sterling genealogy. New York, 1909. 2v. 4°.
8anford, Carlton E. Thomas Sanford, the emigrant to New England * * *, Rutland,
Vt., 1911. 2v. 4°.
Manning, William H. The genealogical and biographical history of the Manning
families of New England. 1902. 857p. 8°.
Hopkins, Timothy. The Kelloggs in the old world and the new. San Francisco, 1903.
3v. 4°.
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1914. 81p. 8°.
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ABBE-ABBEY GENEALOGY
IN MEMORY OF
JOHN ABBE AND HIS DESCENDANTS
FIRST GENERATION
1. JOHN^ ABBE, born iu England about 1613; died in Salem, Mass., about
1689-90. The place of birth of John Abbe, the founder of the American Abbe
and Abbey families, is unknown, but every indication points to one of the interior
and central counties of England as the home of the ancestors of the emigrant.
It is not improbable that he was connected with the Abbye family of Staverton,
Northampton. The parish registers of Stoke Bruerne, Northampton, show that
there were many marriages of Abbyes recorded there during the 16th and 17th
centuries.
John Abbe, from the age as given approximately at his death, was born about
1613. The first mention which seems to be of this John Abbe is on a register
of the names "of all y® passengers w*^*^ i^assed from y^ Porte of London for a
whole yeare endinge at X™'*^ 1635 — Those underwritten are to be transported
to Virginia imbarqued in y^ Merch*^ bonaventure James Ricrofte M^' bound
thither have taken y^ oath of allegeance — Jo: Abby -^ go ~~" Although this
statement says bound for Virginia, it is a well-known fact that many of the
early ships destined for Virginia landed many or all of their passengers at
other ports, even in New England, and records of the name of John Abbe
begin in New England about that time. The above Jo: Abby does not appear
in the records of Virginia, nor in the Head Rights for lower Norfolk from
1637 to 1666. The abbreviation Jo: sometimes stood for Joseph, but there are
^ proven instances where it was used for John.
The first reference to the name in the Salem records is on page 11, volume
1, in 1637, or, according to the old method of marking time, 2d of the 11th
month, 1636.
"John Abbie is Reed, ffer Inhabitant & is to haue one acre lott for a house
next beyond the Gunsmiths, and 3 acres of planting ground where the Towne
hath apiDointed beyond Castle hill."
There has existed some confusion regarding the various freemen of the
name Abbey and Alby. Benjamin Albye was admitted freeman, May 18, 1642,
and John Albye in Salem, May 10, 1643. These were, without doubt, the two
Albys, John and Benjamin, mentioned in the early records of Braintree about
this time. Benjamin Alby removed to Mendon and had numerous descendants,
whose names occasionally appear in printed records as Abbey. John Abbey,
sen., of Redding, freeman in 1634, may have been an Alby.
On the 21st, 11th month, 1638, John Abby had a further grant of five acres,
location not specified, but, as on the 15th, 2d month, 1639, this record occurs,
"Granted unto John Abby 5 acres neere to Mr Throgmortons hoggehouse," it
may be that the first was the grant and the second the location. Under date
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of the 25th, 10th month, 1637, it was agreed 'Hhe marsh and meadow lands
that have formerly been laid in common to this town shall now be appropriated
to the inhabitants of Salem, proportioned out to them according to the heads
of families. To these that have the gi-eatest number an acre thereof, and to
these that have least not above half an acre, and to these that are between both
three quarters of an acre, always provided and it is so agreed, that none shall sell
away their proportions of meadow, more or less, nor lease them out to any
above three years, unless they sell or lease out their houses with their meadow."
Under the above division a list of the inhabitants was taken, and the land
divided. Jo. Abby is named in 1638 as having three in his family, and receives
half an acre.
On the 23d, 11th, 1642, ten acres are granted to John Abby together with
several other ten-acre grants, all to be laid out near to Kings lot. This was on
tlie Beverly side near Bass River, and on the 15th of the 12th month, 1642,
it is voted "ordered that John Abby shall liave 10 acres of land at Enon in
exchange of 10 acres of land bounded out nere Basse River."
The lot near Bass River was afterward granted to Michael Sallows. The
record of the grants to Abbey show that he was of the same standing in the
community as the great majority of the early inhabitants. The grants were
in a great measure made Avith an eye as to the ability of the grantee to develop
the land so granted, small grants to the poorer and larger grants to the richer
sort.
In 1642, Mr. Fiske organized a church at Enon and the following year the
name Enon was changed to Wenham, while a permanent church organization
was effected in 1644.
In 1644, under date of the 13th, 6th month, it was agreed that John Abby
"shall have all that wastground which lyeth between ye end of ye lott which
he lives upon and ye meadow which belongs to ye town, leaving a poles bredth
most convenient for a way." (Wenham town records, Worcester.)
Under date of 1653 is a list of engagements with Goodman Haws about the
mill, and "John Aby gives a day and a half of his labor toward its erection,"
and others contributed in like manner, some also giving tlie use of oxen.
Mr. Fiske left the town in 1655 followed by a number of the church, and in
1657 Mr. Newman was procured as pastor. Under date of November, 1657, in
a total rate of £42, 19, divided among twenty-four persons, of whom five paid a
total of £14, John Abey is assessed £1, 5, which was about the sum paid by
eleven others, but two being less.
In 1659, twenty-seven pay a rate of £46, 2, of whom sixteen pay £1 or a
trifle over. Of these .John Abey pays £1, 5, as before, "in corne or cattle."
In 1660 he was assessed as Goodman Abey at eight shillings toward a new
meeting house or repairing the old one. The new house was built in 1663.
Under date of 6th, 11th month, 1661, John Abbey, Sr., and Edward Waldron
had a town grant of land to be equally divided between them. The use of the
title Senior at this time helps to place the birth of the son John.
In 1663 Goodman Abey, Sr., and John Clarke are chosen to join with the
selectmen to make the minister's rate for the present year.
In 1669 and in 1671 John Abbey appears as constable, an office of great local
power and responsibility.
April 3, 1675, John Abbe deeded 10 acres of land to his son Samuel, Thomas,
John, and Maiy Abbe, being witnesses. John Abbe, sen., was a witness to the
will of Edw<i Walden of Salem, 4th month, 1679.
In 1683, John Abbey, who had been supporting his son Thomas, who lived
with him and cared for him, dismissed Thomas on account of his bad behavior
and called his son John, junior, to take charge of him and his affairs. The son,
John, proceeded early to build a new house, as the old one was unfit to live in.
First Generation 3
Know all men By these p^sents that I John Abbey (Sen jr.) of Wenham in the County
of Essex being sensible of my owne & my wives inability to Carry on my affaires So as
to prouid for our Comfortable Livelybood by reason of our age & weakness of Body
Attending vs by reason thereof Doe make Choice of >& Request my son John Abbey as my
ffeiofe in trust to take into his hands my house & all my Lands in Wenham together w^ii
wt right I have in that Land which was sometime Richard Gooldsmith^. to ocquipie &
improue for myn »& his muttuall Benifit So long as my wife & I or eyther of vs shall
live : »& for his incouriagment to maniage my affaires as abovesaid & he provide Com-
fortably for my owne &, my wives maintenance I doe hereby Give and Bequeath to him
my afforesaid Ifeiofe all my houses & Lands fforeuer Except wt I doe hereby Give out of it
to the rest of my Childrin viz Samuell Sarah Marah Rebeca Obadia & Thomas & to each
of them as foUoweth viz to Samuell I haveiug nlridy Given him a LcU of Land I give him
one Shilling more & to all the rest of my Childrin above mentioned viz Sarah Marah
Rebeca Obadia & Thomas two Shillings a peice or to so many of them as shall sirviv
at the deacease of my selfe & wife : »& in Case God shall take awaye my Son John above-
said before the Decease of my selfe & wife if his Heires Shall Continue to maniage &
Carry on my affaires as my abovesaid ffeioffe ought to doe then they Shall have the houses
& Lands abovesaid as therin ordvard & in Confirmation of what is above written I have
here vnto set to my hand & Scale Signed Seald & Deliverd August the 3 1683
in the p^sence of John \/ Abbey (seal)
Thos ffiske Senjr ; bis A Senji'
martha ffiske marke
John Abbey Senjr ded acknowledg this writing above written to be his act & deed
August ye 3^ : 1683 before me
Samuel Appeton Assistant.
On the outside of the above document is the inscription:
John Abbey's Disposale of his Estate 1683 Record In Ips in ye Regr office for ye probate
of Will for sd County of Essex Dec' 1702 p mee Dani Rogers Regr
Administration on the Estate of John Ahhey senjr of Wenham.
John Appleton Esq^. Comissionated by his Excellency Joseph Dudley Capt. Gener^
& Govern^ in Cheif in & over her Majess Province of ye Massach^t Bay in New England,
with the advice and Consent of her Majestes Counsell of said province for the Probate of
Wills and Granting Letters of adminstro. Within the said County of Essex &c. To
Thomas Abbey of Enfield in ye County of Hampshire son to John Abbey senjr of
Wenham — Deceased Intestate — Greeting — Trusting in yr Care and ffidelity I doe by
These presents Comitt unto you full power to administer all & singular the Goods,
Chattells, Rights & Creditts of the said Deceased & well & ffaithfully dispose of ye
same according to law which to him while he Lived & att ye time of his Death did
appeartain & belong, to aske sue for demand Levy Receive & Recover and to pay
all Debts in which the Deceas^ stood bound so farr as his Goods Chattells Rights &
Creditts. Can extend according to the Value thereof, and to make a true & pi'fect Inven-
tory of all & singular the Goods Chattells Rights and Creditts of the Deceas^ and to
Exhibit the same into the Registry office of ye s<i County att or before the Last Day of
ffebruary next Ensueing, and to render a plain & true accoft of ye said adminjo upon
Oath att or before ye Twentieth Day of Decemb"" which AVill bee in y* year of o"" Lord
God One Thousand Seven hund^ & Three — And I doe by These p^sents Ordaine Con-
stitute and Appoint you administratoer of all & singular the Goods Chattells Rights &
Creditts of ye Deceasd afores^. — In Testimony Whereof I have herunto Sett my hand &
caused the Seale of said office to be affixed — Dated in Ipswich the 12th Day of
Decembr Anno. 1702. Annoq. R : Reginae Annae Angliae &c primo.
Examd — 11 John Appleton.
Daniel Rogers Regr.
Recorded Book 307, Page 456. Essex Probate Office.
Know AU men by these presents. That We Thomas abbey of Enfield in ye County
of hampshire as principle and Waltar ffairfeild Senj & Thomas Edwards both of Wen-
ham as sureties within His Majesties Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England
are holden and stand firmly bound and obliged unto John Appleton Esqi" Judge of the
Probate of Wills and granting Administration within the said County of Essex in the
full sum of Two hundred Pounds Currant Money in New England. To be paid unto
the said John Appleton Esq^y his Successors in the said Office or Assignes. To the true
payment whereof. We bind our selves, and each of us, our, and each of our heirs,
Executors and Administrators, joyntly and severally for the whole and in the whole
firmly by these presents Sealed with our Seals. Dated the Eleventh day of Decemb^
Anno Domini. One thousand 702 Annoque Regni Reginae Annae primo.
The condition of this present Obligation is such, That if the above-bounden Thomas
Abbey administrator to all & singular the Goods, Chattells, Rights & Credits of his
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ffather John Abbey Senjr Late of Wenham Deceased to make or cause to be made a
true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods, Chattells, Rights and Credits
of the said Deceased, which have or shall come to the hands, possession or knowledge
of him the said administrator or into the hands and possession of any other person or
persons for him. And the same so made,, do exhibit or cause to be exhibited into the
Registry of the Court of Probate for the aforesaid County of Essex at or before the
Last day of ffebruai-y next ensuing. And the same Goods, Chattells, Rights and Credits
of the said Deceased, at the time of Death, which at any time after shall come into the
hands and possession of any other person or persons for him do well and truly Administer
according to Law. And further do make, or cause to be made a just and true Accompt
of his said Administration upon Oath, at or before the Twentieth day of Decemb»' which
will be in the year of our Lord, One thousand 703.
And all the rest & residue of the said Goods, Chattells, Rights & Credits which shall be
found remaining upon the said Administrators Accompt (the same being first examined
and allowed of by the Judge or Judges for the time being of Probate of Wills and grant-
ing Administrations within the County of Essex aforesaid) shall deliver and pay
unto such person or persons respectively as the said Judge or Judges by his or their
Decree or Sentance pursuant to Law shall limit and appoint. And if it shall hereafter
appear, That any last Will and Testament was made by the said Deceased : And the
Executor or Executors therein named do exhibit the same into the Court of Probate
for the said County of Essex making request to have it allowed and approved accordingly.
If the said administrator within bounden being thereunto required do render and deliver
the said Letters of Administration (Approbation of such Testament being first had
and made) unto the said Court. Then the before written obligation to be void and of
none effect, or else to abide and remain in full force and virtue.
Thomas TA Abbey (seal)
Sealed and Delivered mark & seal
in presence of Walter fayerfield (seal)
francis Crumpton Thomas O Edward (seal)
Daniel Rogers. mark & seal.
This Inventory of the Estate of John Abee Senor formerly of Wenham decesed about
thirten yere since Intestate we whos names are her vnto subscribed on this twentey-
fovrth of febuary in the yere of our lord 17 did at the Request of thomas Abee one
of the sons of the decesed and Administrator of his fathers estat or by his order vallew
and aprise the said decesed his house and land in Wenham on which to our certain
knowleg he lived for many yers and dyed seased of the same as his owne Estat of
Inheritance as we ever vnderstod we being his nere neighboi's for many yers the sayd
decesed his homsted being about twenty and three acers of vpland and medow together
with the housing and fences ther on the apertenances ther onto belonging together with
his Right in the Comon all which we vallewed at ninety and two pounds £92-s00-d00.
We also being Informed that the sayd decesed in his lifetime did to acomodate his son
Obadiah acording to his desire with a trad for his futer benifett when the sayd Obadiah
was eighten yers old give to Richard Goldsmith three yers sarvit of his said son Obadiah
and vntill he was one and twentey yers ould to learne him to be a shoemaker and all
the sayd time his sayd father did find his sayd son meat and drink and Clothes washing
and Lodging which we doe Judg to be worth thirtey pounds.
the acount was settled betwen thomas Abee and his fathers Estat by the Children of
the sayd decesed in our presants as witness our hands this 24 of the 12th month 170i
his
Richard R H Hutton
marke
Joseph ffowler
Aprisers.
the estate debtor to his sonn thomas Abee for severall things for which our said father
John Abee Senor was Indebted to his son thomas Abee before the death of our sayd
father John Abee Senor the acount whereof was settled and alowed by vse vnderwritten
which debt is thirtey and two pounds f32-s00-d00.
as wittnes our hands this 24th febuerary 170|-
his
Richard |- kimball for himself & Rebecc his wife
mark
her his
mary | killam Thomas T Abbe
mark marke
May 18th 1703
Then ye above s<3 Thomas Abbe made oath to this Inventory
Before John Appleton
Second Generation 5
John Abbe married (1) MARY . She was born in England about
1615-20, and died in Wenham, Mass., September 6, 1672. ''Mary, the wife of
John Abbey, senr. dyed the 9 Sept. 1672"; Wenham records. She was
doubtless the mother of all of his children. Her name is given as Mary Loring,
by Frederick Orr Woodruff, who says that the name was found on Enfield records
bv one who made researches for him there.
'John Abbe married (2) November 25, 1674, MRS. MARY GOLDSMITH,
widow of Richard Goldsmith, Avho was killed by lightning, May 18, 1674. She
was living in 1683. "John Abbie and Marah Goldsmith maryed 25 of Novemb,
1674"; Wenham records.
Children, prohahly all hy first icife
2 John Ahhe, b. probably in Salem, 1636 or 7 ; m. twice.
3 Samuel Ahie; m. Mary Kuowlton.
Sarah Abbe.
Marah Abbe; m. Killam.
4 Rebecca Abbe; m. Richard Kimball.
5 Obadiah Abbe; m. Sarah Tibbals.
^ 6 Thomas Abbe; m. Sarah Fairfield, v.
SECOND GENERATION
2. J0HN2 ABBE, son of John^ and Mary ( ) Abbe, born in 1636 or
1637, probably in Salem, Mass., died suddenly, December 11, 1700, in Windham,
Conn. As early as 1663, he was one of three to oversee the Town's Common
and to resist encroachments on the timber. He may be the John Abbe who
was constable in 1669. He is first described as a yeoman of Wenham, and was
admitted to freedom by the court at Boston, May 11, 1670. In a document
of 1683, his father designated him as the heir to his estate in Wenham upon
the condition of his caring for his father and mother in their old age. He
apparently resided upon this estate until about 1696.
The following items from the inventory of Robert Macklaflin of Wenham,
September 19, 1690, doubtless refer to this John Abbe:
To Jno. Abbe for nursing — £1
To Jno. Abbe more for tending the swine
for fatting — sl6-d3
To John Abbe due for worke to save
the corne & thresh the ry & killing the
swine & carrying them to Salem & about fencing,
fl-sl8-tl6.
March 9, 1694-5, he sold to Francis Wainwright a house and lands in Wen-
ham, 50 acres in all; and in the following year, February 21, he had a deed
of the same property back from Wainwright. In 1696 he disposed of his
property in Wenham and j^urchased of Lieutenant Exercise Conant, July 13,
1696, for £70, silver money, home lot number 7, at Windham Centre, with the
1000-acre right belonging, dwelling house, etc. May 23, 1695, Jo. Abbey was a
witness to a deed of Exercise and Sarah Conant of Beverly (Essex Deeds, Vol-
ume 2, page 101). He sold his farm in Wenham, 30 acres with buildings, to
Nathaniel Wainwi'ight, October 19, 1696, for £130. He probably soon after
removed to Windham, Conn., for on December 9, 1696, he was admitted a
freeman of that town as John Abbe, Sen', of Windham. He and his wife,
Hannah, were dismissed from the Wenham Church to that of Windham by a
letter of October 28, 1700, and were both original members of the first church
in Windham at its organization, December 10, 1700.
6 Abbe- Abbey Genealogy
Weuham Oct. 29th, 1700.
Revrd: Sr.
Yours I received of 22d instant : in behalfe & att the request of our beloved Brethren,
John Abbee & Robert Hibberd both members in full communion <& good state with the
church of Christ att Wenham, signifying their desires off Letters of dimission from sd
church, in order (the Lord favouring) to join with others, in gathering & erecting a
church att Windham & to call and ordain an officer to adminster the holy things of
Christ's Kingdom unto them, which their desires, have accordingly been propounded to
sd church, & readily complied withall : & to sd good worke have voted their dimission.
As also we have dimissed their wives Hannah Abbe & Mary Hibberd unto such church
when erected : & also all their children as iff named to your watch & discipline : And
we here signify our rejoicing, that the Lord hath been pleased to make way for your
Comfortable settlement in church order, according to the rules of the gospell: the
elders & messengers of Neighbor churches yielding their approbation thereto, & accepting
you as a sister church with them : bound up in the bond of thatt holy ifellowship, which
ought to according to gospel rules observed between the true churches of the Lord
Jesus Christ: We comend you with your pious & christian design, to the Guidance
& conduct of the blessed & effectunly quickening spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, praying
he would be with you in that weighty work : helping you to build up & to be further
built up in the Kingdom of his grace here, being preserved blameless & brought to his
Kingdom of Glory hereafter : The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all ;
Amen.
Yours in the Lord,
Joseph Gerrish, pastor,
with Consent off the Brethren of the church of Christ at Wenham.
Documents pertaining to the settlement of the estate of John Abbe are
found in the Probate Office at Hartford, Volume 6, page 17 ; Volume 7, page 27.
Hannah the Relict of John Abby late of Windham deceasd presented this Court with
a paper called the Last WiU of her husband. But the Court not being Sattisfied there-
with doe defer the matter to some other time and order that the witnesses be present att
the Probation of the said Will.
She also did Exhibit an Inventory of his Estate and made Oath that She truely
presented the Estate to the apprizers. September 4, 1701.
Hannah the Relict of John Abby late of Windham deceasd presenting to this Court
an Explanation of the Last WiU of the said Abby the persons that were witnesses to the
said WiU which was given upon Oath, The Court having considered the will with the
explanation thereof doe so cause to accept it as the Last Will of the said Abby
deceasd (The widow was appointed administrator, giving a bond of £50).
Windham the 10th of December 1700.
The WiU of John Abby. That his wife should enjoy the house and Homestead and
the meadows that are already laid out, with the moveables dureing her Ufe, and to
dispose of it to them of her children as shee shall see cause. And the rest of the
unlaid out land to be divided amongst his children and not to be sold away from my
family not any of the Lands and the thirty acres adjoyning to Goodman Binghams and
Goodman Larrabecs Land to be at my wives dispose and to give deed and to make
sale of according to Law. Witness our hands. Robert Hebard senior and John Reed
senior, both of the Same Town. Windham Aprill 8th 1702. The said Robert Hebard
and John Reed gave oath that they were present when John Abbey that is deceased
did give this direction to make his will as is above written, and when it was read to
him he said, just so he would have it, and that they did judge him to be in a disposing
frame, and right understanding of mind. Before mee
Joshua Ripley Justice.
Wee Robert Hebard and John Reed being Witnesses to the Last Will of John Abby
of Windham do Testifie, That whereas 'tis said in the WiU, the Lands and meadows
that are already laid out shall be at his wives dispose to give to them of her children
as Shee shall soe cause — That they did understand it and are fully persuaded said Abbey
did mean the Children she had by him — and further that the Intailment extend no further
than to the Lands that are yett to be laid out to the best of their Judgment Taken
upon Oath in Windham November 6th 1701.
Before mee Joshua Ripley Justice.
An Inventory of the Estate of John Abbey of Windham, who deceased December, 1700.
vallued as money by us the subscribers
vizt to
Imps his wearing appareU at £01-18-00
2 smaU beds and coverUds, sheets, in the Little room 02-00-00
Second Generation 7
a feather bed aud the furniture in the great room 06-00-00
Table linneu 7s Iron pott, Iron kettle & frying pan 20^ 01-07-00
Iron pott, tramell & tongs lis box Iron heaters and hamer 5s 00-16-00
a sith & tackling 2 augurs and an axx 12s 2 sickils cart boxes & hoops 01-10-00
horse harness & chaines, 4 howes and a pitchfork 00-13—00
a plow & Irons, 2 beetle rings »& wedges & plow cops(?) 00-14-06
a drawing knife & staple for a yoak 3s/6d pewter dishes 22s/9<l 01-06-03
morter & Iron pestle & 2 bells 9s/6d, tubs, beer barrels, pails, dishes, spoons 01-16-06
2 tables, a chest, box, chairs and spinning wheels 01-05-00
His House, homelott and part of his first division 30-00-00
pasture lott 10£ 4 acres meadow at Nachaug 4f 14-00-00
6 acres of Land of the 10 acre division 03-00-00
30 acres of Land between the Lines 07-00-00
the 100 acre Lott 10£ the unlaid out Land 15£ 25-00-00
2 steers 5f 2 cows 6f one hciffer SOs 2 young creatures SOs 16-00-00
one horse, saddle, bridle and pillion 25s a warming pan 6s 01-11-00
a Gun, a mould and ammunition 01-02-00
two bibles and other books 10s swine 24s 01-14-00
Totall is 118-13-03
This Inventory was Taken by us
Joshua Ripley, Jonathan Crane.
The said Estate is Indebted about £14-3-2.
September 4, 1701.
John- Abbe married (1) . Isaac Goodale, who was perhaps the son of
Isaac and Patience Goodale, called John Abbe his nnele, so this first w^ife may
have been a Goodale. There were also intermarriages between the Killams and
Goodales.
Married (2) HANNAH . She was a widow with children at the time
of her marriage to John Abbe. She was perhaps Hannah Goldsmith, widow of
Richard Goldsmith of Wenham. She married (2) in Windham, November 16,
1703, Jonathan Jennings, sr., of Windham, and died March 8, 1724. On June
16, 1710, Hannah, relict of John Abbe, deceased, divided property to Mary,
Abigail, Obadiali, and five children under age. (Windham Deeds, Liber D.)
One of the i^rovisions was "moved by the love and affection I bore to my
beautifull daughter, Mary Abbe."
Children hy first icife, births recorded in Wenham, Mass.
John (1) Alhe, b. May 5, 1665; d. May 15, 1665. "John, the son of John Abye,
born 5 May, 1665. John, the son of John Abey, died the 15th of May, 1665,"
(Wenham Records).
John (2) Aiie, b. Dec. 15, 1666; probably d. young. "John, the sou of John
Abbie, borne the 15th of December, 1666" (Wenham Records).
Thomas Ahhe, b. Dec. 5 (or Nov. 4), 1667; probably d. young. "Thomas, son
of John Abbey, b. the 5, 12 mo., 1667" (Wenham Records).
7 Joseph Ahhe, b. Aug. 13 (or 18), 1673; m. Abigail Severance.
8 Ohadiah Ahhe, b. about 1675 ; m. Elizabeth Wilkinson.
Ahigail Ahhe, b. about 1677 ; m. March 18, 1701, Daniel Sabin of Windham, Conn.
Child : Sarah, b. March 27, 1703, recorded in Windham ; d. May 3, 1737 ; m. in
Windham, May 12, 1724, Israel Robinson and had children : Elisha, b. Feb. 25,
1725 ; Daniel, b. Jan. 18, 1733 ; Eliezer, b. July 8, 1734, and Abigail, b. Feb. 22,
1737.
Children hy second wife, births recorded in Windham, Conn., hut all hut last
prohahly horn in WenJiam, Mass.
9 Richard Ahhe, b. Feb. 9, 1682-3; m. Mary Jennings.
10 Mary Ahhe, b. Sept. 16, 1684 ; m. James Pease.
Mercy Ahhe, b. March 5, 1689 ; d. Dec. 5, 1771 ; m. in Windham, Dec. 11, 1734, as
his third wife, Nathaniel Flint of Windham, who d. June 3, 1766. He m. (1)
Sarah Martin, (2) Mary Davis, but had children by the first wife only.
11 John (3) Ahhe, b. April 20, 1691; m. (1) Mary Bingham, (2) Mary Palmer,
(3) Abigail (Cary) Ripley, (4) Mrs. Sarah Dodge.
12 Hannah Ahhe, h. Aug. 13, 169S; m. Thomas Welch.
13 Lydia Ahhe, b. May 21, 1696; m. Benjamin Bidlack.
8 Abbe-Abbey Genealogy
Sarah AUe, b. March 11, 1699, in Windham ; m. John Welch of Windham, April 11,
1729. They sold land to Richard Abbe, Nov. 14, 1728. were then of Plainfield.
Marriage recorded in Plainfield, Conn., as are the following records of the family.
Children: i. Hannah, b. Dec. 11, 1730; ii. John, b. June 12, 1732; m. Sarah
, and had children : Eunice, b. Sept. 4, 1760, and Rufus, b. April 2, 1766.
3. SAMUEL- ABBE, son of Johni Abbe, born probably at Wenham, Mass.,
about 1646, or soon after his father's settlement there; died in Windham,
Conn., March, 1697-8. His name first appears in the Wenham records at the
time of his marriage. "Samuel Abby and Mary Knowlton maryed the 12th
October 1672." He received a grant of ten acres of land in Wenham, and land
to set his house upon, from his father, John Abbey, and wife, Mary, April 3,
1675, his brethren to have the refusal of the place if he should sell (Essex
Deeds, 15:150). Samuel and his wife, Mary, were communicants of the church
in Wenham in 1674. He was a land surveyor in 1676 and appears upon the
town records as a husbandman, made freeman, October 3, 1680 (Massachusetts
Records, 5:540). He was named in his father's will, 1683.
A map of Salem dwellings in 1692, published in Volume I of Upham's Salem
Witchcraft, shows the location of Samuel Abbey's house, number 114 on a
plot in the south-west part, east of Bald Hill, within the 500 acres laid out
to Robert Goodell in 1652 and its subsequent additions.
On November 1, 1682, Samuel Abbey bought of Lott Killam and wife, Hannah,
of Salem, he being then of Wenham, 6 acres in Salem on Norrice's Brook
(12:112), and also bought of James Stimpson and wife, Priscilla, who had been
the widow of Isaac Goodell, at the same place, some land in 1684 (12:113). On
April 3, 1697, he and his wife, Mary, sold those lands described as a dwelling
house, two orchards, and seventeen acres in Salem, bounding Anthony Needham,
John Waleott, Isaac Goodale, Samuel Goodale, Abraham Smith, Abel Gardner,
Joseph Flint, and also six acres on Norrice's Brook, and two acres bought of
James Stimpson, to Zachariah White of Lynn, all for £130 (12:147), The
above James Stimpson was of Reading and had married the widow of the elder
Isaac Goodell. At the time of Goodell 's death in 1680, the widow was adminis-
tratrix and Samuel Abbey was one of her sureties. He was then probably of
Salem or possibly Topsfield.
He was admitted freeman of Salem Village, March 22, 1689-90. He and his
wife were dismissed from the Salem Church September 15, 1689, to unite in
forming one at Salem Village; the date of its formation being November 15,
1689. Salem Village is now Danvers. On July 1, 1690, he w'as taxed at Salem
Village, and again, January 18, 1694-5, he and his son were taxed there.
Samuel Abbey of Salem bought of Benjamin Howard of Windham, Conn.,
for £22. 10s. current money, half an allotment of land (500 acres), being
number 2 at the Center, at or near the locality known later as Bricktop. He
probably removed to Windlmm about that time as he was admitted an inhabitant
of that town December 21, 1697, and died there March of the following year.
His estate was settled in 1699. The inventory, taken May 9, 1698, gives as
legatees, the following: wife, Mary; daughter, Mary, aged 25; son, Samuel,
aged 23; son, Thomas, aged 20; Eleazer, aged 18 (the land records prove that
this is a mistake for Elizabeth); Ebenezer, aged 16; Mercy, aged 14; Sarah,
aged 13; Hepsibah, aged 10; Abigail, aged 8; John, aged 7; Benjamin, aged
6 ; Jonathan, aged 2. One record says he left a son, Eleazer, and a daughter,
Abigail, each 8 years old at his death. This is doubtless an attempt to rectify
the error noted above.
Samuel Abbe was living in Salem during the days of witchcraft and was one
of those opposed to its fanaticisms. One Rebecca Nourse, on trial as a witch,
produced a paper signed by several ''resj^ectable inhabitants" of Salem, among
Second GenerxYtion 9
•whom was Samuel Abbe. This document as to her good character caused her
to be set at liberty but the sentence was later changed for some reason and
she was put to death as a witch. Only a few years ago a monument to her
memory was erected by her descendants.
Samuel Abbey testifies as to Mercy Lewis, May 20, 1692, she being at the
liouse of her neiglibor, John Putnam, jr., and accused of witchcraft.
Samuel Abbe and his wife, Mary, were witnesses in a witch trial in Salem
in 1692 against Sarah Snow, a Avoman of vicious temper who had lived in their
home for a time but was dismissed on account of her disagreeable waj's. She
vowed vengeance upon them and when several of their cows and hogs were
taken sick, the blame was laid to her as a witch.
The following are taken from Records of Salem Witchcraft, copied from the
original documents. Volume 1, pages 24 and 25.
Samuel Abbey Et ux vs. Sarah Good
Samuel Abbey of Salem Village Aged 45 years or thereabouts and Mary Abbey bis
wife aged oS years or tbereabouts, Deposetli and saitb.
Tbat about this Time Three Years past AV™ Good and his wife Sarah Good being
destitute of a bouse to dwell in these Deponents out of Charity ; they being Poor lett them
live in theirs some time untill that tbe said Sarah Good was of so Turbulant a Sperritt,
SpitefuU and so Mallitiously bent, tbat these Deponents could not suffer her to Live
in their bowse any Longer and was forced for Quiettness sake to turne she ye said Sarah
with her husband out of their bowse ever since, which is about two years Vi agone, the
said Sarah Good bath carried it very Spitefully and MalHtiously, towards them, tbe
winter following after the said Sarah was gone from our bouse we began to Loose Cattle
and Lost sevei-al after an vnvsall manner, in a drupeing condition (sic) Condition and
yett they would Eate : and your Deponents have Lost after tbat manner 17 head of
Cattle within this two years besides Sheep and Hoggs, and both doe believe they Dyed
by witchcraft, tbe said "William Good on the last of May was twelve months went home
to bis wife tbe sd Sarah Good and told her, what a sad Accident had fallen out, she
asked what, he answered tbat bis neighbovr xVbbey had lost two Cowes, both dyeing
witbiu lialfe an bower of one another, the sd Sarah good said she did not care if be the
said Abbey had Lost all the Cattle he bad as ye said Jno Good told vs. Just that very
Day that tbe said Sarah Good was taken up, we yr Deponents had a Cow tbat could
not rise alone, but since presently after she was taken up, tbe said Cow was weU and
could rise so weU as if she bad ailed nothing. She tbe said Sarah good ever since these
Deponents turned ber out of their bowse she hath behaved herselfe very crossely and
mallitiously to them and their Children calling their Children vile names and hath
threatened them often.
Jurat in Curia.
Warrant for Sarah Good was given at Salem, February 29, 1691-2, in response
to complaints of Sarah Vibber, Abigail Williams, Elizabeth Hubbard, Ann
Putnam, and Jno. Vibber. Among the many depositions in witness to her
malign practices were those of Samuel Abbey and wife.
Records of Salem Witchcraft, copied from the oiiginal documents, Vol. 2,
pp. 41-2, old series.
Samuel Abby v. Mary Easty
Tbe Deposition of Samuel Abby aged about 45 years who testifieth and saitb that on
the 20tb of May 1692 I went to the house of Constable Jno putnam about 9 a clock in
tbe morning and when J came there : Mircy lewes lay on the bed in a sad condition
and continuing speachless for about an hour : the man not being at whom : the woman
desired me to goe to Tho : putnams to bring Ann putnam to se if she could se who it
was tbat hurt Mircy lewes : accordingly J went : and found Abigail williams along
■with Ann putnam and brought them both to se mercy lewes : and as they ware a goeing
along the way botb of them said that they saw tbe Apperishtion of Goody Estick and
said it was the same woman that was sent whom the other day : and said also that
they saw tbe Apperishtion of the other woman tbat appered with gooddy Estick the
other day, and botb of them allso said that the Apperishtion of gooddy Estick tould them
that now she was afflectiug of mircy lewes and when they came to Mircy lewes both
of them said that they saw the Apperishtion of gooddy Estick and Jno willard and Mary
witheridge afflecting tbe body of mircy lewes : and J continueing along with mircy who
10 Abbe- Abbey Genealogy
contineued in a sad condition the greatest part of the day being in such tortors as no
toungue can express ; but not able to spake : but at last said Deare lord Received my
soule and againe said lord let them not kill me quitt, but at last she came to hir self
for a little whille and was very sensable and then she said that goody estick said she
would kill hir before midnight because she did not cleare hir so as the Rest did, then
againe presently she fell very bad and cried out pray for the salvation of my soule for
they will kill me.
Jurat in Curia Sepr 9th '92.
Inventory of the Estate of Samuell Abby late of Windham who deed in March 1697.
Apprized and ordered to be recorded. Administration granted unto Abra. Mitchell who
hath married Mary the Relict of the said Abby. July 5, 1699. (Hartford Probate Office,
Volume 6, page 93.)
An inventory of the Estate of Samuell Abby late of Windham deed as mony.
His wearing Cloths £2 a feathr bed bolster 2 pillows wtb beirs £3 £05-00-00
a bedsted curtaines wth a rug and blanket £02-10-d00
3 pr Cotten and lining sheets 02-10-00
more beds wtii 2 coverlids & blankets 02-00-00
2 pillow beires 3 pr lining sheets 02-00-00
3 table cloths 2 doz napkins £2 lO^ a great Iron pott 20s 03-10-10
a little Iron pott 10V2 iron kettles lOV tramell pot hooks and tongs 15s 01-15-00
pewter and earthen ware 22^/ a frying pan 5s 01-07-00
dishes spoons and trenchers 5s/ box and irons 6s 00-11-00
chest, box, tubs, and payles 20s/ a gun 15s/ 3 knives 33 01-18-00
two axes 10*/ hoes 6s/ beetle, rings and wedges 10s 01-06-00
two pitchforks wtb 3 hooks and old Iron 00-05-00
Horse tackling, cart, wheels, boxes, & hoops 02-05-00
a plough and Irons 6s/ an old spade shovell <& mattock 3s 00-09-00
a syth and tackling 6s/ 2 horses & a mare w^h bridle & sadle 05-12-00
a little quantity of wool wtii old bags 6s 00-06-00
Lands £25-00-00/ two Swine 12s 25-12-00
£58-08-00
This Inventory taken May the 9th 1698
pT us Joseph Cary ^ ™
Jeremiah Ripley J
(Hartford Probate Office, Volume 6, pages 125, 126.)
Mary the Relict appeared in Windham the 2d of May 1699 and gave oath that she
had made presentmen of the estate of her dec^ husband, and if more comes to her knowl-
edge she will cause it to be added to the Inventory, befoi'e me
WiUm Pitkin, Assistant.
Debts due from the estate is £5- 0-0 Cash
Debts due to the estate is £1-10-0 Cash
The children's names and age.
Mary 25 years SamU 23 Thomas 20 Eleaz^ 18 Ebenezr 16 Mary 14 Sarah 13
Hipzibah 10 Abigaile 8 John 7 Benj 6 and Jonathan 2 years of age. (The
names appear as here given but it is apparent that Eleaz^ is a mistake of the
copyist for Elizabeth and that the second Mary should be Mercy.)
SamueP Abbe married in Wenbam, Mass., October 12, 1672, MARY KNOWL-
TON, born 1653, daughter of William and Elizabeth ( ) Knowlton. She
married (2), April 27, 1699, Abraham Mitchell and had by him a son, Daniel,
who was born and died December 10, 1700. Mary Mitchell, formerly Mary
Abby, was dismissed from the Salem Village Church to Windham, Conn.,
September 14, 1701.
The following notes are from the "Knowlton Ancestry," compiled by Rev.
C. H. W. Stocking of Freehold, N. J., published 1897:
The name Knowlton reaches back traditionally to the time of William the Conqueror,
1066-87. Richard Knowlton was born 1553, probably at Knowlton Manor, which is
situated about six miles from the great cathedral at Canterbury, Kent County, England.
He married, July 17, 1577, Elizabeth Cantize. The last of their four children was
William, commonly called Captain William, born 1584, married Ann Elizabeth Smith.
They had six children, two of whom died young. Captain William with his remaining
family sailed for America about 1632. He died on the passage and was probably buried
at Nova Scotia, as an ancient grave-stone bearing the name of WiUiam Knowlton, 1632,
was discovered there by a land-surveyor in 1839. The family appear to have moved to
Second Generation 11
Massachusetts the next year, probably to Hingham, later to Ipswich. William, second
sou of Captain William, born in England, 1615, was a member of the first church in
Ipswich and a freeman, 1641-2. He was a brick-layer by trade, married Elizabeth ,
and died 1655. The youngest of their seven children was Mary, born 1649, who married
Samuel Abbe.
Cliildren of Samuel and Mary (Knowlton) Abbe
Mary Abbe, b. in Wenham about 1674 ; probably d. unm.
14 Samuel Abbe, b. in Wenham about 1676; m. Hannah SiLsby.
Thomas Abbe, b. in Wenham about 1679, bapt. there 1680; d. in Windham,
Conn., April 1, 1700 ; probably not m. In a deed of 1722, William Slate, Jonathan
Ormsby, Sarah Abbe, Ebenezer Abbe, Jonathan Abbe, John and Samuel Abbe speak
of "our loving brother Thomas Abbe deceased."
15 Elizabeth Abbe, b. in Wenham about 1681 ; m. William Slate.
16 Ebenezer Abbe, b. July 31, 1683 ; m. Mary AUeu.
Mercy Abbe, b. March 1, 1684-5, bapt. in Wenham before 1689; m. in Windham,
Conn., June 8, 1703, Jonathan Ormsby of Windham. Child : Ichabod, b. April 15,
1704, recorded in Windham.
Sarah Abbe, b. July 4, 1686; m. John Fowler of Lebanon. She was bapt. in
Wenham before 1688.
17 Hepsibah Abbe, b. Feb. 14, 1689; m. Samuel Pahner.
Abigail Abbe, b. Nov. 19, 1690; m. May 10, 1710, as recorded at Rehoboth, Mass.,
Joseph Ormsby of Rehoboth, b. July 8, 1684.
18 John Abbe, b. June 4, 1692; m. Hannah .
19 Benjamin Abbe, h. June 4, 1694; m. Mary Tryon.
20 Jonathan Abbe, b. about 1696 ; m. Mary Johnson.
4. REBECCA- ABBE, daughter of Jolmi and Mary ( ) Abbe, born prob-
ably in Wenham, Mass., about 1647; died June, 1704. She was mentioned in
her father's will, 1683, and signed papers regarding the estate, 1702-3.
Married in Wenham, May 13, 1667 (Wenham record), RICHARD KIMBALL,
born October 13, 1643, at Watertown, Mass.; died July 30, 1715, at W^enham.
He was the son of Henry and Mary (Wyatt) Kimball, removed with his parents
to Ipswich, thence to Wenham. He was administrator of his father's estate
and in 1715 made a deposition regarding tlie house of W^alter Fairfield, jr.,
in Ipswich. He married (2), November 20, 1706, Mrs. Ford, a widow of Ipswich.
Children
Rebecca Kimball, b. Dec. 20, 1668 ; m. April 12, 1694, James Poland of Ipswich.
Mary Kimball, b. June 26, 1674 ; d. Feb., 1704.
Abigail Kimball, b. March 12, 1680.
5. OBADIAH- ABBEY, son of John^ Abbey, born probably in "Wenham,
Mass., between 1647 and 1652; died in Enfield, Conn., October 28, 1732. From
the inventory of his father's estate we learn that he w^as apprenticed to Richard
Goldsmith to learn his trade of shoemaker, and that he served Goldsmith three
years from his eighteenth year. As Goldsmith died in 1673, this places the
date of Obadiah's birth approximately. He was an early settler of Enfield
on the eighth lot from the south corner, east side, one of the original pro-
prietors in 1682. He seems to have been a prominent and influential man of
the community, was constable between 1682 and 1717, survej'or of highways in
1692, assessor in 1702. In 1685 he was engaged in a law suit wdth Isaac Meacham.
At Northampton is the will of Obadiah Abbey, dated September 22, 1732; pro-
bated November 14, 1732. He names as legatees his wife, Sarah, to whom is
given maintenance, all household goods and moveables; his cousin (nephew)
Thomas, son of his brother Thomas, to whom is given his Seantic lot, and to
the former Thomas' son, Obadiah, house and land, with reversion to his
youngest son, Thomas, if the said Obadiah should die; to the last-named
Thomas, he gives farm lands at the Mountains ; his wife 's daughter, Phebe Heal ;
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his cousin John Abbey's oldest son, John. His cousin, Thomas Abbey, and
Elizabeth Warriner are made executors. This Elizabeth Warriner was pre-
sumably the step-daughter of his wife, who was born in 1686.
Obadiah Abbe's holdings in Enfield are described in the Enfield records:
Home lot of 12 acres; 23 acres in the South Field, eastern division; 7 acres
upon Sehantuck River, 5 acres of it upland and 2, meadow; 2 acres of meadow
upon a small brook easterly from the "grate meadow"; 4 acres of meadow
by grant of March 5, 1700; and on November 17, 171 [ ], a farm lying west of
"Sehantuck grate meadow" consisting of 168 acres, some of the boundaries of
which were designated as "wh* Oak Tree marked with the letters A" and
a "Pine Tree marked with the letters A."
See also under Thomas- Abbe, references to Obadiah 's property.
Obadiah Abbe married in Enfield after 1697, SARAH TIBBALS, born Novem-
ber 29, 1654, daughter of Thomas Tibbals of Milford. Her first husband was
Daniel Collins, by whom she had children, and she married second Joseph
"Warriner of Enfield, who died 1697. Obadiah Abbe had no children, so far
as is known.
6. THOMAS- ABBE, son of John^ and Mary ( ) Abbe, born probably in
Wenham, Mass., about 1650 to 1656; died in Enfield, Conn., May 17, 1728. He
was a witness to a deed made by his father conveying property to his brother
Samuel, March 29, 1675. At first he took care of his parents and lived on the
homestead, but about 1683 some complaint was made by his father who then
turned him away and had his son John assume the charge of the place for
himself and his aged wife. Thomas doubtless went immediately to Enfield,
Conn., as he was one of the original proprietors of that town in 1683, with the
11th lot, east side, north of the south corner as his home lot. He at once
became one of the prominent men of the settlement and is mentioned frequently
on the records of Enfield : selectman in 1686, 1689, 1706, 1707, 1709, 1710 ; fence-
viewer repeatedly; assessor in 1705. He was administrator of his father's
estate in 1703, and made his father-in-law, Walter Fairfield of Wenham, his
attorney. There are several documents in the files at Essex pertaining to a law
suit arising out of this.
The case is that of Thomas Abbey of Enfield vs. Peter Lcgro of Wenham for
trespass and the defendant is allowed to substitute his landlord as the defendant.
So the case really is vs. Nathaniel Waldron, who held the lands formerly belong-
ing to John Abbe, senior, and by him given to his son John, who in 1696 sold
to Waldron. Some of these papers help prove various relationships and dis-
tinctly call Thomas of Enfield the son of the older John of Wenham.
Thomas Abbe was active in the military life of the day. He was a soldier
in King Philip's War and was wounded at the Great Swamp Fight. He was
sergeant in 1711 and lieutenant of the Enfield Trained Band in 1713. Upon the
organization of the army for the expedition against Narragansett Fort, Major
Samuel Appleton was appointed to the command of the Massachusetts forces
and on a list of the soldiers whom the Court, in May, 1676, voted to repay for
losses of those who were "damnified" by the burning of Major Appleton 's
tent at Narragansett, appears the name of Thomas Abbe, £3, s.l6. His name
is also on the roll of Major Appleton 's Company in the Narragansett Campaign.
Thomas Abbe's will, made December 12, 1726, probated August 30, 1728, men-
tions the following: wife Sarah; son Thomas, executor and to inherit the
homestead and 57 acres; son John, to inherit land at Scantic Bridge; daughters
Sarah Geer and Tabitha Warner to have the cattle. Witnesses were Obadiah
Abbee, John Pease, jr., and Joseph Sexton. He styles himself Thomas, senior, a
husbandman.
Second Generation 13
The following passages are taken from the records of Enfield:
Thomas Abbe is Possessed by Grant and measuring out to Him (viz) a Home lot
as it is in page 25 which is 11 acres be it more or less length from the Street westward
& ye Common land East bounded North on the Ministers lot South on A lot Called
Peletiah Glovers.
Also he is possessed of A lot in the west devisiou in ye south Field it Being 8 acres
more or less, it being bounded East on the Country Highway Simeon Booth South, west
by the Grate River North with Pease length 80 rods bredth 17.
Also another lot in the south Field in the 3d devision it Being 26% acres be it more
or less Bounded North on the Highway that runneth between the o'l and 2<l devision
bounded West on W'l Bancroft South by the Highway that runs Between 3ii and 4^^
devision, W^ Simons on the East.
Also a lot at schantuck the ends Bounded by the banks The North with Sami Terry
south with John Burroughs it being 2 acres more or less.
Also 3^2 acres of meadow Bounded on the sides and west end By upland Easterly end
by a Pine Tree, this meadow lyeth upon a Brook called Brand Brook.
Another lot lying upon Schantuck River above the saw MiU which land he hath insted
of % an acre of meadow and iu stead of Land the Town had for a Highway over Schantuck
this land is 7 acres more or less, it being bounded East by the river, west by the upland
and by a wht Oak Tree.
June 1700 he is possessed of A peace of meadow by Grant of the Town on the 15 of
JIarch 1700 and it is measured to Him lying in Freshwater Brook Containing 4 acres
more or Less Bounded on Obadiah Abbe west and by the upland south 16 rods North 20.
Thomas Abbe sen^" is possd of A Farm or tract of land lying In the Mountains Near
the North East Corner of the Township of Enfield Lying 160 rods in length, and 150
rods in wedth Easterly and westerly and is butted and bounded south East Corner on a
Chestnut Tree near A mountain with A Heep of Stones at ye root of s<i. Tree, North-
east Corner with A rock and A Heep of Stones upon it with A bush marked by it,
North west Corner with a Chestnut and A heep of Stones, The afore sd Land as it is
butted and Bounded is 150 Acres be it more or less. Laid out by Tom Jones Town
Measurer — Juno 22<i 1723.
There is laid out to Thomas Abbe 2 peaces of s<i de\'ision Land, the one lying near
the old sawmill, and bounds westerly by a Red Oak Tree a path. Southerly and Northerly
on Highway or Common Land, Easterly on the sd Abbes own Land this land lyeth for
12 acres more or less being 55 rods in length Easterly and westerly, and 35 rods wide.
The other peace or Tract of land lyeth in the East precinct near a sawmill Called
Hampshire and is bounded Northerly on Abbes Brook or meadow and runs 100 rods
as sd Brook or meadow runs, and 32 rods wide and bounds Southerly on Common land
and westerly on A pine Tree marked with the letters T A and Easterly with Timothy
Roots meadow, this Peace of land is 20 acres more or less, laid out by Thomas Jones
Town Measurer June 11th 1724.
Acct of a meeting held Apr. 7. 1684. The Com. met at Enfield. The house lot of
Thomas Abbe was next to the ministers. Next on the South Side thereof and adjoining
there-to lies the house lot of Thomas Abbe 11 rods in breadth Southward and running
in length Eastward as the lot for the ministry doth 160 rods.
Next to the lot of Thomas Abbe southward lies the house lot and home lot of Mr
Peletiah Glover Juu 12 i-ods in breadth and runs in length eastward from the street
on the west 160 rods.
Next was Daniel Collins' lot of 12 rods.
Next adjoining to Daniel Collins afores^ on the north lies Southward the home lot
of Obadiah Abbe 12 rods in breadth and iu length from the Street on the west back
eastward 160 rods.
Next was John Ferman's lot.
April 10, 1683. At a meeting of the Committee for freshwater Plantation is given
list of names and amounts of land held. No. IS Thomas Abbe, 3 acres meadow, 4 field
land. No. 42 Obadiah Abbe 4 acres meadow, 3 field land.
At a meeting of the Committee for Enfield March 8, 1687, John Pease SenJ", Isaac
Gleason and Thomas Abbe were Selectmen for the following year. Thomas Abbe was
also one of the Selectmen chosen May 20, 1689, viewer of fences February 11, 1689.
January 7, 1691, it was "ordered also that those persons returned who neglected
their days in cutting bushes in August last according to warning, shall make good and
perform a days work for the same in cutting bushes on the commons where the selectmen
shall appoint them, some time about this full of the moon, in June next or othei'wise shall
pay 2s/6d which shall be levied upon each person that neglects and hath not done his
days work accordingly, by the 24th day of June next the persons that did not work last
year, who are unless they pay the fine of 2s/6d to do and perform each of them a days
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work. At the time afore mentioned are Thomas Hale, Lieut. Meacham, Isaac Meacham
Jur, Thomas Geer, '\Y'^ Simons, Zachariah Booth, W™ Booth, Thomas Howard, Jonathan
Pease, Abraham Pease, John Pease, Simon Rumril, Elisha Kibbe, Isaac Morgan, Jona-
than Bush, Ephraim French, Thomas Bishop, Nathaniel Horton, Benj" Jones, Thomas
Abbe, Obadiah Abbe, Isaac Gleason, John Bement, Joseph West, Benjn West Samuel
Orsborne and that none may escape the penalty in case of neglect, the select men are
ordered to return the names of any of the Afore s<i mentioned persons, under their hands
who have not performed their respective days works before the 24th of June next, unto
Mr. Pynchon, who is then forthwith to issue out warrants to the Constable for levying
two shillings and sixpence on each person then returned defective."
July 18th 1683. At a meeting of the Committee for Enfield Granted to Henry Abell
Present
John Pynchon
Lieut. Stebbins
Deaii J. Burt
Dean Bn. Parsons
an allotment of 50 acres and homelot 10 or 11 acres and meadow
in proportion. To Thomas Abbe 35 acres Meadow 4 acres and a
homelot of 11 acres. To Joseph West a homelot of 12 acres of field
land 26 acres, and meadow four acres. To Samuel Averill an
allotment of 30 acres 10 or 11 acres of home lot and four acres of
meadow provided they settle at Enfield by micalstide come two years each one of them or
else such grant to be void.
Thomas^ Abbe married at Marblebead, Mass., December 16, 1683, SARAH
FAIRFIELD, born December 24, 1655, at Reading, Mass; died in Enfield, Conn.,
November 27, 1742. She was the daughter of Walter and Sarah (Skipper)
Fairfield, and had previoiasly been married to Needham. The Wenham
records give this record of the marriage, "Thomas Abby and Sarah Fairfield
of Wenham were married the 17th day of December, 1683, being lawfully pub-
lished with the consent of her parents Walter Fairfield, and his witness with
Moses Maverick and Elizabeth Fairfield." The marriage is recorded in both
Marblehead and Wenham.
Walter Fairfield was son of John and Elizabeth ( ) Fairfield, who came
to America in 1638. According to tradition he sprang from the Huguenot
Beauchamp family that left France for England shortly before St. Bartholo-
mew's Day.
Children
21 Sarah Ahbe, b. March 31, 1684 ; m. Shubael Geer.
22 Thomas Ahhe, b. Oct. 30, 1686; m. (1) Mary Pease, (2) Mrs. Rebecca Peirce.
Mary Ahhe, b. Feb. 4, 1688 ; d. Oct. 15, 1705, as recorded in the Wenham town
records. Many family and published records have wrongly stated that Mary,
daughter of Thomas and Sarah, m. James Pease. Her cousin Mary, b. Sept. 16,
1684, daughter of .John and Hannah ( ) Abbe, was the one who m. James
Pease. The Wenham records read : "Mary, the daughter of Thomas Abbe by
Sarah his wife, d. Oct. 15, 1705," and the will of Richard Abbe is further proof.
/ See No. 9.
>/23 John Ahhe, b. Sept. 27, 1692; m. Hannah Boardman.
Tahitha Ahhe, b. March 29, 1696. She is called Abigail in her father's will, probably
through the mistake of the scribe. Married in Enfield, Nov. 19, 1713, John
Warner of Enfield, b. March 29, 1696-7. Children, born in Enfield : i. Nathaniel,
b. Oct. 11, 1714; ii. John, jr., b. Aug. 28, 1716; iii. Daniel, b. May 25, 1719.
Elisaheth Ahhe, m. in Enfield, November 28, 1723. Benjamin Bement, b. in Enfield,
1698, son of John Bement. They had a son Benjamin, jr., b. in Enfield, 1724.
They later removed to the part of Simsbury now called Granby.
THIRD GENERATION
7. JOSEPH^ ABBE, son of John^ and Abbe, born in W^enham, Mass.,
August 13 (or 18), 1673; baptized there 1676; died in the winter of 1706-7.
He is described as "of Exeter." It is the belief of the compiler that the
marriage to Abigail Severance is a second marriage and that Joseph^ Abbe
had by a previous marriage had a son Joseph, who was born in 1700 or earlier
and lived later in Ipswich, Mass.
Probably married (1) .
Third Generation 15
Child
24 Josepli Ahhc; m. Thomasin Baker,
Married November (or August) 30, 1705 or 6, ABIGAIL SEVERANCE, born
August 29, 1683; died after 1718. She was the daughter of Ephraini and
Lydia (Morrill) Severance of Salisbury, Mass. She married (2) December 11,
1707, Philip Greeley of Salisbury, Mass., by whom she had at least one child.
Child of Joseph and Abigail (Severance) Ahhe
25 Joanna Able, b. at Salisbury, Nov. 15 or 16, 1706; ifi. Jonathan Brown,
8, OBADIAH^ ABBE, son of John^ Abbe, born in Wenham, Mass,, about
1675; baptized tliere 1676. He settled first at Windham, Conn., removed to
Ashford after 1718, and was living there in 1737, He was mentioned in the
will of his brother Richard in 1737. In 1717 he received a grant of 50 acres
from the town of Ashford in return for a payment of 50 shillings to the town.
Some of the records given under his son Obadiah have reference to this man.
The name is found on various tax lists and petitions referring to Ashford in
the Connecticut archives.
Married at Maiden, Mass., December 26, 1701, ELIZABETH WILKINSON.
Children, torn in Windham, Conn.
Mercy Ahhe, b. Oct. 15, 1702. She was bapt. in Mansfield, Conn., Jan, 5, 1724.
26 Ohadiah Ahhe, jr., b, April 10, 1704 ; m, EUzabeth ,
Elizaheth Ahhe, b, April 1, 1706,
Hannah Ahhe, b. Dec. 5, 1707. She is probably the Hannah Abbe who m. as his
third wife, in Kilhngly, Conn., Nov. 17, 1738, Joseph Symonds, b. June 8, 1689,
in Lexington, Mass., son of Joseph and Mary (Tidd) Symonds, and grandson of
Wilham and Sarah ( ) Symonds of Kilhngly, Conn., Chelmsford, Mass.,
Londonderry, N. H., Ware, and Lexington, Mass. He was a cordwainer, owned
laud in Londonderry and Kilhngly, and hved in both places at different times.
He was one of the leaders in the settlement of Ware River. By his first wife,
Rachel , he had at least four children, Rachel, Abigail, Benjamin and
James. By the second wife, Mary , he had five children, Huldah, John,
Joshua, Keziah, and Nathan or Nathaniel. By Hannah Abbe, he had : i.
Jotham, b. Sept. 16, 1739, in Kilhngly, m. Mary ; ii. Hannah, b. Jan. 19,
1740-1, in Kilhngly ; iii. Joel, b. March 6, 1744, in Ware, m. there, Oct. 19, 1765,
Patience Hall and had twelve children, the second of whom was John, the great-
grandfather of Ernest N. Warner of Madison, Wis., who has family records ;
iv. Judah, b. Aug. 26, 1746, in Ware, m. (intentions) May 13, 1777, Thankful
Elhs ; V. Ehzabeth, b. July 2, 1748, in Ware, m. in Ware, Nov. 30, 1765, John
Craft; vi. Lucy, b. Aug. 20, 1750, in Ware; vii. Mary, b, April 23, 1752, in
Ware, m. Adonijah Montague of Pawlet, Vt.
Abigail Ahhe, b. Oct. 25, 1709.
Ruth Abbe, b. Sept. 15, 1712. In 1768 Ruth Abbe of Wilhngton deeded land to her
brother Obadiah of Ashford.
Joseph (1) Ahhe, b. May 28, 1714; d. Jan. 7, 1717-8.
Richard Abbe, b. May 14, 1716; was mentioned in the will of his uncle Richard
Abbe, 1737. Richard Abbe of Ashford was m. in KaUingly, Nov. 21, 1739, to
Hannah Simmons.
Joseph (2) Ahhe, b. Jan. 16, 1718-9. The wife of Joseph Abbe was a member of
the Norwich Church, April 21, 1746.
9. RICHARDS ABBE, son of John^ and Hannah ( ) Abbe, born in
Wenham, Mass., February 9, 1682-3; died in Windham, Conn., July 10, 1737.
He was a prominent and respected citizen of Windham, a man of considerable
property and held various offices as constable, sheriff, justice of the j^eace,
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judge of the county court, and treasurer of the county. He represented Wind-
ham in the Legislature from 1726 to 1737 with one year's exception, and was
influential in the church. In 1726 it was ordered at a meeting of the justices
"that Mr. Richard Abbe's back-room in his dwelling-house shall be a common
gaol till the new one be built." In 1727 he opened his stately mansion as
an inn for public entertainment and received a license. In 1736 Richard Abbe,
Esq., of Windham, was one of the subscribers to the Chronological History
of New England, by Thomas Prince, M.A., of Boston. At his death, his "books
of all sorts" were appraised at £29-18-10. His will, dated June 27, 1737,
probated September 5, 1737, makes the following bequests: to wife Mary, one-
half his moneys, goods and chattels; to brother Obadiah, land in Ashford
where he now dwells, to descend to his son Richard, reserving the iise of one-
third jiart to Elizabeth, wife of said Obadiah, and if said Richard should die
before his father or mother not having lawful heirs, the land should descend
"to tlie heirs of my Cozon Obadiah Abbe of Willington"; to Reverend Mr. Clap,
minister of the first church in Windham, £5; to the church, £20. The residue
was to be divided into six parts and shared among the following: "my sister
Abigail ye wife of Daniel Sabins who is my sister of ye half blood and Johanah
Brown ye wife of Jonathan Brown who is ye daughter of my Brother Joseph
Abbe deceased who was of ye half blood; ye other five parts to be equally
divided to my sister Mary ye wife of James Pease, Mercy ye wife of Nathaniel
Flint, Hanah ye wife of Thomas Welch, Lydia ye wife of Benjamin Bidlack
and Sarah ye wife of John Welch who are my sisters of ye whole Blood."
To Brother John Abbe of Windham, lands and tenements in Windham, wearing
apparel and arms. He enjoins his executors to take no unjust advantage of
his debtors and to allow those against whom he held mortgages reasonable time
to redeem them even if they had been legally forfeited. (Windham Probate
Records, Vol. 2, page 192.) He had no children.
The following is the inscription on his tombstone:
Here lyes buried ye Body of Richard Abbe, ESQ.,
one of his Majesties Justices of ye County of
Windham, who after he had Faithfully Served his
Generation Accoi'ding to the will of GOD Fell
Asleep July 10th 1737 in ye 55th year of his
Age.
Richard Abbe married in Windham, November 16, 1703, MARY JENNINQS,
born 1682, daughter of Jonathan Jennings, one of the first settlers of AVind-
hani. She died August 25, 1759, leaving no children. Her will, dated July
12, 1758, was proved September 18, 1759. Among its provisions are the fol-
lowing: £4 to the First Church in Windham, "to purchase a Flagon for the
Convenianee of Furnishing the communion Table in said Church"; "unto
Ginna my Negro woman her time & Freedom From hence Forward not to be
Inslaved held or Controld by me or any under me as a slave or servant For
Time or Life and I do hereby give & bequeath unto sd Ginna a good Bible
& the best Feather bed I have saving one with good bedding, viz : Bolster,
Pillows one pare good sheets, one pare woolen Blankets & a good coverlid
& a Foot wheel and Farthermore I give unto sd Ginna a good Iron Pott &
Kettle with my every day clothes & a good silk crape gown & Two Pewter
Platters which I give unto ye sd Ginna For the good servis she hath done
me"; "and I do here by order & desire that those of my Negro Children as
shall be sold & disposed of so that they may have Christian Education and
by their maysters not be used with cruelty & hardship." The inventor}- names
four negro children: Sampson, £45; Peter, £40; Reuben, £35; Tamer,
£28. The inscription on Mrs. Abbe's tombstone is as follows:
Third Generation 17
lu Memory of Mrs. Mary Abbe widow to
Richard Abbe Esq. who died August 25th
1759 in ye 78th year of her Age. them also
yt sleep in Jesus will God bring with him
1 Thess 4 and 14,
Joseph Talcott Esq^ Governouk of His Majests Colony of Connecticut in
New England
To Mr. Thomas Huntington Mr. Joshua Ripley Mr. John Fitch Mr. Joseph Adams
Mr. Ebenezer West Mr. Joseph Strong Mr. Richard Abbe Mr. John Woodward Mr.
Joseph Leveus Mr. Peter Bucl and Mr. Jonathan Dressor Esqrs Greeting
Know Ye that by vertue of Authority derived from his Late Majesty King Charles
the Second of England Scotland France and Ireland King by his Letters bearing date
the three and Twentieth day of ApriU in the fourteenth year of his Reign and by and
with the Advace and Consent of ye Council and Representatives of this Colony in Generall
Court Assembled I have Assigned you and Every of you Joyntly and Severally to Keep
the peace Within the County of Windham Within the Colony aforesd & to keep and
Cause to be kept all the Laws and Ordinances that are or shall be made for the good
of the Peace and Conservation of the Same and for the quiet rule and Government of
ye People Within ye County aforesd and to Chastise and punish all persons offending
in ye County aforesd Against ye sd Laws or Ordinances or any of them as According to
those Laws and Ordinances shall be fitt to be done and to Cause to Come before you or
any of you all those persons who shall threaten any of His Majests Subjects in their
persons or Estates to find suffict sureties for the Peace and Good Behaviour or in Default
of their finding Sureties to Committ them to goal or Safe Custody tiU they shall so do
And I have Assigned you Thomas Hunting Joseph Addams Ebenezer West and Richard
Abbe to Assist ye Judge of ye County Court for ye County Aforesd to Enquire of hear &
Determine by a Jury or otherwise According to Law all Causes Matters and things
Civill and Criminall Cognizable by ye sd Court and I do Allso Assign you the said
Joshua Ripley John Fitch Joseph Strong John Woodward Joseph Levens Peter Buel
and Jonathan Dresser and Each and Every of you to Hear and Determine all Cause
matters and things Civil and Criminal which any one Assistant in this Corporation now
hath or hereafter shall have power by Law to hear and Determine And I Command
you and Every of you that you dilligently Intend ye Keeping of ye Peace Laws and
Ordinances and aU and singular Other ye premises and perform and fullfiU the same
doing therein What to Justice Appertains According to ye laws of this Colony In
Witness whereof I have Caused the Seal of ye Colony to be hereunto Aflixed Given
under my hand in Hartford this 25th day of May in the 5th year of the Reign of our
Soveraign Lord George the Second by ye Grace of God King of Great Britain France &
Ireland &c
Anno Domini 1732
J. Talcott
By his Honours Command
Hez. WyUys Secret^T
(On reverse.)
Commission Justices
Windham County
1732
10. MARY^ ABBE, daughter of John2 and Hannah ( ) Abbe, born in
Wenham, Mass., September 16, 1684; baptized there before 1685. Lived in
Somers and Enfield.
Some authorities have given Mary, wife of James Pease, as the daughter of
Thomas and Sarah (Fairfield) Abbe of Enfield. But Mary, the daughter
of Thomas and Sarah, died in Wenham, Mass., October 15, 1705 (Wenham Vital
Records). Moreover, Richard Abbe, son of John and Hannah ( ) Abbe, in
his will mentions his sister Mary, ye wife of James Pease. Her mother divided
land belonging to her first husband, John Abbe, among his children, June 16,
1710, using these words, "moved by the love and affection I bore to my beautiful!
daughter Mary Abbe."
Married November (or October) 15, 1710, JAMES PEASE, born in Salem,
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Mass., 1677 or 1679, son of John, jr., and Margaret (Adams) Pease. The first
of the Pease family in America was Robert, who man-ied Marie , father
of John Pease, sr., called the father of Enfield. John Pease, sr., married Mary
Goodell and had a son, Captain John Pease, jr., a member of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, served in the Colonial Wars, and
married Margaret Adams, daughter of James and Frances (Vassall) Adams.
James Adams was a son of John Adams, who came to the Plymouth Colony
in the ship Fortune in 1621, and liis wife Eleanor Newton. James Pease
removed with his father to Enfield when he was a child, was living in Enfield
in 1710, and in Somers in 1713. He served as sergeant in one of the military
companies.
Children, horn in Enfield
Mary Pease, b. Oct. 8, 1711.
27 James Pease, b. May 4, 1713 ; m. Abigail Ford.
Margaret Pease, b. May 16, 1715.
28 Richard Pease, b. Sept. 22, 1717 ; m. Elizabeth Parsons.
Hannah Pease, b. April 20, 1722.
John Pease, b. June 19, 1725 ; d. July 25, 1730.
11. JOHN^ ABBE, son of John- and Hannah ( ) Abbe, born in Wenham,
Mass., April 20, 1691; baptized there 1691; died in Windham, Conn., January
16, 1770. Records pertaining to John Abbe of Windham are necessarily some-
what indefinite as there were several of the name living there at the same
period. This was perhaps the John Abbe who was a proprietor in the drawing
of a twenty-acre lot in 1707. He is probably the John Abbe of Norwich to
whom, April 1, 1714, heirs of John Abbe make deed; Lydia Abbe, Thomas
and Hannah Welch, Hannah Abbe, Richard Abbe, Daniel Sabin, and James
Pease. (Windham Deeds, Liber F, page 183, etc.) In 1752 he bought property
in Union, the homestead of Nathaniel Gould, also land of Nathaniel Walker
and Joshua Webb. His name occurs in Union land transfers several times
between 1754, when he made over property to his son Richard, and 1764. His
will, dated June 6, 1767, was probated February 2, 1770. It mentions his wife,
Sarah; to son John, whose wife is Lois, land in Windham; grandson, John,
son of above John; to son, Richard, land on Beaver Hill in Windham; daugh-
ter, Hannah, who married Joshua Webb; to daughters Mary, Elizabeth,
Eunice and Tabitha, lands in Windham; to his friend Reverend Mr. Stephen
White of Windham, silver-headed cane. The inventory amounted to £1067,
12s, 6d, with land valued at £949, 15s. (Windham Probate Records, Vol. 8,
page 41.)
John Abbe married (1) in Windham, November 7, 1717, MARY BINGHAM,
born December 17, 1697, at Stratford, Conn.; died July 23, 1722. She was
the daughter of Deacon Abel and Elizabeth (Odell) Bingham of Windham.
Married (2) March 12, 1723, in Windham, MARY PALMER, born December
17, 1691, at Rehoboth, Mass.; died May 30, 1750, in Windham; buried there.
She was daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Kingsley) Palmer.
Married (3) April 23, 1751, MRS. ABIGAIL (GARY) RIPLEY, died October
16, 1766; buried in Windham. She was daughter of Deacon Eleazer and
Lydia ( ) Cary, and widow of Jeremiah Ripley, jr.
Married (4) April 8, 1767, MRS. SARAH DODGE, died April 11, 1776. She
was perhaps the widow of Isaac Dodge.
Child hy first wife
29 John Alhe, b. July 4, 1722; m. (1) Lois Munson ; (2) Smith.
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Children by second wife (baptized in Wiiidham)
30 Hannah Abbe, b. Sept. 17, 1724; m. Joshua Webb.
31 Mary Abhc, h. Sept. 10, 1T2G ; m. Elisha Wales.
32 Elizabeth Abhch. Sovt. 1(1 1728; m. Jesse Ward.
33 Richard Abbe, b. July 1, 17.'50 ; m. Mary Huutington.
Eunice Abbe, b. August 20, 1732; m., probably as his second wife, Jonathan Jen-
nings. No children are recorded in AVindham.
34 Tabitha Abbe, b. Sept. 16, 1736; m. Charles Ripley.
12. HANNAH^ ABBE, daughter of John^ and Hannah ( ) Abbe, born
Ai;gnst 13, 1()93, in Wcnliani, Mass.; baptized there 1694; died March 24, 1769,
buried in Windham, Conn., where tliey had resided.
Married about 1713, THOMAS WELCH, born March 1, 1695, baptized at the
First Church of Bristol, R. I., March 29, 1702; died August 14, 1781, buried
at Windham. He was son of James and Mercy (Sabin) Welch. James Welch
■was a soldier in King Philip's War from Maiden, Mass.; went to Mt. Hope,
R. I., in Captain Samuel Moseley's Company and remained there until about
1702, when he removed to Plainfield, Conn. Thomas Welch took up the 1000
acres of land on Beaver Hill and Beaver Brook about three miles east of
Windham on the road leading to Hampton. He married (2) before 1774,
Mrs. Rachel (Huntington) Bingham, widow of Joseph Bingham. Thomas
Welch died August 14, 1781, and was buried in Windham. His will, made
February 1, 1770, was proved August 29, 1781. The following records of this
family were kindly furnished by Mrs. Ashbel Welch of Germantown, wife of
one of the descendants :
Children
35 Jeremiah Welch, b. Nov. 14, 1714; m. (1) Margaret Hebard ; (2) Mrs. Jerusha
Lasel.
36 John Welch, b. July 8, 1717 : m. Abigail Manning.
37 Daniel Welch, b. March 20, 1726; m. Martha Cook.
13. LYDIA3 ABBE, daughter of John^ and Hannah ( ) Abbe, born
May 21, 1696. "Lydeah, the daughter of John Abbey by Hannah, his wife,
borne the 21th of May, Anno Dom. 1696, ' ' Wenham records. She was baptized
in Wenham in 1696.
Married in Windham, Conn., September 4, 1722, BENJAMIN BIDLACK, died
February 3, 1740-1. He was son of Christopher and Sarah ( ) Bidlack, early
settlers of Hampton, Windham County, Conn. Christoi^her gave to his son
Benjamin his home fann in the northeast part of Windham. Benjamin Bidlack
was a merchant, probably the first one in his section of the town, Canada Parish.
In his inventory, taken March 11, 1740, are enumerated many articles of his
trade. The opening items are : a wigg Christian hair, s 15 ; a brown wigg
Christian hair, s5; a white wigg, hors hair, etc. (Windham Probate Records,
Vol. 2, page 358.)
Children, recorded in Windham
38 Sarah Bidlaclc, b. Nov. 24, 1723 ; m. Nathaniel Flint.
39 Benjamin Bidlaclc, b. July 10, 1725 ; m. Edith Spaulding.
James (1) Bidlack, b. Jan. 3, 1726; d. March 29, 1728.
James (2) Bidlack (twin), b. Oct. 28, 1728. The records of Captain James Bidlack,
see below, may refer to this one. One James Bidlack m. in Windham, Feb. 14,
1750, Mehitable Durkee.
John Bidlack (twin), b. Oct. 28, 1730; d. Aug. 8. 1776; m. Mary .
Children, recorded in Windham : i. Amos, b. May 19, 1754, d. Aug. 23, 1777 ;
ii. John, d. Aug. 8, 1776.
Mary (1) Bidlack, b. July 29, 17.32; d. Feb. 27, 1732-3.
Mary (2) Bidlack, b. Dec. 4, 1733.
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Lydia Bidlach, b. Jan. 8, 1736-7; m. in Windham, March 2, 1756, Asa Farnham,
and settled in Ashford, Conn. He was b. Nov. 11, 1731, son of Nathaniel and
Hannah ( ) Farnum. Child : Lydia, m. Joseph SneU, of Union, Conn., and
had a son, Joseph, jr., who was killed in an accident in a WiUimantic factory.
40 Bciliia Bidlack, h. May 22, 1738 ; m. Christopher Davison.
Hannah Bidlack, h. Aug. 26, 1741. She may be the Hannah Bidlack who m. in
Windham, Feb. 10, 1762, Benjamin Jewett.
Captain James Bidlack, who may have been the James mentioned above,
married Abigail Fuller, daughter of Stephen Fuller, and emigrated to Susque-
hanna, Pa. He, with Robert Durkee and Samuel Ransom, was taken captive
by the Indians, March 24, 1779. He was stripped, tied to a tree, stuck full
of sharp splints of pine knots; then, having piled pine knots around him,
the Indians set fire to the whole, piled the other two men on the fire, held them
down with pitchforks and tortured them until they expired.
Sarah Bidlack, perhaps a sister or daughter of Captain James Bidlack, mar-
ried Stephen Fuller, jr., brother of Abigail Fuller. He, with others, was taken
by Indians in the Wyoming battle, July 3, 1778, was led to a wheat field,
where the Indians piled around them sheaves of wheat and burned them to
death. The fort was taken and fired, most of the women and children perish-
ing in the flames. Mrs. Fuller, with some others, went in boats down the
Susquehanna to Northumberland. About two weeks later she returned to look
for the body of her husband but found the bodies so mutilated as to be
unrecognizable. Her home had been despoiled of everything. She later returned
to Hampton, Conn., on horseback, with her only daughter, Polly, who was
then two or three years old. Polly Fuller afterward married Judge Ebenezer
Griffin of Hampton. Sarah (Bidlack) Fuller married (2) Asa Abbott and had
children.
14. SAMUEL^ ABBE, JR., son of SamueP and Mary (Knowlton) Abbe,
born about 1676, probably in Wenham, Mass.; baptized there 1679. He died in
Windham, Conn., January 15, 1736-7, aged about 61. He was on the tax-list
of Salem Village Jamiary 18, 1694-5; and was one of the original members
of the First Congregational Church at Windham, Conn., December 10, 1700.
He was among Windham's active and influential citizens and succeeded to the
estate of his father at Windham Centre. A Samuel Abbe of Windsor bought
land in Windham of Obid Abbe in 1714. His will, March 3, 1731-2, probated
February 23, 1736-7, left everything to his wife, Hannah. (Windham Probate
Records, Vol. 2, page 144.)
Inventory of Samuel Abbe. February 9, 1736-7.
one straight bodyed coat £3 a jacoat £2 s5 5_ 5_o
a payr of coton and lining briches ^10 0-10-0
a payr of ould leather dito ^8
a payr of new leather dito £3 3- 8-0
one Great Duffils Coat — a double' breasted old Jacot 1-15-0
one Coat and Jacoat 1-10-0
a bower hat £3 ^5 a flaniel shawl slS 4-00-0
an ould hat ^6 a pr of stockins s4-6 0-10-6
one payr of dito s7 one pr of dito ^2-6 0- 9-6
a payr of ould shoes ^12 a silk handkirchiff ^14 1- 6-0
one lining dito ^3 a payr of coton gloves s6 . 0- 9-0
a bed and furniture £18-15 one dito £4 22-15-0
one dito £4 ^10 six chairs £1 ^4 5- 4-0
2 Bibles and sundry other books 3- 9-0
2 iron pots one iron kittle 2 skillets 5- 4—0
a warming pan & bras kittle 2- 0-0
Tongs candlestick tobacco box 0-15-0
several putar dishes basons and spoons 3- 5-0
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several poringcrs 1-0-0 1- 0-0
earthen ware 1-2-6
a ston mugg and earthen cup 0-3-0 1- 5-6
2 pails and severall wooden dishes 1-5-3
Glass bottles 0-6-6 1-11-6
4 spining wheels 2-5 one chest 2 boxes one Table 1- 3-5
4 oukl barrils -5- tubs 1-6 2 hand pails 2 trays s8 1- 3-0
one chest slO-4 meal bariels s6 a cider (?) tub ^5 1- 1-0
one Riddle one half bushal s6 2 sives s6 0-12-0
one Churn 3 more ould bariels ^9-6 an Road 0-15-0
a payr of spectacles ^3 a putar Chamber pott ^5 0- 8-0
one lamp a pr of tobacco tongs ^3-6 one table ^12 0-15-6
2 knives and forks ^4 Table lining si Tramils and hooks 1- 3-0
one hand saw s4 boxiron and heater ^10 a small ould auger ^2 0-16-0
one payr of shears ^1-6 one hammer ^1-6 a Gallon Rundlit ^3 0- 6-0
one more flanil shart **15 one small ould iron pott s3 0-18-0
one stone jugg ^3-6 one Earthen pott ^1-6 0- 5-0
Joshua Ripley junr ^
Josiah Ripley jprisors under oath
Extracted out of ye original and Recorded march ye 17th 173f
pr me John Crary Clerk of Probat.
SamueF Abbe married March 15, 1710, HANNAH SILSBY, born October 3,
1687; died March 22, 1748. She was the daughter of Jonathan and Bethiah
(Marsh) Silsby of Lynn, Mass. In her will, probated in Windham, December
14, 1758, she left property to her Silsby relatives. (Windham Probate Records,
Vol. 6, page 21.)
Child, recorded in Windham
Samuel AUe, b. Oct. 12, 1712 ; d. March 15, 1714.
15. ELIZABETH^ ABBE, daughter of SamueP and Mary (Knowlton) Abbe,
born in Wenham, Mass., probably about 1681, baptized there before 1682.
Lived later in Windham, Conn.
Married in Salem Village, Mass., September 23, 1702, WILLIAM SLATE,
born about 1675; removed to Windham.
Children
William Slate, jr., b. Dec. 7, 1703.
Elizabeth Slate, b. Aug. 29, 1705 ; m. in Mansfield, Conn., Jan. 23, 1727, William
Smith, "a transient person."
Daniel Slate, b. March 30, 1708.
41 Anne Slate, b. April 29, 1710 ; m. Joseph Whittemore.
Samuel Slate, b. Nov. 8, 1711.
John Slate, b. June 7, 1715.
42 Elenezer Slate, b. Jan. 19, 1717-8 ; m. Sarah Manley.
43 Ezekiel Slate, b. Dec. 26, 1719 ; m. Mehitabel HaU.
16. EBENEZER3 ABBE, son of Samuel^ and Mary (Knowlton) Abbe, bom
July 31, 1683, in Salem Village, Mass., baptized in Wenham before 1685; died
in Windham, Conn., December 5, 1758. He removed with his father to the
locality known as ''Bricktop" in 1698; worked in Norwich for a time, about
1705; was at Windham in 1706 and later lived at North Windham and Mans-
field. November, 1705, were recorded two deeds showing an exchange of
property between Samuel Abbe and Ebenezer of Norwich, a lot lapon Bushnell'a
Plain. He received a deed from Samuel, July 17, 1707, and sold land to
Abraham Mitchell and William Slate in 1709 and 1711. October 29, 1713, John
Abbe, "now resident at Hartford, in Hartford County," sold to his brother
Ebenezer land he had received from his father, Samuel Abbe of Windham.
In a deed of November 2, 1713, he alludes to his deceased father, Samuel Abbe,
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January 11, 1714, land bouglit from his brother, Samuel Abbe, and calls Abraham
Mitchell "father." He is found frequently in the records of Windham down
to late in life. September 8, 1742, he sold to his son, Samuel, land on the
east side of Nauchaug River in Windham. In 1715, Ebenezer Abbe was one
of the settlers who formed Canada Parish at Hampton Hill in the northeast
part of Windham, and was one of those who on May 9, 1717, signed a petition
to the General Assembly asking to be made a separate parish. In October of
the same year another petition was sent to the Assembly, asking that the taxes
on property in this parish should be used for the establishing of their church.
This petition was signed by ''Ebenezer Abbe, for the rest," and William
Durkee.
His will, dated June 3, 1750, probated December 14, 1758, names these heirs:
wife Mary; children Ebenezer, Joshua, Nathan, Gideon, Samuel, Elizabeth
Cross, Zeruiah Marsh, Jerusha Wood, Abigail Cary, Miriam Cross; grandson
Jonathan Bingham, only surviving son and heir of his daughter Mary, deceased.
(Windham Probate Records, Vol. 5, page 513.)
Ebenezer Abbe married at Mansfield, October 28, 1707, MARY ALLEN, who
died 1766, daughter of Joshua and Mary ( ) Allen, early settlers of Mansfield,
who lived near what is now North Windham.
Children, tirths recorded in 'Windham
44 Ebenezer Ahhe, jr., b. July 27. 1708 ; m. Abigail Cary.
45 Elizabeth Ahhc, h. Soytt. 11. 1700 ; m. Dauiel Cross.
46 Joshua Abbe, h. Jan. 20, niO-11; m. Mary Ripley.
47 Mary Abbe, b. Sept. 21, 1712 ; m. Jouatlian Bingham.
Nathan Abbe, b. May 6, 1714. Resided in Mansfield, Conn. Married (1) in Mans-
field, Dec. 4, 1746, Silence Ames, daughter of William Ames of Mansfiekl. She
d. Feb. 6, 1776. He m. (2) in Mansfield, Oct. 17, 1776, Lucy Hovey, daughter
of Samuel Hovey of Windham. No cliildren by either marriage are recorded. His
will, made Nov. 2, 1795, probated May 12, 1807, mentions his wife Lucy ; brothers
Joshua, Solomon and Samuel ; Leonard Sessions ; Anne, wife of Eleazer Cross ;
balance of estate to Jonathan Hovey "who dwells with me" (Windham Probate
Records, Volume 15, pages 298, 310). The 1800 Census records Nathan Abbe
in Mansfield with seven persons residing in the family.
48 Gideon Abbe, b. Feb. 1.3, 1715-6; m. (1) Mary Wood'; (2) Keziah Walker; (3)
Bathsheba Smith.
Samuel (1) Abbe, b. Oct. 30. 1717; d. March 1, 1718.
49 Samuel (2) Abbe, b. April 24, 1719; m. Temperance Lincoln.
50 Zerviah Abbe, b. March 17, 1720-1; m. EUhu Marsh.
51 Jerusha Abbe, b. Oct. 22, 1722; m. Samuel Wood.
52 Abigail Abbe, b. Aug. 1. 1724 ; m. Benjamin Cary.
53 Miriam Abbe, b. Aug. 31, 1726 ; m. William Cross.
54 Solomon Abbe, b. May 29, 1730; m. (1) Sarah Knight; (2) Mrs. EUzabeth
Burnham.
17. HEPSIBAH3 ABBE, daughter of Samuel^ and Mary (Knowlton) Abbe,
born in Salcni Village (now Danvers), Mass., February 14, 1688-9; baptism
recorded in Wenham.
Married in Windham, Conn., April 8, 1707, SAMUEL PALMER, born January
4, 1683-4, in Rehoboth, Mass., son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Kingsley) Palmer,
and a grandson of Walter Palmer of Nottinghamshire, England, who died in
Stonington, Conn., 1661.
Children, births recorded in Windham
Sarah Palmer, b. Feb. 2, 1707-8.
Martha Palmer, b. April 25, 1710 ; d. April 26, 1710.
55 Samuel Palmer, b. Sept. 18, 1711; m. (1) Lydia Silsby ; (2) Tabitha .
Ebenezer Palmer, b. Jan. 25, 1714. Bought land in Kent, 1754. An Ebenezer
Palmer was witness to will of Hannah (Silsbee) Abbe and was at Litchfield,
Third Generation 23
Dec. 5, 1758. Married in Windham, March 11, 1741, Mary Webb. Cliildreu,
births recorded in Windliam : i. Lucy, b. April 24, 1742 ; ii. Mary, b. and d.
June 20, 174.'^> ; iii. Mary, b. June 11, 1744 ; iv. Sibcl, b. Jan. 1, 1746-7 ; v. Sarah,
b. July 24, 1749.
Ichabod Palmer, b. April 17, 1716. Resided in Kent 1754. Married in Windham,
Nov. 22, 1738, Phebe Bronghton. Children, births recorded in Windham :
i. Eunice, b. Aug. 19, 1740 ; ii. Amos, b. Sept. 30, 1742 ; iii. Jeremiah, b. July 19,
1744 ; iv. Elizabeth, b. June 4, 1747 ; v. Phebe, b. May 23, 1749.
Zehulon Palmer, b. May 19, 1718 ; m. in Windham, April 25, 1746, Lois Carpenter.
Children, recorded in Windham : i. Edna, b. April 19, 1747 ; ii. William, b. Sept.
14, 1749.
56 John Palmer, b. March 6, 1720-1; m. (1) Esther Cleveland; (2) Lydia Eames.
Aaron Palmer, b. March 12, 1722-3,
Moses Palmer, b. Aug. 24, 1726.
Elizaheth Palmer.
Ann Palmer, b. July 19, 1730 ; m. Sept, 26, 1751, Joseph Wood of Mansfield,
18. JOHN'' ABBE, son of Samuel- and Mary (Knowlton) Abbe, born in
Salem Village, Mass,, June 4, 1692; died in East Hartford, Conn,, October 30,
1790. He was a resident of Hartford as early as 1710 or 1713. John Abbe,
resident at Hartford, sold to his brother Ebenezer, land formerly belonging to
their father, Samuel Abbe, of Windham, October 29, 1713. (Windham Deeds,
Liber D, page 328.) March 12, 1718, he purchased from Benjamin Hills of
Hartford, 8 acres on the "east side of the Great River," There were several
John Abbes living at this period so that it is sometimes hard to tell which
one is meant, but the following records seem to pertain to this one, March 3,
1731, he joined with several others in giving a deed to the Town of Hartford
for a highway which was later known as Silver Lane and on which his house
stood, (Hartford Deeds, Vols, 5, page 307, and 3, page 164,) John Abbe of
East Hartford was one of the inhabitants of that town to protest against a
tax in 1769; signed a paper with others regarding their desire to settle in
what was known as "Western town" in 1733; was a proprietor in the Western
land and signed a Tolland petition, (Connecticut State Archives, State Library,
Towns and Lands, IX, 278b, with his autograph, V, 238e, V, 23b, and VII, 13.)
Deeds made by him were recorded in Hartford, 1736, 1738, 1748, 1754, 1759,
1765, and 1770. The most important of these is that of January 15, 1759
(Hartford Deeds, 13, page 37), by which he conveys land to his son Nehemiali
Abbe of Hartford. The name is spelled in various ways on the early records.
Abbe, Abby and Abbey, but the latter seems to have been in most frequent use
among the later descendants of his family.
Married HANNAH ,
Childreii
57 John Abie, jr., m. Ruth Goodwin.
58 Stephen Abbey, b. about 1727; m. Mary (or Marah) .
59 Eleazer Abbey, m. Mary .
60 Nehemiah Abbey, m. Mabel Warren.
Naomi Abbey.
Sarah Abbey. These last two names are included in this list of children for the
following reason. In a deed recorded in Hartford, Oct. 26, 1759 (Volume 9, page
559), John Abbe, junr., Solomon Hills and Sarah, his wife, and Naomi Abbe
convey land in Hartford to George and John Buck of Wethersfield.
19. BENJAMIN^ ABBE, son of SamueP and Mary (Knowlton) Abbe, born
in Salem Village, Mass., June 4, 1694; died about 1765. He probably removed
with his family to Windham, Conn., and from there to Glastonbury, where his
name appears on lists of freemen, 1718-35. He filled the offices of hayward,
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grand juryman, collector of rates, fence- viewer and ty thing man. In 1737
he was admitted to the First Ecclesiastical Society of Chatham or East Middle-
town, and his wife Mary, in 1741. He was appointed guardian of Daniel
Andruss of Middletown, 1748. April 24, 1749, he deeded land "on the east
side of the Great River" to his son Samuel. His will, filed in Middletown,
was made December 4, 1754 ; probated October 15, 1765. Inventory was recorded
November 20, 1765. His will names his wife Mary; son Samuel; daughters
Agnes Bidwell and Lydia Abbey; grandchildren John, Ebenezer, Agnes and Lucy
Miller; grandchildren Moses, Samuel, John and William Cornwell.
Married at Glastonbury, January 24, 1716, MARY TRYON, born October 5,
1695, daughter of Dr. Joseph and Lydia ( ) Tryon.
Children
61 Samuel Abie, b. 1726; m. (1) Rachel Masson ; (2) Mrs. Sarah Leland.
62 Agnes Ahbe, m. Daniel Bidwell.
Lydia Abhe.
Hannah Abbe.
Mary Abbe.
20. JONATHANS ABBE, son of SamueP and Mary (Knowlton) Abbe, born
in Wenham, Mass., about 1697; settled in Willington, Conn., where he died
May 3, 1757. The following records from the Ashford land books probably
refer to this Jonathan Abbe: 1719, 100 acres of land from John Follett; 1721,
10 acres from Joseph Orcutt, adjacent to land of previous deed; 1761 and 1764,
references to holdings of land; 1764, land from Azariah Sanger, Elizabeth
Sanger and Joseph Abbe. (Ashford Deeds, B, 133; E, 119; K, 272, 433.)
The inventory of his estate was entered in Hartford, June 2, 1757, by William
Arent, James Comins, and Abner Barker, appraisers, (Hartford Probate Rec-
ords, 17; 32, 18; 86.) The estate consisted of 106 acres of land, with utensils
and household goods to the amount of £381-5-4. The Court granted adminis-
tration upon the estate to Jonathan Abbe of Willington, who was also appointed
guardian for Mary, aged about 11 years, and Rebekah, aged about 3 years,
minor children of said Jonathan Abbe. The estate was ordered to be distributed
March 4, 1760, the widow having quitted her right to any of the estate. "To
Jonathan Abbe eldest son a Double Shair of s^ Estate and to Samuel, Anna,
Mary and Rebekah Abbe an equall single Shair."
Married (1) MARY JOHNSON, probably daughter of Caleb Johnson of Wil-
lington. She died in Willington, January 19, 1742-3.
Married (2) in Brooklyn, Conn., September 19, 1745, REBEKAH WEDGE.
The date of this marriage is recorded in Willington as September 19, 1747.
Children by first wife
63 Jonathan Abbe, jr., b. about 1725 ; m. Allice Johnson.
64 Samuel Abbe, b. March 21, 1727-8 ; recorded iu Ashford ; m. Lucie Persons.
Isaac Abbe, b. July 2, 1730; d. Sept. 18, 1753, recorded in Willington.
Thomas Abbe, b. Feb. 17, 1733 ; d. April 13, 1733, recorded in Willington.
Mary (1) Abbe, b. April 11, 1734; d. Nov. 7, 1740, recorded in WilUngton.
65 Anne Abbe, b. July 25, 1737; recorded in Willington; m. James Weston.
Jeduthan Abbe, d. in Willington, Sept. 12, 1743.
Children by second ivife, recorded in Willington
Mary (2) Abbe, b. Sept. 1, 1746.
John Abbe, b. Oct. 16, 1750; d. July 10, 1753.
Rebekah Abbe, b. about 1754. Jonathan Abbe was appointed her guardian in 1757.
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21. SARAH-* ABBE, daughter of Thomas^ and Sarah (Fairfield) Abbe, born
in Enfield, Conn., March 31, 1684; died February 16, 1731-2.
With her brothers Thomas and John and sister Tabitha Warner, she signed
a receipt for legacy from her grandfather, Walter Fairfield, January 6, 1725-6.
Married in Enfield, January 27, 1702-3, SHUBAEL GEER, born probably 1683,
son of Thomas and Deborah (Davis) Geer, one of the earliest settlers in Enfield.
He was a member of Captain Appleton's Company at the Great Swamp Fight.
Children, horn in Enfield
Shuhael (1) Geer, jr., b. Dec. 1, 1703; d. March 15, 1703-4.
66 Sarah Geer, b. Jan. 5, 1704-5 ; m. John Simons.
Deiorah Geei; b. Aug. 17, 1707; d. in Enfield, August 12, 1794. Married there
Aug. 24, 1732, Ezekiel Prior, her cousin, b. in Enfield, April 24, 1708 ; d. there,
July 27, 1798; sou of John and Mary (Geer) Prior. He was a soldier in the
expedition against Ticonderoga and Crown Point, June 6 to August 6, 1758 ;
also to Fort Edward, Aug., 1757. Children: i. Chloe, b. Feb. 28, 1733-4;
ii. Zaccheus, b. March 13, 1736-7, d. Jan. 19, 1818, m. Feb. 9, 1759, AbigaU
Pease, b. in Enfield, Dec. 1, 1739, d. Dec. 18, 1818, daughter of Benjamin and
Abigail (Rose) Pease, had children, Anna, b. Jan. 28, 1765, and Zaccheus, jr.,
b. Jan. 12, 1768. Zaccheus Prior, jr., m. EUzabeth Parsons of Enfield, May 9,
1793, who d. June 18, 1842, aged about 77, and had a daughter, Susan, d. in
Enfield, May 4, 1801, aged 8 months.
67 Mary Geer, b. March 10, 1709-10 ; m. Roger Griswold.
68 Tabitha Geer, b. July 21, 1712 ; m. Edward Collins.
Bathsheha Geer, b. Jan. 16, 1714-15. Married in Enfield, Jan. 7, 1736-7, Charles
Soxton of Enfield, son of Captain Joseph and Hannah (Wright) Sexton, b. Jan. 7,
1707-8 ; d. on the way home from the expedition to Havana, Sept. 16, 1762. They
lived in Somers. Children : i. Bathsheba, b. in Enfield, Sept. 14, 1741 ; ii.
Charles, jr., b. in Somers, April 28, 1744, d. on the way home from the expedition
to Havana, Sept. 25, 1762 ; iii. Elenor, b. in Somers, Aug. 17, 1746 ; iv. Hannah,
b. in Somers, Aug. 15, 1748.
69 Shuiael (2) Geer, b. May 26, 1717; m. Hannah Pease.
70 EUzabeth Geer, b. Jan. 15, 1719-20 ; m. Ebenezer Terry.
Thomas Geer, b. July 1, 1722 ; m. as her first husband, Hannah Abbe, daughter of
Thomas and Mary (Pease) Abbe.
71 Annah Geer, b. Dec, 1725 ; m. Aaron Pease.
22. TH0MAS3 ABBE, JR., son of Thomas^ and Sarah (Fairfield) Abbe,
born October 30, 1686, in Enfield, Conn.; died there 1759. He was captain
and then lieutenant (1714) of military companies. He resided in Enfield, Conn.
With his brother John and sisters Sarah Gears and Tabitha Warner, he signed
receipt for legacy from his grandfather, Walter Fairfield, January 6, 1725-6.
He was executor of the will of his uncle, Obadiah Abbe, together with Elizabeth
Warriner in 1732. His will, made December 30, 1758, probated April 18, 1759,
mentions wife, Rebecca; children, Mary Bement, Sarah Parsons, Tabitha Pease,
Hannah Phelps, Thomas; grandchildren, Nathaniel and Eliphalet Chapin, Thomas
and Elihu Geer. Son Thomas, executor.
Married (1) in Enfield, March 3 (or 13), 1714-5, MARY PEASE, born in
Enfield, May 24, 1688; died March 18, 1745 (Enfield record), daughter of
Captain John, jr., and Margaret (Adams) Pease. She was descended from
William Vassall, Assistant with Governor Winthrop of the Colony of Massachu-
setts Bay in 1630, who was son of John Vassall who built and commanded the
Samuel and the Tobev, jr., in the Spanish Armada.
Married (2) June 12, 1746, MRS. REBECCA PEIRCE.
Children, all by first wife, born in Enfield
72 Mary Abbe, b. Jan. 25, 1715-6; m. Dennis Bement.
73 Sarah Abbe, b. March 26, 1718; m. (1) Nathaniel Chapin; (2) Hezekiah Parsons.
74 Tabitha Abbe, b. July 9, 1720; m. Ephraim Pease.
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75 Hannah Aihe, b. March 27, 1723; m. (1) Thomas Geer ; (2) Noah Phelps.
Abigail Ahie, h. July 28, 1725; probably d. young as she was not mentioned in her
father's will, 1758.
Ohadiah Aibe, b. Feb. 18. 1728 ; d. in Enfield, April 15, 1745.
76 Thomas Abbe, b. April 11, 1731 ; m. Penclopa Terry.
23. JOHN^ ABBE, son of Thomas^ and Sarah (Fairfield) Abbe, born in
Enfield, Conn., September 27, 1692; died 1790, in or near Hartford, Conn. He
was a farmer, known as one of the first settlers of Upper King Street, Enfield;
received a land grant, February 18, 1716-7. He is mentioned as a lieutenant,
^ 1786-1791, and held various minor offices in the town. John Abbe is poss"^ of
A peace of Meadow by Alienation from Richard French lying west of Jobes
hill so Called Bounded North partly by A swamp and partly by lapland, and
south East and west by upland being in length East and west 160 rods and
in breadth North and south 3 rods one peace with an other being by Estimation
one acre and ^ be it more or less. Feby 18th 1716:17. (Enfield records.)
With his brother Thomas and sisters Sarah Gears and Tabitha Warriner he
signed a receipt for a legacy from his grandfather, Walter Fairfield, January
6,1725-6. (Essex Deeds, 49:190.)
Married HANNAH BOARDMAN, born in Wethersfield, Conn., December 18,
1693, daughter of David and Hannah (Wright) Boardman or Boreman, grand-
daughter of Samuel and Mary (Betts) Boreman and great-granddaughter of
Christopher Boreman of Clayton, England, and his wife, Julian Carter.
Children, born in Enfield
John (1) Abbe, bapt. in Wethersfield, 1715 or 1716; d. young.
77 John (2) Abbe, b. April 18, 1717; m. Sarah Root.
Hannah Abbe, b. April 19, 1719.
Thomas Abbe, b. Dec. 18, 1721; d. in the army at Cape Breton, 1745; not m.
V^ 78 Sarah Abbe, b. Dec. (or Jan.) 23, 1723-4; m. John Burroughs.
Daniel Abbe, b. May 8, 1726 ; d. in the army at Cape Breton, 1745 ; not m.
79 Martha Abbe, b. March (or May) 1, 1728; m. (1) Isaac Gleason, jr.; (2) John
Slade.
Mary Abbe, b. May 14, 1730.
Tabitha Abbe. b. March 9, 1732 ; d. in Enfield, Dec. 11, 1802. Married in Enfield,
June 25, 1752, Joseph Bement, a soldier in the French and Indian War, probably
son of William and Hannah ( ) Bement of Enfield. He d. in Enfield, Jan. 12,
1803 (Enfield records).
80 Richard Abbe, b. Aug. 1, 1735 ; m. Mary Bement.
FOURTH GENERATION
24. JOSEPH^ ABBE, probably son of Joseph^' Abbe. He was a blacksmith
in Ipswich, Mass. His shop, in which considerable work was done, was known
as "Abbe the Smith's Shop." Joseph Abbe, perhaps an adult, was baptized in
Ipswich, November 18, 1722. In 1749, he sold his blacksmith shop and lands
in Ipswich. His will is found in the Probate Records at the East Cambridge
Court House, Middlesex County, Mass., Vol. 54, page 113. October 7, 1772,
Joseph Abbee of Hopkinton, Mass., being advanced in age, dwelling on a farm
in said town, wife Tamasin Abbe; four grandchildren, children of his son
John deceased and Jerusha, his wife, to wit, John, Mary, Joseph, Amos (John
not yet of age) ; his son Aaron, a blacksmith living in Hopkinton. Tlie son
John had lived in Hopkinton on a farm. The property is to be equally divided
between the two sons John and Aaron and their heirs. Joseph died before
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March 10, 1773, when the inventory of his property, amounting to about £888,
is filed.
jMarried, banns publislied November 5, 1721, THOMASIN or TAMAZIN
BAKER, daughter of William Baker of Ipswich. She was a member of the
First Church of Ipswich, April 21, 1746.
Children, recorded in Ipswich
Sarah (1) AUc, bapt. Nov. 25, 1722; d. Jau. 5 or 6, 1722-3.
Sarah (2) Ahhe, bapt. Juue 28, 1724; d. Nov. 18, 1726.
Joseph (1) Abbe, bapt. May 7, 1726; d. Aug. 25, 1726.
Joseph (2) Abbe, bapt. June 25, 1727; d. July 8, 1727.
John (1) Abbe, h. July 21, 1728 ; d. July 12, 1736.
James (1) Abbe, bapt. Aug. 16, 1730; d. June 22, 1731.
Tamasin (1) Abbe, bapt. March 12, 1731; d. Sept. 7, 1733.
Williatn (1) Abbe, bapt. Feb. 10, 1733; d. Aug. 14, 1734.
James (2) Abbe, b. May 25, 1735; d. Aug. 30, 1736.
81 John (2) Abbe, b. Dec. 27, 17^6; m. Jerusha Burnap.
Tamasin (2) Abbe, bapt. April 8, 1739; d. April 19, 1742.
William (2) Abbe, bapt. Jan. 11, 1740.
Mary Abbe, bapt. Feb. 6, 1741 ; probably d. young or at least without heirs, as she
is not mentioned in her father's will.
Martha Abbe, d. Oct. 25, 1745.
82 Aaron Abbe, bapt. Sept. 20, 1747 ; m. Anna .
25. JOANNA^ ABBE, daughter of Joseph^' and Abigail (Severance) Abbe,
born November 15, 1706, probably in Salisbury, Mass.; died September 7, 1757,
in Kensington, N. H. She was mentioned in the will of her uncle, Richard Abbe
of Windham, Conn., in 1737. The choice of Joanna Abbey of her stepfather
as guardian is on file at Essex. "I Joanna Abbee of Salisbury, daughter of
Joseph Abbee deceased and wife Abigail, born 15 nov., 1706, do desire that my
father in law Mr. Philip Greele should be my guardian. Dated 5 Oct., 1724."
Acknowledged before Wm. Bradbury and witnessed by Jarvis Ring, jr. A seal
attached shows a griffin rampant.
Man-ied in the 2d Church in Salisbury, February 17, 1726, JONATHAN
BROWN, born in Hampton, N. H., February 24, 1700 ; died July 10, 1766. He
was son of Jacob and Sarah (Brookings) Brown and a direct descendant of
John Brown, an early immigrant to America, of Scottish descent but born in
London. There has been much confusion among the Browns in tracing ancestry,
due to the fact that Joshua Brown, a descendant of Richard Brown, married
Joanna Morrill, on December 8, 1726, in the 2d Church in Salisbury, Mass.
the same church in which, on February 17, 1726, Jonathan Brown had married
Joanna Abbe. Then after the death of Joanna Abbe Brown, her husband
married, on November 30, 1758, Mrs. Joanna (Morrill) Brown, widow of Joshua.
Joshua and Joanna (Morrill) Brown had at least eight children, and Jonathan
and Joanna (Abbe) Brown, ten, but there were no children by the second
marriage of Jonathan Brown to Mrs. Joanna (MoiTill) Brown. Most of the
records of this family are found in John R. Eastman's History of Andover,
New Hampshire.
Children of Jonathan and Joanna (Abbe) Brown
Abigail Brown.
Miriam Broun.
Sarah Brown.
Joanna Broion.
Jonathan Brown, jr.
83 Abbe Brown, b. May 28, 1739 ; ra. EHzabeth Leavitt.
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84 Joseph Brown, m. Ann Brown.
Lydia Brown.
Moses Brown,
Judith Brown.
26. OBADIAH-^ ABBE, son of Obadiali^ and Elizabeth (Wilkinson) Abbe,
born in AVindham, Conn., April 10, 1704. He is doubtless the one called "my
Cozon Obadiah Abbe of Willington" in the will of Richard^ Abbe of Windham,
1737. Various land transactions in Ashford, 1725, Obediah of Willington to
Richard Abbe of Windham, 1731, Obediah to Richard Abbe, may refer to him.
January 20, 1768, was made a deed from Obadiah of Ashford to his brother
Richard, of the same town, land in the westerly part of the town of Ashford
descended by the will of Richard Abbe of Windham ' ' to the heirs of my honored
Father Obediah Abbe of Willington." January 19, 1768, Ruth Abbe of Wil-
lington transfers property to Obediah of Ashford, land descended from her
uncle Richard of Windham. In 1767 Jeremiah Abbe received land from his
brother Obadiah, both being sons of Obadiah. [Ashford Town Records F, 11,
12, 26, 74, 75, 76, 78; K, 49; L, 197, 253, 290, 291, 400.] The names of Obadiah
and Jeremiah Abbe are among the signers of an Ashford petition regarding
the church, 1765. Connecticut Archives, Ecclesiastical Affairs, XIV, 271 b.
State Library.)
Married ELIZABETH . She is probably the Elizabeth Abbe who was
a member of the church in Willington in 1759.
Children
85 Joseph AUe{'i).
Elizabeth Abie, b. Aug. 29, 1734, recorded in Willington. Probably the Elizabeth
who married there Aug. 22, 1760, Azariah Sanger. Azariah Sanger and wife
were received from the church in Ellington to the church in WiUington.
86 Obediah Abbe, b. about 1735 ; m. Zeruiah Balch.
87 Jeremiah Abbe, b. Feb. 20, 1737-8, recorded in WiUington ; m. Mary Armstrong.
John Abbe, b. Nov. 12, 1739 ; d. Nov. 14, 1740, recorded in WiUington.
Ruth Abbe, deeded land to her brother, Jeremiah, March 6, 1770. (Ashford,
Liber L, page 400.)
27. JAMES* PEASE, JR., son of James and Mary^ (Abbe) Pease, born in
Enfield, Conn., May 4, 1713; died 1760.
Married October 16, 1737, ABIGAIL FORD, born June 12, 1719, daughter of
John (or Joseph) Ford of Windham, Conn., and Elizabeth Grinslet. The mar-
riage was recorded in the Somers town records. They resided in Somers, Conn.
Children, born in Somers
88 Elizabeth Pease, b. Sept. 17, 1738 ; m. John Tice.
James Pease, b. Feb. 27, 18.39.
89 John Pease, h. June 12, 1742 ; m. Zepary Coy.
Abigail Pease, b. June 10, 1744.
Margaret Pease, b. Oct. 10, 1749.
Tilton Pease, b. Sept. 21, 1751 ; d. March 15, 1753.
Joseph (1) Pease, b. Sept. 26, 1753; d. young. ,
Joseph (2) Pease, b. Aug. 24, 1755.
90 Keziah Pease, b. Oct. 12, 1757 ; m. John Smith.
Joel Pease, b. Nov. 2, 1760. He resided in Wilbraham, Mass., then in Marlboro, Vt.,
was a soldier in the Continental Army at the age of sixteen, and was captain of a
Militia Company in Somers. Married Louisa (or Lovisa) Meacham. Children:
i. Lucy, b. Jan. 28, 1786, in Somers ; ii. Joel, b. in Somers, Uved in Wilbraham,
Mass., and later in Vermont ; ii. James, b. in Somers, lived in Vermont ;
iv. Frederick M.
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28. RICHARD' PEASE, son of James and Mary^ (Abbe) Pease, born in
Enfield, Conn., September 22, 1717; lived in Somers, Conn., and died there.
Married November 1, 1753, ELIZABETH PARSONS.
Children, horn in Somers
Eeturah Pease, b. Sept. 19, 1754.
91 Samuel Pease, b. Aug. 26, 1756; m. Sarah Root.
92 Richard Pease, b. Oct. 20, 1758 ; in. Sovicr Parsons.
29. JOHN^ ABBE, son of John^ and Mary (Bingham) Abbe, born July
4, 1722; died July 4, 1788. He received land in Windham by his father's will.
Married (1) LOIS MUNSON. Mentioned in the will of her father-in-law,
June 6, 1767. Lois Abbe joined the Windham Church by profession September
22, 1799.
Married (2) SMITH. No children.
Child hy first wife
John Ahic, b. in Windham, Jan. 10, 1755; d. unm. about 1820 in Windham County,
Conn. Mentioned in his grandfather's will, 1767.
30. HANNAH^ ABBE, daughter of John^ and Mary (Palmer) Abbe, born in
Windham, Conn., September 17, 1724; died February 12, 1815.
Married in Windham, May 28, 1744, JOSHUA WEBB, born February 19,
1721-2, in Windham, son of Samuel and Hannah (Ripley) Webb; died April 17,
1808, in Rockingliam, Vt. About 1766 he removed to Rockingham (Bellows
Falls) where he lived until his death, except for a short time in Westminster.
He was the first town representative and held that office fifteen successive years.
Children (first four horn in Windham) , probably all born in Connecticut
Jehiel Webb, b. Jan. 2.3, 1744-5 ; d. Feb. 16, 1813. He had a grandson, Jehiel Webb,
who was living in Northfield, Mass., about 1860.
Joseph Webb, b. May 8, 1746; d. Sept. 2:5, 1825. He m. and had sons who died
young, leaving no children.
Azariah Webb, b. Oct. 11, 1748 ; d. April 10, 1846. He m. and had a son Greenleaf
who was living in Guildhall, Vt., about 1860.
Charles Webb, b. Aug. 19, 1750 ; d. Sept. 21, 1820. Married and had sons Charles
and John who lived in West Bloomficld, N. Y.
Hannah Webb, h. June 20, 1752, recorded in Windham; d. Oct., 1817.
Eunice Webb, b. Nov. 28 or 20, 1755 ; d. June 26, 1845.
Calvin Webb, b. July 31, 1757; d. in Rockingham, Vt., Nov. 15, 1853. Went to
Rockingham with his father and settled on the same farm. Married and had
children, one of whom was Ethan B., b. 1784 ; d. March 15, 1872 ; lived near
Bellows Falls, Vt. Ethan B. Webb m. Fanny Burnham, b. about 1797, d. Sept. 24,
1876, and had children, Sarah, Carleton E., and Emily, who always lived in
Rockingham.
Mary Webb, h. Jan. 28, 1760; d. July 30, 1841.
Anna Webb, b. Aug. 22, 1761 ; d. Feb. 17, 1842.
93 I/M^Aer lFe&6, b. Oct. 24, 1763; m. Dorothy Wheelock.
Joshua Ripley Webb, b. July 7, 1766; d. Feb. 21, 1813. Married and had a son
Edward, who lived in Northfield, Vt.
31. MARY* ABBE, daughter of John^ and Mary (Palmer) Abbe, born
September 10, 1726, at Windliam, Conn.
Married in Windham, April 23, 1747, ELISHA WALES, born March 10, 1728,
in Windham; died April 6, 1788, in Union, Conn. He was son of Deacon
Ebenezer and Esther (Smith) Wales; accompanied his family to Union and
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remained there till about 1760, when he removed to Ashford. With other
members of his family he was one of the patentees of the toAvnship of Norwich,
Vt., which was organized at Mansfield, Conn., August 21, 1761, but it is
doubtful if any of them became actual settlers. There is a tradition that he
served in the French and Indian War. In 1763 he was commissioned captain
of the 12th Company, 5tli Regiment, Connecticut Colonial forces. December 14,
1769, he was appointed to correspond with other committees in the county and
elsewhere to encourage and forward manufactures and the spirit of industry
in this government, also to see that no goods were imported into Ashford. In
1776 he represented Ashford in tlie General Assembly of Connecticut.
Childre7i
Ehenezer Wales, m. at Ashford, Dec. 2G, 1773, Anna Babcock. He entered service
in the army July, 1775, was Lieutenant of the 1st Regiment Connecticut line from
1778 till the close of the war. Member of the Connecticut Society of the
Cincinnati.
94 EUslia Smith 'WaJes,'^. 11^2 \ m. Mary Watkins.
Nathan Wales, m. Dec. 22, 1771, Sarah Keyes, daughter of Ephraim Keyes of Ash-
ford. He was a soldier in the Revolution, was made Captain in 1780 in a State
Regiment. After the war he removed to Norwich, N. Y.
95 Mary Wales, m. John Keyes.
Ilannah Wales, bapt. June 19, 1760.
32. ELIZABETH* ABBE, daughter of John- and Mary (Palmer) Abbe,
born September 16, 1728. Resided in Union, Conn.
Married in Union, May 22, 1754, JESSE WARD, born in Union, August 6,
1729, son of William and Rachel ( ) Ward.
Children, hirths of four are recorded in Union
John Ward, b. May 15, 1755 ; m., Oct. 26, 1780, at Belchertown, Judith Ayres.
AUgail Ward, b. Dec. 11, 1757.
Lucena Ward, b. May 2, 1766.
Lois Ward, b. May 8, 1768.
Rumplircy Ward, b. Nov. 16, 1769.
33. RICHARD* ABBE, son of John-' and Mary (Palmer) Abbe, born in
Windham, Conn., July 1, 1730; died February 17, 1794 (?). He seems to have
lived in Windham, althoiigh the vital records of that town contain the birth
of only one child, Mcrari (Mexari or Miriam). Family traditions and names
prove that Hezekiah, Mason, and Richard were also his sons and there were
doubtless others. In his will he left a farm of 90 acres on Beaver Hill in
Windham to his son Merari or Mexari. He is said to have been an officer in
the Revolution.
Married MARY HUNTINGTON, born in Windham, April 2, 1735, daughter
of David and Mary (Mason) Huntington.
Children, some died in infancy
Mcrari or Mexari Ahlc, b. in Windham, Dec. 44, 1752. Several published records have
given this name as Mexari, but the recent accurate copy of the Windham records
has it Merari. The old manuscript of Windham vital records made by Jonathan
Clark has it Miriam, but this is not likely 'to be as correct as one of the others.
Received farm at Beaver Hill, Windham, by his father's will.
96 Hezeldali Al>he, b. Jan. 4, 17.55, in Union, Conn. ; in. Martha Manning.
97 Mason Abbe, b. April 17, 1759; m. Sarah Frisell.
98 Richard Abbey, b. at Windham, Aug. 15, 1769; m. Dolly ElUs.
(daughter), m. Dodge and lived in Vermont.
Fourth Generation 31
34. TABITHA* ABBE, daughter of John^ and Mary (Palmer) Abbe, born
September 16, 1736, in Windham, Conn.
Married in Windham, November 16, 1758, CHARLES RIPLEY, born February
25, 1733, son of Jercmiali and Abigail (Carey) Ripley. He held a commission
in the French and Indian War and fought against the Indians in Canada. He
■was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, was taken prisoner by the British
at Monmouth, N. J., and confined in the Sugar House prison in New York.
At a time when he Avas reduced to extreme prostration by want of food, some
refuse bones were offered him. He remonstrated and the keeper of the prison
dealt him a blow on the head that instantly killed him.
Children, hirths recorded in Windham
99 Epaphras Ripley, b. Feb. 13, 1759 ; m. Auu Webb.
Benjamin Ripley, b. Jan. 28, 1761; no children.
Charles Ripley, b. Aug. 19, 1762.
100 John Abie Ripley, b. April .3, 1764 ; m. Margaret Clark.
Sarah Ripley, b. May 9, 1767.
101 Vine Ripley, b. Nov. 30, 1769 ; m. Lois Crampton.
Calvin Ripley, b. Feb. 16, 1772 ; d. in Bennington, Vt.
35. JEREMIAH* WELCH, son of Thomas and Hannah^ (Abbe) Welch,
born in Windham, Conn., November 14, 1714; died September 17, 1790. His
will, probated December 13, 1790, mentions wife Jerusha; sons Elijah, Eleazer
and Reuben; daughters Hannah, Mary, Jerusha, Chloe, and Anna (single).
Married (1) December 15, 1736, MARGARET HEBARD, who died September
9, 1784, aged 71. \^^^i{
Married (2) May 25, 1785, MRS. JERUSHA LASELL. v ?, <■.'-
Children
Hannah Welch, b. March 2, 1737-8 ; m. Buzby.
Mary Welch, b. Nov. 4, 1739 ; m., as his second wife, John Huntington.
Jeremiah Welch, b. Dec. 10, 1741 ; d. Dec. 26, 1741.
Jerusha Welch, b. May 13, 1743; m. March 9, 1769, Nathan (or Jonathan)
Martin, jr.
Elijah Welch, b. July 6, 1745. He was a physician; m. and settled in Orange
County, N. Y.
Eliphalet Welch, b. May 15, 1747 ; d. Nov. 4, 1772.
Ann Welch, b. April 4, 1749 ; was unm. in 1790, as stated in her father's will.
102 Eleazer Welch, b. Dec. 12, 1750; m. (1) Abigail Brown, (2) Alathca Manning.
Reuben Welch, b. in Windham, Aug. 21, 1752. Married, May 1, 1775, Jerusha
Carey, who was b. Jan. 15, 1755. Children : i. Fanny, b. Sept. 9, 1776 ; ii. Sarah,
b. Dec. 16, 1777 ; iii. Lucy, b. Feb. 24. 1779 ; iv. Anna, b. Oct. 7, 1782 ; v. Polly,
b. Dec. 16, 1784 ; vi. Elisha, b. Jan. 27. 1787 ; vii. Chloe, b. Nov. 5, 1788 ; viii.
Lydia, b. Aug. 11, 1791 ; ix. Alathea, b. Nov. 27, 1793 ; x. EHphalet, b. Aug. 7 or
11, 1796 ; xi. Carey, b. Jan. 13, 1799 ; xii. Mira, b. Jan. 17, 1802.
Abigail Welch, b. June 4, 1754; d. April 7, 1755.
Chloe Welch, b. in Windham, July 5, 1756. Married Feb. 3, 1781, James Robinson.
Children : i. James ; ii. Gurdon, resided in Boston. A grandson of Chloe Welch,
Rev. A. A. Robinson, b. May 14, 1814, was settled over the Baptist Church at
Pacherville, Conn., 1886, and was preaching there in 1899. He m. a daughter
of Lyman Lyons of Wales, Mass.
36. JOHN* WELCH, son of Thomas and Hannah^ (Abbe) Welch, born in
Windham, Conn., July 8, 1717; died March 4, 1802. Resided in Windham.
Married October 27, 1745, ABIGAIL MANNING, born November 25, 1722;
died January (or February) 6, 1794; daughter of Samuel, jr., and Irene (Ripley)
Manning of Windham.
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Children, torn at Windham
Irenah Welch, b. Sept. 7, 1746 ; d. 1804 ; m., March 31, 17—, William Sabin.
Jerusha Welch, b. Sept. 4, 1748; m. Jonathau Martin. Children: i. Jonathan;
ii. Samuel ; iii. Amelia ; iv. Julia ; v. Irene : vi. Ashbel.
103 John Welch, jr., b. Feb. 3, 1750-1 ; m. Olivia Fitch.
Asenath Welch, b. April 4, 1753 ; d. Nov. 4, 1813 ; m., as his second wife, July 4,
1793, Shubael Fitch, who d. March 1, 1834. Children : i. Asenath ; ii. Ashbel.
104 Ashbel Welch, b. April 21, 1764; m. Margaret Dorrancc.
37. DANIEL* WELCH, son of Thomas and Hannah^ (Abbe) Welch, born in
Windham, Conn., March 20, 1726 ; died April 29, 1782. He was graduated from
Yale in 1749, and preached at North Mansfield and Abington.
Married February 18, 1752, MARTHA COOK, daughter of Moses and Deborah
(Cadwell) Cook. She died December 11, 1775.
Children
Hannah Welch, b. Dec. 10, 1752 ; d. Dec. 26, 1846 ; m. Captain Jesse Waldo.
105 Moses Cook Welch, b. Feb. 14, 1754 ; m. four times.
Daniel (1) Welch, jr., b. Feb. 10, 1756; d. March, 1756.
106 Thomas Welch, b. Feb. 22, 1757 ; m. Lucinda Pierce.
Daniel (2) Welch, b. May 7, 1759 ; d. Sept. 3, 1785. He was a physician.
107 Ourdon Welch, b. May 23, 1761 ; m. Mary Manning.
Caroline Matilda Welch, b. July 7, 1763 ; d. June 11, 1785 ; m. Gurdon Moulton.
Child : Caroline Matilda, was mentioned in her grandfather's will as her mother's
only child and heir.
Martha Welch, b. June 17, 1765 ; m. Arad Evans and moved to New York state.
Children : i. Thomas ; ii. Chloe ; iii. Phebe ; iv. Arad, was living in 1862.
Jerusha Welch, b. Dec. 5, 1767; d. Dec. 17, 1815, at Mansfield, Conn. Married
Roger Waldo, b. Aug. 2, 1766 ; d. June 28, 1813 ; a son of Jesse and Bridget
(Thompson) Waldo. He was a physician, was born, lived and died at Mansfield.
No children. He m. (2) Chloe Evans, by whom he had a son, Jesse Harrison,
b. Dec. 5, 1816.
Deborah Welch, b. Nov. 15, 1769 ; m. Bicknell and removed to western
Connecticut.
108 Sophia Welch, b. Sept. 27, 1771 ; m. Gurdon Barrows.
Abigail Welch, b. Dec. 26, 1773 ; d. Dec. 24, 1818 ; not m.
38. SARAH* BIDLACK, daughter of Benjamin and Lydia^ (Abbe) Bidlack
born in Windham, Conn., November 24, 1723 ; died there September 5, 1749.
Married in Windham, June 16, 1742, NATHANIEL FLINT, JR., born in
Windham, September 5, 1720, son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Martin) Flint. He
married (2) Mary Hovey by whom he had ten children: Luke, Jonathan (1),
Jonathan (2), Phineas, Abigail, Zaccheus, Daniel, Elisha, Mary and William. His
will, made August 3, 1792, was probated April 1, 1795. (Windham Probate
Records, Vol. 13, page 426.)
Children of Sarah Bidlack, recorded in Windham
Benjamin Flint, b. Sept. 27, 1743 ; resided in Hampton ; m., April 12, 1770,
Bethiah Cheney of Pomfret. Children, born in Hampton : i. Hannah, b. Aug. 16,
1770; ii. Chloe. b. May 10, 1772; iii, Charlotte, b. April 19, 1774; iv. Sarah (1),
b. April 14, 1776, d. April 28, 1776; v. Sarah (2), b. June 2, 1777; vi. Asa,
b. March 29, 1779 ; vii. Elisha, b. Aug. 30, 1781 ; viii. Polly, b. Nov. 5, 1783 ;
ix. Amelia, b. Feb. 13, 1787 ; x. Benjamin, jr., b. Jan. 4, 1791 ; xi. Cheney,
b. June 6, 1793.
109 Nathatiiel Flint, 3d, b. July 15, 1745 ; m. Lucy Martin.
Sarah Flint, b. April 28, 1747 ; d. before 1792 ; m. Elias (or Josiah) Chapman of
Ashford.
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39. BENJAMIN* BIDLACK, JR., son of Benjamin and Lydia^ (Abbe)
Bidlack, born July 4, 1725. Resided in Windliam, Conn.
Married in Wiiidham, November 11, 1742, EDITH SPAULDING. She mar-
ried (2) April 7, 1756, Joshua Read.
Children, recorded in Windham
Jonathan Bidlacl; h. Nov. 19, 1744; m., April 22, 1767, Hannah Cutler. Children,
recorded in Windham, Conn. : 1. Eunice, b. Feb. 9, 1768 ; ii. Olive, b. Dec. 1,
1769 ; iii. Asa, b. Oct. 9, 1771 ; iv. Mary, b. April 27, 1773 ; v. Ralph, b. Oct. 2,
1774 ; vi. Jonathan, b. Sept. 19, 1776 ; vii. OUver, b. April 29, 1778 ; viii. Edith,
b. Jan. 22, 1780.
Ruth Bidlack, b. Feb. 14, 1746-7; d. Jan., 1751.
Sarah Bidlack, b. Nov. 29, 1748 ; d. Jan. 15, 1751.
40. BETHIA* BIDLACK, daughter of Benjamin and Lydia^ (Abbe) Bid-
lack, born May 22, 1738.
Married, as his second wife, June 24, 1756, CHRISTOPHER DAVISON, born
April 15, 1732, son of Thomas, jr., and Lydia (Merrick) Davison, of Preston,
Conn. He married (1) June 5, 1755, Lydia Hovey, daughter of Nathaniel Hovey,
by whom he had a son, Asa. He resided in Windham, Conn.
Child, recorded in Windham
Daniel Davison, b. Nov. 9, 1757 ; d. Dec, 1757.
41. ANNE* SLATE, daughter of William and Elizabeth^ (Abbe) Slate, born
in Windham, Conn., April 29, 1710; died in Mansfield, Conn., March 28, 1772.
Man-ied in Mansfield, October 9, 1734, JOSEPH WHITTEMORE, born March
13, 1694; died in Mansfield, May 15, 1742.
Children, born in Mansfield
Joseph Whittemorc, jr., b. July 4, 1736 ; m. in Mansfield, Nov., 1763, Sarah Howe,
b. about 17.38; d. July 17, 1802. Children: Joseph, b. April 11, 1764;
Samuel, b. Jan. 12, 1769, d. at Bolton (?), before 1802; Shubael, b. Feb. 28,
1771 ; Sarah, b. Dec. 24, 1779. Samuel Whittemore, above, m. at Mansfield,
Jan. 1, 1794, Sarah Wales, b. in Hebron, May 11, 1773, d. about 1802, and had
a son Williams Howe Whittemore, b. in Bolton, Feb. 2, 1800, d. in Rve. N. Y.,
July 25, 1885, m. in Rye, Dec. 22, 1831, Maria Clark, b. Jan. 16, 1803, d. in
Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 25, 1886. Their daughter married William P. Bacon, a
graduate of Yale, 1858, and a resident of New Britain, Conn., about 1899.
Ann Whittemore, b. Feb. 6, 1738-9.
Elizaheih Whittemore, b. June 9, 1741.
42. EBENEZER* SLATE, son of William and Elizabeth^ (Abbe) Slate, born
probably in Windham, Conn., Jamiary 19, 1717-8. Lived later in Mansfield,
but doubtless removed soon after his marriage.
Married in Mansfield, March 6, 1740, SARAH MANLEY, daughter of Eleazer
Manley.
Child
Sarah Slate, b. May 5, 1741, in Mansfield ; bapt. there May 10.
43. EZEKIEL* SLATE, son of William and Elizabeth^ (Abbe) Slate, bom
probably in Windham, Conn., December 26, 1719; died in Mansfield, January
9, 1792.
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Married in Mansfield, January 30, 1746, MEHITABEL HALL, daughter of
James and Mehitabel ( ) Hall, born February 18, 1722; died December
7, 1803.
Children, recorded in Mansfield
Ezehiel Slate, jr., b. Oct. 30, 1746 ; m. Mary Russ, daughter of Jolin Russ of Mans-
field. Children: i. Eleazer, b. July 15, 1768; ii. Annis, b. Aug. 9, 1769; iii.
Nathan, b. Aug. 22, 1770 ; iv. Ezekiel, b. May 26, 1772 ; v. Mary, b. Feb. 14, 1774.
Mehitabel Slate, b. Feb. 19, 1749.
James Slate (Lieutenant), b. Dec, 1751; m. Feb. 1, 1781, Mary Needham of
Brimfield. Children: i. Clarissa, b. Nov. 16, 1782; ii. Mary, b. Oct. 2, 1784,
m. Oct. 6, 1808, Alvin Bennett ; iii. Sally, b. March 5, 1787 ; iv. Mehitabel, b. Jan,
10, 1790; V. Lora, b. May 10, 1792; vi. James, b. April 10, 1794, d. Dec. 4,
1797 ; vii. Nancy, b. May 11, 1796, m. Oct. 11, 1818, Thomas Place ; viii. Need-
ham, b. Aug. 6, 1798 ; m. Fanny , and had six children : Fanny Marilla,
b. Feb. 20, 1826, m. May 27, 1847, William B. Crane; Mary Jane, b. June 3,
1827, m. Jan. 20, 1848, Albert Barrows ; James Jackson, b. Feb. 3, 1829 ; Ange-
line Martha, b. Oct. 10, 1830, m. March 24, 1850, Albert Barrows; Daniel
Needham, b. Nov. 14, 1834, and Marcia Clarissa, b. Sept. 8, 1839; ix. Phila,
b. Jan. 7, 1801 ; x. Armina, b. Aug. 29, 1803 ; xi. Sabrina, b. Dec. 30, 1805.
Elizabeth Slate, b. July 22, 1754.
Atme Slate, b. July 8, 1756.
Mary Slate, b. Aug. 15, 1758.
Zerviah Slate, b. June 7, 1761; m. Oct. 23, 1783, Aaron Hall of Mansfield.
Children : i. Zerviah, b. June 5, 1784 ; ii. Aaron, b. Dec. 2, 1785 ; iii. Zeria, b.
Aug. 7, 1787 ; iv. Zadock, b. Feb. 23, 1789.
Sarah Slate, b. Jan. 14, 1766; m., April 2, 1789, Samuel Barrows. Children:
i. Nathan, b. Oct. 26, 1790; ii. John, b. Dec. 5, 1792; iii. Samuel, b. Oct. 17,
1795 ; iv. Sally, b. Aug. 27, 1797 ; v. Mary, b. Jan. 21, 1803 ; vi. James Madison,
b. Oct. 19, 1809.
44. EBENEZER* ABBE, JR., son of Ebenezer^ and Mary (Allen) Abbe,
born July 27, 1708; resided in Windham or North Windham, Conn.
Married February 22, 1729-30, ABIGAIL CARY, probably daughter of Joseph
Gary, jr.
One account gives her name Abigail Soale and still another says she was
Abigail Goodale, daughter of Isaac Goodale of Salem.
Children, baptized at Windham
Mary Abbe, b. March 26, 1731.
110 Isaac Ab&e, b. July 25, 1733; m. Eunice Church.
Ezekiel Abbe, bapt. at Windham, July 27, 1735. Perhaps he was the Ezekiel Abbe
who served during the Fi-ench and Indian War : April 21-Dec. 2, 1755, in 3d
Company, 2d Regiment, Major Isaac Foote ; June 8-Oct. 3, 1756, in 3d Company,
2d Regiment, Major Jehosaphat Starr; 16 days in militia company under
Captain John Carpenter, Aug., 1757.
Abner Abbe, b. Aug. 26, 1737. This is probably the Abner Abbe who enlisted
June 8, 1756, in 2d Regiment, 3d Company, Major Jehosaphat Starr ; d. or was
captured Sept. 19, 1756.
Ebenezer Abbe, 3d, b. June 10, 1739. Perhaps the Ebenezer Abbe in Captain
Benjamin Whitney's Company at Guilford and other parts of Windham County,
1783-4.
111 Jacob Abbe, b. Aug. 23, 1741 ; m. Sarah Richardson.
112 John Abbe, b. Aug. 22, 1743 ; probably m. Abial Averill.
Samuel Abbe, b. June 21, 1747.
45. ELIZABETH^ ABBE, daughter of Ebenezer^ and Mary (Allen) Abbe,
born September 11, 1709.
Married in Mansfield, November 13, 1735, DANIEL CROSS, born July 20,
1713, in Mansfield, Conn., son of Daniel and Desire ( ) Cross.
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Children, horn in Mansfield
Ichahod Cross, b. Jan. 16, 1736-7.
Maiy Cross, b. June 4, 1739.
Daniel Cross, b. May 20, 1741.
Abigail Cross, b. April 14, 1743; d. Nov. 29, 1749.
John Cross, b. Oct. 14, 1745.
Shuhacl Cross, b. Dec. 15, 1747.
Theophilus Cross, b. April 1, 1750.
Unah Cross, b. June 9, 1752 ; m. Mary . Children : i. Uriah, b. Aug. 21,
1778 ; ii. Sarah Abbe, b. April 2, 1781 ; iii. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 8, 1782 ; iv. Moses,
b. Aug. 7, 1784, recorded at Lunenburg, Vt., Jan. 22, 1785 ; v, Hazen, b. Aug. 2,
1786 ; vi. James, b. April 14, 1789.
46. JOSHUA^ ABBE, son of Ebenezer^ and Mary (Allen) Abbe, born
January 20, 1710-1, in Mansfield, Conn.; died January 13, 1807; buried in
Windham. His homestead was at North Windham, just within the bounds of
Chaplin. He was a large land-owner and his extensive holdings at North
Windham were generally called his ''Kingdom," while he was known as
"King Abbe." He was a man of large heart, generous impulses and liberal
opinions; of great vigor of both mind and body and a match for anyone
in shrewdness and wit. His strong religious feelings made him a conspicuous
leader in a sect which arose from the Bajitist denomination in Windham and
became known as Abbe-ites. His home was ever ojien for religious meetings
or for the entertainment of guests. Among celebrated guests is the name
of "Mother" Ann Lee, founder of the sect of Shakers. His will, made April
7, 1804, inventory March 18, 1809, mentions bis wife and daughters, Zibeiali
Wales, Mary Hebard, Zei-viah Webb and Lucretia Badger. (Windham Probate
Records, Vol. 15, pages 280, 285, 435, 539.) It is said that in 1803-4, he had
9 children, 88 grandchildren, 120 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great-gi-and-
child. In the Census of 1800 his family numbered eight persons, Mansfield
enumeration.
Married in Windham, April 14, 1736, MARY RIPLEY, born November 16 (or
18), 1716, at Windham, Conn.; died October 1, 1769, at Windham. Her tomb-
stone at Windham says she died October 13, 1770, in her 54th year. She was
daughter of Joshua Ripley, jr., who at that time resided in Willimantic and was
connected with the ' ' Iron Works. ' ' Her mother was Mary Backus, a descendant
of Lieutenant William Backus, Lion Gardiner, Thomas Bingham, Lieutenant
Jonathan Rudd and other Colonial dignitaries. Her descent from Governor
Bradford of the Mayflower is as follows : William^ Bradford ; Deputy-Governor
William^ Bradford, jr.; Hannah^ Bradford, married Joshua Ripley; Joshua*
Ripley, Jr.
Children, hirths recorded in Windham
113 Ziieiah Aihe, b. June 11, 1737 ; m. Jonathan Wales.
114 Rachel Ahhe, b. Feb. 6, 1738-9 ; m. Samuel McClellan.
115 Mary Abbe, h. Dec. 21, mo ; m. Nathaniel Hebard.
116 Zerviah Abbe, b. Jan. 7, 1743 ; m. Nathaniel Webb.
117 Shubael Abbe, b. Nov. 9, 1744 ; m. Lucy Chester.
118 PJmieas Abbe, b. Nov. 22, 1746; m. (1) Mary Bingham; (2) Susanna Brown.
119 Lucretia Abbe, b. March 10 (or 18), 1749; m. Edmund Badger.
120 Joshua Abbe, jr., b. Jan. 9, 1751; m. (1) Triphena Bass; (2) Mrs. Rogers.
121 Elisha Abbe, h. May 15, 1753 ; m. Jerusha Webb.
Elizabeth Abbe, b. Dec. 6, 1758 ; d. Jan. 20, 1759.
47. MARY* ABBE, daughter of Ebenezer^ and Mary (Allen) Abbe, born
September 21, 1712; died March 4, 1735, in Windham.
Married in Windham, May 9, 1734, JONATHAN BINGHAM, born August
17, 1712, at Windham, Conn.; died February 16, 1800. He was son of Deacon
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Abel Bingham and Mary (or Elizabeth) Odell, was early adopted by his nncle,
Jonathan Bingham, who had no children, and willed him his homestead near
the Windham Center Biirjdng Ground. He married (2) Mrs. Sarah (Upton)
Vinton, widow of Malatiah Vinton of Stoneham. By this second marriage he
had children: Mary, Malatiah, Elisha, Phebe, and Naomi.
Children of Mary Abbe (probably there were others)
Jonathan Bingham, jr., b. Feb. 20, 1735; m. Elizabeth Warner, b. April, 1707;
d. Aug. 21, 1751, ill Mansfield; daughter of Elisha and Elizabeth (Babcock)
Warner of Mansfield, Conn., and a descendant of Andrew Warner of Cambridge,
Mass., 1632. They are said to have numerous descendants in Vermont and New
Hampshire. Children : Elisha Warner, b. in Mansfield, March 23, 1765 ;
Erastus, b. in Mansfield, April 17, 1767 ; Frederick, b. in Cornish, Cheshire
County, N. H. ; Amy, b. in Cornish. Jonathan Bingham was one of the
signers to a petition for the establishment of a Congregational Church at
Cornish, Nov. 21, 1798.
Naomi Bingham, b. May 13, 1744. Married, May 22, 1771, Lieutenant Joshua
Tracy, b. in Norwich, Conn., Aug. 13, 1745 ; d. in Norwich, March 20, 1777, of
smallpox ; was buried "on the hill in Franklin, near Dr. Woodward's." He was
the son of John and Margaret (Hyde) Tracy. Children: i. Abel, b. April 26,
1779, at Norwich, probably d. without issue ; ii. Thomas, b. May 23, 1774, at
Norwich, was educated at Yale, d. in Baltimore, not m. ; iii. Joshua, b. in
Norwich, Dec. 21, 1776, d. Aug. 11, 1779.
48. GrIDEON* ABBE, son of Ebenezer^ and Mary (Allen) Abbe, born in
Mansfield, Conn., February 13, 1715-6; died there in 1784. He settled first in
Windham, resided later in Union, Mansfield, and Ashford. He purchased of
Nathaniel Badger, jr., 100 acres on the west side of Union in 1742; was living
in Union in 1743-4, and sold 100 acres of land there to Jonathan Barber, April
19, 1744. (Union Records, Book 2, page 17.) In 1769, Gideon Abbe of Hanover,
N. H., bought a piece of land in Hartford, Conn., including a dwelling house.
The same year Gideon Abbe of Hartford bought land. In 1770 he was called
of Coventry on deeds. (Hartford Deeds, 11, p. 70; 13, pp. 40, 224; 15, p. 233.)
His will was made May, 1779, probated June 25, 1784. (Windham Probate
Records, Vol. 12, page 43, etc.)
Married (1) in Mansfield, March 15, 1735, MARY WOOD, who died October,
1742, daughter of Samuel Wood of Mansfield.
Married (2) in Mansfield, December 8, 1742, KEZIAH WALKER, who died
January, 1746-7.
Married (3) in Mansfield, March, 1747, BATHSHEBA SMITH, daughter of
William Smith of Ashford, Conn. She survived him and was living in Mans-
field in 1790, one male over 16, one female in family.
Children by first wife
Mary (1) Abbe, b. in Windham, March 24, 1738; d. young.
Hannah Abbe, b. in Windham, June 28, 1739. Married in Mansfield, March 29,
1759, Josiah Hall, b. March 27, 1738, son of James' (William^ John') Hall of
Mansfield. They removed to Rhode Island about 1770. Children : i. Hannah,
b. Aug. 18, 1760; ii. Phebe, b. July 13, 1765, m. Nov. 24, 1789, Daniel Canada
of Mansfield ; iii. Josiah, b. June 9, 1767 ; iv. Elisabeth, b. Sept. 29, 1769, m.
Oct. 26, 1786, William Balch, had children, Stephen, b. Nov. 29, 1787, Betsey, b.
Oct. 27, 1789, and Origen, b. Jan. 15, 1794 ; v. Shubael, b. Sept. 24, 1771.
Oideon Abbe, jr., b. Oct. 12, 1741. He is found in no further records and was
probably the Gideon Abbe who served in 1st Regiment, 3d Company, under
Major John Slapp, in the French and Indian War and died June 17, 1759.
Children by second wife
Mary (2) Abbe, b. in Union, Sept. 4, 1743; recorded there, daughter of Gideon and
Keziah Abbe.
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Mary (3) Ahhc, b. Oct. 10, 1744, in Mansfield. Married there (First Church
Record), March 24, 1763, John Hunt, jr., of Mansfield. Children, born in
Mansfield : i. Anne, b. Jan. 27, 1764 ; ii. Joseph, b. April 15, 1766 ; iii. Mary,
b. April 2, 1769 ; iv. John, b. May 14, 1772.
Amos Abbe, bapt. at Windham, Oct. 3, 1745, according to manuscript at the Con-
necticut Historical Society, probably d. young.
122 Solomon Abbe, b. April 12, 1746; m. Lucy Johnson.
Children by third wife, born in Mansfield
123 John Ahbc, b. March 8, 1747-8; (?)m. Dorothy Bugbee.
Samuel (1) Abbe, b. Oct. 2, 1749; d. young.
Bathsheba Abbe, b. Feb. 22, 1750-1 ; probably d. young.
Elijah Abbe, b. in Ashford, July 7, 1753. His name is found in the Mansfield
census records of 1800 and 1810. Married, Nov. 4, 1772, Ruth Balch, b. in Mans-
field, daughter of Jonathan and Esther (Hall) Balch, and had a child born in
Mansfield, Dec. 15, 1773, d. Dec. 16, 1773. He resided in Mansfield and aU his
property went to Thomas Balch, a relative of his wife.
124 Samuel (2) Abbe, b. Jan. 7, 1755 ; m. Miriam Hall.
Nathan Abbe, b. Nov. 21, 1756.
125 William Abbe, b. April 14, 1758; m. Lydia Hall.
Jerusha Abbe, b. Jan. 3, 1761. Married in Mansfield, Jan. 14 or 15, 1784, Ephraim
HaU, jr., son of Ephraim and Miriam (Wolcott) Hall. Children, born in
Mansfield : i. EUsha, b. Oct. 31, 1784 ; ii. Jehiel, b. April 9, 1786.
Eunice Abbe, h. May 12, 1765.
Ezra Abbe, bapt. in Windham, May 10, 1767. Named in his father's wiU as infirm
and unable to take care of himself.
49. SAMUEL* ABBE, son of Ebenezer^ and Mary (Allen) Abbe, born April
24, 1719, in Windham County, Conn. He may be the Samuel who resided in
Windsor, Conn., in 1790. He is said to have removed to Otsego County, N. Y.,
about 1794, lost his property, and died there.
It is likely that the earlier published records of this branch of the family
omitted a generation, and it was a later Samuel Abbe who married, in Mans-
field, Conn., July 8, 1766, TEMPERANCE LINCOLN, daughter of Thomas
Lincoln of Windham.
Children, born in Mansfield
126 Shadrach Abbe, b. March 6, 1767 ; m. Welthan .
An7ie Abbe, h. June 13, 1769.
Liiey Abbe (twin), b. May 22, 1771.
Lemuel Abbe (twin), b. May 22, 1771. He was recorded in Burlington, N, Y., in
1800, aged between 26 and 45.
Mary Abbe, b. Feb. 9, 1774.
Amelia Abbe, b. July 14, 1776.
Azubah Abbe, b. Dec. 21, 1778.
127 Ebenezer Abbe, b. June 9, 1781 ; m. Mary Blanchard.
50. ZERVIAH* ABBE, daughter of Ebenezer^ and Mary (Allen) Abbe, bom
March 17, 1720-1.
Married in Windham, Conn., May 10, 1736, ELIHU MARSH, son of Thomas
Marsh of Mansfield, Conn. He resided for a time in Mansfield, then removed
to New Fairfield, and later to New Milford, where he purchased land, 1765, 1769,
and 1770. His home was in the part now called Jerusalem, and he resided there
until his death. He was an elder in the Strict Congregational Church of New
Milford for a number of years.
Children
Elihu Marsh, jr., b. in Windham, Conn., May 8, 1737. Married Martha Walters
and removed to Sherman, Conn., where he resided until his death. Children :
i. Anna, m. Enos Peck ; ii. Rachel, m. Ebenezer Wright.
Sarariah Marsh, h. May 8, 1740 ; m. Kent B. Wright.
Mary Marsh, b. June 12, 1742; m. Ebenezer Leach and lived in Sherman,
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128 Eunice Marsh, b. Dec. 6, 1744 ; m. Joel Northrop.
Lydia Marsh, b. April 11, 1747. Married Isaac Northrop, son of Thomas and
(Terrill) Northrop. He died aged 77. Their daughter m.
Waldo and d. in Chatham, N. Y., 1868, aged 92.
129 John Marsh, b. Aug. 4, 1749 ; m. Abigail Wanzer.
130 Samuel Marsh, b. Oct. 8, 1751 ; m. Miriam Leach.
131 Joseph Marsh, b. April 20, 1754; m. (1) Abigail Waldo; (2) Deborah Waldo.
Hannah Marsh, b. Feb., 1757.
Ruth Marsh, b. Aug. 31, 1759 ; m. Ichabod Leach and lived at Sherman.
Benjamin D. Marsh, b. May 10, 1762 ; m. Anna Jayger and removed to Benning-
ton, Vt.
132 Amos Marsh, b. Sept. 8, 1764 ; m. Abigail Sutton.
51. JERUSHA^ ABBE, daughter of Ebenezer^ and Mary (Allen) Abbe, born
in Mansfield, Conn., October 22, 1722.
Married in Mansfield, March 31, 1742, SAMUEL WOOD.
Children, births recorded in Mansfield
Mary Wood, b. Jan. 29, 1743.
Eunice Wood, b. Jan., 1745.
Ann Wood, b. April 1, 1747.
Hannah Wood, b. Feb. 1, 1748-9.
John Wood, b. March 1, 1751. Married in Mansfield, Oct. 26, 1780, Abigail
Church, daughter of Jonathan Church.
Mary Wood, b. March 30, 1753.
Cibel Wood, b. April 13, 1755.
133 Gideon Wood, b. July 10, 1759 ; m. Kezia Owen.
Nathan Wood, b. April 16, 1761. Married in Mansfield, Jan. 18, 1781, Lucy John-
son of Windham, Conn.
Sila Wood, h: June 9, 1764.
Samuel Dudley Wood, b. July 9, 1767. Children, recorded in Mansfield : i. Sophia,
b. Sept. 24, 1791 ; ii. Anna, b. Nov. 14, 1800 ; iii. Lois, b. July 11, 1806.
52. ABIGtAIL* abbe, daughter of Ebenezer^ and Mary (Allen) Abbe, born
August 1, 1724.
Married in Windham, November iO, 1743, BENJAMIN GARY. Some accounts
give the name Corey.
Children, first tioo born in Windham, Conn., others in Mansfield
Mary Cary, b. Aug. 12, 1744.
John Cary, b. May 9, 1746.
David Cary, b. Jan. 29, 1750.
Benjamin Cary, b. Feb. 19, 1752.
Eunice Cary, b. 5, 1754.
Jacob Cary, b. May 14, 1756.
Jonathan Cary, b. Feb. 28, 1758.
53. MIRIAM* ABBE, daughter of Ebenezer^ and Mary (Allen) Abbe, born
August 31, 1726 ; died December 2, 1823.
Married in Mansfield, Conn., October 5, 1745, WILLIAM CROSS, born May
25, 1720; died June 1, 1801. He was son of Daniel and Desire ( ) Cross,
of Mansfield, Conn. After 1756, he removed to Windham. He owned the
farm at North Windham which was later used as the town farm. His inventory
was made September 21, 1801. (Windham Probate Records, Vol. 16, pages 502,
541; and Vol. 15, page 16.)
Children, first five born in Mansfield, others in Windham
Eunice Cross, b. July 7, 1747; m. (1) Nathan Lincoln; (2) Butterfield ;
(3) Perez Trap.
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William Cross, b. June 25, 1748; m., Oct. 24, 1767, Molly Wheeler. Children:
i. Elathea, b. May 11, 1768; ii. Levi, b. Feb. 8, 1770; iii. Rachel, b. Feb. 8, 1772,
Miriam Cross, b. Feb. 18, 1750; m. (1) Samuel Stubbs ; (2) Butterfield ;
(3) Perez Tracy.
Eleazcr Cross, b. Sept. 28, 1753. Anne, wife of Eleazer Cross, is mentioned in the
will of his uncle, Nathan Abbe.
Nathan Cross, b. March 6, 1756. He m. Mary and had son Zebulon, b.
Sept. 30, 1780.
Joseph Cross, bapt. May 11, 1760; settled first in Windham, Conn., but removed,
after 1804, to Barton, Vt. ; m. Pcrsis Baucus, daughter of Nathaniel Baucus.
Children : 1. WiUiam ; ii. Samuel ; iii. Sophia ; iv. Ephraim, bapt. June 2, 1796 ;
V. Lucy, bapt. Aug. 16, 1798; vi. George Washington, bapt. May 15, 1800;
vii. Erastus, bapt. Aug. 2, 1804.
Mary Cross, bapt. July 5, 1761.
Elenezer Cross, bapt. May 9, 1762.
Tryphena Cross, bapt. April 27, 1767 ; m. Elijah Backus.
134 John Cross, m., (1) Mrs. Sarah (Backus) Gibbs ; (2) Mrs. Amy ( ) Jagger.
135 Shuhael Cf-oss, b. about 1771 ; m. Rachel Sawyer.
54. SOLOMON^ ABBE, son of Ebenezer^ and Mary (Allen) Abbe, born May
29, 1730; died 1799. He was born in North Windham, Conn., lived later in
Windham and, after 1789, in Mansfield, where he died. His inventory, taken
June 21, 1799, amounted to $138.00, personal property; and $270.18, real estate.
At the settlement of the estate, the following heirs are given : widow Elizabeth ;
only son Abel; daughter Lydia, wife of David Allen; daughters Sarah, Pliebe
and Esther of Mansfield. (Windham Records, Vol. 14, pages 310, 311, 367.)
Married (1) in Windham, June 17, 1751, SARAH KNIGHT, died July 25,
1797, daughter of Joseph Knight of Norwich, Conn.
Married (2) in Mansfield, May 3, 1798, MRS. ELIZABETH BURNHAM of
Hampton, Conn., who survived him.
Children, hy first wife (first six horn in Windham)
Joseph Alle, b. April 6, 1752 ; d. Sept. 4, 1754.
Sarah (1) Alle, b. Jan. 26, 1754; d. Sept. 12, 1754.
Sarah (2) Alle, b. Aug. 9, 1775; m. in Mansfield, April 30, 1777, Andrew Harts-
horn. Children, b. in Mansfield : i. Luther, b. Feb. 25, 1778 ; ii. Avery, b,
March 10, 1782, m. at Lynn, Mass., Oct. 14, 1804, Elizabeth Smith of Lynn
and had Solomon Abbe, b. Nov. 28, 1805, and Sarah Smith, b. Oct, 13, 3807;
iii. Lucy, b. Oct. 4, 1784.
Lydia Alle, b. July 6, 1757. Resided in Mansfield, Conn. Married, May 16, 1776,
David Allen, jr., of Ashford. Children : i, John, b. and d. Nov, 30, 1779 ; ii.
and iii. twins, Azubah, b. May 2, 1781, d. aged 1 week, and Sarah, d. May 3,
1781.
(Son), b. Aug. 29, 1759; d. Aug. 30, 1759.
(Son), b. and d, Aug. 12, 1760.
Phele Alle, b. Oct. 1, 1761, in Mansfield, Conn., and resided there. Married, Sept.
28, 1780, Uriah Smith of Lebanon, Conn. One account wrongly gives his name
Micah Smith. There was a Uriah Smith in Mansfield, 1800, with a family
of four (census records). In his will, March 25, 1814, probated April 11, 1814,
are mentioned his wife Phebe, nephew Erastus Smith, niece Phebe Nichols and
her two children and Lucina Webster. He was then of Mansfield. (Windham
Probate Records, Vol. 16, page 269.)
Esther Alle, b. June 20, 1764. Married in Mansfield, March 6, 1788, Leonard
Sessions, b. in Windham, July 26, 1788 ; d. in Arkwright, Chautauqua County,
N. Y., April 15. 1891, aged 102 yrs., 8 mos. and 19 days. Children : i, Leonard,
b. July 26, 1788; ii. Lydia, b, Jan. 27, 1790; iii. Marcus, b. Sept. 21, 1792,
m. Oct. 24, 1838, Clarissa R. Conant of Mansfield, lived in Chaplin ; iv. Cyrus,
b. March 10, 1797. A grandson, Frank J. Sessions, lives in Fort Wayne, Ind,
136 Alel Alle, b. Aug. 7, 1766 ; m, Miriam Bingham,
55. SAMUEL* PALMER, son of Samuel and Hepsibah^ (Abbe) Palmer,
bom September 18, 1711, in Windham, Conn. He resided in Warren, Conn.,
and, from 1750 to 1761, had property holdings in Kent,
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Married (1) in Windham, January 13, 1738-9, LYDIA SILSBY, born in
Windham, April 11, 1716 ; died in Mansfield, February 3, 1753, aged 37. Daugh-
ter of Jonathan and Lydia (Allen) Silsby.
Married (2), probably in Warren, TABITHA .
Children (hy first wife only), first four recorded in Windham
Elijah Palmer, h. March 21, 1739-40.
Nathaniel Palmer, b. May 2, 1742.
Ezekiel Palmer, b. Dec. 15, 1744.
Lydia Palmer, b. Jan. 11, 1748-9.
137 Elnathan Palmer, b. Aug. 30, 1750 ; m. Jemima Strong.
Stephen Palmer, b. Nov. 29, 1752.
56. JOHN* PALMER, son of Samuel and Hepsibah^ (Abbe) Palmer, born
in Windham, Conn., March 6, 1720-1; died August 13, 1807. He was a mem-
ber of the Church in Scotland, Windham County, Conn., at the time of the
Separate movement. For too free exercise of his gift of exhortation, he was
summarily arrested by the ci\dl authority and kept in Hartford jail four
months, only increasing his zeal, devotion, and opposition to the established
churches. After further trial, the church united in calling him to its ministry,
and on May 17, 1749, he was ordained its pastor. "Though deficient in edu-
cation and somewhat rough in speech and manner, Mr. Palmer was a man of
estimable character and sound piety, and under his guidance the Brunswick
church, as it was called, maintained for many years a good standing in the
community, comparatively free from those excesses and fanaticisms which
marred so many of its contemporaries. No difficulty was found in supporting
its worship by voluntary contributions. A church edifice was built a mile
or so southeast of Scotland Village, long known as the Brunswick meeting-
house. Mr. Devotion (pastor of the established church) was never reconciled
to this intrusion within his parochial diocese, but was accustomed every Sunday
morning to send his negro servant with a rescript to the Brunswick meeting-
house, forbidding Mr. Palmer or any other unauthorized person to preach
therein that day — a prohibition which only served to increase the number of
attendants and fan the spirit of separation and opposition."
Married (1) May 18, 1749, in Windham, Conn., ESTHER CLEVELAND, who
died October 28, 1754, aged 27.
Married (2) October 28, 1755, LYDIA EAMES, who died December 7, 1805.
Children hy first wife
138 Levi Palmer, b. Feb. 7, 1749-50 ; m. Elizabeth Cone.
Esther Palmer, m. Jeremiah Bingham.
Children by second wife
John Palmer, b. Sept. 12, 1756. Went to New Durham, N. Y.
Marshall Palmer, b. Dec. 24, 1758 ; cl. July 7, 1812. Settled in Bozrah. Married,
Oct. 9, 1783, Eunice Manning, daughter of Hezekiah Manning. She died May 26,
1848. Children: i. Charles (1), b. March 12, 1784, d. July 14, 1786; ii. Charles
(2), b. June 2.3, 1787, d. July 7, 1854; iii. Eunice (1), b. Jan. 18, 1789, d,
Jan. 14, 1794; iv. Zephaniah, b. Oct. 1, 1794; v. Eunice (2), b. March 11, 1800,
d. Feb. 11, 1804 ; vi. George C, b. April 25, 1805, d. May 8, 1805.
Samuel Palmer, b. Jan. 6, 1762 ; m. Clark. Lived at Canterbury.
Lydia Palmer, b. Dec. 16, 1764 ; m. John Walker.
David Palmer, b. Api-il 20, 1769 ; d. 1849. Congregational minister at Townsend,
Mass., 1800 to 1831 ; graduate of Dartmouth in 1797. Married Chloe Kingsley,
daughter of John Kingsley. His sou John K. was a professor in a school for
women in Cambridge or Charlestown.
Fourth Generation 41
57. JOHN* ABBE, JR., son of Jolm^ and Hannah ( ) Abbe, born 1724
or earlier, probably in East Hartford, Conn.; died there about 1763. His
name appears frequently upon the deeds of tliat town, beginning in 1745 when
his father, John Abbe, transfen-ed some property to him. In 1754 he received
a grant of 3 acres in the town distribution. In 1759 John Abbe, jr., Solomon
Hills and Sarah, his wife, and Naomi Abbe, deeded land in Hartford to George
and John Buck of Wethersfield. (Hartford Deeds, 7, 226; 8, 22; 14, 348; 9, 559;
10, 247.) He was collector of the town in 1748, and signed petitions in
1748. He was a private in the 2d Company, 1st Regiment, raised by Lieutenant-
Colonel John Pitkin for the reduction of Crown Point, April, 1755, serving for
28 weeks. March 2, 1763, the Court granted administration on his estate to
Nehemiah Abbe of Hartford, who exhibited the inventory May 3, 1763. (Hart-
ford Probate Records, 19, pages 55, 67, 111.)
Married RUTH GOODWIN, who died 1782. She was daughter of John and
Sarah ( ) Goodwin of Hartford. December 13, 1771, there was a transfer
of land ' ' set out to tlie said Ruth Abbee as part of the estate of Caleb Goodwin
deceased. ' ' A deed of September 13, 1782, speaks of her as ' * our honored mother
Ruth Abbe deceased." Administration upon her estate was granted to her son,
John Abbe, jr., of Hartford, May 28, 1782, and the inventory of the estate
was recorded in October of the same year. It is an interesting document, con-
taining such items as: Great Bible 3/; 3 old books 1/6; silk crape gown 9/6;
silk hoods and velvet ones; string of gold beads 54/; extensive list of dishes
of all kinds and glass ware; Dwelling house £.72; Home Lott 5 acres £20;
4 acres pasture £16; 12^2 acres woodland £62-10; 3 acres meadow land
£25-10; 71/2 acres of woodland £48-15. (Hartford Probate Records, 23,
page 80.)
Children, horn at East Hartford
John Ahhe, jr., bapt. April 15, 1750. Administration upon the estate of a John
Abbey of East Hartford was granted to Timothy Williams, Feb. 10, 1816. There
was a John Abby of East Hartford in the Census of 1800, no others in family.
139 Buth Ahbe, bapt. April 22, 1753; m. John Risley.
Damaris Abbe, bapt. Nov. 13, 1757; m. (1) Charles Buckland, Jr.; (2) Joshua
Risley. Child : Timothy Buckland, b. 1781, d. June 16, 1864, aged 83, buried in
East Hartford.
An inventory of the Estate of John Abbe Junr late of Hartford Deceased to 1 bible
2/6 old bible 1/6 Mr. Pemberton's Book on Divers Subjects of Divinity 1/6 two Psam
books 1/4 Mr WilUams 2 books lOd spehug book 1/6 psalter 1/4 f-0-9-8
Mr. Thompsons book 5 Cloak vest 25/10 & breeches 14/6 Camblet coat 9/ Camblet
vest 5/6 2-15-3
fustian vest 10/ old coat 3/6 blew vest 1/ great coat 9/ castor hat 10/ firelock 18/
broad ax 5/ 2-16-3
small ax 1/ fine handsaw 3/6 coarse saw 4/ large augur 4/6 small augur 1/6
0-14-6
chizel 1/ vizes 1/6 1/ pr compasses 8d Turners gouge & chizel 2/ 0-6-2
Joyners chizel 1/ Joynter 2/ foreplain 8^ smoothing plain 8^ groxdng plain 1/ quarter
round 1/ 0-6-4
hamer 6<l one violin 6/6<i harving plain (?) 1/ & black stockins 1/6 p^ worsted Do 1/6
checkd hnen shirt 3/6 0-14-6
Do 2/6 2 woolen shirts 12/ handkerchif 4/ neck Ribbon l/2d & neck chiefs 2/6 2 put'
plates l/8d 1-3-8
old puf 15s is 15/ one large 4/6 mugg 1/ Tin ladle & Tunel 1/ 6 black chairs 7/6
4 white Do 2/ 1-11-0
white handkerchif 3/ pr sheets 10/ to Ditto 5/1 3 old sheets 3/6 4 napkins 3/ 3 towels
l/4d 1-5-10
3 pillow coats 2/ table cloth 1/2 curtains & vaUence 9/6 0-12-8
Trundlebed & blanket sheet & feather Bed and boalster & under bed & bedsted &
cord 0-13-2
Best bedsted 5/ feather bed 21/8d under bed 1/ a pillow 3/2<i 3 small do 3/ white blankets
7/6 bedquilt 3/ bed cord 1/ warming pan 2/ best Table 5/ 1 old table 1/6 small Table
l/3d 2-7-10
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1 Chest with draws 14/ 1 Chest l/S-l 2 Tramels 12/6 handirons 11/ pr tongs 3/6 1
2/6 pair bellows 1/ coper skillet 2/ brass kettle 20/ churn 2/6 Jack knife 1/6 half a
case of knives and forks 1/2 3-18-4
1 great wheel 2/6 Dutch wheel 7/6 hand pail l/3d looking glass 2/ 1 box 10^ old real
8d 1 chest 1/ one knife 9<i pr shears 1/5 Dry Casks 3/4<i 2 Cyder barels 2/6'i one hhd 3/
wood-tunel 1/9 half barel 9'^ two shaves & bow 2/4<i pr pinchers 9^ hamer 1/ pan kettle 4/
sickel 1/ sithe and tackling 1/2 old hatchet 1/ Iron pot 5/ Cash 9^ & Table frame 2/6
10-15-7.
Thomas Ritter Timothy Williams apprizers under oath
April 25, 1763.
(Hartford Probate Records, volume 19, page 11.)
58. STEPHEN* ABBEY, son of John=' and Hannah ( ) Abbe, bom
probably at East Hartford, Conn., about 1727; died there March 26, 1798, aged
71. The first mention of him in the deeds of Hartford is in 1749, then in
1754, with reference to land on the west side of the "Great River." Later
transactions were of 1760, 1761, and 1765. (Hartford Deeds, 7, page 541; 8,
pages 26 and 111; 9, page 388; 10, pages 36, 37, 174; 12, page 436.) His
home was on the east side of the "Great River." Administration was granted
upon his estate, July 6, 1798, to Jonathan Stanley of East Hartford. The
brief inventory, recorded July 9, 1798, gave a total of £204-12-9. The widow,
Mary, received a share. Among the sales was one to "Theodore Abby 1 acre
& half Home lot, being the same that was set to wid° Mary Abby as dower in
s-J estate." (Hartford Probate Records, Vol. 25, 199, 220, 237; Vol. 26, 63.)
His name appears as signer of petitions regarding East Hartford lands. (Con-
necticut Archives, State Library, IX, 281d, with autograph.) He was collector
of the town in 1755. In 1791 there was an epidemic of small-pox and there was
a fad, which proved to be short-lived, of whole families inoculating themselves
with the disease and retiring into seclusion. Stephen Abbey with several others
petitioned the town for permission to do this in April, 1791. The privilege was
taken away by the authorities in September of the same year, but we have no
record to show that the petitioners really tried the experiment and with what
results.
Married MARY (or MARAH) . There was a widow Mary Abbey who
died in East Hartford, February 1, 1804, and one who died April 10, 1809.
Children, from Booh of East Hartford Church Records, Baptisms, in Connecticut
Historical Society
140 Mary Abbey, bapt. April 8, 1750; m. (1) Nathaniel Burnham, (2) Captain
Stephen Roberts.
141 Eunice Abbey, bapt. Aug. 25, 1751 ; m. Roderick Burnham.
142 Stephen Abbey, jr., bapt. Sept. 30, 1753 ; m. Susannah Olmsted.
143 Anna Abbey, bapt. Nov. 23, 1755 ; prob. m. David Deming.
Hannah Abbey, bapt. Nov. 20, 1757.
Betty (or Betsey) Abbey, bapt. Aug. 19, 1759. She received personal property by
the will of her brother Stephen, 1823 ; was unm. at that time. Perhaps the
Betsey Abbey who d. at East Hartford, Jan. 12, 1829.
144 David Abbey, bapt. May 24, 1761 ; m. Thankful Wadsworth.
Dolly Abbey, bapt. April 17, 1763.
Kate Abbey, bapt. March 30, 1765.
145 Theodore (Theodah) Abbey, bapt. March 22, 1767; m. Abigail Porter.
146 Russell Abbey, bapt. Feb. 5, 1769 ; m. Martha Olmsted.
Jett Abbey, bapt. Oct. 30, 1774. One Jet Abba d. in East Hartford, Dec. 18, 1794.
59. ELEAZER* ABBE, son of John^ and Hannah ( ) Abbe, born probably
in East Hartford, Conn. He was a party to land transfers in Hartford in 1752
and 1754. (Hartford Deeds, 8, pages 26, 303; 12, page 358.) He was on the
list of an independent company raised in 1755 during the French and Indian
Fourth Generation 48
War, and 3 lead pounds and 6 flints were delivered to him. (Connecticut His-
torical Society Collections, IX, 84.) He is credited with 5 days' service under
Captain Ebenezer Wallisant, dated April 2, 1778. (Vermont Revolutionary War
Rolls.) The records of the Pension Office at Washington show that Eleazer
Abbe entered the service in the 3d Connecticut Regiment, April 16, 1778, and
was discharged from the 1st Regiment, September 29, 1781 ; he was a resident
of East Hartford in 1788; bounty land warrant No. 267 for 100 acres was
allowed on this service and was delivered to Joel Barlow, April 25, 1805. He
is doubtless the Eleazer Abbe of the 1790 Census in Danby, Rutland County,
Vt., one male over 16, one under 16, 3 females in family. One of his family
may have been Benjamin Abbey, recorded in the 1800 Census in Rutland, 1
male and 1 female between 26 and 45, 5 boys and 1 girl under 10.
Married MARY . There was a widow Mary Abbe died in East Hartford
February 1, 1804, and one who died April 10, 1809, possibly this Mary.
Children, baptised in East Hartford
EUphalet Abhe, bapt. Sept. 15, 1754. Eliphalet Abbey served 6 days on the Lexing-
ton alarm list from Hartford ; enlisted May 20, 1775 ; discharged Dec. 20, 1775,
in 2d Company, under Colonel Hinman, Captain George Pitkin of Hartford,
served at the siege of Boston ; was private in Colonel Huntington's Regiment ;
sick in hospital at Stamford ; discharged Nov., 1776 ; enlisted July 8, 1777, for
the war in 2d Troop, Colonel Sheldon's Light Dragoons, from Hartford ; farmer,
5 feet 61/^ inches tall, dark complexion, dark eyes and brown hair.
147 Jeduthan Abbe, bapt. Aug. 14, 1757; m. Lucretia Bement.
Martha Abbe, bapt. Aug. 19, 1759.
Sal Abbe, bapt. Nov. 1, 1761.
Oeorge Abbe, bapt. May 13, 1764.
Bechy Abbe, bapt. Sept. 7, 1769,
60. NEHEMIAH* ABBEY, son of John^ and Hannah ( ) Abbe, born
probably in East Hartford, Conn.; died there, probably November 22, 1813.
Earliest mention of him is in deed of Januaiy 15, 1759, by which John Abbe
conveys property to his son Neliemiah Abbe. He figiired in other deeds
of 1764, 1770 and 1771. (Hartford Deeds, 12, 217, 218; 13, 11, 257; 14,
349; 15, 117.) His signature is among inhabitants of East Hartford who
enter a protest against taxes in 1769. (Connecticut State Archives, Towns and
Lands, IX, 278b.) He served 16 days in Captain William Wadsworth's Com-
pany in 1757. He was collector in East Hartford in 1768. The 1790 Census
gives Nehemiah of East Hartford one male over 21, two males under 21, five
females in family. In 1800 he is recorded with 1 male and 1 female over 45,
1 male between 26 and 45, 2 females between 16 and 26 and 1 male under 10
in the family.
Married MABEL WARREN, born 1745; died September 27, 1793, aged 48.
She was daughter of Edward and Mabel (Porter) Warren of East Hartford.
Children, baptized at East Hartford (said to have been seven)
Nehemiah Abbey, jr. (1), bapt. Oct. 29, 1775; d. young.
148 Nehemiah Abbey, jr. (2), bapt. Aug. 31, 1777; m. Tryphena Treat.
Mabel Abbey, bapt. Feb. 6, 1780.
John Abbey, bapt. Feb. 24, 1782.
149 Anna Abbey, bapt. Aug. 18, 1784 ; m. Jesse Burnham.
61. SAMUEL^ ABBE, son of Benjamin^ and Mary (Tryon) Abbe, bom
1726; died August 10, 1806, buried in Eastern Cemetery, Portland, Conn. He
received property by deed from his father, April 24, 1749, land on the "east
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side of the Great River" at Middletown, Conn.; was also party to deeds,
1758 and 1759. He was a store-keeper and kept the old "Abbey Tavern." In
the Census of 1790, lie is given in Chatham, Conn., 3 males over 21, 1 male under
21, 3 females in family. In 1800 he has 2 males and 1 female over 45, 1 male
and 1 female between 16 and 26. His will, made May 16, 1806, probated
August 30, 1806, is recorded in Middletown. The inventory amounted to
$5,292.61. Will of Samuel Abbe of Chatham, Middlesex County, Conn., men-
tions : wife Sarali ; son Samuel, now residing in Genesee ; son David, now
residing at New Orleans ; son John, now residing at Middlebury, N. Y. ; daughter
Jemima, wife of George Cooper; son George; surviving children of daughter
Damaris Hurlbut, deceased ; daughter Mary Wilcox ; daughter Rachel Treat ; sons
Thomas, Benjamin, Asaph, Reuben; appraiser, Nathaniel Cornwell. A Samuel
and Sarah Abbey, with many other parties, all formerly, and some now of
Connecticut, signed a land transfer in 1789, dividing a lot known as ' ' Lottania. ' '
(Albany Deeds.)
Married (1) RACHEL MASSON.
Married (2) April 4, 1776, MRS. SARAH WARREN LELAND of Grafton,
Mass. She had eleven children by her former maiTiage so that her son by
this marriage had the distinction of having had twenty-two half brothers and
sisters.
Children of first wife (order not known)
150 Benjamin Abbey, b. 1752 ; m.
Thomas Abbey, was a Revohitionary soldier and pensioner. He is perhaps the
Thomas Abbey who d. in Portland, March 24, 1824, aged 72.
151 Samuel Abbey, b. about 1760; m. (1) ; (2) Margaret Lee or Miller.
David Abbey, resided in New Orleans in 1806.
152 John Abbey, resided in Middlebury, N.Y., in 1806; probably married Ruth Risley.
Jemima Abbey, m. before 1806, George Cooper.
153 George Abbey, h. Jan. 17, 1763; prob. m. Mary Brooks.
Damaris Abbey, d. before 1806; m. June 27, 1776, in Chatham-Portland, Conn.,
Hurlbut. Children survived in 1806.
Mary Abbey, m. in Chatham-Portland, Dec. 16, 1772, Darius Wilcox of Middletown.
154 Rachel Abbey, m. Charles Treat.
155 Reuben Abbey, b. April 11, 1770; m. (1) Eunice (Goodell) Williams; (2) Mrs.
Reeves; (3) Mrs. Mary Tryon.
Child by second wife
156 Asaph Abbey, h. Aug. 26, 1776; m. Ruth Hollister,
62. AGNES* ABBE, daughter of Benjamin^ and Mary (Tryon) Abbe, born
probably in Glastonbury, Conn.; died August 30, 1765. She is mentioned in
her father's will as "Agnes Bidwell of Glastonbury."
Married December 25, 1740, DANIEL BIDWELL, born November 18, 1717;
died December, 1791 (or February 28, 1792). Son of Samuel and Ann (Stan-
borrow) Bidwell of Middletown, Conn. One descendant says Mary Barnes was
his mother's name. He was drum major in the French and Indian War, 1756;
bought and sold land, recorded in Chatham town records, 1768-1791. His will
was made December 13, 1790, probated April 2, 1792, at Middletown, inventory
amounting to £213. 4s. 6d.
Children
Daniel Bidwell, jr., b. Oct. 8, 1741 ; d. before 1790 ; m. Tibatha .
Benjamin Bidwell, b. May 9, 1744, in Chatham, Conn.; d. Oct. 31, 1831, in
Durham, N. Y. He was Ensign of the 11th Company, 23d Regiment, established
by the Connecticut Assembly, May, 1775 ; Captain of the same at Boston in
1775 ; reinforced Washington on the Hudson, March, 1777 ; was at the Danbury
Raid and Saratoga. About 1786 he moved from Chatham to Durham. Married
Eunice , b. 1743 ; d. June 16, 1828. Child : Betsey.
Fourth Generation 45
Mary Bidwell, b. April 21, 1746; m. Josiah Griswold.
Hannah liidwcU, b. Sept. 21, 1748; m. John Smith.
157 John likhccU, b. Doc. 28, 1750; m. Sarah Ponfield.
158 Sarah BidircU, b. March 12, 1753 ; m. Abner Pelton.
Esther Bidivcll b. March 10. 1755 ; m. Abel Strickland.
Samuel Bidicdl, b. May 26. 1758; d. young.
Josiah Bidwell, b. Marcli 8, 1760 ; d. Sept. 5, 1790. He was a drum major during
the Revolution, from Connecticut. Married Lucinda Kneeland who m. (2)
Pelton, and had sons Joseph and Amasa, and (3) Phineas Norton. She d. in
New Marlboro, Mass. Children of Josiah Bidwell : i. Demmis, b. 1787, was living
in 1800 ; ii. Josiah, b. Sept. 4, 1789, d. Aug. 20, 1859.
63. JONATHAN^ ABBE, JR., son of Jonathan^ and Mary (Johnson) Abbe,
born in Ashford or Willington, Conn., about 1725. No record of his birth
has been found but he is designated in his father's will as eldest son. The
following land transfers in Ashford, Conn., probably refer to him : Jonathan
of Ashford, 1785 ; same 1793 ; agreement with Job Tyler regarding a mill
privilege, 1795, David Abbey being a witness. (Ashfoixl Land Records, Liber
11, page 663; Liber 12, pages 14, 371; Liber 13, pages 15, 16, 17.) In 1768
a call was extended by the Church in Westford to the Reverend Ebenezer
Martin, and Jonathan Abbe is one of the names subscribed to the covenant
of the newly-formed church. He shared pew number 18 with Ephraim Walker
when the new church was built. He and his father had been members of the
"Willington Church in 1759. Jonathan, jr., is said to have lived in Tolland, but
no records of his residence there are found. A Jonathan Abbe married in
Willington, November 1, 1774, Mary Weston, who died August 11, 1775. This
is possibly a first marriage of his son, Jonathan. There is also recorded in
Willington the marriage of Jonatlian Abbe to Abigail Osborn, July 8, 1756, and
thej^ were members of the church there in 1759.
Married in Willington, April 10, 1752, ALICE JOHNSON.
Children, first six horn in Willington, others in Ashford
159 Jonathan Ahle, b. Feb. 26, 1753; m. Mrs. Lucy (Knox) Robbins.
Isaac Ahhe, b. June 18, 1754. He was perhaps the Isaac Abbey who m. in Ash-
ford, Sept. 15, 17 — (perhaps 1776), Jemima Kuowlton, b. April 22, 1759, daugh-
ter of Thomas and Bridget (Bosworth) Knowltou. There was an Isaac Abbe of
Ashford, Conn., in 1790 census, 3 males over 21, 1 female in family. In 1800
he had 1 male and 1 female over 45, 1 male between 16 and 26 and 1 male under
10. In 1810, 1 male and 1 female over 45 and 1 male between 10 and 16. About
1793 one Isaac Abbe was among those members of the Baptist Church in Ash-
ford who were allowed the improvement of their gifts in public prayer and
exhortation. In the will of Stephen Abbey of Pittsfield, Otsego County, N. Y.,
probated March 1, 1832, provision is made for defraying the expenses of his
brother Isaac Abbey and his wife.
Alice Abhe, b. June 20, 1756.
Anne (1) Ahhe, h. April 26, 1758; d. Aug. 30, 1760.
Anne (2) Ahhe, b. Sept. 11, 1761.
Lvdia Ahhe, b. Dec. 17, 1762.
Phehe Ahhe, b. April 9, 1765.
Marv Ahhe, b. May 25, 1767.
Stephen Ahhe, b. Oct. 2, 1771. Deeds were given to Stephen Abbey, conveying land
in the town of Pittsfield, Otsego County, N. Y., in 1795 and 1803 (Cooperstown
Deeds). The will of Stephen Abbey was probated March 1, 18.32. The will
gives to James Eaton during his life 100 acres of land described therein, "to be
his property through life and then to be the property of his daughter Mary Ann
Eaton." The remainder of said lot is bequeathed to his wife Betsey A. during
her lifetime, "and what remains to be tlae estate of Stephen A. Greene after
defraying the expenses of my brother Isaac Abbey and his wife" by providing for
them out of the property on said lot. "I bequeath the one half to my beloved
wife Betsey and the remainder to the said James Eaton and I do hereby appoint
the said James Eaton and Benjamin Greene Executors." The wife, Betsey Abbey,
d. Oct. 7, 1848. Her wiU was probated July 1, 1850, and the letters were issued
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to David Robinson and Benjamin Greene. The estate was divided betvpeen nephew
and nieces: Thomas, Mary E., Katharine R., and Ursuly M. Greene. (Coopers-
town Probate Records.) In the 1800 census there was a Stephen Abbe of Pitts-
field, N. Y., age over 45, 1 female between 16 and 26, 1 female under 10, 1 male
between 10 and 16. There was in the 1810 census at Burlington, N. Y., B. Abbey,
whose family was made up of 1 male and 1 female between 26 and 45, 2 males
and 1 female under 10, 1 male and 1 female between 10 and 16, 1 male and 1
female between 16 and 26.
64. SAMUEL* ABBE, son of Jonathan^ and Mary (Johnson) Abbe, born in
Ashford, Conn., March 21, 1727-8; died in Willington, September 12, 1794.
He was listed in the 1790 Census from Willington, Tolland County, 2 males
over 21, 1 female. Member of the church in Willington in 1759.
Married in Willington, May 8, 1750, LUCIE PERSONS.
Children, births recorded in Willington church and town records
Lucie Ahhe, b. Oct. 18, 1751.
Hannah Ahhe, b. July 3, 1752.
Daniel (1) Ahhe, b. Sept. 8, 1754; d. Oct. 22, 1754.
Da7iiel (2) Ahhe, b. July 11, 1756; d. Jan. 27, 1757.
Sarah Ahhe, b. Oct. 19, 1757. Probably the Sarah Abbe who m. in Willington,
Jan. 10, 1788, Daniel Bates, who d. there Feb. 21, 1798, leaving two children:
i. Betsey, b. Nov. 8, 1795 ; ii. Daniel, jr., b. Sept. 15, 1797.
Oliver Ahhe, bapt. July 29, 1759 ; d. Aug. 11, 1759.
Dolle (1) Ahhe, d. Sept. 22, 1760.
Dolle (2) Ahhe, bapt. Dec. 1, 1765.
Esther Ahhe, bapt. Jan., 1769 ; d. Jan. 17, 1770.
Ahiel Ahhe, bapt. Aug., 1771. Married in Ashford, March 3, 1793, Mary (Polly)
Chandler of Ashford. Child : Samuel, b. in Willington, Sept. 14, 1794.
65. ANNE* ABBE, daughter of Jonathan=' and Mary (Johnson) Abbe, born
in Willington, Conn., July 25, 1737; died there February 28, 1814.
Married JAMES WESTON.
Children, horn in Willington
Suhmit Weston, b. June 7, 1765 ; d. Nov. 2, 1792.
Marij Weston, b. Jan. 11, 1767 ; d. April 10, 1792.
John Weston, b. Dec. 3, 1768.
Timothy Weston, b. May 23, 1771.
An7ie (1) Westo7i, b. Aug. 17, 1774; d. Sept. 20, 1775.
Elizaheth Weston, b. April 8, 1779.
Anne (2) Weston, d. Aug. 11, 1795.
66. SARAH* GEER, daughter of Shubael and Sarah^ (Abbe) Geer, born
in Enfield, Conn., January 5, 1704-5; died in Enfield.
Married in Enfield, December 1, 1723, JOHN SIMONS, son of William and
Sarah ( ) Simons, born in Enfield, January 24, 1695; died there January
27, 1781.
Children, horn in Enfield
John Simons, jr., b. March 19, 1724 ; m., 1748, Miriam Jones. Children, b. in
Enfield : i. John, 3d, b. Jan. 22, 1751 ; ii. Miriam, b. May 30, 1753 ; iii. Mary,
b. Oct. 11, 1755; iv. Ebenezer, b. April 11, 1758; v. Lotan, b. Dec. 8, 1760;
vi. Dan, b. Jan. 26, 1764 ; vii. Alvin, b. Aug. 21, 1766 ; viii. Tabitha, b. July 26,
1769; ix. Edward, b. Dec. 29, 1772; x. Sarah, b. June 24, 1775.
Sarah Simons, b. Aug. 22, 1726.
Paul Simons, b. Sept. 11, 1729 ; m. Mary . Children, b. in Enfield : i. Zilpah,
b. Dec. 14, 1752 ; ii. Molle, b. Dec. 22, 1753.
Ehenezer Simons, b. Feb. 19, 1731-2 ; d. March 11, 1755.
Asahel Simons, b. April 7, 1734 ; d. June 3, 1811. He was a soldier in the expedi-
tion to Fort Edward, Oct., 1757. Married, June 19, 1759, Mehitable Isom or
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IsLeem of Ellington or Windsor. She d. April 8, 1813, aged 73. Child : Joseph,
b. in Enfield, Nov. 20, 1772.
Charity (1) Simons, b. July 27, 1736; d. Feb. 17, 1737-8.
Charity (2) /Simons, b. Sept. 4, 1738; m. John'* Abbe, son of John* and Sarah
(Root) Abbe. See number 180.
Bathshcha (1) Simons, b. Jan. 24, 1740-1; d. Oct. 4, 1742.
Titus Simons, b. June 7, 1743 ; m. Jan. 20, 1763, Sarah Simons of Windsor.
Children, b. in Enfield: i. Titus, jr., b. Jan. 30, 1765, d. June 14, 1771; ii.
Sarah, b. July 31, 1767.
Bathshcha (2) Simons, b. June 9, 1748; d. April 30, 1754.
Edward Simons, b. Sept. 3, 1750.
67. MARY-' GEER, daiiffhtcr of Sluibael and Sarah^ (Abbe) Geer, born in
Enfield, Conn., March 10, 1709.
Married in Enfield January 7, 1730-1, ROGER GRISWOLD of Enfield.
Children, horn in Enfield
Roger G-risicold, jr., b. Feb. 16, 1731. He was a soldier under Major-General
Phineas Lyman, March 14 to Sept. 5, 1757. Married Naoma . Children,
b. in Enfield : i. Naoma, b. Nov. 28, 1767 ; ii. Jemima, b. Jan. 25, 1770 ; iii. Lucy,
b. April 26, 1772 ; iv. Mehitable, b. March 23, 1777.
Shuhael Ghrisicold, b. March 15, 1734 ; d. Dec. 26, 1812. Soldier in Colonial Wars.
Married Dorcas , who died May 16, 1798, aged 60. Children, b. in Enfield :
i. Mary, b. Feb. 9, 1758 ; ii. Lovise, b. March 25, 1760 ; iii. Shubael, jr., b. March
31, 1763.
Solomon Griswold, b. Feb. 11, 1737. He was a soldier in the company with his
brother Roger, March 9, to Nov. 11, 1757, and was under the same commander
in the expedition for the reduction of Canada, April 6 to Sept. 25, 1760. Married
Sarah Leason. Children, b. in Enfield: i. Roxalena, b. Feb. 23, 1766; ii.
Deborah, b. April 24, 1768; iii. Elizabeth, b. July 1, 1770; iv. Pata (daughter),
b. June 6, 1775; v. Tabitha, b. Oct. 7, 1777; vi. Solomon, jr., b. July 26(?),
1780.
Jehiel Gristrold, h. Feb. 25, 1740; d. May 16, 1827. Married Mary Pease, daughter
of Hezekiah and Hannah ( ) Pease, who d. May 10, 1833, aged 80. The
wiU of Jehiel Griswold, made June 20, 1817, probated May 28, 1827, mentions
wife Mary, children, Lovicc, Jehiel, Simeon, CJeorge, Amariah, Hezekiah, Mary
(Kent), and Betsey (Goss). Children, i-ecorded in Enfield: i. Mary, b. Sept. 2,
1773; ii. Jehiel, jr., b. Feb. 17, 1776; iii. Lovice, b. Nov. 5, 1778, d. April 5,
1842, not m. ; iv. Simeon, b. June 10, 1781 ; v. George, b. Dec. 25, 1783.
Jonah arisicold, b. Feb. 28, 1743; d. May 10, 1817; m. Mary , who d.
June 11, 1818. Child : Jonah, jr., called Captain Jonah ; m. in Enfield, Jan. 23,
1800, Clarissa Chaffee of Somers, who d. March 14, 1832, aged 51. Jonah, jr.,
had children, who d. in Enfield : i. Jonah, 3d, b. Aug. 31, 1800 ; ii. Abigail,
b. 1803, d. Sept. 18, 1824; iii. Nelson, b. 1808, d. April 10, 1832; iv. Omri,
b. 1815, d. July 8, 1815, aged 4 months; v. Harriet H., b. 1817, d. April 13,
1832 ; vi. Sophia, b. 1821, d. April 9, 1832.
Joseph (1) Griswold, b. Oct. 3, 1745 ; d. Aug. 30, 1746.
Joseph (2) Grisicold, b. May 30, 1749.
68. TABITHA* GEER, daughter of Shiibael and Sarah^ (Abbe) Geer, born
in Enfield, Conn., July 21, 1712; died at childbirth, August 30, 1746.
Married in Enfield, February 19, 1735-6, EDWARD COLLINS, born in Enfield,
November 26, 1713; died October 10, 1796, son of Nathaniel Collins and Mrs.
Alice Adams. His will, made September 3, 1796, was i^robated February 26,
1798. He married (2) Rebecca Hale, by whom he had several children. He
was ensign in 1751; deputy to the General Court of Connecticut, 1755 to 1779,
except 1777; justice, 1772-9.
Children of Tahitha Geer, horn in Enfield
Edward Collins, jr., h. Jan. 14, 1736-7 ; d. Oct. 4, 1743.
Elisha Collins, b. Jan. 17, 1738-9.
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Ehenezcr Collins, b. April 17, 1741 ; m. Hannah . Children, b. in Enfield :
i. Hannah, b. March 6, 1763 ; ii. Ebenezer, b. Nov. 14, 1764, m. Azubah
who d. Oct. 1, 1805, in her 39th year; iii. Levi, b. March 1, 1767; iv. Lovice,
b. March 28, 1770 ; v. EHsha, b. March 19, 1774.
TaUtha Collins, b. June 23, 1743 ; d. Aug. 7, 1749.
69. SHUBAEL^ GEER, JR., son of Shubael and Sarah^ (Abbe) Geer, born
in Enfield, Conn., May 26, 1717. Resided later in Andover, Vt., and Charles-
town, N. H.
Married November 20, 1737, HANNAH PEASE, born in Enfield, 1718, daughter
of Ebenezer and Mindwell (Sexton) Pease.
Children, iorn in Enfield
Hannah Oeer, b. Dec. 3, 1738 ; d. young.
Sarah Geer, b. Nov. 28, 1740.
Shuhael Geer, 3d, b. May 6, 1743 ; d. before 1825, probably in Charlestown, where
he was living 1773-1794, at least. Married Feb. 11, 1766, Sarah Babcock
of Ashford, who was living, a widow, in 1825. Children : i. Anna. b. in
Enfield, March 19, 1768; ii. William, b. in Andover, Vt., Sept. 25, 1769; iii.
Cynthia, b. in Andover, March 19, 1771, m. in Claremont, N. H., May 21, 1792,
Charles J. Kingsley ; iv. Ralph, b. Oct. 24, 1777, in Charlestown ; v. Augusta,
b. Aug. 18, 1780, in Charlestown.
Ebenezer (1) Geer, b. July 6, 1745; d. Aug. 30, 1746.
Ebenezer (2) Geer, b. Oct. 23, 1747 ; d. Aug. 30, 1749.
Ebenezer (3) Geer, b. Jan. 1, 1750-1. Probably lived in Charlestown. Married
Sarah who d. Feb. 23, 1777.
Hannah Geer, b. March 19, 1753; m. Dec. 31, 1772, Joshua Markham of Enfield,
b. June 18, 1751.
Mindu-eU Geer, b. Feb. 10, 1756. History of Enfield, Vol. 1, page 28, says Mindwell,
born 1746, probably not correct.
160 Walter Geer, b. 1759 (not recorded in Enfield with other children) ; m. Lucy Allen.
George Geer (twin), b. June 6, 1761. Lived in Keene, N. H., about 1788. Served
in the Revolution. Married, March 20, 1788, Anna (or Joanna) Nott of Walpole.
Child: Royal, b. in Charlestown, N. H., March 5, 1789.
Charles Geer (twin), b. June 6, 1761.
70. ELIZABETH* GEER, daughter of Shubael and Sarah^ (Abbe) Geer,
born January 15, 1719-20, in Enfield, Conn. ; died October 20, 1757.
Married in Enfield, September 10, 1747, EBENEZER TERRY, born October
29, 1722, in South Kingston, R. I. ; died July 15, 1817, in Enfield. He was son
of Ebenezer and Mary (Helms) Terry, and married (2) in Enfield, January 17,
1760, Mindwell Pease, daughter of Israel and Sarah (Booth) Pease, by whom
he had children: i. Mary (1); ii. Mary (2); iii. Hiram; iv. Mindwell; v.
Nathan; vi. Boaz; vii. Levi; viii. Sarah; ix. Geer. He was a farmer in Enfield.
He was Deputy from Enfield to the General Court of Connecticut in 1761.
The Terry Genealogy gives Mehitable's birth February 28, 1749-50 and Eliza-
beth's October 6, 1756.
Children by Elizabeth Geer, born in Enfield
Mehitable Terry, b. Jan. 4, 1747-8 (according to Enfield records) ; d. May 27, 1829.
Resided in Hartland, Conn., and Granville, Mass. Married, Dec. 5, 1771, in
Enfield, Isaac Meacham. Children : i. Isaac, b. perhaps 1772, d. Sept. 9, 1773 ;
ii. Elizabeth, b. 1774, d. May 20, 1846, m. Asa Strong, b. July 6, 1778, d.
Aug. 14, 1848, son of Elnathan and Rachel (Warner) Strong, resided in
Granby, Conn. ; iii. George ; iv. Ira ; v. Dennis ; vi. Mehitable, m. Benjamin
Andrews; vii. Dorcas, m. Charles Phelps; viii. Ruth, m. Allen.
161 Elizabeth Terry, b. Feb. 28, 1749-50 (according to Enfield records) ; m. Samuel
Lillie.
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Ehenczer Terry, b. Aug. 31, 1753; d. Jan. 6, 1854, in Guilford, N. Y., where he
settled jibout 18120. Married, June 29, 1786, Susanna Prior, b. about 1764;
d. March 26, 1847. Children : i. Susan ; ii. Naomi ; iii. Sarah. Ebenezer Terry-
was a volunteer from Enfield, May, 1775, in Captain Hezekiah Parson's Company,
Colonel Perkins' Regiment. He went to Roxbury, June 15, and was in the
battle of Bunker Hill. In August he was ordered to some towns on the coast and
was at Hingham previous to his discharge, Feb., 1776. In May, 1777, he was
living in Chnrlestown, N. H., where he enlisted with Captain Asa Walker, Colonel
Bellows' Regiment, marched to Fort Independence, opposite Ticonderoga, and
was discharged July, 1777. After the war he lived in Hartland, Conn., Bark-
hamstcd. Conn., Sangerfield and Guilford, N. Y.
71. ANNA^ GEER, daughter of Shubael and Saralr' (Abbe) Geer, born in
Enfield, Conn., December, 1725; died there February 15, 1764.
Married there October 10, 1751, AARON PEASE, born in Enfield, April 1,
1726, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Warner) Pease. He was a blacksmith in
Enfield and died there. Collector of the Colony Tax for several years. He
married (2) Mary Terry, by whom he had four children, Elam (1), Ann,
Elam (2), and Martha.
Children hy Anna Qeen; horn in Enfield
162 Aaron Pease, jr., b. June 3, 1752 ; m. Huldah Spencer.
Levi Pease, b. June 22, 1754; resided in Somers, Conn. Married, (1) Jan. 10,
1775, Abiah Pease, daughter of Robert Pease of Somers; (2) Roxa .
Children by first wife : i. Abiah, b. in Somers, Oct. 17, 1775 ; ii. Sarah, b. in
Somers, May 17, 1780. Child by second wife : Roxa, b. in Somers, Aug. 20, 1793.
Sarah Pease, b. Dec. 2, 1756; d. in Enfield, Nov. 23, 1808. Married in Enfield,
Nov. 3, 1774, Daniel Abbe, son of John and Hannah (Boardman) Abbe. See
elsewhere.
163 Stone Pease, b. June 11, 1759 ; m. Asenath Pease.
Ann Pease, b. Nov. 6, 1761 ; d. young.
164 Ephraim Pease, b. June 5, 1765 ; m. Jennie Phelps.
72. MARY^ ABBE, daughter of Thomas^ and Mary (Pease) Abbe, born in
Enfield, Conn., January 25, 1715-6; died there August 3, 1788.
Married in Enfield, January 13, 1736-7, CAPTAIN DENNIS BEMENT, born
in Enfield, 1711; died November 16, 1789, son of Edmond and Priseilla (Warner)
Bement. He was 7th Captain of the Enfield militia; kept a public house there
and held various town offices.
Children, horn in Enfield
Mary Bement, b. July 19, 1739 ; m.' Richard* Abbe, son of John' and Hannah
(Boardman) Abbe. See number 80.
Tryphcna Bement, b. May 21, 1741; m. Jonathan Parsons. Children: i. Sarah,
b. May 1, 1766 ; ii. Walter, b. Jan. 4, 1771 ; iii. Dennis, b. Nov. 20, 1773, prob-
ablv the Dennis Parsons who m. in Enfield, April 20, 1796, Dorcas Bush. She
d. Feb. 12, 1798, and had son, Bush, b. Jan. 25, 1798.
165 Dennis Bement, jr., b. Feb. 11, 174.3-4 ; m. Lydia .
Prudence Bement, b. May 11. 1746; d. Aug. 30, 1831. Her will, made July 7,
1829, probated Sept. 6, 1831, mentions the following : Lydia, wife of EUsha
Holton ; Elizabeth, wife Dr. Horatio A. Hamilton ; widow Mary Olmstead ;
Piney, wife of Seth Alden ; Delight, wife of Roderick White ; Charlotte, wife
of Richard Abbe, jr. ; widow Huldah Lord ; widow Tryphena Parsons.
Edmond Bement, b. Jan. 16, 1748-9. Settled in Enfield and d. there. His will, made
July 21, 1798, probated April 19, 1799, left property to the following : to his
sisters. Prudence Bement ; Mary, wife of Captain Richard Abbe ; Tryphena,
wife of Jonathan Parsons ; and to his brother, Dennis Bement. He d. March 9,
1799, at Enfield.
73. SARAH* ABBE, daughter of Thomas^ and Mary (Pease) Abbe, born in
Enfield, Conn., March 26, 1718; died May 12, 1785.
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Married (1) in Enfield, June 15, 1740, NATHANIEL CHAPIN, born in
Enfield, August 9, 1711; died at Cape Breton, June 16, 1745. He was a son
of Thomas and Sarah (Wright) Chapin. He was a soldier and went to Cape
Breton with the expedition against Louisburg.
Children, horn in Enfield
166 2Vai/iflHJeZ CTa/wi, i'--, b. Dec. 31, 1738; m. (1) Sybil Terry ; (2) Zerviah Parsons.
167 Eliphalet Chapin, b. March 2, 1741 ; m. Azuba Pease.
Jahez Chapin.
Sarah Abbe married (2), CAPTAIN HEZEKIAH PARSONS of Enfield.
74. TABITHA* ABBE, daughter of Thomas^ and Mary (Pease) Abbe, born
in Enfield, Conn., July 9, 1720; died there June 12, 1787.
Married in Enfield, May 29, 1740, EPHRAIM PEASE, born 1719 ; died 1801.
He was son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Warner) Pease. Merchant and became
wealthy as a contractor in the time of the French war. He acted as town
magistrate, and was known as Captain Pease.
Children, torn in Enfield
Ephraim Pease, jr., b. Dec. 23, 1741 ; d. March 16, 1764 ; was a merchant in
Enfield ; not m.
Peter Pease, b. Feb. 12, 1743 ; d. while a student at Yale, Sept. 17, 1763.
Obadiah Pease, b. June 16, 1746; d. May 26, 1766; graduate of Yale.
Tahitha Pease, b. Dec. 18, 1749 ; d. March 11, 1769.
168 Sihyl Pease, b. May 20, 1754; m. (1) Elam Potter; (2) Rev. Nehemiah Prudden.
Nancy Pease, b. Sept. 2, 1756; d. April 25, 1782; m., April 29, 1773, Augustus
Diggins of Windsor. Probably no children by this marriage. He m. (2) Sabra
Stebbins of Springfield and had children.
Anna or Abigail Pease, b. Feb. 6, 1760 ; d. May 17, 1764. The Enfield records
give the name Abigail and the Pease Genealogy, Anna. She must have been
twin with Agues.
169 Agnes Pease, b. Feb. 6, 1760; m. Rev. Nehemiah Prudden.
75. HANNAH^ ABBE, daughter of Thomas'^ and Mary (Pease) Abbe, born
in Enfield, Conn., March 27, 1723; died in East Windsor, Conn., September
12, 1818.
Married (1) in Enfield, January 30, 1745-6, THOMAS GEER, son of Shubael
and Sarah (Abbe) Geer, born July 1, 1722; died 1751. Settled in East Windsor.
See number 21.
Married (2), November 15, 1752, SERGEANT NOAH PHELPS, born in
Enfield, March 16, 1726, son of Israel and Rachel (Jones or Clark) Phelps. He
was a farmer in Enfield and removed to East Windsor in 1774 or 1775, where
he died. He served 40 days as a Sergeant in the Lexington Alarm, later enlisted
in Colonel Wolcott's Regiment, Captain Wells' Comi-)any, and is reported to
have died in service.
Children by first husband (mentioned in the will of their grandfather, 1758)
170 Thomas Oeer, jr., b. Oct. 5, 1746; m. Mary Pease.
171 Elihu Oeer, b. May 3, 1749 ; m. Eleanor McClester.
Children by second husband, born in Enfield
Noah Phelps, jr., b. May 6, 1753, was a lieutenant in the Revolution ; d. at Valley
Forge ; not m.
Jlannah Phelps, b. Sept. 9, 1755 ; settled in Westfield, Mass. Married
Perkins and had a daughter, Hannah, b. about 1780, who m. Colonel Foote of
Middlefield, Mass..
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Daniel (1) Phelps, b. March 16, 1759; d. June 16, 1759.
172 Abigail Phelps, b. July 20, 1760 ; m. John Ward.
173 Daniel (2) Phelps, b. Oct. 19, 1763; m. (1) Elizabeth Pelton ; (2) Ruth Pelton.
174 Obadiah Phelps, b. Feb. 24, 1767 ; m. Lucy Pelton.
76. THOMAS* ABBE or ABBEY, son of Tliomas% jr., and Mary (Pease)
Abbe, born in Enfield, Conn., April 11, 1731; died there June 1, 1811. He is
unquestionably buried in Enfield although the huge monument of a more recent
family has probably obscured his grave. He was best known by the title of
Cajitain Abbe. His fu'st enlistment noted is as Corporal in the 3d Company,
1st Regiment, May 25 to November 22, 1758; then as Lieutenant in the 7th
Company, 1st Regiment, under Captain Setli King, April 1 to December 1,
1761. (Connecticut Historical Society Collections, X, pages 10 and 247.) He
was commissioned captain, January 1, 1777.
In his ''Quest of Ancestors," Mr. Alden Freeman says:
That long line of warlike Abbeys beginning with John, who came in the "Bonaventure"
and settled in Salem in 1636 ; his son Thomas, who settled in Enfield after King Phillip's
War; his grandson, Lieutenant Thomas Abbey, and his great-grandson, Thomas Abbey,
ensign and lieutenant in the French and Indian Wars and afterward captain under
Washington throughout the Revolutionary War, whose service I was invited to represent
in the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati. On the Thursday following the battle of
Lexington, Thomas Abbey, on learning of the fight, procured a drum and actually
drummed the people out of the meeting-house at Enfield, where they were gathered at
their regular weekday lecture.
This interesting event was beautifully commemorated by a poem written by
Benjamin F. Taylor, and published in the Atlantic Monthly in May, 1878, and
the following is a copy of the poem :
THE CAPTAIN'S DRUM
In Pilgrim land, one Sabbath day.
The winter lay like sheep about
The ragged pastures mullein gray ;
The April sun shone in and out.
The showers swept by in fitful flocks.
And eaves ticked fast like mantel clocks ;
And now and then a wealthy cloud
Would wear a ribbon broad and bright,
And now and then a winged crowd
Of shivering azure flash in sight.
So rainbows bend and bluebirds fly
And violets show their bits of sky.
To Enfield church throng all the town,
In quilted hood and bombazine.
In beaver hat and flaring crown.
And quaint Vandyke and victorine ;
And buttoned boys in roundabout
From calyx collars blossom out ;
Bandanas wave their feeble fire.
And foot-stoves tinkle up the aisle ;
A gray-haired elder leads the choir.
And girls in linsey-woolsey smile.
So back to life the beings glide
Whose very graves have ebbed and died.
One hundred years have waned, and yet
We call the roll, and not in vain.
For one whose flint-lock musket set
The echoes wild around Fort Duquesne,
And smelled the battle's powder smoke
Ere Revolution's thunders woke.
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Lo, Thomas Abbey answers, "Here !"
Within the dull long-metre place,
That day, upon the parson's ear,
And trampling down his words of grace,
A horseman's gallop rudely beat
Along the splashed and empty street.
• The rider drew his dripping rein,
And then a letter, wasp-nest gray,
That ran : "The Concord minute-men
And red-coats had a fight to-day !
To Captain Abbey this with speed."
Twelve little words to tell the deed.
The captain read, struck out for home
The old quickstep of battle born.
Slung on once more a battered drum
That bore a painted unicorn
Then right-about, as whirls a torch,
He stood before the sacred porch.
And then a murmuring of bees
Broke in upon the house of prayer ;
And then a wind-song swept the trees.
And then a snarl from wolfish lair ;
And then a charge of grenadiers,
And then a flight of drum-beat cheers.
So drum and doctrine rudely blent,
The casements rattled strange accord ;
No mortal knew what either meant ;
'Twas double-grad and Holy Word,
Thus saith the drum, and thus the Lord.
The captain raised so wild a rout
He drummed the congregation out.
The people gathered round amazed ;
The soldier bared his head and spoke.
And every sentence burned and blazed.
As trenchant as a sabre stroke :
" 'Tis time to pick the flint to-day.
To sling the knapsack, and away !
"The green of Lexington is red
With British red-coats, brothers' blood !
In rightful cause the earliest dead
Are always best beloved of God.
Mark time ! Now let the march begin !
All bound for Boston fall right in!"
Then rub-a-dub the drum jarred on,
The throbbing roll of battle beat ;
"Fall in, my men !" and one by one
They rhymed the tune with heart and feet.
And so they made a Sabbath march
To glory 'neath the elm-tree arch.
The Continental line unwound
Along the Church-yard's breathless sod,
And holier grew the hallowed ground
Where Virtue slept and Valor trod,
Two hundred strong that April day
They rallied out and marched away.
Brigaded there at Bunker Hill,
Their names are writ on Glory's page.
The brave old captain's Sunday drill
Has drummed its way across the age.
Benjamin F. Taylor
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The church around which Captain Abbey beat the long roll was completed
in the January preceding, and stood near the present church. It was used as
a church for the town until 18i9, wlien it was bought by the town and moved
to the west side of the street, where it now stands and has been used as a
town liall ever since. A memorial to Captain Abbey and others of the family
is about to be erected by Mr. Alden Freeman witli his mother and sisters.
The Abbey Memorial Avill be on the Green in Enfield, on the site of the
church out of whieli Captain Abbey drummed the congregation at the Lex-
ington Alarm. The actual site of the old church is just in front of the
present edifice. The design calls for a marble statue on a pedestal surrounded
by four marble seats in the Greek style. On the backs of these seats are
inscriptions commemorating the achievements of some of the best known descend-
ants of the Abbey family, in the fields of war, literature and science. The
sculptor, Sherry E. Fry, used as a model for tlie face and figure for the statue
of Captain Abbey, a daguerreotype of his grandson, Seth Alden Abbey, taken
at the same age. Daniel C. French, sculptor of the ''Minute Men" unveiled
at Concord Bridge in 1875, has taken gi-eat interest in the work of Mr. Fry, and
loaned him tlie simple Colonial suit used for the presentation of Captain Abbey.
Tlie following is an extract from a letter written by Seth Alden^ Abbey to his
son, Henry G. Abbey, dated June 15, 1872, telling something of Thomas Abbey :
When a small boy, I was frequently at his house for a week at a time and have heard
him tell many a thrilling tale of his hairbreadth escapes, hardships, sufferings, etc.
During the French War he received a commission as Ensign in the Colonial troops and
saw considerable service against the French and Indians. At the breaking out of the
Revolution, a volunteer company was formed in his neighborhood and he was elected
their captain and they were soon ordered to join Colonel Willett's Regiment in New
York. I have heard him say, frequently, that he had chances of promotion, often, but
his men would not consent to his leaving them. When a boy I saw many of his old
soldiers who had served during the war ; and the neighbors were as particular in address-
ing any of them, in giving them their title, as Corporal such a one, or Sergeant such a
one, as they would be in addressing a General. Thomas Abbey died in 1811, and was
as anxious for a fight with old England, which was then much talked of, just before
his death, as in his younger days. He died suddenly with apoplexy.
Captain Thomas* Abbe married in Enfield, June 22, 1749, PENELOPE TERRY,
born in Enfield, February 5, 1729-30; died there December 2, 1817. She was
the daughter of Dr. (or Captain) Ebenezer and Mary (Helms) Terry.
Children, horn in Enfield
Aligail Abbey, b. May 13, 1750; d. June 22, 1844. Resided in the east part of
Enfield. Married in Enfield, Nov. 1, 1770, Ehphalet ColUns, b. in Enfield,
July 11, 1744; d. May 22, 1815, son of Nathaniel and Abigail (Pease) Collins.
Children, order not known : i. Nathaniel, b. in Enfield, April 18, 1771 ; ii.
Abigail, m. Simeon Olmsted, son of Simeon and Rhoda (Abbe) Olmsted, see
elsewhere ; iii. Eliphalet ; iv. Mary ; v. Walter ; vi. Jabez ; vii. Elsie ; viii.
Betsey; ix. (son), b. in Enfield, Nov. 12, 1787.
175 Obadiah Abbe, b. June 15, 1752 ; m. Jane McClester.
176 Penelope Abbe (twin), b. March 24, 1755; m. Josiah Bicknell.
Mary (1) Abbe (twin), b. March 24, 1755; d. May 16, 1759.
177 Thomas Abbe, b. March 22, 1764 ; m. Ruth Bush.
Mary (2) Abbe, b. July 7, 1766 ; m. George Prior of East Windsor.
178 Peter Abbey, b. July 20, 1769 ; m. Hannah Alden.
179 Simeon Abbey, b. Feb. 3, 1772 ; m. Tabitha Killam.
77. JOHN* ABBE, JR., son of John^ and Hannah (Boardman) Abbe, born
in Enfield, Conn., April 18, 1717; died there August 1, 1794, in his 78th year.
He settled near Scantic on the east side of the town of ^nfield. John Abbe, jr.,
served from April 14 to October 5, 1755, in 1st Regiment, 2d Company, under
Lieutenant-Colonel John Pitkin, a company raised for the reduction of Crown
54 Abbe-Abbey Genealogy
Point. John Abbe was also in Captain Slapp's Company, May, 1755. There
was also a John Abbe in the 1st Regiment, 2d Company, Lieutenant-Colonel
Israel Putnam, 17G1, and one who served March 20 to August 27, 1762, in same
company. (Connectici;t Historical Society Collections, IX, pages 240, 299; X,
pages 9, 69.) He was a Revolutionary soldier, his name is on the list of men
who marched from Connecticut towns to relief of Boston in the Lexington
Alarm, 1775. He was a member of the 2d Company, 3d Regiment, Israel Putnam,
Colonel, and Experience Storrs, Captain, which was recruited in Windham
County in April and May, 1775. They marched in May to camps formed around
Boston and were stationed during the siege in Putnam Centre Di\dsion at Cam-
bridge until the expiration of term of service December 10, 1775. In July the
Regiment was adopted as ''Continental," and was engaged at the Battle of
Bunker Hill. (Some of these later records may refer to his son John".) See
Connecticut in the Revolution, page 53, and Massachusetts Society Sons of
the American Revolution, 1910 volume. His will, made February 2, 1789, pro-
bated September 5, 1794, mentions his daughters, Rocelina Olmstead, Hannah
Terry, Submit Killam, Tabitha Terry and sons John Abbe, 2d, and Daniel Abbe.
Married in Enfield, February 1 (or 11), 1738-9, SARAH ROOT, daughter of
Captain Timothy Root of Somers, Conn., and Sarah Pease. She was born in
Enfield, October 18, 1714; died there November 23, 1771.
Children, torn in Enfield
180 John Ahhe, jr., b. Nov. 27, 1739 ; m. Charity Simons.
Sarah Able, b. Feb. 11, 1741-2 ; d. in Enfield, Feb. 29, 1772.
Timothy Ahhe, b. Nov. 4, 1743; d. young.
Ohadiah Ahhe (twin), b. March 28, 1745; d young.
Richard Ahhe (twin), b. March 28, 1745; probably d. young.
Hannah (1) Ahhe, b. Aug. 31, 1746; d. the same day.
Timothy Diah (or Dyer) Ahhe, h. Dec. 6, 1747; d. Nov. 15, 1771.
181 Daniel Ahhe, b. Nov. 7, 1749; m. Sarah Pease.
182 Roxalcnah Ahhe, h. July 12, 1751 ; m. Simeon Olmsted.
183 Hannah (2) Ahhe, b. March 31, 1753 ; m. Isaac Terry, jr.
Suhmit Ahhe, b. Feb. 12, 1755, in Enfield, Conn.; d. there March 3, 1830.
Married Eliphalet Killam, b. Feb. 23, 1753, in Enfield ; d. there Oct. 31, 1830.
Children: i. Lot, b. Dec. 31, 1774, m. Tabitha (or Martha) Potter, daughter
of Elam and SybiP (Pease) Potter, see elsewhere; ii. Tabitha, b. Nov. 7,
1776, m. Simeon Abbe, see elsewhere; iii. Eliphalet, jr., b. Nov. 18, 1778,
d. in Enfield, Oct. 28, 18.30, m. Charlotte Holton ; iv. Submit, b. Feb. 23, 1781,
d. in Enfield, Aug. 18, 1826, m. John Olmsted; v. Jemima, b. March 1, 1783,
m. James Ingraham ; \d. George, b. Feb. 23, 1785, d. in Enfield, June 18, 1850,
m. Lucy Ingraham ; \ii. James, b. Sept. 14, 1787, m. Harriet Watson ; viii.
Henry, b. Oct. 15, 1789, m. Abigail Pease ; ix. Timothy, b. March 14, 1792, d. at
Savannah, Aug. 6, 1828; x. Sarah, b. Oct. 3, 1794, m. Roswell Abbe, whose
ancestry has not been learned, d. and buried at Enfield, no children.
184 Tahitha Ahhe, b. June 26, 1757 ; m. Zeno Terry.
78. SARAH* ABBE, dai^ghter of John^ and Hannah (Boardman) Abbe, born
in Enfield, Conn., December 23, 1723-4 (or January).
Married in Enfield, January 9, 1739-40, JOHN BURROUGHS. He removed
from Enfield to Tolland, Conn., then up the Connecticut River to Hanover in
search of land to which he had a claim. Being disappointed and discouraged,
he determined to return to Tolland. He consulted, however, with friends at
Walpole, and finally made a purchase near the west line in Alstead, N. H.,
where his wife's sister, Martha, had removed after her mamage. He, with his
son, John, came on to the land, which was covered with hea^^ timber, and the
first tree that was felled parted a limb wliieh struck his head and injured him
severely. He was carried by his son to Walpole, where he in a measure recov-
ered, though he was never perfectly restored to his former health.
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Children
John Burroughs, jr., wont to New Hampshire with his father in 1765 and removed
his family there in 1767 ; was living in Alstead in 1826. He volunteered under
Captain Webber of Walpolc in 1777 to go to Bennington, Vt., and was engaged
in battle there ; from there he proceeded against Burgoyne at Still Water and
returned safely in the fall. He later held a commission as Captain. Married
Mchitable Carlton of Tolland. Children (two sons and three daughters) :
John ; Samuel, lived in Alstead in 1826.
Joel Burroughs, m. Phebe Messer of Walpole. Had six sons and eight daughters.
Timothy Burroughs, moved in 1798 to Brookfield, Vt. ; m. Esther Hurlburt of
Wethersfield, Conn. Had three sous and seven daughters.
Daniel Burroughs, early moved to Vermont and then to Ohio. Married (1) Mary
Crane ; (3) Olive Carpenter.
Elijah Burroughs, moved to Ohio ; m. Eunice Thompson. No children.
79. MARTHA* ABBE, daughter of John^ and Hannah (Boardman) Abbe,
born in Enfield, Conn., March 1, 1728; died in Alstead, N. H., August 22, 1795.
Married in Enfield, November 27, 1745, ISAAC GLEASON, JR., bom in
Enfield, May 10, 1715; died in Windsor, Conn., 1750. He was son of Isaac
and Mary (Prior) Gleason.
Martha Abbe married (2) in Windsor, Conn., September 12, 1751, JOHN
SLADE, died March 17, 1797, in his 72d year. He was at the battles of Bunker
Hill and Ticonderoga. They removed to Alstead, N. H., in 1773, where a large
colony of Connecticut families settled, including John Burroughs, who married
Sarah Abbe, sister of Martha.
Child hy first husband
185 Isaac Oillette Gleason, b. Sept. 27, 1747 ; m. Azubah Pease.
Children hy second husband
John Slade, jr., b. at Windsor, June 10, 1752 ; m. Mary Mack.
Martha (1) Slade, b. at Windsor, July 22, 1754; drowned Sept. 14, 1765.
William Slade, b. at Enfield, Nov. 25, 1756 ; m. Anne Root.
Samuel (1) Slade, b. at Enfield. Jan. 12, 1760; d. 1761.
Samuel (2) Slade, b. at Enfield, Feb. 2, 1762; m. Hannah Thompson.
Thomas Slade (twin), b. at Enfield, Aug. 22, 1764; d. April 12, 1778, at Alstead.
Daniel Slade (twin), b. at Enfield, Aug. 22, 1764; d. 1765.
Martha (2) Slade, b. at Enfield, Feb. 6, 1767; m. James AUen.
80. RICHARD* ABBE, son of John^ and Hannah (Boardman) Abbe, born
in Enfield, Conn., August 1, 1735; died there September 20, 1807. He was a
farmer and held various minor town offices. He was a Sergeant April 8 to
December 3, 1761, in Captain Robert Durkee's Company, 1st Regiment; also
Sergeant March 17 to December 4, 1762, in 10th Company, 1st Regiment, under
Captain Hugh Ledlie. (Connecticut Historical Society Collections, X, pages
252, 315.) This Richard Abbe served as Lieutenant of Militia in the Lexington
Alarm, commissioned as Ensign in the Connecticut Continental line, January 1,
1777; resigned February 6, 1778. Ricliard Abbe was Ensign in Captain Abner
Robinson's Company, Colonel McLellan's Regiment, March, 1778, for one year's
service, which seems to have served in Tyler's brigade under Sullivan in Rhode
Island, August and September, 1778. Sergeant Richard Abbe joined. May 29,
1781, Captain James Dana's Company, in service at Horseneek and near by,
and joined Washington in July when he encamped at Phillipsburg. He was
appointed by the Assembly in 1779, Captain of the third company of militia.
Married in Enfield, January 7 or 9, 1755, MARY^ BEMENT, bom July 19, 1739,
in Enfield; died there August 14, 1821 or 2. She was daughter of Captain
Dennis and Mary* (Abbe) Bement. See number 72.
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Children, born in Enfield
Mary Ahhe, b. April 21, 1756; d. iu Enfield, Nov. 7, 1812. Married in Enfield,
March 28, 1778 or 1779, Elisha Holtou, b. 1750, in Sutton, Mass. ; d. Feb. 3,
1837. He was a Revolutionary soldier and m. (2) Lydia Bement, see number
165. Children, b. in Enfield : i. Polly, b. July 1, 1779, m. in Enfield, Sept. 4,
1799, Elijah Parsons of Enfield; ii. Susanna Putnam, b. March 13, 1781, d.
Dec. 2, 1811, "her death was occasioned from a persuasion that it was a sin
for her to eat, and therefore starved herself till death closed the scene" (Enfield
Records) ; iii. Hannah, b. Aug. 15, 1789, m. David Olmstead, had John D.,
who m. Susan H. Smith, and had a daughter Mary P., who m. Frank W. Clarke
of Washington, D. C.
186 Thomas Abbe, b. Aug. 21, 1757; m. Lydia Parsons.
187 Richard Abbe, jr., b. 1760; m. Lydia Steveson.
188 Trcphosa Abbe, b. Dec. 28, 1762 ; m. Joel Booth.
Susannah Abbe, b. about 1765; d. June 11, 1825, aged 60 years, not m.
189 Huldah Abbe, b. May 19, 1771; m. (1) Isaac Allen; (2) George Lord.
FIFTH GENERATION
81. JOHN^ ABBE, son of Joseph* and Tamasin (Baker) Abbe, born in
Ipswich, Mass., December 27 or 28, 1736-; died in Hopkinton, Mass., January
5, 1771. He was a farmer in Hopkinton.
Married at Hopkinton, October 1, 1760, JERUSHA BURNAP, born September
20, 1734, daughter of David and Sarah ( ) Burnap. She married (2) June
22, 1774, Henry Mellen.
Children, recorded in HopMnton
Mary Abbe, b. June 23, 1761, in Hopkinton, Mass, Married, (1) June 21, 1781,
in Hopkinton, Josiah Bent. b. in Framingham, Oct. 29, 1755, son of John and
Molly (Stacy) Bent. He was a Revolutionary soldier, served at Concord,
April 19, 1775, and was a Sergeant in Rhode Island in 1780. He removed to
Petersham, Mass., and it is likely that he d. early and that it was his widow
who m. (2) at Petersham, Dec. 18, 1787, Jonas Wheeler. Children of Josiah
and Mary (Abbe) Bent, b. in Petersham: i. Polly, b. Sept. 20, 1782; ii. Betsey,
b. March 4, 1786, m. at Petersham, Oct. 29, 1806, Lyman Wilder, b. in Peters-
ham, April 3, 1780, d. March 16, 1808, son of John, jr., and Sophia (Hapgood)
Wilder, no children recorded in Petersham. Children of Jonas and Mary
Wheeler, b. in Petersham : i. Josiah, b. March 2, 1788, m. at Barre, June 1,
1819, Elizabeth Hastings, and had a child, Andrew Jackson, b. March, 1820,
d. Jan. 28, 1847; ii. Fanny, b. April 7, 1790, d. April 30, 1861, not m. ;
iii. Clarissa, b. June 13, 1793 ; iv. Lydia, b. Dec. 22, 1794.
John Abbe, jr., h. May 4, 1763. The following records probably refer to his
family. John Abbe m., Nov. 11, 1784, Anna Battle, and had a daughter Mary
(or Polly), b. in North Purchase, March 22, 1785; d. in Worcester, Mass., Jan.
9, 1871, m. May 21, 1801, Ebenezer Hunt. Mrs. Anna Battle Abbe is probably
the Mrs. Anna Abbe who m., April 5, 1787, David Maning (intentions, Feb. 14,
1787, give the names Anna Abbe, jr., and David Madden), and had children,
Ithiel, b. Nov. 24, 1787, and Lucretia, b. Oct. 12, 1789.
Joseph Abbe, b. April 1, 1765. There was a Joseph Abbe in the 1790 Census from
Daltou, Mass., one male over 16, two under 16 and two females in the family.
There was also a Joseph Abbe at the same time in Medway, Suffolk County,
Mass., one male over 16, one under 16, two females in the family. In 1800 there
was a Joseph Abbe of Wilbraham with 1 male and 1 female over 45, 2 females
between 16 and 26, 2 males between 10 and 16. He probably m. Hannah Ellis,
daughter of Ebenezer and Sarah (Richardson) Ellis of Medway, and had a
son, John, b. March 15, 1788, in Franklin, Mass.
Jerusha Abbe, b. May 20. 1767; d. in Hopkinton, May 12, 1770.
190 Ainos Burnett Abbe, b. June 5, 1769 ; m. Vesta Turner.
Fifth Generation 57
82. AARON'' ABBE, sou of Joseph* and Tamazin (Baker) Abbe of Ipswich,
Mass., baptized in Ipswich, September 20, 1747. He was a blacksmith in Hop-
kinton in 1772. Accordins:^ to his descendants, he was a Revolntionary soldier,
resided in Vermont about 1768, and emigrated to Richmond, Ontario County,
N. Y., about 1800. Aaron Abby of Hopkinton, Mass., appears on the Revolu-
tionary rolls April 11, 1775, as 2d Lieutenant of Ward's Massachusetts Regi-
ment May 23 to December, 1775. He enlisted at Hopkinton in that year and
was noted as Ensign from Worcester County. There is no record of him at the
pension office. He is perhaps the Aaron Abbe of the 1790 Census in Stephen-
town, Albany County, N. Y., having in his family one male over 16, three males
under 16 and four females. In 1800 Census he is recorded as Aaron Abbey of
Pittstown, Ontario County, N. Y., with a family of seven.
Married ANNA .
Children, all hut the last recorded in Hopkinton
191 James Ahbe, b. July 4, 1765 ; bapt. June 5, 1768 ; m. Mary Head.
Tamezin Ahhc, b. Jan. 5,. 1767; bapt. June 5, 1768.
192 William Ahbe, h. 1708; bapt. March 18, 1768 : m. Anna Whitney.
Joshua Main Ahhc, b. Sept. 13, 1769. Probably the Joshua Abbe of Partridgefield,
Mass., in 1790 Census, 1 male over 16, 1 under 16, 1 female in family.
Sarah Ahhe, b. March 16, 1771.
Jcrusha Ahbe, b. April 26, 1773.
193 Calvin Ahhc, b. Feb. 19. 177.5; m. Sally .
Joseph Ahhe, h. July 10, 1777.
194 John Ahhe, b. Sept. 1, 1781, in Framingham, Mass.; m. Elizabeth Baker.
195 Aaron Ahbe, perhaps a son of this Aaron and b. after the family left Massa-
chusetts ; m. Rowe.
83. ABBE^ BROWN, son of Jonathan and Joanna* (Abbe) Brown, born in
Kensington, N. H., May 28, 1739; died in Andover, N. H., January 1, 1831.
He was a Lieutenant and removed to Andover about 1778, settling on Knowles
Hill.
Married, November 24, 1768, ELIZABETH LEAVITT, born about 1751 ; died
September 24, 1803, aged 52. She was the daughter of Amos and Elizabeth
(Verrell) Leavitt of Hampton Falls.
Children, first four horn in Kensington, others in Andover
Elizabeth Brown, b. Nov. 20, 1769 ; d. iu Franklin, Feb. 10, 1861 ; not m.
Jonathan (1) Broicn, h. March 12, 1772; d. June 7, 1772.
196 Mercij Broicn, b. March 17, 1774; m. John Sawyer.
197 Jonathan (2) Broirn, h. Jan. 25, 1777: m. Sarah BlaisdeU.
Lijdia Broun, b. May, 1779 ; d. June, 1779.
Joanna Broicn, b. March 12, 1781; d. July 1, 1848; not m.
198 Moses Broicn, b. Nov. 27, 1783 ; m. Sarah Hilton.
199 Joscp/i i?roH-?i, b. Sept. 9, 1786; m. (1) Sarah Colby ; (2) Betsey Giles.
John Broicn, b. Aug. 30, 1794; d. June 2, 1797.
84. JOSEPH^ BROWN, son of Jonathan and Joanna* (Abbe) Brown. He
was called Captain Joseph Brown, resided in Kensington, N. H., and had
thirteen children.
Married February 18, 1762, or April 12, 1763, ANN BROWN, daughter of
Nehemiah Brown of Kensington.
Children (thirteen in all)
200 Moses Broicn, b. Dec. 9, 1763 ; m. Abigail True.
201 Jonathan Broicn, b. Feb. 4, 1768; m. EUzabeth Huntoon.
Joseph Broicn, jr., b. Nov. 21, 1769 ; d. in Wilmot, Oct. 22, 1844 ; m.
William Broicn, b. March 22, 1782; resided in Andover, N. H., and Stanstead,
Canada. Married, Dee. 27, 1804, Esther Rolfe Burpee.
58 Abbe- Abbey Genealogy
85. JOSEPH" ABBE, probably son of Obadiali* and Elizabeth ( ) Abbe,
although his birth is not recorded in Willington, Conn., with other children
of that Obadiah. He was born about 1733 and died in 1809. The records of
this family are somewhat confused but it seems likely that all the data here
given must refer to the family of this Joseph Abbe. Norwich, Connecticut,
Records, 23, page 436, mention "Joseph Abbe and wife Dele, both of Spring-
field in the State of Massachusetts Bay .... received property from our
^^ncle, Captain Jonathan Pitcher, late of Norwich, said Dele Abbe, daughter of
Samuel Pitcher deceased who was natural brother to said Jonathan," June 13,
1779. Joseph and Dittie Abbe are also in the records of Springfield, Mass.
MaiTied in Willington, Conn., June 10, 1765, DELIVERANCE ARMSTRONG.
This marriage is recorded in Willington, According to a record from the
descendants she is called Dilla Pitcher. Perhaps she was a widow when married
to Joseph Abbe, or her mother may have married a second time and the
daughter used the name of her step-father at the time of her marriage. She
died November, 1840, aged 102 yrs., 7 mos., 15 days.
Children, first three recorded in Willington, last five in Springfield, Mass,
202 Frederick Abbe, b. Oct. 20, 1765. Probably the Frederick Abbey who m. Sally Tiff.
Mehitable Abbe, b. June 26, 1767.
203 Amasa Abbe, b. March 9, 1769, according to town record; April 9, 1770, according
to family record ; m. Hannah Pettingale.
Daniel Abbe, was last heard from in Upper Canada. There was a Daniel Abbey
who was one of the early settlers of Eaton, Madison County, N. Y., in 1795.
He was perhaps the father of Daniel Abbe who m. Esther Nunn, and of Shubael
who lived in Buffalo at one time. Nathaniel Abbey, who had a brother Orrin,
may have been of his family also.
204 Joseph Abbe, jr.; m.
Renna Abbe, b. July 20, 1773.
Lois Abbe, b. Sept. 4, 1775.
Meriam Abbe, b. Nov. 7, 1777.
Anna Abbe, b. Dec. 9, 1779.
Phebe Abbe, b. March 26, 1782.
86. 0BADIAH5 ABBE, son of Obadiah* and Elizabeth ( ) Abbe, born
1735 ; died April 1, 1810, aged 75. He settled in Ashf ord. Conn. ; died in
Peru, Mass. In 1765 he was a signer of a petition regarding the Ashford
church. In 1767 he deeded property to his brother, Jeremiah. (Ashford rec-
ords.) In 1800 he was recorded in the Census of Partridgefield, Mass., 1 male
and 1 female over 45, 1 boy and 1 girl between 16 and 26.
Married April 21, 1757, ZERUIAH BALCH, born April 14, 1739; died March
23, 1809.
Children
Richard Abbe, b. in Ashford, April 3, 1758; d. Aug. 1, 1759.
John Abbe, b. in Ashford, Sept. 14 (or 19), 1759; d. in the Revolutionary Army,
1782.
Hannah Abbe, b. in Ashford, Aug. 28, 1761 ; resided in Fabius, N. Y. Married,
(1) Jerry Anderson, by whom she had sons: i. Richard, d. in the army, 1812;
ii. Jeremiah. She m. (2) Philo Stoddard.
Zibia Abbe, b. June .3, 1763; m. Roswell Green. They lived near Hudson.
Children : i. Mason, m. — Holmes ; ii. Roswell ; iii. Jabez ; iv. Huldah.
205 Onorah Abbe, b. Sept. 26. 1766; m. John Geer.
206 Roger Abbe, b. June 14, 1767 ; m. Hannah Ferguson.
207 Jemima Abbe, b. March 30, 1769; m. Samuel Ferguson.
Zeruiah Abbe, b. April 7, 1771 ; d. aged 4 months.
Ruth Abbe, b. June 7, 1773; m. Sampson Bane. They lived in Tally, N. Y.
Children : i. Roderick ; ii. Cushman ; iii. Laura.
Rene Abbe, b. Jan. 30, 1775 ; m. Peter Tower.
Fifth Generation 59
208 Ohadiah Ahbe, b. April 14, 1777; m. (1) Polly Ramsdell ; (2) Margaret Marsh.
Theda Abbe, b. Jan. 2, 1780; m. (1) Hibbard Culver; (2) Calvin Snow; (3)
Ichabod Ford. She removed to Berkshire, N. Y. Of her first marriage the
intention was recorded at Pern, Mass., Dec. 1, 1798. By the first marriage she
had four children : i. Hiram ; ii. ; iii. Hosea ; iv. Theda, m. Ambrose
Chapman. By the second marriage she had two children, one of whom was
Julia. By the third marriage there were also two children.
87. JEREMIAH' ABBE, son of Obadiah* and Elizabeth ( ) Abbe, born
February 20, 1737-8, recorded in the town records of Willington, Conn. Jere-
miah Abbe enlisted March 15, 1757, in the 8th Company, under Captain John
Slapp in the French and Indian War. He also enlisted May 8, 1759, discharged
December 15, 1759, in the 1st Regiment, 12th Company, iinder Captain John
Hungerford. He was a signer of a petition regarding the Ashford church in
1765 and, in 1767, received a deed from his brother, Obadiah, they both "being
sons of Obadiah." (Ashford records.) There was a Jeremiah Abbe in East
Windsor, Conn., at the time of the 1790 Census, 3 males over 16, 1 male under
16, 3 females in the family.
Married in Ashford, Conn., June 18, 1760, MARY ARMSTRONG, born about
1735; died in East Windsor, August 21, 1797, in her 63d year. The marriage
is recorded in Ashford.
Children, births recorded in Ashford
209 Benjamin Abbe, b. July 16, 1761 ; probably m. Ehzabeth Knappin.
A7nos Abbe, b. May 21, 1763 ; probably m. Abigail . Children, born in
East Windsor, Conn.: 1. Amos, jr., b. Jan. 27, 1792; ii. Lucy, b. June 24, 1795;
iii. Abigail, b. July 23, 1797.
Daves Abbe, b. Feb. 13, 1768.
210 Jeremiah Abbe, jr., b. Dec. 30, 1769 ; m. Lydia Armstrong.
Mary Abbe, b. Feb. 2, 1772.
88. ELIZABETH^ PEASE, daughter of James* and Abigail (Ford) Pease,
born September 17, 1738, in Somers, Conn.; died aged 98 years. Resided in
Williamstown, N. J.
Married (1) in New Jersey, April 29, 1756, JOHN TICE, born in Holland.
Married (2) April 3, 1775, HENRY THORNE.
Married (3) WILLIAM DRIVER.
Children by first husband, born in Squankum, now Williamstoicn, N. J.
211 Martha Tice, b. May 13, 1757 ; m. Isaac Hooper.
Elizabeth Tice, b. Feb. 11, 1759 ; m. John Kellam.
John Tice, b. Feb. 5, 1761 ; m. Eleanor Anderson. Children : i. John Ross ;
ii. James Anderson ; iii. Cornehus Anderson ; iv. Thomas Marshall ; v. Richard
Howell ; vi. Franklin Davenport ; vii. Joshua Ladd ; viii. Samuel Pease ; ix.
Isaac K.
212 Hannah Tice, b. Feb. 25 (or March 24), 1763; m. John Giberson.
David Tice, h. April 15, 1765.
Josiah Tice, b. Sept. 10, 1767.
Cornelius Tice, b. June 24, 1771 ; d. July, 1823. Married, Feb. 16, 1802, ParneU
Cofiin, b. June 20, 1773; d. Feb. 27, 1848; daughter of Wilham and ParneU
(Hammond) Coffin. Children: i. Wilham Coffin, b. April 8, 1803, d. 1872,
m. April 23, 1826, Alydia Ann Sharp; ii. Ziba (or Zilba), b. May 21, 1804,
d. Jan. (or June) 8, 1841, m. Elizabeth Bodine ; iii. Cornelius, b. Aug. 31,
1806, d. 1823; iv. Beulah Ann, b. July 26, 1808, d. Nov. 21, 1868. m. (1)
in 1828, Alexander McChntock, and (2) Nov., 1841, John Boyer Rieff. lia\ing
by the latter marriage, two sons, William Rieff, b. Nov. 13, 1845, residing in
Carlsbad, N. Mex., and Cornehus Rieff, who d. in 1894; v. ParneU, b. 1808,
d. 1823 : vi. Josiah G., b. Sept., 1812, d. April 22, 1847, m. Elizabeth Newcomb.
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Children hij second husband
Henry Thome, h. June 6, 1776.
WiUiam Thome, b. Sept 8, 1779.
89. JOHN^ PEASE, son of James* and Abigail (Ford) Pease, born in
Somers, Conn., June 12, 1742. He removed from Somers to Stafford, Conn.,
resided among the Shakers, then lived in Stafford again nntil about 1820, when
he went to Marlboro, Vt., and died there. He was a volunteer in the Colonial
troops that entered upon an expedition which Great Britain sent to take
Havana, Cuba, during the war with Spain. Only two of the sixty men who
went from Somers returned.
Married in Somers, October 6, 1768, ZEPARY COY.
Children, first four born in Somers
Elijah Pease, b. Feb. 12, 1770, in Somers. Lived near Somers and later in Staf-
ford, Conn., finally removed to New York state wliere he left a family. One
son was WiUiam.
Johti Pease, b. in Somers, 1780 ; lived in Marlboro, Vt. ; m. but had no children.
Aaron Pease, b. March 6, 1786 ; d. Feb. 15, 1855. Settled in Marlboro, Vt., and
d. there. Married, June, 1812, Tabitha Sargent of Spencer, Mass. Children,
b. in Marlboro: i. Aaron, jr., b. May 15, 1813, lived in Marlboro, m. Dec. 5,
1838, Louisa S. May, and had eleven children ; ii. Abraham, b. March 8, 1815,
was living in Warren County, N. Y., in 1865 ; iii. Edmund N., b. Feb. 15, 1817,
d. May, 1855, not m. ; iv. Isaac, b. Feb. 25, 1819, d. 1836 ; v. Lois, b. March 21,
1821; vi. Susan E., b. Feb. 1, 1823, lived in Marlboro, m. Jan. 9, 1815, John
L. A. Winchester ; vii. Eunice, b. Oct. 10, 1825, d. Feb. 2, 1831 ; viii. Zipporah A.,
b. June 10, 1827, d. Feb. 9, 1831 ; ix. Miriam, b. Jan. 28, 1829, d. Feb., 1857,
m. Oct., 1849, Horatio T. Bellows ; x. Sarah, b. April 28, 1830, d. Sept., 1857 ;
xi. Mary A., b. May 17, 1832, d. Aug. 26, 1836.
Polly Pease, b. in Somers.
Lois Pease.
Miriam Pease.
90. KEZIAH5 PEASE, daughter of James* and Abigail (Ford) Pease, born
October, 1757.
Married 1784, JOHN SMITH, son of Thomas Smith, born in Springfield,
Mass., removed to Granville, Mass. Enlisted May, 1775, was discharged Decem-
ber 10, 1775. (Connecticut State House Records, also War Department Pay
Roll.) Their sons were all educated at the famous school taught by the
Reverend Dr. Timothy M. Cooley.
Children, born in Chanville, Mass.
Orsamus Smith, b. July, 1786 ; d. young.
213 John Ford Smith, b. June 19, 1787 ; m. Erpercia Caroline Seward.
214 Zebina Smith, h. Aug. 7, 1789; d. Sept. 20, 1826; m., March 26, 1820, Sarah
Towson of Baltimore.
215 Henry Smith, h. March 4, 1792; d. 1867 ; m. Docinda Cutler.
George Smith, b. Feb. 28, 1794.
216 Thomas J. Smith, b. April 3, 1796; d. July, 1869; m. Jane L. Branson.
Joseph Pease Smith, b. July, 1798 ; d. 1849 ; m. Maria — . Children :
i. Thomas, d. July, 1869 ; ii. Philip Edwin ; iii. Maria A. ; iv. Albert Zebina.
217 Allert Gallatin Smith, b. April 30, 1801; m. Sarah Harger.
Margaret Maritta Smith, b. March 31, 1803 ; d. 1812.
91. SAMUELS PEASE, son of Richard* and Elizabeth (Parsons) Pease,
born in Somers, Conn., Aiigust 26, 1756 ; died there July 20, 1842.
Married 1786, SARAH ROOT, daughter of Timothy Root of Somers.
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Children, horn in Somcrs
Sarah Pease, b. April 16, 1787.
Ciinthia Pease, b. Oct. 22, 1788; lived in Rodman, N. Y. ; m. May 3, 1809,
Charles Cook of Somcrs.
Doroihji Pease, b. Oct. 31. 1791: settled in Somcrs; m., 1818, Timothy Hurlburt.
Ruly Pease, b. May 13, 1794 ; m., 1817, Cliaunccy Hurlburt and lived in Somers.
Seth Pease, b. Aug. 7, 1797 ; d. Sept. 28, 1854. He was a farmer in Somers.
Married, May 13, 1822, Ann Kibbe, daughter of laike Kibbe. Children, b. in
Somers ; i. Seth P., b. Jan. 31, 1824, lived in Illinois, m. twice, first to Pamelia
Pomeroy ; ii. Lidora A., b. June 24, 1825, d. aged 13 ; iii. Luke K., b. Sept. 8,
1828, lived in Somers, m. May 15, 1851, Louisa Kibbe ; iv. Leverett E., lived
in Somers, m. Sarah J. Brown ; v. Horatio E., m. Carrie T. Bradley ; vi.
Joseph A., lived in Somers, m. Lidora Hunn.
Samuel Pease, jr., b. Jan. 20. 1801.
Solomon Pease, b. Nov. 3, 1804 ; lived in Somers, Conn., and Northampton, Mass. ;
m. Esther Shaw. No children.
92. RICHARD^ PEASE, JR., son of Richard^ and Elizabeth (Parsons)
Pease, born in Somers, Conn., October 28, 1758; died in Somers. He was one
of the seventy men who marched from Somers to Boston under Captain Emery
Pease at the first alarm. He continued in service all through the war and
received the office of Captain.
Married SOVIER PARSONS.
Children, horn in Somers
Richard Pease, b. Sept. 30, 1789; resided in Somers. Married, May 14, 1816,
Philena Jones, daughter of Benjamin Jones of Somers. Child : Philena, b. and
lived in Somers ; m. John Russell.
Luke Pease, b. April 9, 1793 ; d. unm.
Walter Pease, b. July 4, 1795; d. in Somers, Nov. 8, 1864; m. Jan. 26, 1826,
Louisa Spencer. Children, b. in Somers : 1. Luke H., b. Nov. 19, 1826, was a
soap manufacturer in Springfield, Mass., and held the office of City Marshal,
m. (1) April 28. 1853, Louisa Hall, (2) Dec. 24, 1862, Charlotte Phelps;
ii. Mary L., b. Feb. 4, 1828, lived in Springfield, m. May 5, 1852, Henry I.
Fuller ; iii. Newton W., b. Nov. 12, 1830, lived in Springfield, later in Granby,
Mass., m. (1) Dec. 9, 1855, Augusta M. Lull, (2) Oct. 26, 1863, Harriet E.
RusseU; iv. Edwin S., b. Nov. 2, 18.32, d. Aug. 5, 1854; v. Luman S., b.
May 26, 1835, was a banker in San Francisco, Cal., m. May 10, 1866, Agnes
Gauley ; vi. Sanford C, b. Oct. 5, 1841.
Orrin Pease, b. June 10, 1797 ; lived in Somers, and d. there June 30, 1852 ; m.
March 31, 1824, Delina Sexton. Child : Orrin E., b. Sept. 2, 1832, in Somers ;
lived in Springfield, Mass. ; m., May 11, 1861, Josephine Owen, w-ho d. Aug. 11,
1865.
Alpheus Pease, b. July 18, 1799; lived in Somers, and d. there Oct. 16, 1849.
Married, Dec. 7, 1825, Clarissa Jones, daughter of Benjamin Jones of Somers.
Children, born in Somers: i. Alpheus, jr., b. Sept. 23, 1826; ii. Abiel J., b.
Aug. 11, 1828, d. March 13, 1829; iii. Richard F., b. Feb. 25, 1830, Uved in
Hartford, Conn., was a merchant, m. Harriet M. Kenyon ; iv. Benjamin J.,
b. June 2, 1840, d. Jan., 1861.
Sovier Pease, b. Sept. 18, 1801 ; resided in Granby, Mass. ; m. Joseph Montague.
Austin Pease, b. March 8, 1804. He was a veterinary surgeon in Somers. Married,
(1) Aug. 23, 1825, Olive Waters; (2) Mary Russell; (3) Sarah Silcox.
Children by first wife, b. in Somers : i. Olive M.. b. Jan. 10. 18.31, d. in Enfield,
Conn., Dec. 30, 1865, m. Samuel Slater: ii. Abigail S. ; iii. Austin C. Child
by third wife : WilKam C, b. May 3, 1853, in Somers.
Azariah Pease, b. May 22, 1806; d. July 26, 1844; m. in 1841, Abigail Edson.
Child : Sarah E., b. Feb. 4, 1843 ; d. in infancy.
Ahigail Pease, b. Aug. 21, 1808 ; d. June 7, 1810.
93. LUTHER5 WEBB, son of Joshua and Hannah'' (Abbe) Webb, born
October 24, 1763; died August 2, 1860. Resided in Rockingham, near Bellows
Falls, Vt.
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Married February 9, 1792, DOROTHY WHEELOCK, born Marcb, 1769 ; died
December 10, 1856.
Children
Luciiida Webh, b. May 2, 1793.
Elmira Webh, b. Jan. 15, 1795.
Candace Webb, b. Oct. 25, 1796 ; d. Oct. 1, 1829.
Luther Hiram Webb, b. Nov. 12, 1799, in Rockingham, Vt. ; d. Oct. 21, 1847;
resided in Rockingham. Married, Dec. 15, 1823, Martha B. Bates, b. Aug., 1799.
Children: i. Martha B., b. Dec. 6, 1824; ii. Harriet J., b. Feb. 26, 1827;
iii. Jane G., b. Feb. 18, 1829 ; iv. John W., b. Nov. 24, 1830, d. Oct. 22, 1847 ;
V. James, b. Jan. 12, 1833 ; vi. Joseph L., b. Aug. 1, 1837 ; vii. Hiram P., b.
March 13, 1842.
Joseph Mci-ari Webb, b. Sept. 23, 1803, in Rockingham, Vt. ; resided at Bellows
Falls. Married, Sept. 23, 1839, EUzabeth Foster, b. Aug. 27, 1813. Children:
i. Charles M., b. Feb. 14, 1841, d. Feb. 20, 1842; ii. WilHam J., b. Aug. 29,
1843 ; iii. Emma E., b. July 30, 1855.
Jane Orey Webb, b. Oct. 11, 1807.
James Warren Webb, b. Oct. 14, 1811, in Rockingham, Vt. Married, Nov. 20, 1834,
Nancy Farr, b. Oct. 1, 1812. Children: i. Samuel Heber, b. Dec. 10, 1835,
lives in Rhode Island, m. Dec. 25, 1861, P. Amanda Follet, b. July 17, 1836;
ii. Joshua H., b. Dec. 9, 1837; iii. Candace E., b. Sept. 14, 1839, d. Nov, 5,
1857; iv. Mary E., b. Dec. 5, 1841; v. James A., b. July 24, 1843; vi.
Charles M., b. Oct. 22, 1848.
94. ELISHA SMITHS WALES, son of Elisha and Mary* (Abbe) Wales,
born 1752, at Union, Conn. ; died 1805, at Sharon Center, Schoharie County, N. Y.
Married at Asliford, Conn., March 7, 1775, MARY WATKINS, daughter of
Edward and Mary (Watkins) Watkins of Ashford.
Childr e7i
8arah Wales, b. Jan. 16, 1776; m. Noble Hard of Arlington, Vt. Children:
i. Martin ; ii. Truman ; iii. Levine ; iv. Hale, physician in Oswego, N. Y. ;
V. Mary, d. unm. ; vi. Harriet Jane, m. Joseph Howland Coit, and had a son,
the Reverend Doctor Coit of Concord, N. H.
Miriam Wales, b. March 28, 1778. Married (1) Patrick Hale, no children;
(2) Joshua Munroe, of Shaftsbury, Vt. Child : Wales Monroe Munroe.
Clarissa Wales, m. Simeon Cole of Arlington ; no children.
Mary Wales, bapt. Sept. 10, 1780. Married (1) Joseph Alexander, by whom she
had daughters : i. Sarah, who m. Demosthenes Lawyer son of General Lawyer,
of Lawyersville, Schoharie County, N. Y. ; ii. Eliza, m. Dr. John Lowe of Gilder-
land, N. Y. Mary Wales m. (2) — Sharp, by whom she had a son Joseph,
of Sharon, N. Y. Mary Wales m. (3) Hon. Jedediah Miller of Lawyersville,
as his first wife.
Ahniron Wales, d. young.
Elisha Smith Wales, jr., physician, removed to Norwich, N. Y., where he d. aged 29.
Child : Frances, m. Randall of Norwich.
Elmira Wales, d. at Lawyersville, N. Y. ; not m.
Laura Wales, b. June 28, 1787; d. July 22, 1848 (?) in Lawyersville. N. Y.
Married, (1) Dec. 5, 1811, Captain John Redington ; (2) March 20, 1845,
Hon. Jedediah Miller of Lawyersville.
Rowena Wales, m. Dr. Henry Mitchell of Norwich, N. Y., who d. Jan. 12, 1858.
He was member of Congress during Jackson's Administration. Children :
i. Maria ; ii. Catharine, d. young ; iii. Harriet ; iv. Mary, m. Samuel Parker
of Norwich ; v. Jane ; vi. Charles, a physician ; vii. John.
95. MARY5 WALES, daughter of Elisha and Mary* (Abbe) Wales, died
September 11, 1806, in Montgomery County, N. Y.
Married at A.shford, Conn., September 28, 1767, JOHN KEYES, born in
Ashford, 1744; died April 13, 1824, in Canajoharie, N. Y. He was son of
Sampson Keyes. He was a commissioned officer in the Connecticut State Army,
Avas under Colonel Knowlton when he fell at the Battle of Harlem Heights,
1776, later became General. After the war he emigrated to Vermont but, after
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a short time, obtained a grant of land and removed to Canajoharie, N. Y.,
where he resided except for intervals spent with his son, Zachariah, in
Amsterdam.
He married (2) at Farmington, Conn., October 18, 1807, MERCY SCOTT,
who married (2) Captain Palmer of Stillwater, N. Y.
Children
218 Clarissa Keyes, b. April 30, 1768 ; m. Rev. Winslow Paige.
Elnaihan Kcyes, b. 1770; was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1790;
became a lawyer in Burliugton, Vt. ; was in the State Legislature, 1776, 1777,
1779, 1800 ; removed about 1820 to the vicinity of Rochester, N. Y., where he
d. in 1853. Married Jane Fellows, daughter of General John Fellows, of
ShefBeld, Mass. Children : i. John Fellows, m. and had two daughters, Jennie,
was adopted by an uncle, Judge Edmonds of New York City, m.
Hamilton, a lawyer of that place, and Mary, who m. Zust of New York
City ; ii. Stephen, resided in Grand Rapids, Mich. ; iii. Henry, d. in Grand
Rapids ; iv. Charlotte, m. Wilson, both d. in Auburn, N. Y., she d. in
1836.
Laura Kcycs, d. in Grand Rapids ; m. Thrall.
219 Zachariah Keyes, b. 1778; m. (1) Lydia Stanton; (2) Nancy Whittaker.
220 Almira Catherine Keyes, b. 1785 ; m. John Peck.
96. HEZEKIAH5 (or HEZEKIAH H.) ABBE, son of Richard* and Mary
(Huntington) Abbe, born in Union, Conn., January 4, 1755; died May 25,
1841, killed by an accident while stoning up a well at Westminster, Vt. The
records of the Pension Bureau give this further information about him : enlisted
from ^Yindham, Conn., April, 1775, 1 montli, private under Captain John
Kingsley, Colonel Storrs, July 10, 1775; 5 months, private under Captain
John Ripley, Colonel Jedediah Huntington, February 15, 1776; 2 months,
corporal under Captain James Dana, Colonel Douglass, September 10, 1776;
4 months, marine, in Captain Roberts' Company on Ship "Oliver Cromwell,"
William Coit, Commander, August 24, 1778; 1 month, private under Captain
Chamberlain, all in Connecticut troops; was engaged in tlie battle of Rhode
Island; applied for a pension, July 25, 1832, then a resident of Westminster
townsliip, Windham Coiinty, Vt. His eldest child was born in 1778; names of
wife and children not stated. The schooner ''Oliver Cromwell" mentioned
above was fitted out in the autumn of 1776 at Norwich for privateer service.
In the Census of 1790 he is recorded at Pierpont, Grafton County, N. H., 1
male over 16, 1 male under 16, 3 females in the family. In 1800 the Census
records him at Rockingham, Vt., 1 male between 26 and 45, 2 females between
16 and 26, 1 female between 26 and 45, in the family. Some time after this
he removed to Westminster, Vt.
Married MARTHA MANNING, born January 15, 1749-50, at Norwich, Conn. ;
died Ai^ril 17, 1840. She was the daughter of Josiah and Mary (Cook) Manning.
Children
Eunice Ahhe, h. 1778; d. Aug. 5, 1848, aged 69; not m.
, d. Aug., 1782, in Windham, Conn.
Julia Ahhe, b. 1784 ; d. April 18, 1866, aged 82 ; not m.
221 Hezekiah H. Ahhe, b. Jan. 31, 1785; m. (1) Betsey FuUer ; (2) Anna GoodeU.
97. MASONS ABBE or ABBEY, son of Richard* and Mary (Huntington)
Abbe, born April 17, 1759; died in Belchertown, Mass., October 18, 1849. He
enlisted February, 1777, for three years as a private under Colonel Heman Swift,
Captains Vine Elderkin and Thomas Converse. In the 1790 Census he appeared
as of Walpole, Cheshire County, N. H. In 1800 he was recorded in the
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Census at Amherst, Mass., 1 male and 1 female between 26 and 45, 1 male
between 16 and 26, 1 female between 10 and 16, 2 males and 1 female under
10. On April 18, 1818, he applied for a pension and was then fifty-nine years
old, lived at Bclehertown, Mass. In 1820 he had a Avife and seven children
living.
Married June 20, 1788, SARAH FRISSELL, born July, 1768; died June 12,
or 18, 1828. She was a sister of Huldah Frissell, v/ho married Charles Barrows
and had children: Mary, who married Elisha Abbey, and Eli, who married
Lucretia Abbey, see below.
Children
James H, Ahiey, b. Nov., 1789 ; no record of death.
Mat-y Iluntington Abbey, b. March 4, 1791 ; d. April 17, 1864. She joined the
Bclchertown Church in 1818. Married in Belchertown, Nov. 29, 1831, as his
second wife, Pliineas Warner of Belchertown. He was b. 1763, son of Ebenezer
and Diana (Phelps) Warner, and d. in Belchertown, April 9, 1849, aged 86.
His first wife was Sally Rich by whom he had twelve children ; none by this
marriage.
Henry Iluniington Abbey, b. Nov. 11, 1892; d. in Belchertown by drowning,
July 11, 1813. He joined the Bclchertown Congregational Church in 1812.
222 Elisha Abbey, b. Jan. 7, 1794; m. (1) Sophronia Tarbell ; (2) Mary Barrows.
Fannie Abbey, b. May 5, 1797 ; d. Nov. 22, 1885, at DeSmet, S. Dak. She joined
the Belchertown Church in 1819 and later removed to Amherst. Married (1)
at Amherst, Thomas Goodale, who had nine children; (2) Feb. 19, 1857, as his
second wife, Seth M. Warner, b. Dec. 30, 1787; d. Oct. 25, 1862, at Fort
Atkinson, Wis. He was the son of Eleazer and Elizabeth (Belden) Warner;
resided for a time in Sunderland, Mass., and m. (1) Marmy Kellogg by whom
he had ten children, b. in Sunderland
223 George Abbey, b. Jan. 7, 1801; m. (1) Hannah Gay; (2) Phebe Parsons.
224 Lucretia Abbey, h. Dec. 13, 1803; m. Eli Barrows.
Laura Abbey, b. May 7, 1806; d. Dec. 19, 1832. She joined the Bclchertown
Church in 1819. Married in 1827, Zenas Warner of Dover, Vt., and removed
to Georgia. They had several children.
Harriet Abbey, b. March 13, 1809, in Amherst; d. Jan. 15, 1836. Married, as
his second wife, Feb. 25, 18.35, Daniel Paine of South Hadley, b. July 17, 1797,
son of Daniel and Mary (Chandler) Paine of South Woodstock, Conn. He was
a teacher in South Hadley and Amherst and in Rosemond, 111. He m. (1) Irene
White; (2) Harriet Abbey; (3) Sophronia Warner, by whom he had six
children; (4) Mrs. Betsey Heywood (Richardson) Smith. Child of Harriet
Abbey : Harriet Abbey, b. at South Hadley about 1836 ; m. and had one child.
98. RICHARD^ ABBEY, JR., son of Richard* and Mary (Huntington) Abbey,
born August 15, 1769, probably in Windham, Conn. ; died in Alexander County,
111., September 9, 1823. In 1798 a Richard Abbie was one of the residents of
Whitestown, Oneida County, N. Y., who signed a document. (Oneida County
Deeds, 5:92.) He is in the 1800 Census of Cazenovia, N. Y., 1 male and 1 female
between 26 and 45, and a boy and a girl under 10 in the family. In 1805 he
purchased land in township L of the "Triangle" near Phelps, N. Y. Richard
and Dolly Abby of Cazenovia made land transfers, recorded in Chenango County,
N. Y., under dates of April 15, 1799, August 12, 1799 and November 11, 1800.
He also resided in Canandaigua and Rochester, N. Y., in Norwich, Conn., and
near Meadville, Pa., about 1812. He is said to have been a commissioned officer
in the War of 1812, and was wounded at the Battle of Lundy 's Lane. He settled
in Alexander County, 111., in 1816.
Married at Cazenovia or Canandaigua, about 1798, DOLLY ELLIS, born in
Keene, N. H., 1775; baptized bj^ the Reverend John M. Peck about 1824, and
died on the Gulf of Mexico, August, 1850, aged 75.
Children
225 Charles Huntington Abbey, b. Jan. 1, 1800; m. (1) St. Clair; (2) Maria
Shorts.
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Lorena Abbey, b. iu Rochester, N. Y., about ISOl ; d. in Tallahassee, Fla., about
1852.
Lucinda Abbey, b. in Rochester, about 1802; d. in Tallahassee about 1854.
226 Richard Abbey, b. Nov. IG, 1805; m. Julia Bates.
Roswell Abbey, d. in Illinois, aged about five years.
Elisha Abbey, d. in Illinois, aged about seven years.
227 Mason Ellis Abbey, b. July 4, 1812 ; m. Harriet Rebecca Newland.
99. EPAPHRAS'^ RIPLEY, sou of Charles and Tabitha'' (Abbe) Ripley, born
February 13, 1759; resided iu Rockiugham, Vt.
Married ANN WEBB.
Children, order of births not knoicn
Tabitha Ripley, b. about 1782; d. Oct., 1861, aged 79; resided iu Waddiugton,
N. Y.
Shubacl Ripley, b. April 13, 1786; resided in CornwaU, Vt. ; m. 1811, Eunice Hall.
Charles Ripley, resided at Alstead Centre, N. H.
Randolph Ripley, resided in Middlebury, Vt.
Nancy Ripley, m. Jonas Stickney of Goshen, Vt.
Clarissa Ripley, d. in 1863 ; resided in Goshen, Vt.
Rhodentia Ripley, m. Joseph Ingalls of Surry, N. H.
Azuba Ripley, b. Oct. 10, 1793 ; m. Robert Hatch of Waddington, N. Y.
RandiUa Ripley, resided at Claremont, N. H.
Octavia Ripley, m. John W. Shipman of Perkinsv'iUe, Vt.
100. JOHN ABBE5 RIPLEY, son of Charles and Tabitha* (Abbe) Ripley,
born April 3, 1764, in "Windham, Conn.; died in Canada, 1848 or 9. Revolu-
tionary soldier.
Married MARGARET CLARK.
Child
Joshua West Ripley, b. Nov. 3, 1794, in Rockingham, Vt. ; d. March 20, 1871.
Married, Feb. 18, 1824, Rhoda Johnson; d. Nov. 2, 1865, iu Randolph, Vt.
Children: i. Paschal Paola, b. in Highgate, Vt., 1825, d. 1893, m. B. Scully
of Burlington, Vt., served in Civil Wai", Company K, 3d Vermont Volunteers,
musician of Highgate ; ii. Margaret Clark, b. 1832, resided at Randolph, Vt.,
not m.
101. VINES RIPLEY, sou of Charles and Tabitha* (Abbe) Ripley, born
November 30, 1769; resided at Tinmouth, Vt.
Married August 31, 1794, LOIS CRAMPTON.
Children
Dexter Ripley, b. June 5, 1795.
Abbie Ripley, b. May 25. 1797 ; m. Henry Woodhouse.
Calvin Ripley, b. Aug. 28, 1799.
Mary Ripley, b. April 25, 1801 ; d. Aug. 27, 1862.
Sally Ripley, b. Feb. 18, 1803 ; m. Boomer Mason.
Charles Ripley, b. Nov. 10, 1804; resided in East Poultney, Vt. ; m. Jan. 21,
1830, Sally Gates. Children: i. Almeron B., b. July 30, 1832, m. Ellen M.
Ames, lived in East Poultney; ii. Charles, jr., b. April 10, 1838. m. Nov. 28,
1860, Esther C. Morse, had four children, Eddie C. and Emma F. (twins), b.
Oct. 14, 1861, George H., b. Aug. 12, 1863, and Mary E., b. Feb. 19, 1867;
iii. James, b. May 13, 1843, m. Anna Ward ; iv. George L., b. June 5, 1845,
d. Dec. 4, 1846.
Linns Ripley, b. April 4, 1806; resided in Wells. Vt. ; m. May 5, 1829, Mahala
Mosher. Children : 1. Jared Francis, b. Aug., 1830 ; fell in the Battle of Shiloh,
March 7, 1862 ; ii. Nicy, m. Douglas Sykes of Whitewater, Wis. ; iii. Lois,
resided in Wilmington, 111. ; iv. Edson, b. March 16, 1843 ; d. in the army
hospital in Washington, D. C.
Louisa C. Ripley, b. Dec. 22, 1810; m. Leland Houghton; resided in Wilmington,
IU.
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Eerriclc Ripley, b. Sept. 14, 1812 ; resided at West Fort Ann, N. Y. ; m. Jan. 22,
1843, Rebecca Irish. Children: i. Neri F., b. Sept. 7, 1845: ii. Aaron S.,
b. Mav 22, 1846, d. Jan. 28. 1847; iii. Abzina, b. Jan. 16, 1848; iv. Cyrus,
b. June 18, 1851 ; v. Louisa, b. June 18, 1853 ; vi. Leland H., b. April 22, 1856 ;
vii. Linus, b. May 4, 1861.
IVeri Field Ripley, h. July 8, 1815 ; d. Jan. 16, 1863, from a disease contracted in
the army hospital at Newbern, N. C. Married, 1849, Nancy Gilbert of Wincheu-
don, Mass. Children : i. Emeline, d. 1864 ; ii. Abbie.
102. ELEAZER5 WELCH, son of Jeremiali* and Margaret (Hebard) Welch,
born in Windham, Conn., December 12, 1750; died January 30, 1827. He lived
in Windham on land inherited from his father.
Married (1) May 20, 1784, ABIGAIL BROWN, born 1754; died November
29, 1788.
Married (2) January 20, 1790, ALATHEA MANNING, born January 25, 1760;
died December 15, 1837.
Children hy first wife
Thomas Welch, b. March 8, 1785 ; lived at Albany, N. Y.
Betsey Welch, m. (1) Carter; (2) after 1823, Babcock.
Children hy second unfe
228 Savmel Mantling Welch, b. Sept. 17, 1791 ; m. Lucia Carey.
George G. Manning Welch.
Ganiiel Manning Welch, m. March 4, 1831, Sally Willoby.
103. JOKN^ WELCH, JR., son of John"' and Abigail (Manning) Welch, born
in Windham, Conn., February 3, 1750-1; died 1826.^
Married September 19, 1782, OLIVIA FITCH, who died November 21, 1813.
Children
Aligail Welch, b. Nov. 18, 1783 ; m. May 5, 1830, James Trowbridge of Ashford,
Conn.
Thomas Welch, b. in Windham, April 4 or 14, 1785; d. in Ypsilanti, Mich., Sept. 4,
1869. He went to Cincinnati, Ohio, to reside with his son. Married Laura
Lathrop, daughter of John Lathrop, b. in Windham, Feb. 8, 1795 ; d. at the
residence of her daughter in Stamford, Conn., July 16, 1857. Children : i. Julia
Maria, b. in Pomfret, Conn., May 25, 1817, m. in Windham. March 6, 1843,
Rev. E. B. Huntington of Norwich, Conn., lived in Stamford, and had two
children, Julia Swift, b. Sept. 1, 1846, and Clara Louise, b. July 27, 1848;
ii. Thomas Henry, b. in Windham, Sept. 5, 1822, removed to Cincinnati, Ohio,
m. Jan. 7, 1849, Clara Kent, had four children, Charles Irving, b. at Willi-
mantic. Conn., Sept. 16, 1849, Eliza Lane, b. Aug. 6, 1851, d. Feb. 23, 1853,
Clara Ellen, b. Jan. 23, 1853, d. in Cincinnati, Aug. 4, 1855, and Nettie Louise,
b. in Cincinnati, Aug. 1, 1857.
Jerusha Welch,, b. Feb. 24, 1787; m. Elisha Payne.
Maria Welch, b. May 28, 1789; m. Stowell Lincoln, b. about 1778. Children:
i. George; ii. Dwight.
John Welch, 3d, b. Oct. 6, 1791 ; not m.
Olive Welch, b. June 14, 1795 ; m. Augustus Burnham.
104. ASHBEL-' WELCH, son of John* and Abigail (Manning) Welch, born
April 21, 1764, in Windham, Conn. ; died in New Hartford, N. Y., July 20, 1826.
He removed to New York State after 1802; resided in Nelson, Madison County,
in 1809, in Deerfield in 1816, later in Utica.
Married in Windham, October 15, 1795, MARGARET DORRANCE, born
about 1776 at Voluntown, Conn.; died in Albany, N. Y., June 4, 1830. Daughter
of George and Alice (Trumbull) Dorrance.
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Children, horn in Windlnnn, except last
229 ISylrcstcr Welch, b. Jan. 11, 1798; m. (1) Sarah G. Stannaril ; (2) Mrs. Arabella
(Scott) Davis.
William Welch, b. Dec. 11, 1800; d. uear Jolinstown, Pa., Doc. 29, 1830; m..
June 22, 1S2G, Rachel Maria Harris. Child (others d. in infancy) : i. Edwin
Harris, b. at Johnstown, Pa., March 23, 1828 ; lived at Lockhaven, Pa. ; m.,
May 15, 18G0. Elizabeth H. Fidlor, who d. Sept. 8, 1893; had children:
(1) William Harris, lives in Canandaigua, N. Y. ; m. Graces Raines, daughter
of Senator Raines of New York and has had five children: Catharine, b. 1890;
Edith, b. 1891 ; Paulino, b. 1892, and d. aged 7 months ; Alice Irene, b. July 20,
1897, and WiUiam Harris, jr., b. about 1900; (2) Lizzie Helena, not m. ;
(3) Carrie, d. young; (4) Paul, b. July 17, 1869; m. and had a daughter b.
May, 1912, and d. young.
Ashhcl (1) Welch, b. 1803; d. young.
230 Ashbel (2) Welch, jr., b. Dec. 4, 1809; m. Mary Hammond Seabrook.
105. MOSES COOKS WELCH, son of Daniel* and Martha (Cook) Welch,
born in North Mansfield, Conn., February 14, 1754; died April 21, 1824. He
was graduated from Yale in 1772 and taught the Proprietor's School — a grammar
school — in "Windham for some time. He then studied law for a year in the
office of Honorable Eliphalet Dyer, one of the judges of the Superior Court.
For a time he was with Samuel Nott engaged in the manufacture of saltpetre,
and served a jteriod in the army. He then studied theology with Dr. Salter of
Mansfield and Reverend Stephen White of Windham, and was ordained in 1782.
He was a preacher of more than ordinary ability, esteemed not only at home
but in adjoining localities. He succeeded his father as pastor of the North
Mansfield Church in 1782. In 1822 he was a member of the Corporation of
Yale College and received the honorary degree of D.D. from Dartmouth College
in 1824.
The Phenix or Windham Herald for May 21, 1796, contains the following
announcement : —
Just published at Norwich, and to be sold at this office,
price 9^1,
The Addressor Addressed ;
Or a Letter to the Correspondent ;
Containing some free remarks on his "Address to the Rev. Moses C. Welch."
Humbly dedicated to the Honorable Zephaniah Swift, Esq.
By Moses C. Welch, A.M.
Married (1) November 10, 1784, CHLOE EVANS, daughter of Randall Evans
of Phanouth, Conn. She died September 11, 1789.
Married (2) February 8, 1791, CHARISSA ASHLEY, daughter of Reverend
Jonathan Ashley, Yale 1730, of Deerfield, Mass, and Dorothy Williams, daugh-
ter of Reverend William Williams, Harvard 1683, of Hatfield. She died June
2, 1806.
Married (3) December 23, 1807, SALLY DAGGETT RUSSELL, daughter of
Reverend Noahdiah Russell of Thompson, Conn. Slie died March 6, 1815. No
children.
Married (4) December 26, 1815, MRS. MARY LEECH, widow of Amos Leech
of Lebanon, Conn. She died at North Mansfield, August 28, 1830. No children
by this marriage.
Children hy first icife
Daniel Welch, b. Aug. 11, 1785 ; d. at Conway, Mass., Aug. 29, 1803.
Bela Welch, b. Feb. 6, 1787; d. at Woodville, Miss., Dec. 4, 1826; m. Jan. 20,
1812, Emily Trask. Child : Augustus, d. in Woodville about 1847.
Chloe Welch, b. Oct. 13, 1788; d. March 14, 1867; m. Oct. 10, 1810, Levi Turner.
Children : i. Chauncey Welch, b. Aug. 30, 1811 ; ii. Jonathan Ashley, b. Sept. 6,
1814, d. March 5, 1849; iii. William, b. Aug. 12, 1817, d. June 16, 1861;
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iv. Moses Cook. b. Aug. 6, 1819, d. iMay 15, 1873; v. Levi Melancthon, b.
May 30, 1823, lived in Willimantic, Conn., m. , who d. in 1900, had a
son, Archibald Welch, m. and lived in "Willimantic in 1900.
Children hy second wife
Jonathan Ashley Welch, b. Feb. 4, 1792 ; d. Sept. 9, 1859. Graduate of Yale, 1813 ;
lawyer in Brooklyn, Conn. Married, (1) July 14, 1818, Mary Devotion Baker,
who d. Nov. 3, 1845. Married (2) Harriet Viol, b. 1792; widow of Judge Fitch
of Mansfield. Children by first wife only : i. Ebenezer Baker, b. Feb. 20, 1821,
lived in Boston in 1901 ; ii. Mary Charissa, b. May 21, 1823, lived in Brooklyn,
Conn., in 1899, m. Henry M. Cleveland; iii. Louis, b. Oct. 22, 1825, graduate
of West Point in 1845, lost his health in the Mexican War, and d. March 24,
1848; iv. Charles, b. June 9, 1828, d. March 10, 1867, not m. ; v. Joseph A.,
b. Aug. 13, 1830, d. April 11, 1901, lawyer in New York City, his wife, Mary,
d. June, 1900 ; vi. James Edward, b. July 28, 1833, d. April 28, 1892, merchant
in New York City ; vii. Elizabeth Jane, b. May 21, 1837, lived in Brooklyn,
Conn., 1899.
231 Archiiald Welch, b. March 13, 1794 ; m. Cynthia Hyde.
106. THOMAS^ WELCH, son of DanieP and Martha (Cook) Welch, born in
North Mansfield, Conn., Tebruary 22, 1757; died in Enfield, Conn., March 22,
1832, to which place he had removed in 1806.
Married November 27, 1788, LUCINDA PIERCE, born September 14, 1769;
died in the town of Somers, Conn., January 25, 1854.
Children
Martha Welch, h. Feb. 24, 1790 ; d. Feb. 2, 1854.
Harriet (1) Welch, b. Feb. 20. 1792; d. June 15, 1811.
Jerusha Welch, b. Nov. 14, 1794 ; d. Nov. 11, 1873 ; lived at Enfield ; m. Jesse
Cady of Somers. No children.
Marcus Welch, b. Nov. 27, 1795; d. April 7, 1872; lived at Homer, N. Y. ; m.
Lucy . Their first four children died. Others were : William, proprietor
of a paper at Syracuse, N. Y. ; Albert, a tailor in Syracuse.
Lucas Welch, b. Dec. 19, 1797; d. March 10, 1879; lived at Homer; m. Almira
Pierce. Children : i. Martha Jane, m. Walter Jones, Kved at Homer ; ii.
Maria Slocum, m. Dr. Samuel Harris of Syracuse, who d. two years after
marriage, and she taught in the public schools of that city for twelve years ;
iii. Adeline, m. Harry Corvin and had a daughter who m. Greenwood,
pastor of the First Baptist Church of Meriden, Conn. ; iv. .
Charissa Ashley (1) Welch, b. March 21, 1800; d. at Mansfield, Oct. 4, 1802.
Daniel Welch, b. July 19, 1802 ; d. Jan. 28, 1878, in Enfield ; m. Dolly R. Ohnsted
of Enfield. Child : L. Augusta, resided in Springfield, Mass., in 1900 ; furnished
the data about her grandfather's family.
Charissa Ashley (2) TFe/c7i, b. May 19, 1804; d. at Chicopee, Mass., July 28,
1879 ; m. Lewis Chapin. Children : i. Theodore L., of Chicopee ; ii. Thomas W.,
of Chelsea, Mass. ; iii. Lucas E., of Fort Dodge, Iowa ; iv. C. Amelia, d. .
Caroline Matilda Welch, b. April 8, 1807; d. Feb. 9, 1890; lived at Enfield; m.
Calvin King. Children : i. Calvin Oscar, d. ; ii. Caroline Lucinda, m.
Samuel Booth, lives at Enfield ; iii. Thomas Erskine, lives at New Britain,
Conn., m. Louise Abbe, daughter of Simeon Abbe ; iv. Harriet, d. .
Beniiet Spafford Welch, b. July 9, 1809; d. Dec. 4, 1877; lived at Enfield; m.
Elizabeth Killam. Children : i. Henry B., lives at Coventry ; ii. Mary Elizabeth,
m. Guy C. Allen, lives at Belchertown, Mass. ; iii. .
Harriet (2) Welch, b. Sept. 18, 1811; d. April 8, 1846; lives at Mouson, Mass.;
m. George Wilson. Their first three children d. young ; a daughter m. Thomas
H. Stiles and lives in Monson.
107. GURD0N5 WELCH, son of Daniel* and Martha (Cook) Welch, born
May 31, 1761. Lived in Windham, Conn.
Married December 9, 1789, MARY MANNING, daughter of Hezekiah and
Mary (Webb) Manning.
Fifth Generation 69
Children
Henry Welch, b. Sept. 2G, 1790; lived aiul d. at Norwich; m. three times. ChiUl
by first wife : George, m. and lives in New Haven. Child by second wife :
Sarah. Children by third wife: i. Hannah; ii. and iii. Emma and Emily
( twins ) .
Lucius Welch (twin), b. June 14, 1794, at Windham; m. Sophia Backus, daughter
of Luther Backus. Children: i. Martha; ii. Merritt Manning, b. in Windham,
lives in Williniantic, m. Ellen Bennet and has four children, Edith, Martha,
Bert, who was a student at Yale Law School, went to the Cuban War and later
to Wyoming, and Merritt, who went to Wyoming with his brother.
Lewis Welch (twin), b. June 14, 1794, at Windham; d. 1869; m. Mrs. Betsey
(Gilmore) Welch, widow of his brother Gurdon. Children: i. George, b. Feb. 1,
1838 ; ii. Fannie Sophia, b. June 19, 1841.
Gurdon Welch, b. Sept. 1, 1797, at AVindham ; lived there and d. before 1838; m.
Betsey Gilmore. Children: i. William Gilmore, b. Jan. 10, 1823, d. Dec. 10,
1823; ii. Lewis Cook, b. Feb. 28, 1825, in Windham, carpenter, lecturer and
author, m. Barnes, sold the homestead of his great-great-grandfather
in 1869; iii. Mary Ann, b. Aug. 18, 1828, m. Feb. 19, 1849, John Rouse, b.
1822, had two children, Adelaide and DeForest ; iv. Jane Cornelia, b. March
23, 1S30. m. March 14, 1840, Albert Backus, and had nine children, Ellen,
Edgar, Irwin, Sarah, Fred, Charles, Eva. Frank, and Walter ; v. Adaline, b. in
Windham, April 23, 1832, m. Dec. 19, 1852, Silas L. Rouse, b. Sept. 16, 1828,
d. in Mansfield, Aug. 27, 1908, had four children, Arthur, b. March 30, 1859,
Agnes, b. Feb. 24, 1862, m. Henry W. Hyde of Williniantic and had a sou
Rulof, Ernest, b. Sept. 29, 1865, and Catharine, b. Nov. 4, 1871, m. Dr. Fred-
erick Ernest Wilcox, lives at Willimantic, has no children.
108. SOPHIA^ WELCH, daughter of Daniel* and Martha (Cook) Welch,
born September 27, 1771 ; died November 25 or December 2, 1837.
Married November 29, 1798, GURDON BARROWS, born in Mansfield, July
1, 1775; died February 14, 1823; son of Thomas and Eleanor (Cross) Barrows.
Lived in North Parish, Mansfield.
Children, born in Mansfield
Martha Barrotcs, b. Nov. 8. 1799 ; d. Sept. 8, 1802.
Sophia Barrows, b. April 27, 1801; d. Sept. 25, 1801.
Thomas Barroics, h. Sept. 4, 1802 ; d. May 11, 1843 ; m. Dec, 1830, Almira Royce,
daughter of James Royce. Children : i. George F., b. Nov., 1831, studied
medicine at New Haven and New York University, graduating in March, 1855,
d. April 5, 1855 ; ii. Francis C, served in the Civil War in the 10th Connecticut
Volunteers and received a severe wound in one of the battles ; iii. Delia A.,
m. (1) Albert Snow, (2) Charles D. Rider of Wilhngton ; iv. Ashley W\,
served in the Ci\il War in the 27th Massachusetts Volunteers ; three other
children d. in infancy.
Martha Cook Barroics, h. Aug. 31. 1804; m. Harry Crane of Mansfield and had
nine children, six of whom were living in 1864.
Cook Welch Barroics, h. Jan. 23, 1807 ; d. Jan. 18, 1824.
Sophronia Barrows, h. Feb. 9, 1811 ; d. April 3, 1818.
Charles Barroics, b. Dec. 19. 1813; teacher in Springfield many years; d. March
9, 1903; m., Sept. 5, 1838, Lydia Smith, daughter of Seth Smith of West
Springfield. Children: i. Mary Sophia, b. Sept. 5, 1840, d. Feb. 20, 1852;
ii. Jane Elizabeth, b. Aug. 10. 1843, d. April 5, 1849; iii. Charles Henrv (1),
b. March 7, 1850, d. Sept. 14, 1850; iv. Charles Henry (2), b. Aug. 4, 1853.
109. NATHANIEL^ FLINT, 3D, son of Nathaniel, jr., and Sarah* (Bidlack)
Flint, bom in Windham, Conn., July 15, 1745. Resided in Hampton.
Married in Windham, May 23, 176- LUCY MARTIN, born May 3, 1747,
daughter of Ebenezer and Jerusha ( ) Martin; died in Braintree, Vt.,
September, 1813.
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Children, first tico iorti in Windham, others in Hampton
Lucy Flint, b. July, 176-.
Sarah Flint, b. Sept. 2, 1769; m. Charles Preston.
JSlathaniel Flint, 4th, b. Jan. 2, 1772; killed by the limb of a tree, July », 1841.
Married, June 20, 1793, Eunice Moulton, daughter of Samuel Moulton of
Hampton ; d. in Mansfield about 1850. Children, b. in Hampton : i. Eunice,
b. Nov. 28, 1794 ; ii. Sally, b. July 8, 1797, m. Northrop ; iii. Nathaniel,
b. April 19, 1800, m. Sophronia Sessions (?) ; iv. Lucy, b. July 27, 1802, m.
Baucus(?) ; v. Betsey, b. July 1.3, 1804, m. EUsha Martin; vi. Anna
Waldo, b. Sept. 1, 1806, m. Abbe; vii. Lydia, b. Aug. 28, 1808; viii.
Sophia, b. July 4, 1810, d. April 6, 1842; ix. Ebenezer, b. July 8, 1812; x.
Esther, b. Oct. 29, 1814, d. May 4, 1846, m. Chapin.
Amasa Flint, b. Aug. 25, 1774 ; m., Sept. 10, 1795, Hannah Martin, daughter of
Benjamin and Lucy ( ) Martin of Hampton. Children, b. in Hampton:
i. Lucy, b. Sept. 21, 1796 ; ii. Amasa, b. Aug. 9, 1798.
Eunice Flint, b. April 19. 1777; m. William Moulton.
Eienezer Flint, b. April 20. 1779.
Betsey Flint, b. Feb. 18, 1780 ; d. unm. in Vermont, aged about 25 years.
110. ISAAC'^ ABBE, son of Ebenezer*, jr., and Abigail (Gary) Abbe, bom
in Windham, Conn., July 25, 1733; died April, 1788. He resided in North
"Windham. His will, made September 3, 1785, probated April 30, 1788, mentions
his wife Eunice, and sons Isaac, jr., and Abner. (Windham Probate Records,
Vol. 12, pages 262, 348.)
Married, as recorded at Ashford, Conn., by Ebenezer Wales, Justice of the
Peace, April 5, 1753, EUNICE CHURCH, who died after 1788. In the marriage
record both are described as of Ashford.
Children, hirths recorded in Windham
Isaac AUe, b. Oct. 31, 1753.
232 Eunice Ahhe, b. April 12, 1755 ; m. Jonah Lincoln.
233 Anna Ahhe, b. March 14, 1757 ; m. Jeremiah Lincoln.
234 Alner Alhc, b. Nov. 5, 1758 ; m. Sarah Swetland.
Susannah Ahhe, b. Nov. 15, 1760.
Zerviah Ahhe, b. April 10, 1762.
Joseph Ahhe, b. June 5, 1763 ; went west.
2.35 Nathaniel Ahhe, b. July 13, 1765; m. Tabitha Hazen.
Lucy Ahhe, b. Feb. 4, 1769.
Sarah Ahhe, b. March 4, 1771 ; m. John Stimpson of Chaplin.
111. JACOBS ABBE, son of Ebenezer*, jr., and Abigail (Gary) Abbe, born
August 23, 1741; baptized at Windham, Conn. Tlie following records probably
all refer to this man. Served in Elkanah Day's Company, August 21, 1776, and
in Hatch's Company of Minute Men in Cumberland County Militia. (Vermont
Revolutionary Rolls.) Jacob Abbe and Sarah liis wife "of Westminster in the
County of Chester in the Province of New York" deeded to Daniel Kimball of
Pomfret, land in Windham, Conn., part of the land set off to Sarah by the
estate of her father, John Richardson, late of W^indham, Conn., November 23,
1767. (W^indham Land Records, Liber M, page 446.) Jacob Abbey, an inhabitant
of Westminster and others, many of them soldiers in the late war and now
living on the land annexed to New York, petition to be re-annexed to New
Hampshire, January 27, 1771. Jacob Abbee of W^estminster, Windham County,
Vt., in the 1790 Census had 3 males over 16, 2 males under 16, 6 females in his
family. In the 1800 Census he is recorded, 1 male and 1 female over 45, 2
males and 2 females between 26 and 45, 2 males and 1 female between 16 and
26, 1 female between 10 and 16, 1 female under 10.
Married at Windham, Conn., July 7, 1765, SARAH RICHARDSON, daughter
of John Richardson of Windham,
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Children
Sarah Ahhc, b. 1767.
Daniel Ahhe, b. 1709. He is probably the Daniel Abbey who m. Eliza and
had a son Ix-a, who m. Sarah and had an only son Daniel N., b. in North
Hudson. Essex County, N. Y., Jan. 5, 1840, lives in Gloversville.
Xathaii Abie, b. 1771.
Zarriah Ahhe, b. 177o.
Jaeoh Ahhe, jr., b. 1778.
EUpha Ahbe, b. 1780.
Anna Ahbe, b. 1784.
112. JOHN"' ABBE, son of Ebcnezer^ jr., and Abigail (Gary) Abbe, bom
August 22, 1743, at "Windliam, Conn. Some of the following records doubtless
refer to John, the son of Ebenezer. John Abbe with others, inhabitants of
Cumberland and Gloucester in New Hampshire, were in the ''grants con-
troversy," and petitioned the king for relief, November 1, 1770. (Documentary
History of New York, Vol. 4, page G66.) He qualified at a freeman's meeting
in AVestminster, Vt., March 27, 1781, among 70 others. John Abbe deeded
property to Captain David Pleaton of Westminster, March 8, 1784. The 1800
Census records one John Abbe, probably not this one, at Rockingham, Vt., 1
male and 1 female between 26 and 45, 1 male between 10 and 16, 3 males and
1 female under 10, in the familj^ In 1790 John Abbee was living in West-
minster, Windham Count}^, Vt., 3 males over 16, 2 males under 16, 5 females
in the family.
MaiTied, probably 1764, ABIAL (ABIEL) AVERILL, daughter of John and
Mary (Phippen) Averill; baptized in Topsfield, Mass., November 26, 1738. She
was living February 13, 1797, at Westminster, Vt. Mentioned in her father's
will, 1797, "Abiel the wife of" John Abby."
Children (from Westminster Town Records)
Ebenezer Abbe, b. xVpril 22, 1765; d. May 18, 1791.
Abigail Abbe, b. July 3, 1767.
, d. at birth, April 26, 1769.
John (1) Ahbe, jr., b. March 26. 1770; d. Oct. 26, 1775.
Olive (1) Abbe, b. April 26, 1772; d. Nov. 2, 1774.
Amos Ahbe, h. April 9, 1774.
Olive (2) Ahhe, h. Sept. 26, 1776; d. Jan. 2, 1778.
Mary Abbe, b. Nov. 7, 1778.
Ahial Abbe, b. April 8, 1781.
John (2) Ahhe, jr., b. Sept. 22, 1783.
Phehc Abhe, b. Nov. 2, 1785.
David Ahbe, b. Oct. 28, 1788.
113. ZIBEAH ABBE, daughter of Joshua* and Mary (Ripley) Abbe, born in
Windham, Conn., June 11, 1737.
^Married in Windham, May 19, 1757, JONATHAN WALES, born April 11,
1738, son of Nathaniel and Prudence (Denison) Wales. He was a farmer in
Windham.
Children, horn in Windhayn
Roger Wales, b. Feb. 7, 1759.
WiUinm Wales, b. March 1, 1764; m. April 24, 1779. Sarah Tinker. Children:
1. Sally, b. Jan. 24, 1782 ; ii. Lydia, b. April 28, 1784 ; iii. George, b. May 12,
1787 ; iv. Polly, b. July 5, 1789 ; v. Laura, b. April 13, 1792 ; vi. Lucy, b. Jan.
9, 1795.
Shuhael Wales, b. March 7, 1766.
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114. RACHEL'^^ ABBE, daughter of Joshua* and Mary (Ripley) Abbe, born
February 6, 1738-9, in North Windham, Conn.; died June 22, 1795, buried in
Woodstock, Conn. A lasting memorial of her patriotism aroused by the neAvs
of Lexington in April, 1775, is found in Woodstock.
Rachel Abbe of Windham, now Mrs. Samuel McClellan, shared in the patriotic fervor
which so characterized the women of her native town, and after fitting out her husband
and his horsemen, she set out memorial trees in honor of the joyful occasion. Four
sapling elms brought up on horseback from the old Windham homestead, were carefully
transplated into the soil of Woodstock — two in front of her dwelling and two on the
slope of the adjoining common. Nurtured with care and pains they soon took root and
flourished and for more than an hundred years have told the story of Lexington. True
trees of Liberty, they have grown up with the Nation, and still stand in majestic beauty,
living witnesses to the patriotism and devotion of the women of Windham County.
Married in Windham, as his second wife, March 5, 1766, SAMUEL MC CLEL-
LAN, born January 4, 1730, in Worcester, Mass.; died September 17, 1807, in
Woodstock, Conn. ; buried there. His parents emigrated from Kircudbright, on
the Firth of Solway in Scotland. He married (1) November 16, 1757, Jemima
Chandler, by whom he had children: Samuel, William, Lemuel and Polly. He
married (3) July 3, 1798, Mrs. Eunice Folunsbee of Worcester.
Samuel MeClellan served as Ensign and Lieutenant of a company in the
French war and was wounded in battle. Upon his return from the provincial
campaign he purchased a farm in Woodstock, married and settled there. He
later engaged in mercantile business and established an extensive trade, import-
ing his own goods and supplying neighboring merchants. When the Revolution
put a stop to his trade he trained and equipped the countj^ militia. A fine troop
of horse was raised in Woodstock, Pomfret and Killingly, of which he became
commander. He rose by promotions until 1784 when he was Brigadier-General
of the 5th Brigade, Connecticut militia. In 1776 his regiment was ordered into
service and stationed in and about New Jersey. He was solicited by General
Washington to join the Continental Army and was offered an important com-
mission biit his domestic and business affairs compelled him to refuse. After
the invasion and burning of New London and the massacre at Fort Groton, he
was appointed over the troops stationed at those points and continued the com-
mand until the close of the war, acting as commissary in the purchase and for-
warding of provisions for the army when not otherwise in active service. He
returned to mercantile business after the war bitt soon gave it up to manage
his extensive estates. He was highly esteemed as a Christian gentleman and
was honored by his townsmen by many important offices.
Children hy Rachel Ahbe, lorn in Woodstock
2.36 John McClellan, b. Jan. 4, 1767 ; m. Faith Williams.
237 Atma (Nancy) McClellan, b. May 7, 1768 ; m. John Lovett.
2.38 James McClellan, b. Sept. 20, 1769; m. (1) Eunice Eldridge; (2) Nancy
Eld ridge.
Nathaniel (1) McClellan, b. Dec. 4, 1770; d. aged 4 years; buried in Woodstock.
239 Mary Lucretia (or Lucrctia Mary) McClellan, b. May 15, 1773; m. Ebenezer
Huntington.
Elizabeth McClellan, b. Nov. 20, 1775 ; d. aged three weeks ; buried in Woodstock.
240 Nathaniel (2) McClellan, b. Jan. 16, 1777 (?) ; m. (1) Grace Malbone ; (2) Olive
Perkins.
241 Judah Alden McClellan, b. May 25, 1780 ; m. Elizabeth White.
115. MARY= ABBE, daughter of Joshua* and Mary (Ripley) Abbe, born in
Windham, Conn., December 21, 1740; died 1804.
Married in Windham, March, 1770, NATHANIEL HIBBARD, son of Paul
and Deborah (Lawrence) Hibbard, born in Windham, January 18, 1741; died
in Windham, May 30, 1803.
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Children, horn in Windham
242 Ourdon Ilihhard, b. Oct. 29, 1770 : m. Irene Frink.
243 Augustus Jlihhard, b. Feb. 1, 1772 ; m. Bathsheba Lcarued.
Oliver Jlihhard, h. 1773 ; d. unm.
Shuhacl Hihhnrd, h. June <). 177."): d. Nov. 8, 18.'12 ; m. Lucy Hovey who d. July
16, 1849. Children : i. Frederick H.. b. in Windham, Nov. 29, 1799, d. in
Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 16, 1850, in. Margaret Flora Emanuel, was Master of
packet ships between London and New York, at that time the highest position
in the merchant navy, was in the employ of Grinnell, Minturn & Company for
thirty-five years, rose to a position of influence and ownership, left large
bequests to the Brooklyn Hospital at his death ; ii. Emily, b. Sept. 16, 1803,
m. Elisha H. Mansfield ; iii. Lucy, b. Sept. 20, 1807, d. July 10, 1852.
244 :S^athanicl Uilhard, jr., b. July 15, 1781; m. Susan P. Congdon.
116. ZERVIAH^ ABBE, danglitcr of Joshua* and Mary (Ripley) Abbe, born
January 7, 1743, in North Windham, Conn.; died May 17, 1825; buried in
Windham. Lived in Windham.
Married in Windham, May 15, 1767, NATHANIEL WEBB, born in Windham,
August 5, 1737; died in Windham, January 25, 1814; buried there. He was
son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Fitch) Webb, and uncle to Jerusha Webb, who
married Elisha^ Abbe, his brother-in-law; was gi-aduated from Yale, 1757;
merchant and county surveyor in 1765; Revolutionary soldier in 1776, Adjutant
and Lieutenant, with Colonel Jolm Durkee's Company, 4th Connecticut Regiment,
at the battles of Trenton and Princeton, Captain in the same Regiment. Ho
was with Washington at Valley Forge.
Nathaniel Webb 's ancestry is as follows : Christopher Webb came from
Barking, Essex, England, in 1620; Christopher" Webb married Hannah Scott,
settled in Braintree, Mass.; SamueP Webb married Mary Adams, aunt of Presi-
dent John Adams; Nathaniel* Webb married Elizabeth Fitch, descendant of
Rev. James Fitch, minister at Saybrook and Norwich.
Children, births recorded in Windham
245 Henry Well), b. Sept. 2, 1768 ; m. Hannah Clift.
Mary Welh, b. Sept. 23, 1770 ; m. as his second wife Lebbeus Larrabee of Wind-
ham. She had one son, Timothy, who was graduated at West Point and d. in
Michigan.
Ann Weih, b. Nov. 5, 1772 ; m. Andrew Edgerton and settled in Michigan.
Lucretia Wehh, b. May 8, 1775; d. Jan. 16, 1843, in Akron, Ohio, at the home
of her daughter. Married, as his second wife, March 14, 1795, Zephaniah Swift,
b. Feb. 27, 17!59, in Wareham, Mass.; d. Sept. 27, 1823, while on a visit to
Warren, Ohio, where his children lived. He was the son of Roland Swift ; was
graduated from Yale, 1757; m. (1) Jerusha Watrous ; was a lawyer in Wind-
ham, Conn. He represented his county in the Legislature in 1787 and later;
was clerk for four sessions and speaker in Oct., 1792 ; representative in Congress,
1793 and later ; was in the Upper House of State Legislature, 1799 ; Judge of
Superior Court and Chief Justice. He published, among other works, a "Digest
of the Laws of Connecticut," and assisted in revising the laws of the state in
1818. The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by Yale in 1815,
and by Middlcbury College in 1821. He had, by Lucretia Webb, a son and a
daughter.
George Washington Wcbh, b. Aug. 9, 1779, in Windham, Conn. Resided at Wind-
ham Centre. Married in Windham, March, 1806, Mary (Polly) Lee, daughter
of Dr. Samuel Lee of Windham. Children, born in Windham : i. Lucy, b. Nov.
24, 1806, m. Reuben Fairbanks, resided in Brooklyn, Conn., had five children;
ii. Julia, b. Feb. 17, 1809, m. Evans, resided in Victoria, Mo.
Charles Lee Wehh, b. Oct. 8, 1781 ; merchant in Litchfield, Conn. ; m.
Cheney of Pomfret, Conn.
117. SHUBAEL' ABBE, son of Joshua* and Mary (Ripley) Abbe, born in
North Windham, Conn., November 9, 1744; died April 16, 1804. The following
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epitaph, from the okl Windham burying-ground, gives a clear account of this
worthy citizen:
In memory of SHUBAEL ABBE, Esq., who died suddenly April 16, 1804, aged 59.
He graduated at Yale College in 1764. He was several years in the business of
merchandise, and by his own exertion became largely engaged in husbandry. In 1783
he was appointed Sheriff of the County of Windham and continued in the most
unexceptionable manner to discharge the duties of that office till his death. He was
often chosen a Representative of the town, in 1798, he was appointed by the Presi-
dent one of the Commissioners of the land tax. And by the Assembly one of the
Committee to manage the school funds. In domestic life he was indulgent and decisive.
In public business, active, punctual, and correct. In his attachment to civil and
religious institutions he was exemplary, and to the poor and afflicted humane and
generous. His abilities and integrity secured to him the esteem and confidence of his
feUow Citizens, and his death was extensively and deeply regretted.
He left a widow, three sons and five daughters to mourn an irreparable loss.
Tears flow nor cease where Abbe's ashes sleep,
For him a wife and tenderest children weep,
And Justly — for few shall ever him transcend,
A husband, parent, and a faithful friend.
He received the degree A.B. from Yale College in 1764 and A.M. in 1767.
His inventory, taken May 8, 1804, denotes an estate of $29,412.85; papers
mentioning the widow and children. (Windham Probate Records, Vol. 15, pages
111, 176, 362, 468.)
The following letter, found among some old papers by Dr. J. H. Weeks of
Stonington, Conn., was given by him to Professor Cleveland Abbe :
Sir.
Windham August 4th 1803 —
Your's, inclosing a Writ of Attachment vs. Stephen Congdon have received, & noted
the contints, said Congdon lives on my fai-m, have taken his body and Bonds for his
appearance to Court, he expects in the Course of next week to see Mr. Potter, to
wliom the note was given and endeavor to settle the same. Let that be as it may
I shall return the Writ in Season unless you send me word to the contrary
I am Sir with esteem
Y''our Hum'b Servt
Addressed : Shubael Abbe
Windham 4 August 10
Coddington Billings Esq^'
Stonington
The postmaster is requested to forward this immediately
Shubael Abbe's
Letter Augt 4tii 1803.
Shubael Abbe married in Windham, January 26, 1774, LUCY CHESTER, who
died in Windham, June 21, 1818, aged 66 years.
Children, born in Windham
246 Lucy Ahhe. b. May 21, 1778; m. Elijah Waterman.
247 Nancy Ahhe, b. Feb. 24, 1780; m. Samuel Uarhng.
Lucretia Ahhe (twin), b. Jan. 12, 1782; d. in New York State; m. in Windham,
April 12, 1804, Zephaniah Ripley of Scotland, Conn. Children, b. in Windham :
i. Abbey Lucretia, b. Jan. 1.5, 1805; ii. Harriet Elizabeth, b. March 30, 1810;
iii. Mary Leonard, b. Sept. 5, 1814.
Chester Ahhe (twin), b. Jan. 12, 1782; d. in Windham, about 1832. aged 50; not
m. As administrator of his father's estate he was discharged Jan. 21. 1807. in
an instrument signed by the heirs. (Windham Records, Vol. 15, page 362.)
The Windham Herald of June 26, 1806, contained an advertisement of a farm
for sale by Chester Abbe. "A valuable Farm, lying in Windham, first society,
about two miles west of the court-house, and about half a mile west of Shetucket
River; containing about one hundred acres of excellent land. ..."
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2-18 Freelove Ahhe, h. Oct. 21, nS-i : m. David F. Young.
Lucius (1) Ahbc. b. Ort. 6. 17S5 ; d. Nov. 6. 1785. (Windham Knoll.)
Beiscy Ahhc, b. Jan. 2."). 1787: d. S^'pt. 22. 1809. at Bridgeport, Conn.; not m.
Her wiU was probated in Windham, Oct. 12, 1809. (Windham Wills, Vol. 15,
page 525.)
Christophet- Ahhc, b. Oct., 1789; d. in Coventry, Conn., before 1862; was at times
deranged.
249 Lucius (2) Ahhe, b. April 3, 1792; m. Mrs. Mary B. (Viol) Young.
Shuhael Ahhe, jr., b. Feb. 26, 1794; d. April 4, 1794.
118. PHINEAS^ ABBE, son of Joshua* and Mary (Ripley) Abbe, born
November 22, 1746, in Nortli Windham, Conn. ; died June 19, 1800. Mr. Phineas
Abbe Departed this Life 17*^^ day of June on Tuesday in the afternoon at four
o'clock in the 54 j'ear of his age 1800. (Bible Record.) He was a respected
and prosperous farmer of Windham, took an active part in all matters of public
welfare, held various civil offices, including that of jailer. During the Revolu-
tion he had at one time some English prisoners who ornamented tlie wall of
their room or cell with a fine large picture of their ship. It was later revealed
that this was only to conceal efforts they were making to remove a portion
of the wall and make their escape. When they finally succeeded in getting
away, tliey left word to their jailer that they were about to sail soon.
At his death his property was inventoried at $9,919.40, with 325 acres of
land. The inventory, taken October 12, 1801, is a most interesting document
with its long enumeration of articles of furniture and Avearing apparel, among
which were chairs and tables of several kinds, six fiddle-back chairs, silver
knee-buckles and plated shoe-buckles. The property was distributed to the
widow, Susannah, and children: Mary Taintor, Joshua, Lucy, Thomas, George,
Charles, Moses, Lucius, Henry and Samuel. (Windham Probate Records, Vol.
14, pages 435, 480, 519.) His homestead was south of Windham Centre, owned
later by his son George.
Married (1) in Windham, December 7, 1767, MARY BINQHAM, born Sep-
tember 24, 1746, at Canterbury, Conn.; died in Windham, July 29, 1777. She
was the sixth child of Gideon and Mary (Gary) Bingham, granddaughter of
Joseph Bingham, who was born in Norw-ich in 1688, and his w^ife, Abigail Scott,
and great-granddaughter of Deacon Thomas Bingham, who was born about 1642,
settled in Saybrook and married Mary Rudd. Deacon Thomas was the son of
Thomas and Mary ( ) Bingham of Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.
Married (2) in Windham, December 2, 1778, SUSANNA BROWN, born
October 18 (or 15), 1750; died April 26, 1804. '^Wid"^ Susannah Abbe Consort
of Phinelias Abbe wiio departed this life In the year 1804 In the 52 year of her
age April 25." (Bible Record.) She was the daughter of Gen. Thomas Brown,
a Revolutionary officer, and his wife, Sarah Bishop of Lisbon, Conn. Her will
Avas made April 5, 1804, and the property distributed to her sons, George, Charles,
Moses, Lucius, Henry and Samuel, on September 23, 1808. (Windham Probate
Records, 15:104, 114," 442.)
Children hy first icife, recorded in Windham
Lucy (1) Ahhe, b. Oct. 16. 1768; d. Dec. 1.3, 1774.
Betsey Ahhe, b. Nov. 2, 1771 ; d. Dec. 21, 1774.
250 Mary Ahhe, b. March 29, 1773 ; m. Charles Taintor.
251 Joshua Ahhe, b. Feb. 15, 1775; m. Marcia Grosvenor.
Lucy (2) Ahhe, b. Dec. 30, 1776; d. Jan. 14, 1856; buried in Windham. In 1850
she was li\dng in Windham with her sister, Mrs. Charles Taintor. Married in
Windham. .July 31, 1811, General Jedediah Johnson of Canterbury, Conn., who
d. before his wife. He was made General of the 5th Brigade in 1809.
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Children by second wife, recorded in Windham
Thomas Abie, b. Oct. 22, 1779. He was first mate of a vessel sailing from Nor-
folk, went to St. Kitts, West Indies. In tlie old Moses Cleveland Abbe Bible is
this entry, "Thomas Abbe of Windham Departed this life Demouronra in the
year 1805 in the 24 year of his age." This doubtless refers to Demerara, British
Guiana.
252 George Ahbc, b. May 17. 1781 ; m. Charlotte Hackstaff.
253 Charles Abbe, h. Jan. 17, 1783; m. Mary Welch.
Phineas Abbe (twin), b. Dec. 0, 1784; d. Jan. 15, 1785. (Windham Knell.)
ISusanna Abbe (twin), b. Dec. 6, 1784; d. aged 9 weeks.
254 Moses Cleveland Abbe (twin), b. Nov. 16, 1785; m. Tabitha Waldo.
255 Lucius Abbe (twin), b. Nov. IB, 1785; m. Martha .John.son.
Ilenry Abbe, b. Sept. 6, 1787; was said to have been killed in battle in South
America in 181.3.
Samuel Abbe, b. June 7, 1789. He was a physician, served as a surgeon in the
War of 1812 ; shot himself ; m. • .
119. LUCRETIA^ ABBE, daughter of Joshua* and Mary (Ripley) Abbe,
born March 10 (or 18), 1749, at Windham, Conn.; died January 2, 1826, in
Bristol, Pa.
Married in Windham, December 15, 1765, EDMUND BADGER, born February
25, 1737-8, at Norwich, Conn.; died September 6 or 8, 1825, in Bristol, Pa., to
which place they had moved from Windham a few years before his death. He
was son of Samuel and Abigail (Bingham) Badger and was descended from Giles
and Elizabeth (Greenleaf) Badger of Newbury. He was a shoemaker in
Windham, and was recorded in the Census of 1800.
The Phenix or Windham Herald of November 10, 1796, contained this
advertisement :
Edmund Badger, & Co.
Would inform their customers that they have received a pleasing assortment of winter
Goods, which they will sell on the most reasonable terms. — Also a general assortment of
groceries ; among which are, Rum, Brandy, Gin, Wines, loaf and brown Sugar, Rosin,
Alspice, Pepper, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Logwood, Gunpowder, Shot, Bar Iron, German
Crawley and blistered Steel, &c. &c.
Windham, Nov. 10, 1796.
Children, births recorded in Windhain
256 Thomas Badger, b. June 27, 1766; an. Lydia Cogdell.
Bela Badger, h. Feb. 6, 1768; d. Sept., 1835 (?), probably at Bristol, Pa. He was
a famous sportsman of his day, settled in Philadelphia, and acquired much
wealth. Married in Newbern, N. C, Susanna Cogdell Stanley of that place. No
children.
George Badger, b. March 24, 1770 ; d. in North Carolina ; m. but left no children.
Lucretia (1) Badger, b. May 5, 1772; d. voung.
Elizabeth Badger, b. Feb. 14, 1774; d. April 24, 1789 or 1781.
Amta Badger, b. Oct. 27, 1776; d. Aug. 26, 1864 (?). Married in Windham,
Conn., July, 1797, Samuel Merriman. Child : Mary Ann, b. July 11, 1798. One
account says Anna Badger m. (2) Parke or Parks and had a daughter
who m. Dorrance of Philadelphia, formerly of Sterling, Conn.
257 Edmund Badger, jr., b. Feb. 14, 1779 ; m. Amelia Dyer.
Lucretia (2) Badger, b. March 17, 1784 or 1781; d. in the summer of 1845; m. in
Fredericksburg, Va., Sept., 1806, William Allen of that place. Child : William
Edmund, m. and had a daughter who m. Senor. Romero, for some time Mexican
Minister to the United States.
258 Frances Badger, b. Feb. 12, 1785 ; m. Thomas Hieskell.
259 Samuel Badger, b. Dec. 6, 1786; m. (1) Olivia Ann Root; (2) Lucretia Hoyt ;
(3) Rosina Bradley.
120. JOSHUA^ ABBE, JR., son of Joshua* and Mary (Ripley) Abbe, born
in Windham, Conn., January 9, 1751. He was a man of strong religious impulses,
opposed to orthodox preaching, and became a preacher of the Christian denomi-
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nation, or, as it was at times called, the Congregational Baptist. In 1826 he was
on the register of preachers. Larncd's History of Windham County, page 221,
"Vol. 2, says this :
In the north part of Winilhani, whioh was now becoming a populous neighborhood, a
remarkable worship was conducted by Joshua Abbe. Rev. Moses Cook Welch of Mansfield
represented '-these Abbe-itcs as a sect of Baptists, differing from any and all of that
denomination that had ever risen in any age, having no communication even with other
Baptist churches. Their meetings were characterized by jargon, disorder and great
confusion ; all were allowed to speak at pleasure, women as well as men, three, four, or
six sometimes speaking at once, while groans, sobs, and sighs were reiterated by others."
As the Rev. Moses Cook Welch Avas an orthodox preacher of the same
neighborhood and entered into violent controversy over these unorthodox
preachers, we may believe that this account may have been somewhat colored
by his personal feelings.
In the Census of 1800, he is doubtless the Joshua Abbe of Windham, with a
family of 15.
Joshua Abbe resided in North Windham on his father's home farm and later
emigrated to Leroy, N. Y., where he died. A settlement was made between his
widow and George W. Abbe, administrator, October 15, 1836. (Windham
Probate Records, Vol. 21, page 38.)
Married (1) in Windham, November 19, 1771, TRIPHENA BASS, born
March 6, 1753, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Church) Bass of Windham.
She died in Chaplin, July 29, 1815, and is buried there.
Married (2) MRS. ROGERS. No children.
Children hy first wife, recorded in Windham
Sarah Ahle, b. Feb. 13, 1772; d. Sept. 27, 1826; m. in Windham, Feb. 23, 1800,
EUsha Whipple. Child : Henry, b. in Windham about 1800 ; hved in Chaphn ;
went to Ohio with his uncle and d. soon.
Alice AUe, b. Nov. 21, 1773 ; d. Dec. 31, 1774.
Elizaieth Abhe, b. Dec. 26, 1775; m. Nov. 22, 1801, Judah Buck. (Windham
Church Records.) They had three children hving about 1860.
Henry Ahbe, b. Dec. 18, 1777, was a seafaring man; d. unm.
260 Lydia Ahie, b. Oct. 21, 1779 ; m. John Clark.
Ahie, d. in infancy, Sept., 1781.
261 Jesse Aiie, b. Feb. 14, 1783 ; m. Lorinda Dorman.
Sybil Abhe, b. March 15, 1785 ; m. in Windham, 1805, Lucius Fitch, son of John
"and Clarissa (Wales) Fitch. Settled in Ohio. Children, b. in Windham: i.
John, b. May 5, 1808 ; ii. Lucius, jr., b. Sept. 30, 1808 ; iii. Lucy, b. March 14,
1814.
262 George Wyllys Abbe, b. Feb. 10, 1787; m. (1) Freelove PhiUips ; (2) Eunice
Huntington; (3) Louisa L. Woodworth.
Eunice Abbe, b. April 10, 1789 ; m., Sept. 28, 1809, Charles ChampUn of Windham.
Removed to Ohio. Children : i. John, hves in Ohio ; ii. Charles, d. .
Sophia Abbe, b. Sept. 6, 1791 ; m. Moore. Lived in Ohio. No children.
EUsha Abbe, h. June 25, 1794. He went with his brother Jesse to Ohio and d.
there about 1815.
Lucy Ahbe, b. July 3, 1797 ; ni. Moore and was living in Springfield, Mass.,
about 1860. Had a son living at that time.
121. ELISHA5 ABBE, son of Joshua* and Mary (Ripley) Abbe, born in
North Windham, Conn., May 15, 1753; died August 15, 1829; buried in
Windham. He enlisted January 16, 1776, as a Revolutionary solider; Avas said
to have been a commissary. He OAvned a farm in the suburbs of Windliam and
was one of those who claimed the privilege of shipping his own products
without the intervention of middlemen. He built for his own accommodation
the "Windham," a brisk little craft, with a huge frog cut in its bow for a
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figure-head, in memory of the famous Windham frog scare of 1754. Like
many others, his commercial ventures had been destroj'ed by British invaders
and he was energetic among those who were upholding the government in 1812,
With a family of nine he was recorded in the 1800 Censiis; in 1810 with four.
He served as constable and collector of state taxes. About 1818 he was one
of the selectmen of his town. His estate was distributed to his four married
daughters, January 11, 1833. (Windham Probate Records, Vol. 20, page 206.)
Married in AVindham, October 27, 1774, JERUSHA WEBB, born May 19,
1747; died December 28, 1828; buried in Windham. She was daugliter of
Samuel and Deborah (Davidson) Webb of Windham, and was mentioned in her
father's Avill, October 13, 1801. She was the niece of Nathaniel Webb, who
married her sister-in-law, Zerviah^ Abbe.
Children, births recorded in Windham
263 Betsey Ahhe, b. Dec. 13, 1775 ; m. Abuer Latlirop.
Bela Ahhe, b. Dec. 18, 1777; d. iu Windham, June, 1800; not m.
Alfred Ahhe (twin), b. Aug. 19, 1779; d. April 13, 1781.
(Son), twin with Alfred, b. Aug. 19, 1779; d. in Windham, Sept., 1779.
Jeruslia Ahhe, b. Nov. 14, 1781, iu Windham, Conn. She was living in Windham
in 1850, with an unm. daughter and her two grandsons. Married in Windham,
Aug. 30, 1801, John McGouty, a sea-captain of Scotch descent. He d. in North
Carolina, July, 1842. Children, b. in Windham: i. Betsey, b. March 15, 1804;
ii. and iii. (twins), d. Feb. 14, 1806; iv. Elisha. b. June 18, 1807; v. John, b. Oct.
25, 1809 ; vi. Jerusha Abby, b. Jan. 28, 1812, was living with her mother in
Windham, 1850, not m. ; vii. Emma, b. June 16, 1816, m. in Windham, April 5,
1835, Edwin G. Balcom of Windham. Had children : Henry, b. about 1836, and
Horace, b. about 1841, who were living with their grandmother in Windham in
1850.
ISIathaniel Ahhe, b. Oct. 21, 1783; d. in Windham, Nov. 24, 1798, aged 15.
Emma Ahhe, b. April 18, 1785 ; d. Jan. 9, 1864. She resided in Windham.
Married (1) Elisha Kinne ; (2) Matthew Smith of Chaplin, Conn., who d. before
1862.
Mary Ahhe, b. Oct. 9, 1787 ; resided in China, Mich., in 1862. Married Hunting-
ton Fitch, who d. in Buffalo, N. Y., before 1862.
122. SOLOMON^ ABBE, son of Gideon* and Keziah (Walker) Abbe, born
April 12, 1746, in Mansfield, Conn., where he lived and died July 29, 1840.
The 1800 Census of Mansfield gives him with 2 females and 3 males in his
family.
Married in Mansfield, March 10, 1768, LUCY JOHNSON, born in Lebanon,
Conn., daughter of John Johnson.
Children, horn in Mansfield
264 Gideon Ahhe, b. April 6, 1769 ; m. Sybil Campbell.
265 ISarah Ahhe, b. Feb. 18, 1771; m. (1) Leonard; (2) Isaac Crane.
266 Solomon Ahhe, b. Feb. 9, 1774 ; m. Susan Gile.
Olive Ahhe, b. May 10, 1776.
267 Eleazcr Ahhe, b. Dec. 16, 1778 ; m. Lydia Agard.
268 Rhoda Ahhe, b. March 2, 1781 ; m. Jesse Crane.
IIuldaTi Ahhe, b. May 16, 1783.
269 iSimeon Ahhe, b. July 17, 1785.
123. JOHN= ABBE, son of Gideon* and Bathsheba (Smith) Abbe, born in
Mansfield, Conn., March 8, 1747-8. The following records doubtless refer to this
John Abbe:
Married April 27, 1768, DOROTHY BUGBEE.
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Children
270 John Ahle, b. in Mansfield, April 4, 17G9 ; m. Lydia Wolcut.
Timothy Ahhe, b. 1771.
271 David Ahhc, b. 1789 ; m. Hannah Woods.
124. SAMUEL'' ABBEY, son of Gideon* and Bathsheba (Smith) Abbe, born
January 18, 1755, in Mansfield, Conn.; lived later in Schenectady or Schoharie
County, N. Y. ; after 1782 in Duanesburg, N. Y., as recorded in the 1790 Census.
In isOO he is recorded in the Census of Duanesburg, 1 male and 2 females
over 45, 1 male and 2 females between 10 and 16, 4 females under 10. In 1810
he is recorded at Duanesburg also. Died there March 29, 1824.
Married in Mansfield, April 11, 1775, MIRIAM HALL, daughter of Ephraini
and Miriam (Wolcott) Hall, born March 15, 1757; died in Duanesburg, N. Y.,
June 10, 1823. She was a woman famous for her helpfulness in times of sickness
and was one of the earliest to cultivate silk worms.
Children
Rachel Alley, b. in Mansfield, Feb. 10, 1776; d. March 29, 1846; m. Nov. 29,
1791, Clayton (?).
272 Shttlael Alley, b. Feb. 20, 1778: m. Polly Hartshorn (?).
Uannah Alley, b. Feb. 22, 1780; d. Nov., 1857; m., Feb. 19, 1796, Rufus
Rockwell. A grandson, Peter Rockwell, lives in Berkshire, N. Y.
Mary {Polly) Allcu, b. Jan. 3. 1782; d. Ang. 3, 1804; m. March 17, 1798.
Jerusha Alley, b. Jan. 16, 1784; d. March, 1787.
Miriam Alley, b. Jan. 27, 1786; d. Oct., 18.38; m. Oct., 1801, Rev. Mr. Streeter.
Jesse Alley, b. July 1, 1788; d. Jan., 1867. Recorded in the 1810 Census at
Duanesburg, N. Y., with wife and son under ten. He is probably the Jesse
Abbey who was Ensign in 1820 of the 188th Regiment of infantry, Schenectady ;
and Lieutenant, 1821. (Minutes Council of Appointment, pages 2128, 2257.)
Married three times ; first Nov. 15, 1807. Son Jay lives in Duanesburg.
Anna Alley, b. May 2, 1790; d. in Candor, N. Y., April 10, 1846; m., Oct., 1805,
Joseph Tubbs.
Olive Alley, b. Sept. 25. 1792; d. Dec, 1857; m. Oct., 1808, Simeon Tubbs.
Ruth Alley, b. Jan. 27, 1794 ; d. Oct., 1805.
Phele Alley, b. Jan. 13, 1796; d. Oct. 26, 1846; m. Oct. 20, 1816.
Lydia Alley, b. March 11, 1798 ; d. Jan. 3. 1808.
273 Reulen Alley, b. July 1.3, 1801 ; m. Marian Hoag.
Jemima Alley, b. April 3, 1803; d. near Mexico, N. Y., June 2, 1876; m., Jan. 16,
1823, Ebenezer Slawson.
125. WILLIAM' ABBEY, son of Gideon* and Bathsheba (Smith) Abbey, born
April 14, 1758, in Mansfield, Conn.; died at Hall's Corners, N. Y., August 6,
1833. He enlisted from Mansfield, April, 1775, for one month; June, 1775, for
six months, under Lieutenant Dana, Colonel Storrs; December 1, 1775, to
January 1, 1777, under Captain John Keyes, Colonel John Durkee; was at the
capture of the Hessians at Trenton. One of his descendants, Mr. Gehial Hall
Abbey, has the chest which he carried during his service in the Revolution. On
April 19, 1818, William Abbey applied for a pension, at that time being a resident
of Onondaga County, N. Y. In pension papers of 1820, mention was made of
his children: Nathan, aged 33: Isabel, aged 22; Lydia, aged 20; and a gTand-
child, Eunice Abbe, "all of which I provide for and support besides myself,
who have not done a day 's work this twelve years past on account of infirmity. ' '
In sjiite of this infirmity, he seems to have been well-to-do, as he owned property
worth $68.75 and owed but $12.00. His name is on the tablet in memory of the
Revolutionary soldiers of Onondaga County, in the Post Office at Syracuse.
The Census of 1790 records him at Duanesburg, Albany County, N. Y., 1 male
over 16, 3 males under 16, 3 females in the family. In 1810 he was of the town
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of Onondaga, N. Y., 1 male and 1 female over 45, 2 males between 16 and 24,
3 females between 10 and 16 in the family. His name is found in the land
records of Onondaga County from 1804 to 1820.
Married in Mansfield, June 5, 1777, LYDIA HALL, born September 9, 1757;
died after 1844. She was the daughter of Thomas and Betsey (Hall) Smith.
Her name is given as Abigail in "Early Connecticut MaiTiages, " but tliis is
undoubtedly an error.
Children
274 Elijah Alley, b. Feb. 20, 1779 ; m. Betsey Masters.
275 William Alley, b. 1786; m. Abigail Yaruum.
(Jharluiie Alley, m. Davis.
{Daughter), m. Carlisle.
Nathan Alley, b. about 1787 ; aged 33, in 1820, was possibly disabled iu some
way, as be was mentioned as dependent upon his father for support.
276 David Alley, b. April 1, 1792 ; m. Phoebe Travis.
Isalel Alley, h. about 1798; m., probably after 1820, North. Children:
i. Mary ; ii. (son).
Lydia Alley, b. about 1800; m., probably after 1820, Curtis. Children:
i. Andrew ; ii. Lydia ; iii. Amanda ; iv. Chandler ; v. Sally.
126. SHADRACH3 ABBE, son of Samuel* and Temperance (Lincoln) Abbe,
born March 6, 1767, in Mansfield, Conn. Letters of administration were given
February 2, 1819, upon the estate of Shadrach Abbey in Otsego County, N. Y.
In 1800 he was living in Burlington, N. Y., 1 male and 1 female between 26
and 45, 2 males and 1 female under 10.
Probably this Shadrach married WELTHAN .
Children
277 Daniel Alle, b. in Otsego County, N. Y., Sept. 28, 1801 ; m. Susan Hotchkiss.
Jonathan Alle, went to Canada about 1850, and d. there.
Shadrach Alle, jr., went to Canada about 1850, and d. there ; lived "back of
Toronto" ; m. Lina Anna Salsbery. They had several children who moved to
the Canadian Northwest, one of whom was Cornelius.
278 Samuel Alley, b. about 1807; m. (1) Betsey Thompson; (2) Mrs. Clarissa
Davis.
Asenath Alle, m. Thomas Washburn. She is said to have Uved in Otsego County,
N. Y., and at Babcock Hill, Oneida County, N. Y. ; d. in Otsego County about
1860.
127. EBENEZER5 ABBEY, son of Samuel* and Temperance (Lincoln) Abbe,
born June 9, 1781, in Tolland County, Conn.; died March 19, 1862. In 1794
he accompanied his parents to Otsego County, N. Y., where they became respected
and influential citizens. In 1800 he was recorded as a resident of Burlington,
aged between 16 and 26. He resided in the town of Burlington, Otsego County,
N. Y., and purchased property; named in a deed of 1807. In the winter of 1830
he removed to Ohio and January 15, 1831, found him on Butternut Ridge, North
Eaton, Ohio, with his large family and worldly effects on two wagons, drawn by
one span of horses and one of oxen, with but seventy-five cents in his pocket,
which he paid out for a bushel of wheat. He purchased land in Carlisle Town-
ship and Eaton and is said to have hauled the first load of wheat from Wayne
County, Ohio, which he distributed among the settlers. While in New York he
had been engaged in the manufacture of potash and pearlash and had learned
the cooper's trade, both of which he carried on in Ohio. In 1840 he built a
saw-mill on Black Creek. Six of his sons became teachers in common schools,
two were physicians, one was a lawyer and four were farmers.
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Married April 6, 1805, MARY BLANCHARD, born December 19, 1787, in
Rutland, Vt. ; died March 9, 1862. She was descended from the same family
as Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes.
Children, jyossibhj the first tico tcere horn in Vermont, others in Otsego County, N. Y.
Polly A. Alley, b. March 10, 1806.
Elenezcr Alley, jr., b. July 17, 1807.
Hmyth Alley, b. July 12, 1808.
Orsemus Abbey, b. Feb. 21, 1810.
Lucy M. Alley, b. April 22, 1812.
Alonzo Alley, b. Aug. 29, 1813.
Lyman Alley, b. June 19, 1815.
Xelson Alley, b. Oct. 18, 1816. He was a physician in Laporte, Ohio, in 1863;
a graduate of Michigan University.
Volton Alley, b. March 30, 1818.
Marinda Alley, h. Sept. 8, 1819.
Lemuel Alley, h. Jan. 23, 1821, in Otsego County, N. Y. ; resided on his father's
homestead in Eaton, Lorain County, Ohio. Married, March 25, 1859, Sarah
Lawsou, b. Aug. 29, 1826, daughter of Wilham Lawson of Eaton, Ohio, formerly
of Yorkshire, England. No children.
Almina Alley, b. May 26, 1822.
Emma A. Alley, b. Aug. 20, 1824; m. Brush and Uved in Elyria, Ohio.
Her son. Perry, hves at Amherst, Ohio.
William Abbey, b. Feb. 15, 1827.
128. EUNICE^ MARSH, daughter of Elihu and Zerviah"' (Abbe) Marsh,
born December 6, 1744, probably in New Milford, Conn. ; died there May 1,
1811. "She was a noted housekeeper; and had at her marriage, when 28 years
of age, £100 of money of her own earnings."
Married JOEL NORTHROP, born March 16, 1742, in Newtown, Conn.; died
in New Milford, March 10, 1824. He was the son of Thomas and •
(TeiTill) Northrop, and brother of Isaac Northrop, who married Lj^dia Marsh,
sister of Eunice. He learned the cooper's trade, then the tailor's; was a member
of the First Church in New Milford, later of the Sej^arates; was very religious,
a great reader, and prosperous in business. He resided in New Milford until
about 1784, then in Brookfield for a few years, retm-ning to New Milford before
his death.
Children
279 Cyrus Northrop, b. Dec. 8, 1773 ; m. Betsey Wells.
Anne Northrop, b. May 20, 1775; m. Elijah Stone of Kent.
Ally Northrop, b. Dec. 1, 1776; d. Dee. 10, 1776.
Clara Northrop, b. May 28, 1778 ; m. Calvin Harmon of Burhngton, Vt. Children :
1. Lucretia, m. Oct. 10, 1822, Royal I. Canfield of New Milford, son of Ithamar
and Betsey (Starr) Canfield, b. April 3, 1794; ii. Jane, m., as his second wife.
Royal I. Canfield.
Electa Northrop, b. Oct. 20, 1780; d. Dec. 25, 1858; not m.
129. JOHNS MARSH, son of Elihu and Zerviali* (Abbe) Marsh, born August
4, 1749. Resided in New Milford, Conn., until about 1779, when he removed to
Vergennes, Vt., where he died.
Married ABIGAIL WANZER.
Children
Mary Marsh, b. Jan. 10, 1773 ; m. Thomas Bradley ; resided in Vermont.
Elihu Marsh, b. July 18, 1774.
John Read Marsh, b. Feb. 11, 1776; resided in Vermont.
Anthony Marsh, b. Aug. 12, 1778, in New Milford.
280 Wanzer Marsh; m. Sally Buckley.
Daniel Marsh, was a Congregational minister in Vermont.
Vina Marsh, Uved and d. in New Milford ; m. Gershom Buckley.
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130. SAMUEL^ MARSH, son of Elihu and Zerviah* (Abbe) Marsh, born,
probably in New Milford, Conn., October 8, 1751; died May 14, 1822.
Married November 15, 1771, MIRIAM LEACH, who died before 1822.
Ch ildren
Elihu (1) Marsh, b. July 7, 1773; d. young.
Luchida Marsh, b. Aug. 15, 1774.
Elihti (2) Marsh, b. June 9, 1776.
Joseph Marsh, b. March 16, 1778.
Bradley Marsh, b. April 23, 1780. Married, Jan. 10, 1805, Sally Welles, daughter
of Philip and Elizabeth (Tomlinson) Welles of New Milford, b. Jan. 16, 1784;
d. Dec. 8, 1827. Children: i. Elizabeth L., b. Feb. 8, 1806, m. Sept. 5,
1824, Judson Curtis of New Haven, and had four children, George B., Elizabeth
W., Cornelia and Fannie ; ii. Orrin Bradley, b. Jan. 9, 1808 ; iii. Betsey Ann,
b. Sept. 11, 1813; iv. Philip Welles, b. Dec. 22, 1815 (?) ; v. Sophia Abbey,
b. Jan. 18, 1820.
Eunice Marsh, b. July 1, 1782.
Amos Horace Marsh, b. March 23, 1783. Married, Feb. 15, 1819, Ann Sherwood,
b, Jan. 22, 1787, daughter of Samuel and Polly (Hill) Sherwood. Children:
i. Samuel Marcus, b. Nov. 26, 1819, m. Nov. 2.3, 1846, Anna Graham; ii.
Waller, b. June 27, 1821, m. Sept. 15, 1852, Arabella Ferriss.
Lucy Marsh, b. March 17, 1785; d. young.
I^usannah Marsh, b. Nov. 17, 1786.
281 George Martin Marsh, b. May 12, 1789 ; m. Betsey Sherwood.
Samuel Davis Marsh, b. Oct. 22, 1792 ; m. Polly Marsh, b. Oct. 13, 1788 ; d. May
24, 1863; daughter of Daniel and Polly (Hill) Sherwood.
John Marsh, b. July 19, 1795; m. July 28, 1816, Teresa Bradley. Children:
i. Susan Maria, b. March 11, 1817; ii. Henry Leach, b. Sept. 6, 1818; iii. Susan
Emily, b. Jan. 30, 1820; iv. Philo Judson, b. Oct. 27, 1821; v. Ann Jennet,
b. Oct. 31, 1823; vi. Villeroy, b. July 26, 1825; vii. Royal, b. July 11, 1827;
viii. Caroline Elizabeth, b. March 31, 1829.
131. JOSEPH^ MARSH, son of Elihu and Zerviah* (Abbe) Marsh, born April
20, 1754, probably at New Fairfield, Conn.; died about 1830, at New Milford,
Conn. He was a farmer and resided on his father's homestead.
Married (1) November 29, 1781, ABIGAIL WALDO, born April 2, 1764, at
South Dover, N. Y.; died in New Milford, January 28, 1793. Daughter of
Samuel and Hannah (Waters) Waldo.
Married (2) November 19, 1793, DEBORAH WALDO, sister of above, born
at South Dover, May 2, 1761; died January 30, 1843.
Children hy first toife, horn at New Milford
282 William Marsh, b. Jan. 25 or 15, 1783; m. (1) Rachel Nichols; (2) Sarah or
Martha Nichols.
283 Hannah Marsh, b. Sept. 10, 1784 or 5 ; m. Zachariah Ferriss.
Zerviah Marsh, b. April 3, 1787 ; d. Dec. 5, 1861, at Union Vale, N. Y. Married
Thomas Cutler, b. in Dover, N. Y., July 29, 1778; d. there May 15, 1836; son
of Joseph and Hannah (Sheldon) Cutler. He was a farmer in South Dover.
Children, b. in Clove, N. Y. : i. Albert, b. Feb. 23, 1806, d. Sept. 18, 1877, in
Union Vale, N. Y. ; ii. Joseph Marsh, b. Dec. 9. 1807, d. July 29, 1876, in
Union Vale; iii. Mary Ann, b. Sept. 25, 1809, d. Jan. 9, 1866, in Union Vale;
iv. Waldo, b. Oct. 27, 1812, d. 1814; v. Samuel Waldo, b. Nov. 2, 1814, was
living in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1900; vi. Buel, b. March 28, 1817, d. Feb. 23,
1882, at Clove, N. Y. ; vii. Deborah, b. April 19, 1819, d. 1819; viii. Burr,
b. Nov. 25, 1822, d. May 5, 1850.
Arabella Marsh, b. Feb. 2 or 20, 1789 ; m. Elihu Hoag of South Dover, N. Y.
Samuel Waldo Marsh, b. April 18, 1791; went to Philadelphia, or to Illinois.
Children of Joseph Marsh hy second wife, horn in New Milford
Allen Marsh, b. June 8, 1797 ; d. 1863 ; resided at Wood Creek, Conn. Married
at New Fairfield, Conn., March 9, 1820, Abigail Ellen Terrill of that place.
Children, b. in New Milford : i. Edwin, b. Dec. 18, 1820, went to Washington ;
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ii. Cornelia Abigail, b. Aug. 25, 1822, m. Merwin Hill; iii. Joseph Jackson,
b. Aug. 17, 1.S24, 111. MacMahon, and resides in East Bridgeport;
iv. nuldah, b. March 15, 1831, m. Edwin Ilawes of Bridgeport; v. Oliver, b.
Jan. 25, 1839, d. young.
Ahigail Marsh, b. Aug. 18, 1799; perhaps m. Nov. 21, 1825, at New Milford,
William II. Fairchild.
Holman Marsh, b. April 28, 1802 ; was living in New Milford in 1834.
132. AMOS'' MARSH, son of Elihu and Zerviah* (Abbe) Marsli, born Sep-
tember 8, 1764 ; died in Vergennes, Vt., January 4, 1811. His descendants have
his certificate of appointment as attorney for the district of Vermont, 1794,
signed by G. Wasliington, President of the United States.
Married December 6, 1789, ABIGAIL SUTTON, born in Canaan, Conn.; died
in New Milford, October 11, 1814, aged 73.
Children
Laura, b. Sept. 8, 1792 : m. Daniel Merwin, son of Abel Merwin of New Milford.
284 Almira, b. Aug. 15, 1794 ; m. Anan Hine.
133. GIDEON-' WOOD, son of Samuel and Jerusha* (Abbe) Wood, born in
Mansfield, Conn., July 10, 1759.
Married in Mansfield, November 23, 1786, KEZIA OWEN.
Children, recorded in Mansfield
Elijah Wood, b. Sept. 28, 1787 ; m. in Mansfield, Dec. 24, 1812, Esther Howard of
Union. Children, b. in Mansfield : i. Eleazer Laurens or Lawrence, b. July 20,
1814, m. in Mansfield, Dec. 9, 1838, Sophrona Ann Balch, b. there Jan. 25,
1820, daughter of Thomas and Eunice (Hamilton) Balch, and had a son, Orson
Sumner, b. Nov. 15, 1839, in Mansfield ; ii. Esther Matilda, b. June 17, 1816.
Anne Wood, b. Aug. 14, 1789.
Matilda Wood, b. Aug. 7, 1792.
John Wood, b. Aug. 15, 1794.
Dan Wood, b. June 15, 1796.
lSa7miel Dudley Wood, b. July 14, 1798 ; m. in Mansfield, March 22, 1827, Polly
Thompson of Willington. She may have been Polly, daughter of Jesse and Polly
(Parker) Thompson, b. in Mansfield, July 18, 1795.
Jei-usha Wood, b. March 6, 1801.
134. JOHN"' CROSS, son of William and Miriam* (Abbe) Cross. He was a
miller and lived in North Windham Village, Conn.
Married (1) May 3, 1787, MRS. SARAH (BACKUS) GIBBS, who died
February 2, 1818, aged 58. She was daughter of Nathaniel Backus.
Married (2) November 26, 1818, MRS. AMY ( ) JAGGER. She was the
mother of Silas Jagger of Willimantic, Conn.
Children ly first wife
Lucius Cross, bapt. Oct. 15, 1791.
285 John Cross, jr., bapt. Oct. 15, 1791; m. (1) Faith Paine; (2) Prudence Stedman.
Betsey Cross, bapt. Oct. 15, 1791 ; m. John Flint.
Emma Cross, bapt. Sept. 8, 1793 ; d. Jan., 1798.
Charles Cross, bapt. June 2, 1796 ; d. Feb. 11, 1798.
Child hy second tcife
Royal Cross, m. June 17, 1849, Catherine Mahon.
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135. SHUBAEL^ CROSS, son of William and Miriam* (Abbe) Cross, born
about 1771; died January 12, 1851. He lived at North Windham, Conn., in a
house nearly opposite the town farm.
Married RACHEL SAWYER, died at Norwich, October 25, 1851, aged 76,
daughter of Asahel Sawyer.
Child7'en
Eenry Cross, b. about 1797 ; d. Feb. 9, 1805.
James Cross, bapt. Jan. 8, 1800. He was a teacher, removed to New York state,
thence to Michigan, whei-e he was hving in 1864. Married but had no children.
Harry Cross, bapt. Jan. 8, 1800; probably d. young.
Asahel Cross, bapt. June 8, 1800 ; d. aged 5.
Sally Cross, b. about 1802 ; d. Feb. 13, 1805.
Salome Cross, bapt. May 22, 1803 ; probably d. young.
William Cross, bapt. July 2, 1805. He was a miller and resided near North Wind-
ham. Married, Oct. 8, 1826, Mrs. Hannah ( ) Guile. Children: i. Ehza
Ann, b. March 29, 18.31; ii. Charles, b. Sept. 23, 1832; iii. Andrew Jackson,
and iv. Martin Van Buren (twins), b. June 14, 1837.
Elijah Cross, bapt. Nov. 6, 1808 ; m. EHza Harvey ; went west.
Betsey Cross, bapt. Sept. 24, 1809 ; m. Daniel Lincoln ; lived in Michigan.
Philena Cross, bapt. Aug. 8, 1813. She m., (1) Nov. 11, 1833, Samuel Shaw. He
was of Wilhmantic, Conn., but removed to Michigan where he d. and she m.
again.
Charles Roundy Cross, bapt. Sept., 1815 ; probably d. young.
Islam Cross, m. Almira Baldwin, daughter of Eleazer Baldwin of Mansfield, Conn.
They resided in Norwich, Conn.
136. ABEL^ ABBE, son of Solomon* and Sarah (Knight) Abbe, born August
7, 1766; died August 11, 1845. In the 1800 Census he was of Mansfield, with
a family of 6 males and 5 females. In 1820 he was recorded in Madison,
Geauga County, Ohio, 1 male over 45, 1 female between 20 and 45, 2 males
between 16 and 26, 1 female between 16 and 26, 3 males under 16, 1 male and
1 female under 10. He moved in 1802 or 3 from Mansfield, Conn., to Broome
County, N. Y., and finally to Eljo-ia, Ohio, where he died. It is remembered by
older members of the family that he lost his property in the east through some
misdeal and went to live with his son, Eleazer.
Married in Mansfield, July, 1790, MIRIAM BINGHAM of Mansfield, who
died June 19, 1854, aged 82 years. After her husband's death she lived in a
small house near her son's home, where she wove carpets and knit mittens.
After a little she bought a piece of property in Columbia, Ohio, and took Origin
to live with her. She died of sunstroke at the home of her daughter, IMatilda,
from having driven in a lumber wagon the sixteen miles from Columbia to
Elyria. At the time of her death she had a bushel basket full of mittens and
stockings of her own knitting.
Children, -first eight, at least, horn in Mansfield, Conn.
286 Lura Ahhe, b. Jan. 20, 1791 ; m. John Bomau Hosmer.
Rena AUe, b. Aug. 31, 1792; d. Aug. 30, 1864; m. Wilham Day. He was a
farmer and served in the Mexican War ; lived in Kalamazoo, Mich., at one
time. They had a daughter, Eliza, who m. McManigal and had two
daughters who gi-ew up and married.
287 Melinda Ahle, b. July 5, 1794; m. (1) Jeremiah Wilcox; (2) Boyhs.
Origin Abie, b. April 20 (or 23), 1796; d. Dec. 16, 1863, in Columbia. Ohio;
buried in Elyria. He was a teamster in Lorain, Ohio, for a time. Married
Dehght , b. Jan. 9, 1793; d. April 15, 1804; buried in Elyria. No
children.
288 Charles Ahbe, b. May 3, 1798; m. (1) Lydia Jones; (2) Alta Mira LiUy ; (3)
Mrs. Henrietta Hitchcock.
289 William Abbe, b. April 19 (or 6), 1800; m. (1) Ohve Green; (2) Mary Wolcott.
290 Pheie Abbe, b. Feb. 11, 1802 ; m. W. H. Pond.
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Foster Ahhe, b. Jan. 29, 1804; d. May 30, 1882, in Illinois; m. Sophia
and had a son, Edgar, and a daughter. lie lived in Lorain, Ohio, about 1854.
He was interested in silver mines.
291 Eleazer Ahbe, b. Dec. 28, 1805; m. Betsey Wilcox.
Abel Abhc, b. Feb. 19, 1808 or 9; d. Dec. 25, 1831.
292 Luther Abbe, b. Aug. 5, 1810 or 11 ; m. Lucy Allen.
293 Matilda Abbe, h. June 11,1813; m. (1) Arnold Emmons ; (2) George B. Harvey ;
(3) Christian Shoemaker.
137. ELNATHAN'" PALMER, son of Samuel and Lydia (Silsby) Palmer,
born in Mansfield, Conn., August 20, 1750; died August 1, 1823. He resided
in "Warren, Conn.; Oxford, Grafton County, N. H. ; was one of the iiroprietors
of Riclunond, N. H. ; is said to liave removed to Ohio.
Married in New Hampshire, JEMIMA STRONG of Lyme, N. H. She died
June 28, 1815.
Children
Jesse Palmer.
294 /Samud Pfl/mer, b. Feb. 13, 1799; m. Rhoda Chase.
Madison Palmer,
Lucy Palmer.
138. LEVI= PALMER, son of John and Esther (Cleveland) Palmer, born
Februarj^ 7, 1750. Resided at East Haddam and Bashan, Conn. He was * ' known
as Captain."
Married July 21, 1767, ELIZABETH CONE, born July 3, 1751, at East
Haddam, daughter of Captain Jonah and Elizabeth (Gates) Cone.
Children
Dorothy Palmer, b. Dec. 21, 1768.
Levi Palmer, jr., b. Dec. 28, 1770; m. Lydia Emmons.
Aaron Palmer, h. Feb. 6, 1773; m. May 1, 1796, Azubah Brainard.
William Palmer, b. Aug. 12, 1775.
Isaac Palmer, h. Sept. 17, 1777.
Elizabeth Palmer, b. April 8, 1779.
George Palmer, b. May 22, 1781 ; m. Roxanna Brainard.
Esther Palmer, b. Oct. 26, 1783.
295 Polly Palmer, b. Dec. 3, 1785 (or 6) ; m. Lord Sterling.
Julia Palmer, b. Feb. 5, 1788.
Oliver Palmer, b. Feb. 10, 1791.
Anna Palmer, b. March 22, 1793; d. in Hartford, Conn., 1880. Married Daniel
Shailor Chapman, a shoe manufacturer, who d. in Hartford, 1877. They had
several children, one of whom was Anna Eliza, b. March 11, 1822, at East
Haddam, Conn. She lived at Windsor Locks, Conn., and m. Sept. 14, 1842,
Alpheus Seymour Hyde, b. Oct. 26, 1819, at New Canaan, Conn. ; d. May 10,
1895, at Windsor Locks. He was a shoe manufacturer. Mr. and Mrs. Hyde had
children: i. Adeline C, b. May 16, 1844, d. Nov. 10, 1844; ii. Ella Maria,
b. Oct. 9, 1845, lived at Windsor Locks, not m. ; iii. Anna Palmer, b. Jan. 21,
1855, m. Charles H. Coye and lived at Windsor Locks.
Horace Palmer, b. Feb. 24, 1797.
139. RUTH5 ABBE, daughter of John* and Ruth (Goodwin) Abbey, born in
East Hartford, Conn.; baptized there April 22, 1753; died May 8, 1828, aged
75; buried in Hockanum Cemetery, East Hartford. In Hartford Deeds, 14,
pages 347, 386, under date of September 13, 1782, are transfers of land between
John Abbe, jr., John Risley, jr., and Ruth, his wife, and Charles Buckland, jr.,
and Damaris, his wife, land that had come to them from their ''honored
mother Ruth Abbe."
Married JOHN RISLEY, JR., son of John and Anna (Burnham) Risley, born
about 1751 ; died November 21, 1837, aged 86 ; buried in Hockanum Cemetery.
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Children
Datnaris Rislcy, b. March 23, 1775; d. March 9, 1861; buried in Hockanum
Cemetery, from the records of which nearly all our knowledge of this family
comes. Married Salmon Treat, sou of Stephen aud Jane K. (Lord) Treat, b.
Oct. 17, 1775; d. Nov. 12, 1806. Children: i. Salmon, jr., b. July 14, 1799,
d. March 19, 1848, m. Emeline Risley and had a child, Harriet S., b. about
1836, d. March 6, 1864, aged 28 ; ii. Mary, b. Dec. 22, 1800, d. Jan. 22, 1854,
m. as second wife, Orrin Forbes (who first m. her aunt, Ruth Risley, see below),
had children, Jane M., b. about 1825, d. Sept. 9, 1886, aud Edwin Treat, who
d. April 29, 1831, aged 11 mouths, 6 days; iii. Caroline, b. Nov. 11, 1802, d.
Sept. 15, 1804 ; iv. Lucinda, b. May 8, 1807, d. Sept. 9, 1866, m. Ralph Judson
and had a child, Albert Augustus, b. about Sept., 1834, d. June 16, 1838, aged
3 yrs., 8 mos., buried in East Hartford.
Caleb Rislcij, b. July 8, 1784 ; d. Nov. 19, 1840 ; m. Abigail , who d. May 11,
1879, aged 84. Children: i. Reuben S., b. about 1809, d. D(x?. 10, 1839, aged
30; ii. Horace A., b. about 1813, d. Nov. 13, 1843, aged 29. AU buried in
Hockanum.
Lucinda Risleu, b. Dec. 17, 1787; d. May 25, 1860. Married Ashbel Cowles, b.
about 1787; d. May 2, 1855, aged 68; son of Ashbel and Content (Bemout)
Cowles. Children : i. Ashbel Sherman, b. about 1812, d. May 15, 1865, aged 53,
m. Jane Ives and had a son, William Ives, b. 1830, d. Oct. 5, 1869 ; ii. Horace,
b. about 1817, d. April 12, 1822, aged 5 ; iii. J. Francis, b. about 1827, d. Aug.
5, 1804, member of the 21st Regiment. All this family are buried in East
Hartford Cemeteiy.
Marilia Risley, b. about 1790; d. June 6, 1864. Married Captain Moses Ensign,
b. 1791; d. Dec. 8, 1829, aged 38, son of Moses and Jaunet (Forbes) Ensign.
Buried in Hockanum.
John Risley, jr., b. 1793. Married, Nov. 25, 1818, Sarah Seymour, daughter of
Nathan and Anne ( ) Seymour of Hartford. She m. (2) Solomon Williams
of East Hartford and (3) .
Ruth Risley, b. about 1795 ; d. Oct. 24, 1819, aged 24. Married Orrin Forbes, son
of Moses and Elisabeth (Goodwin) Forbes, b. about 1794; d. April 5, 1868,
aged 74. He m. (2) Mary Treat, daughter of Salmon and Damaris (Risley)
Treat, see above. Buried in Hockanum Cemetery.
140. MARY5 ABBE, daughter of Stephen* and Mary ( ) Abbey, born
probably at East Hartford, Conn.; baptized there April 8, 1750; died Decem-
ber 2, 1819 ; buried in East Hartford.
Married (1) September 13, ITTOC?), NATHANIEL BURNHAM, born Octo-
ber 20, 1725; died June 7, 1810. He was son of Moses and Naomi (Anderson)
Burnliam and resided at East Hartford.
Married (2) CAPTAIN STEPHEN ROBERTS, born about 1739; died Decem-
ber 29, 1818, aged 79; buried at East Hartford. He was son of Samuel and
Sarah (Hills) Roberts.
Children hy first husband
Natha7iiel Burnham, jr., b. Sept. 17, 1778 ; d. at sea, Aug. 19, 1811 ; lived at East
Hartford. Married, May 7, 1809, Jemima Cadwell, b. March 9, 1787; d. Aug.
23, 1886. She m. (2) Daniel Abel, and (3) Timothy Roberts. Child of
Nathaniel Burnham, jr. : Amanda, b. Aug. 4, 1810, d. Oct. 16, 1879, m. April
16, 1840, John C. Brewer.
296 Hezekiah Burnham, b. June 28, 1780 ; m. Sarah B. Miller.
141. EUNICE^ ABBEY, daughter of Stephen* and Mary ( ) Abbey, born
probably in East Hartford, Conn. ; baptized there August 25, 1751.
Married January 27, 1773, RODERICK BURNHAM, born August 30, 1752,
son of Moses and Naomi (Anderson) Burnham. They resided at East Hartford.
Children
Richard Burnham, bapt. March 27. 1774; d. at sea; not m.
Russell Burnham, bapt. May 2, 1775.
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Roderick Burnham, jr., bapt. April 27, 1775 (?) ; d. July 24, 1806; not m.
Eunice Burnham, bapt. Dec. 26, 178.S.
Nancy Burnham, bapt. March 20, 1785; m. Ford.
142. STEPHEN-' ABBEY, JR., son of Stephen* and Mary ( ) Abbey, born
probably at East Hartford, Conn.; baptized there September 30, 1753; died
there May 29, 1823, aged 68 or 09. In his will, dated May 25, 1823, probated
August 27, 1823, he leaves to his brother, Russell, his clock and wearing apparel,
and to his sister, Betsey, all other prcsonal property. (Hartford Probate Records,
34, pages 178 and 271.) His name is found on a petition regarding East Hart-
ford lands. (State Archives, IX, 281b.) He was recorded in the 1800 Census
at East Hartford, 1 male and 1 female over 45, 1 male between 16 and 26, 1
male between 10 and 16, and 1 female under 10.
Married SUSANNAH OLMSTED, born about 1757; died at East Hartford,
April 3, 1822, aged 65. She was daughter of Lieutenant Stephen and Margaret
(Olcott) Olmsted of East Hartford.
Children
ISusanna Ah'beij, b. May 15. 1701 : probably d. young.
, d. Nov., 179.3. aged 12 days ; buried in East Hartford.
Laura, b. Jan. 25, 1795.
143. ANNA^ ABBEY, daughter of Stephen* and Mary ( ) Abbey, baptized
at East Hartford, Conn., November 23, 1755. She probably married as here
given, for after Captain Deming's death, his son, David Abbey Deming, a minor,
chose Russell Abbej- to be his guardian. Russell Abbey was the brother of
Anna Abbey.
Probably married CAPTAIN DAVID DEMING, son of Timothy and Thankful
(Risley) Deming, baptized at East Hartford, October 20, 1751; died at sea,
October, 1795. He was master of a vessel and was known as Captain Deming.
He was at the Lexington Alarm and was there called Lieutenant. He died
on the passage of his vessel from Port au Prince to Hartford. His widow
married Deacon Stevens of Litchfield and removed there with the younger
children. An account of this family is found in the Genealogy of tlie Descendants
of John Deming of Wethersfield by Jiidson Keith Deming, published 1904.
Children, baptized at East Hartford
Anne Deming, bapt. Oct. 18. 1778 ; d. April, 1785.
Mary (Molly) Deming, b. Jan. .30, 1780; d. in Michigan, Nov. 16, 1837. Married,
Jan. 25, 1805 (or Jan. 21, 1801), James Thompson.
Elizaheth Deming, bapt. March 25, 1781 ; m. Joel Olmstead.
297 David Abbey Deming, bapt. Nov. 17, 1782 ; m. Chloe Olmstead.
Susan Deming, bapt. Nov. 23, 1783; m. 1802, Arnold W. Foster.
Wait Deming, bapt. May 14, 1786.
298 Timothy Deming, h. Feb. 13. 1788: m. (1) Olive Treat ; (2) Eliza Wing.
Anne Deming, bapt. Nov. 1, 1789 ; d. iinm.
Jude Deming, bapt. Oct. 16, 1791. Settled in Litchfield, Conn. Married, late in
life, a -uidow, and d. in Herkimer County, N. Y. No children.
Lydia Deming, bapt. June 9, 1793 ; d. unm.
Lucy Deming, bapt. Nov. 23. 1794: d. April 19, 1855; not m.
Sarah Deming, bapt. April 17, 1796 ; d. 1874, in Oswego, N. Y. ; not m.
144. DAVID5 ABBEY, son of Stephen* and Mary ( ) Abbey, born prob-
ably in East Hartford, Conn.; baptized there May 24, 1761. He was perhaps
the David Abbey who died at East Hartford, Aprif 20, 1818.
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Married in Glastonbury, Conn., May 17, 1780, THANKFUL WADSWORTH of
East Hartford, born about 1765; died in East Hartford, July 30, 1817, aged 53.
Children, hapiized at East Hartford
David Abhcy, jr., bapt. Oct. 13, 1793.
An7ia Alley, bapt. Sept. 14, 1794 ; d. Sept. 9, 1848. Married Edward Oilman, b.
about 1792; d. at East Hartford, Oct. 26, 1831, aged 39. He was sou of
Ashbel and Louisa (Burnham) Oilman. Children, buried at East Hartford:
i. Edward W., b. about 1818, d. July 9, 1855, aged 37 ; ii. Sarah, b. Sept., 1831,
d. Oct. 6, 1831, aged 5 weeks ; iii. Albert B., b. Oct. 16, 1834, d. Aug. 10, 1883,
m. (1) Eliza A. Antrim, who d. June 29, 1860, aged 30, (2) Lizzie ,
who d. July 4, 1875, aged 39. Child of Albert and Eliza : George, b. about 1849,
d. Nov. 8, 1889, aged 40, buried at East Hartford.
Franh (or Franklin) Alley, bapt. Aug. 7, 1796; d. July 9, 1831; buried at East
Hartford.
, b. about 1809 ; d. Aug. 7, 1814, aged 5 years.
Susannah Alley, bapt. Jan. 14, 1810.
145. THEODORE" ABBEY, son of Stephen* and Mary ( ) Abbey, born
probably at East Hartford, Conn.; baptized there March 22, 1767; died about
1812. He went from Connecticut about 1801 to Madison County, N. Y., and
lived at or near Cazenovia. He is recorded in the 1800 Census of East Hartford,
1 female over 45, 1 male and 2 females between 26 and 45, 2 females and 1 male
under 10 in the family.
Married ABIGAIL PORTER, bom June 4, 1775; died about 1811, daughter
of David and Margaret (Olmstead) Porter of East Hartford.
Children, said to have leen three sons and five daughters
Polly Alley, bapt. at East Hartford, Oct. 12, 1794.
298a Harriet Alley, b. Sept. 6, 1796 ; ni. Linus Montague.
Stephen Alley, bapt. at East Hartford, April 7, 1799. He is probably the Stephen
Abbey who was a grocer in Utica, N. Y., in 1869. Stephen Abbey bought
property in Utica as early as 1836 (Oneida County Deeds, 74:9) and his wife,
Sophia, in 1854 (180:88). The will of his wife is recorded in Utica (33:19;
9:30), Married Sophia , who d. May, 1882, buried at Forest Hill
Cemetery. Child : William D., m. Mehina , had daughter, Charlotte
Pauline, not of age in 1882.
Susannah Alley, \n. John Porshey and lived in Augusta, Mich.
146. RUSSELL'^ ABBEY, son of Stephen* and Maiy ( ) Abbey, born in
East Hartford, Conn., January 24, 1767; baptized there February 5, 1769; died
July 7, 1828; buried at East Hartford. He received a clock and wearing
apparel by the will of his brother, Stephen, jr., in 1823. His homestead was on
Burnside Avenue in East Hartford. He is recorded in the 1800 Census at East
Hartford, 2 children under 10.
Married November 24, 1793, MARTHA OLMSTED, born October 24, 1764,
daughter of Samuel and Jerusha (Pitkin) Olmsted of East Hartford; died
October 11, 1840; buried at East Hartford.
Children
Charles (1) Alley, b. June 18, 1795; bapt. at East Hartford, Oct. 25, 1795;
d. July 22, 1796 ; buried at East Hartford.
Betsey Alley, b. Feb. 14, 1797 ; bapt. at East Hartford, July 2, 1797 ; d. March
25, 1875, aged 78 ; buried at East Hartford.
299 Charles (2) Alley, b. March 6, 1798; bapt. at East Hartford, July 7, 1799.
Jerusha Olmsted Alley, b. Nov. 29, 1802 ; bapt. at East Hartford, Feb. 12, 1804 ;
d. Aug. 8, 1871, aged 69. Married, as his second wife, William Stoughton, jr.,
bapt. Feb. 15, 1789, son of William and Eleanor (Prior) Stoughton; d. Oct. 22,
1868. His first wife was Nancy Alexander, by whom he had children : Sanford,
Emily and Almira.
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147. JEDUTHAN5 ABBEY, son of Elcazcr* and Mary ( ) Abbey, born
in East Hartfoi'd, Conn.; baptized there August 14, 1757; died February 9, 1821.
His Revolutionary services were as follows: enlisted May 19, 1775, discharged
December 20, 1775, 2d Conipanj^, Colonel Hinman's 4th Regiment, Captain
George Pitkin; enlisted February 10, 1777, for the war, residence, Hartford
Count}'; i^romoted from Corporal to Sergeant, January 1, 1780; Quarter-Master-
Sergeant, April, 1780; Sergeant in Captain Sanford's Company, January 1, 1781,
paid to December 31, 1781; Sergeant on size roll of Captain Taylor's light
infantry, February, 1783. In 1837 his widow, then the widow of George
Roberts, applied for a pension. Papers pertaining to the settlement of his
estate are found in Hartford Probate Records, 33, pages 313, 178, 188; and 34,
page 43. In the 1790 Census he is of East Hai-tford, with 1 male over 16, 1
male under 16, 4 females in his family. One account gives Christopher as the
name of the father of Eliphalet, born 1792, doubtless an error.
Married at Hartford, March 24, 1779, LUCRETIA BEMENT of Hartford,
born about 1756; died November 26, 1845. She married (2) March 19, 1822,
George Roberts, who died October 2, 1824. He was born November 14, 1752,
and his first wife was probably Jerusha Williams, who died November 22, 1812.
Children of Jeduthan Ahiey, baptized at East Hartford
Oeorge Abbey, bapt. March 17, 1784.
Polly Abbey, bapt. March 19, 1785.
300 Abigail Abbey, bapt. Sept. 28, 1788; m. Harry Eusign.
Zaida Abbey, bapt. Oct. 24, 1790 ; d. Sept. 17, 1817 ; buried at East Hartford.
301 Eliphalet Abbey, bapt. Nov. 3, 1793; m. Lydia Brunson.
302 Edmund Abbey, bapt. May 22, 1796; m. Harriet Gaines.
148. NEHEMIAH5 ABBEY, JR., son of Nehemiah* and Mabel (Warren)
Abbey, baptized at East Hartford, Conn., August 31, 1777; died February 25
(or 23), 1865; buried at East Hartford. He was a soldier of the War of 1812;
a matross or private soldier on the payroll of Captain Amherst Reynolds' Com-
pan}', August 3 to September 16, 1813; under Nathan Johnson August 18 to 29,
1814. In 1850 he was a shoemaker in East Hartford.
Married TRIPHENA TREAT, born April 11, 1779, in East Hartford, Conn.;
died April 22, 1859, in East Hartford; buried there. She was daughter of
Lieutenant Matthias Treat and his wife, Triphena Risley.
Children
Harriet Abbey, m. June 26, 1837, as his second wife, Russell Hollister, son of
Salmon and Millicent (Goodrich) HoUister, probably of Glastonbury, Conn.
He m. (1) Marilla Hart, b. 1799; d. 1823; and had four children probably by
this first marriage.
Anne (1) Abbey, d. in infancy.
Anne (2) Abbey, m. Wilham L. Wright.
Jane Abbey, m. William W. Roberts.
Elizabeth Abbey, b. Sept. 15, 1817; d. about 1903, aged 86. Married, May 16,
1836, William Watson House of East Hartford, b. June 20, 1813; d. Aug. 7,
1892. Children, five, three of whom d. before 1902 : i. Henry Stuart, b. March
15, 1851, d. after 1902, m. June 25, 1879, Alice Jennett Whiting, b. Oct. 28,
1860, m. (2) Banning and lives in Southington, Conn., had one child,
Henry Clarence, b. July 7, 1885. lives in Hartford ; ii. Sarah Elizabeth, m.
George A. Sumner, had one son, George H., m. and has a son Charles B.
Nehemiah Abbey, m. Harriet Reynolds. Both he and his wife d. many years ago;
probably had no children.
149, ANNA^ ABBEY, daughter of Nehemiah* and Mabel (Warren) Abbey,
baptized at East Hartford, Conn., August 18, 1784; died April 2, 1876.
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Married November 10, 1810, JESSE BURNHAM, born May 29, 1785; died
January 18, 1854. He was son of Eleazer and Tryphena (King) Burnhani. They
resided at East Hartford or Podunk.
Children
Mabel Ahiey Burnham, b. Sept. 11, 1811 ; d. Oct. 3, or 13, 1825.
Levi Burnliam, b. July 6, 1813; tl. Jime 24, 1859; m., April 25, 1841, Fanny
Culver.
Martin Burnham, b. July 4, 1815 ; d. Aug. 2, 1861 ; resided in South Windsor,
Conn. Married, Oct. 23, 1836, Fidelia E. Coop of Eastbury, who was b. Jan. 1,
1816. Children : i. Edwin, b. July 21, 1837 ; ii. Ransom Martin, b. Jan. 11,
1839, m. March 31, 1880, Lucetta (Stoughton) Blair, b. Feb. 12, 1848, lives
at South Windsor; iii. Frank, b. Feb. 2, 1841. d. March 9, 1841; iv. Abby
Fidelia, b. April 23, 1842 ; v. Hiram Brooks, b. March 22, 1845, killed at battle
of Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863, Company I, 20th Connecticut Volunteers ;
vi. Frederic Jesse, b. Dec. 8, 1847, d. June 6, 1878 ; vii. Nelson Hamilton,
b. Oct. 5, 1850 ; viii. David Coop, b. April 3, 1852.
John Ahley Burnham, b. July 20, 1817; lived at East Hartford. Married, Feb. 18,
1841, Mary Gardner Child, b. Sept. 24, 1822, daughter of Bulkley and Sally
(Tracy) Child. Children : i. Thomas Warren, b. March 14, 1846, lives at East
Hartford, m. Dec. 18, 1871, Lizzie Kellogg, b. Aug. 19, 1852 or 1853, daughter
of Edward and Elizabeth (Skinner) Kellogg, has two children. Lulu Clare,
b. Oct. 31, 1876, and Edward J., b. March 3. 1878 ; ii. John Henry, b. Feb. 14,
1851. lives at East Hartford, m. Aug. 23, 1873, Minnie H. Forbes, b. June 18,
1852, has children, Anne May, b. June 21, 1875, Florence G., b. Jan. 7, 1878, Eva
Elizabeth, b. Nov. 3, 1888, m. Alburtus Eugene Jones ; iii. Anna Sarah, b. Oct.
11, 1855, d. March 13. 1856.
Jesse Burnham, jr., b. May 31, 1820; d. Feb. 12, 1876; lived at East Hartford.
Married, Jan. 1, 1857, Rhoda Jane Signor, b. Feb. 13, 1835; who m. (2) Charles
P. Fail-banks. Children : i. Jesse Eugene, b. Sept. 14, 1857, lives at East
Hartford, m. Dec. 24, 1879, Alice S. Wolcott, b. Sept. 26, 1857, has son, Louis,
b. Oct. 7, 1880; ii. Leander Terry, b. Oct. 24, 1858, m. April 11, 1883, Mary
B. Bidwell : iii. Estella Jane, b. Aug. 30, 1860 ; iv. William Burdette, b. July 16,
1862; v. Arthur Jerome, b. Nov. 21, 1864, d. Oct. 29, 1871; vi. Alice C,
b. April 16, 1867 ; vii. Howard E., b. Sept. 4, 1869, d. Oct. 4, 1871 ; viii. Edith,
b. Oct. 3, 1871, d. Feb. 6, 1876; ix. Archie, b. Feb. 3, 1874; x. Ida May, b.
April 6, 1876.
150. BENJAMIN^ ABBEY, son of Samuel* and Abbey, born about
1752, probably at Portland, Conn.; died July 31, 1792; buried at Portland
Cemetery. In 1790 there was a Benjamin Abbey in Chatham, Conn., 1 male
and 1 female over 16, 6 males lander 16. In 1800 he was recorded in the
Census at Chatham, 1 male over 45, 1 female between 26 and 45, 3 males between
16 and 26, 1 male between 10 and 16, and 1 female iinder 10, in the family.
He is said to have been a Revolutionary pensioner. He was mentioned in his
father's will in 1806.
Married in Chatham, April 11, 1776, LOIS STOCKING, born about 1760,
daughter of Stephen and Mary (Andrews) Stocking of Chatham; died Septem-
ber 29, 1825, aged 64; buried in Portland. She was a direct descendant of
Steven Hopkins who came over in the Mayflower.
Children, only tivo names are known
303 Elizur Ahhey, b. 1780; m. Betsey Gildersleeve.
304 Henry Stephen Ahley, b. Nov. 5, 1808; m. Elizabeth Smith.
151. SAMUELS ABBEY, probably son of Samuel* and Rachel (Masson)
Abbey, born about 1760, according to his pension papers; died February 28,
1841, in Milo, Yates County, N. Y. He was a Revolutionary soldier. He
enlisted first March 1, 1776, for two months, as a private under Captain Amos
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Cook, in the Connecticut line, at Wallino:f ord ; mustered out May 1, 1776, and
re-enlisted June 1, 1776, in Captain Coach's Company under Colonel Burr Brad-
ley; mustered out January 1, 1777. He again enlisted October, 1777, for 27
days, and November, 1778, for tAvo months, tlie latter time from Chatliam, Conn.
He finally enlisted from Wallingford, May, 1779, for six months, under Captain
Jolm Osborne. He saw service at Bergen Point, Fort Lee, Trenton, New Jersey,
and Pliiladeli>liia. After the war he returned to Wallingford and resided there
for some years, removing then to a farm near Amherst, Mass., and in 1790, to
Canandaigua, N. Y., where he was head of a family in 1803, and from there to
Milo, Yates County, where he died. His will was probated and recorded in
Pcnn Yan, Will Book D, page 140. He applied for a pension September 29, 1832,
from Milo, giving his age as 72 years.
Married (1) .
Married (2) May 27, 1827, at Milo, MARGARET LEE (or MILLER, accord-
ing to the pension papers), born about 1808. She married (2) June 5, 1848,
Noah (or John) Mitchell, who died August 27, 1862, at Milo, where she was
living December 9, 1862, aged 54 years, when she applied for a pension on account
of the services of Samuel Abbey. She had no children.
Children hy first wife
Electra Ahhey, m. in Heath, Mass., Oct. 4, 1807, William Maxwell.
305 RosiccU Ahicij, b. Jan. 20, 1789; m. Ehzabeth Truslow.
306 Ansel Abbey, m. Bersbeba Morgan.
Sophronia Abbey, m. Thomas Smith of Canandaigua, N. Y.
Elizabeth Abbey, d. unm.
152. JOHN' ABBEY, probably son of Samuel* and Rachel (Masson) Abbey,
of Portland, Conn. A conveyance of land in the town of Burlington, Otsego
County, N. Y., was made to him in 1797. His father's will calls him of Middle-
bury, Vt., but a paper of August 30, 1806, calls him of Middlefield, Otsego
County, N. Y. (Middletown, Conn., Deeds, IX:58.) John Abbey owned a farm
at Unadilla about 1800. The Census of 1810 gives a J. Abbey at Pittsfield,
Otsego County, six in the family. He was later a farmer in the east part of
the town of Sangerfield, Oneida County, N. Y. His name appears on Oneida
County deeds as early as 1829, as "of Paris"; in 1833 as "of Marshall,
Oneida Co." John and Ruth Abbey with other settlers subscribed to a docu-
ment in 1839. His will, made March 5, 1854, probated December 7, 1854, calls
him of Madison County, and names wife Ruth, and children: Edwin, George,
Maria Terry, Henry, Ira, and Mary Loomis. He may be John Abbe}^, the
Lieutenant for 133d Regiment, April 24, 1818, Chenango and Delaware Counties,
N. Y., and Captain of 193d Regiment, 1820.
[Married RUTH RISLEY, daughter of Moses and Ruth ( ) Risley of East
Hartford, Conn., and Vienna, N. Y.
Children
307 Mary Abbey, m. David Loomis.
308 Allen R. Abbey, m. Lovisa Loomis.
309 Henry Abbey, m. Hubbard.
Warren Abbey, d. .
310 Edwin Abbey, m. Susan Cowan.
311 Ira Abbeii, m. Rhoda Rhodes.
Maria Abbey, b. in Vienna, N. Y., May 17, 1819 ; d. in Waterville, N. Y., Sept. 29,'
1891. Married, Aug. 2, 1841, Leander' Terry, son of Horace^ and Elizabeth
(Chambers) Terry. See number 375.
312 George Abbey, m. Jane Cowan.
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153. GEORGES ABBEY, son of Samuel' Abbey, born January 15, 1763, in
Chatham, Middlesex County, Conn. He enlisted in the Revolution July, 1779,
and served one month as jH-ivate under Colonel Woodbridge and Captain Ben-
jamin AVright. He again enlisted Jul,y, 1781, and served five and a half months
under Colonel Canfield and Captains Cook and Starr. In 1838, MaA^ 21, he
applied for a pension, a resident of Wethersfield, Conn. He is probably the
George Abbey of 1790 Census, Wethersfield, 1 male over 16, 1 male under 16,
3 females in the family; in 1800 Census, 1 male over 45, 1 male and 1 female
between 26 and 45, 1 male and 1 female between 10 and 16, and 1 male and 1
female under 10.
The following records may refer to this George Abbey: George Abbey of
Hamilton, Madison County, N. Y., died April 17, 1859, in Hamilton. His will,
dated April 13, 1858, mentioned son Alonzo and daughter Lucretia. At the
settlement of the estate the heirs given were: Lucretia Abbey of Hamilton,
N. Y.j Henry M. Abbey of Paint Creek, Mich.; George B. Alden of Tama,
Iowa; Cordelia White of Germantown, Iowa; Charles E. Alden and Hettie
Alden, residence unknown; Nina J. Greenfield of Orwell, N. Y. ; Melvin Hub-
bard of Waterville, N. Y. The son, Alonzo Abbey, made his will May 7, 1869,
probated January 19, 1881. He is called of Hamilton, Madison County, and
his wife, Diana, and sister, Lucretia B. Abbey, are the heirs mentioned in the
will. Samuel I. Abbey of North Brookfield was a witness, but at the time of
probation he was a resident of Michigan. Ira Abbey was a witness at the proba-
tion. The list of heirs given on the court proceedings is the same as that of
George Abbey's heirs except that the residence of Cordelia White is given as
Germanville, Iowa.
Married in Wethersfield, Conn., Rocky Hill, February 5, 1784, MARY BROOKS.
Children
, b. 1809 ; buried April 28, 1810, aged 11 months ; recorded in Wethersfield.
Alonzo Abbey, see above. Married Diana Risley, b. April 26, 1815; d. July 13,
1886, daughter of Jonathan, jr., and Lucy (Benton) Risley of Sauquoit, N. Y.
No children.
Lucretia Abbey, see above.
154. RACHEL^ ABBE, daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Masson) Abbe,
born May 13, 1768, in Chatham, now Portland, Conn.
Married June 2, 1788, CHARLES TREAT, son of John and Mary (Smith)
Treat; baptized in Glastonbury, Conn., August 22, 1762; died 1802, and was one
of the first buried at Wells' River, Newbury, Vt. He was a lumberman and
was engaged in river driving at tlie time of his deatli, which resulted from a fever
following a cold. Letters of administration were granted his widow and Isaac
Hollister, June 2, 1802. His children were all baptized May 2, 1802. The
names of Horace, Lathrop, Orrin, and Robert, who died away from home, are
found on a stone in South Glastonbury Cemetery.
Children, born and baptized in Glastonbury
313 Lathrop Treat, b. 1788 ; m. Tallatha Sexton.
314 Uoraee Treat, b. July 4, 1790 ; m. Polly Brooks.
Orrin Treat, b. about 1792 ; d. July 3, 1815, aged 23, not m. He served during
the War of 1812 in Captain Erastus Strong's Company, from Aug. 18, 1814, to
Oct. 25, 1814.
315 Sophia Treat, b. Feb. 6, 1795 ; m. Isaac Collins.
Robert Treat, b. about 1798 ; d. Jan., 1817, aged 19, at Martinique, West Indies.
316 Charles Treat, jr., b. Oct. 27, 1801; m. Matilda Cooly.
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155. REUBEN^ ABBEY, son of Samuel* Abbe, born April 11, 1770. He and
his wife joined the Church at Eastbury, Conn., November 6, 1762. He was a
resident of Glastonbury in 1800; 1 male over 45, 1 female between 26 and 45,
1 male between 10 and 16, 2 females and 1 male under 10, in tlie family.
Married (1) November 10, 1791, at Glastonbury, Conn., MRS. EUNICE
(GOOD ALE) WILLIAMS, died about 1808.
Married (2) MRS. REEVES.
Married (3) July 9, 1812, at Glastonbury, MRS. MARY TRYON of Chatham,
recorded by 1st Society of Wethersfield.
Children, first five baptized at Easthunj
Lorra Abhey, bapt. Nov. 6, 1792 ; went to western New York in early life.
Asa Williams Abbey, bapt. Oct. 20, 1794; d. April 8, 1795, aged 1 yr., 6 mos.
Abigail Abbey, bapt. May 7, 1796; m. Ezekiel Post of Hebron, Conn.
Horace Abbey, bapt. June 8, 1800. Went to Cooperstown, N. Y., about 1810.
Was said to have been sheriff of Chautauqua County, N. Y.
Norman Abbey, bapt. Oct. 8, 1801.
Loren Abbey, perhaps mistake for Norman. Went to Cooperstown, N. Y.
317 Julius Abbey, b. about 1805 ; m. Lucy A. Lord.
Ambrose Abbey. An Ambrose Abbey d. in Portland, Conn., Feb. 14, 1881.
156. ASAPH5 ABBEY, son of Samuel* and Sarah (Leland) Abbe, born
August 26, 1776; died December 17, 1831, in Portland, Conn.; buried in Eastern
Cemetery, Portland. He was a farmer and tavern keeper in the north part of
Portland, and was captain in one of the old militia companies.
Married June 1, 1800, RUTH HOLLISTER, born October 25, 1781, in Glaston-
bury, Conn.; died February 20, 1868, in Cleveland, Ohio, and was buried there.
She was daughter of David and Prudence (Miller) HoUister.
Children
318 Anson Abbey, b. March 9, 1801 ; m. Clarissa Taylor.
319 Pamclia Abbey, h. July 19, 1802; m. Russell Pelton.
Asaph Abbey, jr., h. Jan. 26, 1804 ; d. in Cleveland, Ohio, April 1, 1859. He was
a peddler of Yankee notions, traveling over the whole central west. Married in
Pennsylvania, Anna Mary . Child (perhaps others) : Samuel, lives in
Pueblo, Colo. ; not m.
David Abbey, b. Sept. 9, 1805 ; d. in Cleveland, Ohio, June 30, 1856. He was a
hardware merchant and had also been in business in Akron, Ohio, and in Pitts-
burgh, Pa. Married Sarah , and had six children, of whom one is living,
Charles, of Isle of Pines.
Russell Abbey, b. Feb. 3, 1807 ; d. in Chicago, Aug. 28, 1888. He was a peddler,
later a merchant, lost heavily in the fire in Chicago, where he was in business.
During the gold excitement he went to California overland and was one of the
two survivors of the party. Married Emily Bruce. Children : i. Milton, d,
; ii. Eldorado, d. ; iii. Emily, m. Bruce and lives in
Chattanooga, Tenn., has a son Russell Abbey.
Ruth Abbey, b. Oct. 27, 1808; d. in Concord, Minn., Feb. 16. 188.3. Married
Charles L. Shepard, of Portland, Conn., b. 1799, probably in Chatham, Conn.,
son of Andrew and Deliverance (Leland) Shepard. No children.
320 Prudence Miller Abbey, b. March 18, 1811 ; m. Edwin Bell.
321 Sarah Ann Abbey, b. Jan. 29, 1813; m. Charles Bartlett.
322 William Warren Abbey, b. Oct. 18, 1814; m. (1) Sophronia Tryon ; (2) Emily
Anderson; (3) Charlotte Taylor.
Henry Augustus Abbey, b. Nov. 10, 1816; d. in Portland, Nov. 5 (or 25), 1820.
323 Grove Nelson Abbey, b. Aug. 19, 1818 ; m. Sarah Goodale.
Samuel Abbey, b. April 13, 1820 ; d. in Sandwich, 111., July 17, 1889. He was a
peddler, and, later, traveling salesman for his two brothers. He m. twice. He
is probably the Samuel Abbey who m. Mary E. , b. about 1823 and had
child: Henry Earl, b. May 16, 1848, in Glastonbury, Conn. Child by second
marriage: Ruth, m. Lewis; lives at Oak Park, 111., has four children:
Jean, Frances, Elizabeth, and .
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Lucy EUzaheth Ahbcy, b. Nov. 1, 1825 ; in., Jan., 1848, James Dwight Johnson of
Portland, Conn., a sea captain, b. Oct. 19, 1832 ; d. April 7, 1892 ; son of
Seth and Emily (Tracy) Johnson. She is stiU living (1913) in Chicago.
Children : i. Alice, lives in Chicago, m. George Blair, has a son, Edward
Johnson, who was graduated from Cornell University in 1905, is connected with
the engineering department of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railway
Company in Chicago, m. Mary Pardee and has children, Dorothy and Harriet
Alice ; ii. Ruth Emily.
157. JOHNS BIDWELL, son of Daniel and Agnes* (Abbe) Bidwell, born
December 28, 1750, at Chatham, Conn.; died November 8, 1825. Removed to
near Kinderhook, Columbia County, N. Y., in August, 1799, and was admitted by
letter to the Kinderhook Church, May 8, 1802. He bouglit and sold land at
Chatham between 1773 and 1803. He w-as a Captain in the Revolution. Both
he and his wdfe are buried at Kinderhook.
Married at Chatham, August 15, 1775, SARAH PENFIELD, born November
6, 1756, at Chatham; died March 19, 1846. Daughter of Major and Lieutenant-
Colonel John Penfield. She served as a ntirse in the War of 1812, and received
a pension for her services. She married (2), when nearly eighty, Colonel William
Potter, born 1741; died January 20, 1833, whose first wife was Freelove Knight.
Children
Daniel Bidivell, b. Aug. 2, 1776 ; d. in the South, Oct. 16, 1797 ; not m.
Sarah Bidivell, b. Sept. 15, 1777.
Anne Bidivell, h. Dec. 25, 1777 ; d. Nov. 2, 1779.
John Bidivell, b. Oct. 2, 1780; d. Nov. 6, 1795.
David Bidwell, b. Sept. 21, 1782; d. Nov. 7, 1839; m. 1812, Amy C. Potter,
daughter of Colonel AVilliam Potter.
Alexander Bidivell, b. June 11, 1784; d. Nov. 17, 1858.
Halseij Bidwell, b. May 10, 1786 ; d. July 12, 1847.
Anne Bidivell, b. June 7, 1787; m. WiUiam Potter, son of Colonel WiUiam Potter.
Benjamin Bidivell, b. May 7, 1790 ; d. Dec. 21, 1862.
Horace Bidivell (twin), b. March 21. 1793; d. June 15, 1849.
Hod Bidivell (twin), b. March 21, 1793; d. June 2, 1837.
John Bidivell, b. May 15, 1796; d. Jan. 8, 1823.
158. SARAH5 BIDWELL, daughter of Daniel and Agnes* (Abbe) Bidwell,
born March 12, 1753; died December 8, 1795.
Married in Chatham, Conn., May 18, 1775, ABNER PELTON, born March
4, 1755, at Chatham; died January 17, 1846. Son of Joseph and Anna (Pen-
field) Pelton. He lived and died at Portland, Conn.
Married (2) MRS. DOROTHY EAGLE Y.
Children, torn at Portland
Matilda Pelton, b. July 29, 1776; d. Feb. 24, 1851; m. at Portland, Dec. 31,
1797, Jonathan Bush.
Ainos Pelton, b. April 21, 1779 ; d. Oct. 10, 1796, killed by falling from a tree.
324 Ahner Pelton, b. April 15, 1781; m. (1) Esther HamUn ; (2) Mrs. Sophronia
(Strong) Whitmore.
Sarah Pelton, b. April 11, 1783; d. Sept. 18, 1867; resided at Middle Haddam,
Conn. Married at Portland, Oct. 24, 1804 or 5, Jabez C. Norton, son of John
Norton of Chatham. They had eight children.
Jeremiah Pelton, b. April 14, 1786; d. July 17, 1822. He was a cripple and
never m.
Vienna Pelton, b. July 4, 1788; d. April 21, 1813; lived and d. in Turin, Lewis
County, N. Y. Married, July 4, 1808, Ducll Goff of East Haddam, Conn. Child :
PhiUnda, m. Thayer. She d. in Evansvillo. Ind., where her sons pubUshed
a paper. One son, Duell, lived in Brooklyn, N. Y.
PhiUnda Pelton, b. Feb. 28, 1791 ; d. April 8, 1878, in Portland ; not m.
Fifth Generation 95
159. JONATHAN' ABBEY, 3D, son of Jonathan*, jr., and Alice (Johnson)
Abbey, born February 2G, 1853, in AVillington, Conn.; died October 5, 1807, at
Olive (Shokan), N. Y. He was probably living at Ashford, Conn., at the time
of the 1790 Census, 2 males over 18, 3 males under 18, 5 females in the family.
In the 1800 Census he is recorded with 1 male and 1 female over 45, 1 male
and 2 females between 16 and 26, and 1 male between 10 and 16. He removed
to Shokan, Ulster County, N. Y., in 1802.
The story is told in the family that Jonathan Abbey was in the company of
patriots with General Israel Putnam when, on February' 26, 1779, General Putnam
escaped from 1500 English and Tories by running his horse doAvn a hundred
steps in the rock at Horseneek Hill, Greenwich, Conn. Jonathan said that
Putnam told his men to look out for themselves, to retreat as best they could,
and that he, being mounted, would take care of himself. The British broke
in upon the company, who ran into a swamp, and Putnam started off, closely
pursued by dragoons. Presently pistol shots were heard, Putnam dashed down
the rocky steps, and the company never expected to behold him alive again,
but soon they were delighted to see him come cantering back as if nothing
had hajipened, and with no wound greater than a bullet-hole through his
three-cornered hat.
Botli Jonathan Abbey and his wife were buried in a cemetery at the site
of the Ashokan Dam, and their remains were in 1910 removed to the Montrepose
Cemeter\' in Kingston, by their descendants, Charles Augustus Abbey and Henry
Abbey. The inscriptions read as follows:
In Memory of
Jonathan Abbey
Died
Oct. 5th, 1807
55th year of his age.
In Memory of
Lucy Abbey
wife of
Jonathan Abbey
Died
January 21, 1828
in the 7Gth year of her age.
Married 1778, MRS. LUCY (KNOX) ROBBINS, born April 19, 1753, in
Ashford; died January 21, 1828, in Ulster County, N. Y. She was connected
with the family of the celebrated John Knox and was the widow of Samuel
Robbins, by whom she had a son, Samuel.
Childreti of Jonathan Alley, last three recorded in Ashford (at Warrenville) , Conn.
325 David Alley, h. Feb. 8, 1779 ; m. Nancy Farnham.
Mary Alley, b. Dee. 19, 1780, in Ashford ; was living in 1863 ; m. Remilton Jones
and settled near Worcester, Mass.
326 Sarah Alley, h. Aug. 1, 1784 ; m. John Brown.
327 John Alley, b. Nov. 18, 1789; m. Catherine North.
_160. WALTERS GEER, son of ShubaeP and Hannah (Pease) Geer, born
1759, probably in Enfield, Conn., although his birth is not recorded there with
other children of Shubael and Hannah; died about 1808. He served in the
Revolutionary army 1778. Resided in New Hampshire, at Charlestown, Lebanon,
and Keene, at Windsor, Vt., and at Salem, N. Y., after about 1796. One of
his daughters died in Keene, January, 1792.
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Married LUCY ALLEN, daughter of Benjamin and Peggy (Spafford) Allen,
born in Charlestown, N. H., March 28, 1758.
Children
Harmony Gecr, b. in Lebanon, June 27, 1784.
(JDaughter), b. in Windsor, Nov. 7, 1786; d. before 1790.
Lucy Oeer, b. in Charlestown, Jan. 29, 1789.
328 Walter Gecr, jr., b. Jan. 9, 1792 ; m. Henrietta VanBuren.
161. ELIZABETH^ TERRY, daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth-^ (Geer)
Terry, born in Enfield, Conn., Februaiy 28, 1749-50 (Enfield records), or October
6, 1756 (Terry Genealogy) ; died December 25, 1830. Resided in Coventry,
Conn.
Married SAMUEL LILLIE, died June 10, 1832.
Children
Ira Lillie, b. in Coventry, July 1, 1781; d. there Nov. 30, 1823. Married (1)
Nov. 3, 1805, Lois Kingsbury, b. in Coventry, Jan. 14, 1781, daughter of
Lieutenant Joseph and Lois (Porter) Kingsbury, d. Nov. 20, 1811; no children.
Married (2) May 2, 1813, Persis Kingsbury, sister of above, b. in Coventry,
Dec. 10, 1789; d. Oct. 31, 1854. Children: i. Marcus, b. March 3, 1814, d.
June 3, 1897, served as member of the House of Repi'esentatives and of the
State Senate, director in the Tolland County Insui-ance Co. for years, deacon
of the Coventry Congregational Church, m. (1) May 24, 1836, Eunice Porter,
who d. March 23, 1857, (2) April 8, 1868, Ruth Kingsbury, daughter of Al\in
and Emeline (Kingsbury) Kingsbury, who is still li\ing at Baltic, Conn.
Children of Marcus Lillie by first wife (none by second) : (a) George A., b. in
Coventry, Sept. 19, 1837, d. Nov. 9, 1866, m. Nov. 3, 1858, Julia C. Gleason,
no children; (b) Frederic Abbe, b. July 15, 1846, or 1847, in Coventry, teacher
in East Hampton, Rock\ille, Portland, East Hartford and Manchester, Conn.,
m. in East Hampton, Aug. 18, 1870, Laura Louise Kellogg, b. in Hebron, Conn.,
July 26, 1851, daughter of Jared Comstock and Frances Matilda (Day) KeUogg,
has three children, b. at East Hampton, May Eunice, b. May 20, 1871, George
Henry, b. April 30, 1875, d. at Portland, May 31, 1885, and Charles Albert,
b. April 10, 1880. ii. (child of Ira Lillie) EUzabeth T., b. Nov. 26, 1817, d. in
Chicago, Feb. 3, 1888, m. Sept. 15, 1835, Nathaniel Kingsbury Root, of Chicago,
son of Nathaniel and Almaria (Page) Root of Coventry, and had son, Williston
Kingsbury, b. Dec. 8, 1845, d. March 5, 1846; iii. Anna, bapt. Jan. 2, 1820;
iv. Janet, b. May 31, 1821, or 1822, m. May 4, 1869, A. J. Battin, and d. June
13, 1875, leaving no children.
Jeduthan Lillie, b. 1786; d. Sept. 30, 1842; lived in Coventry. Married Sarah
Hyde, b. in Lebanon, Conn., about 1787 ; d. about 1846 ; daughter of Elijah
Clark and Sarah (Taylor) Hyde. Child: Nisa, m. as his first wife, Zenas
Loomis of Coventry, and d. without children. He m. (2) her cousin, Henrietta
Dunham, daughter of Ralph and Melinda (Hyde) Dunham, b. Nov. 18, 1818, by
whom he had a daughter, Nisa Lilly, b. March 15, 1845.
Eunice Lillie, m. Timothy Badger and removed to Bridgewater, N. Y.
Narcissa Lillie.
162. AARON'^ PEASE, JR., son of Aaron and Anna* (Geer) Pease, born in
Enfield, Conn., June 3, 1752; lived and died in that place.
Married HULDAH SPENCER, daughter of Jonathan Spencer, sr., of Somers,
Conn.
Children, horn in Enfield
Hannah Pease, m. as her second husband, Benjamin, who d. before 1849.
Huldah Pease, m. Pliny Cadwell of Wilbraham, Mass.
Tahiiha Pease, m. Dudley Summers of Chatham, Conn.
Aurelia Pease, m. Gilbert of Tolland, Conn.
Ruth Pease, d. young ; unm.
Jerusha Pease, m. Joseph Sheldon of Hartford, Conn.
Fifth Generation 97
Aaron Pease, 3d, b. Sept. 9, 1777. Lived in Mitldletown, Conn., and d. there 1848.
He was engaged in ship-building and in the wholesale grocery business with his
brother, Randolph. During the War of 1812 he and his cousins fitted out a
number of vessels at Marblehead for the West Indies trade, some of which were
lost. Married Feb. 27, 1812, Nancy Griswold of Chicopee, Mass., daughter of
Joseph Griswold. She d. in Middletown, aged 84. Children, b. in Middletown :
i. Mary M., b. Feb. 3, 1813, m. (1) Arcl Utley, (2) Homer FrankHn ; ii.
Nancy A., b. Dec. 2G, 1814, m. Ezra AVhite ; iii. Aaron G., b. Jan. 7, 1817;
iv. Robert A., b. Aug. 30, 1819, m. (1) Sarah A. Jones, (2) Hannah A.
Spencer; v. Randolph, b. Sept. 20, 1824; vi. Frances Louise, b. 1826.
329 William Agift Pease, b. Sept., 1779 ; m. Betsey Ranuey.
Levi Pease, m., 1811, Almira Banks. Children : i. Catherine ; ii. Charles.
Spencer Pease, m. and lived in Providence. No children.
Randolph Pease, b. about 1788 ; d. in Middletown, Conn., May 1, 1860. He was
connected with a grocery firm with his brothers. Married, 1807, Susan Paddock.
Children, b. in Middletown: i. and ii. Randolph and Samuel (twins), b. 1807,
d. in infancv ; iii. Susan (1), b. 1808, d. in infancy; iv. Amelia, b. June, 1811,
m. Patrick Saygon ; v. Susan (2), b. Sept. 12, 1820, m. 1839, Christopher
Collins and lived in Middletown ; vi. Lucy A., b. May 26, 1826.
163. STONE^ PEASE, sou of Aaron and Anna* (Geer) Pease, born in
Enfield, Conn., June 11, 1759, and resided there. Died August 28, 182.3.
Married September 15, 1780, ASENATH PEASE, daughter of Israel and Ann
( ) Pease, born in Enfield, October 19, 1761.
Children, horn in Enfield
Stone Pease, jr., b. July 2, 1781 ; d. March 9, 182.5 ; m. Oct. 20, 1807, .
Children, b. in Enfield: i. Horace B., b. April 10, 1810, d. Dec. 7, 18-30; ii.
Joseph S., b. Jan. 7, 1815, d. Feb. 28, 1847 ; iii. Elizabeth S., b. Sept. 12, 1817.
330 Horace Pease, b. July 7, 1783; m. Mrs. Rebecca (Parsons) Carrier.
(Jhauncey (1) Pease, b. May 4, 1786; d. young.
Asenath Pease, b. Aug. 13, 1787 ; m. John Hawkins and settled in Ohio.
Mary Pease, b. June 1, 1789 ; m. Henry Barber and settled in East Windsor, Conn.
Chauncey (2) Pease, b. Aug. 19, 1792. He was a blacksmith in Hartford, Conn.
Married, Oct. 7, 1821, Elizabeth Holcomb. Child : Milton L., b. in Springfield,
Feb. 17, 1823 ; resided there and later in Hartford ; m. May, 1845, Dorothy A.
CadweU.
Nancy Pease, b. Aug., 1796 ; m. Moses Prase.
Tudor Pease, b. Feb. 3, 1799 ; d. April, 1843 ; not m.
Agnes Pease, b. Jan. 10, 1801 ; m. William Loomis and settled in East Windsor.
Oeer C. Pease, b. Dec. 18, 1804 ; d. in Enfield, May 10, 18.37 ; m. xVug. 31, 1831,
Almira Chapiu. Children, b. in Enfield : i. Henry B., b. June 24, 1832, d. Jan,
23, 1838; ii. Mary M., b. Oct. 20, 1833, d. May 27, 1836; iii. Agnes A., b.
Nov. 21, 1834 ; iv. Edwin G., b. Aug. 31, 1836.
164. EPHRAIM5 PEASE, son of Aaron and Anna* (Geer) Pease, born in
Enfield, Conn., June 5, 1765. Lived in Enfield, and later, after 1804, in Lee,
N. T., where he died.
Married November 24, 1785, JENNIE PHELPS.
Children, horn in Enfield
Arvin B. Pease, b. July 6, 1787 ; lived in Lee ; m. Nov. 17, 1808, Sedate Yeomans.
Children, b. in Lee: i. Abby, b. Sept. 22, 1810, m. 1831, Lorenzo Baker; ii.
Jemima, b. Jan. 7, 1812, m. March 6, 1832, Samuel Underbill ; iii. EUza, b. May
7, 1815, m. July 6, 1834. Charles C. Hovey ; iv. Henry G., b. Dec. 5, 1818. m. Nov.
8, 1826, Harriet Twitchell ; v. Morris A., b. June 8, 1821, d. in London, England,
Nov. 11, 1842 ; vi. Zenana, b. May 5, 1824, m. April 4, 1844, Joseph DcCory.
Orrin Pease, b. Dec. 19, 1788 ; settled in Watertown, Wis. ; m. and had five
children.
Willis F. Pease, b. Sept. 4, 1792 ; d. young.
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165. DENNIS^ BEMENT, JR., son of Dennis and Mary* (Abbe) Bement,
born in Enfield, Conn., February 11, 1743-4; lived in Enfield and died there,
March 3 (or 12), 1820.
Married LYDIA , born 1748; died August 3, 1829, aged 81.
Children, torn in Enfield
Lydia Bement, b. Jan. 31, 1771. Married (1) Nov. 27, 1788, in Enfield, Benjamin
Parsons, son of Thomas Parsons. His will was made June 22, 1812, and
probated Aug. 10, 1812. She m. (2) before 1829, Elisha Holton, who d. Feb. 3,
1837, aged 84, and whose first wife was Mary Abbe, daughter of Richard and
Mary (Bement) Abbe. See number 80. Children of Lydia Bement and Ben-
jamin Parsons, b. in Enfield : i. Benjamin Bement, m. in Enfield, June 13, 1814,
Sophie Gleasou of Enfield, and had sons Benjamin, b. Feb. 25, 1816, and Norman,
b. Aug. 20, 1819; ii. Lydia; iii. Elizabeth; iv. Mary, b. May 1, 1769; v.
Hannah ; vi. Achsa, b. April 9. 1771 ; vii. Minerva.
Dennis (1) Bement, b. Jan. 5, 1774; d. Oct. 19, 1775.
Elizabeth Bement, b. Aug. 18, 1775 ; m. June 7, 1798, in Enfield, Dr. Horatio
Arnold Hamilton of Sandersfield. Children: i. (daughter), d. May 7, 1806,
aged 14 hours ; ii. Aupha Charlotte, d. April 9, 1811, aged 1 yr., 10 mos. ; iii.
(son), d. Nov. 16, 1811, aged 27 hours.
Mary Bement, m. Obadiah" Olmstead, b. Sept. 30, 1778 ; d. March 4, 1826 ; son of
Simeon and Roxalenah' (Abbe) Olmsted.
Pina Bement, b. 1780; d. April 11, 1832, aged 52. Married in Enfield, Jan. 2,
1804, Seth Alden, son of Amos and Hannah ( ) Alden, b. Sept. 26, 1779;
d. May 14, 18.32. Both d. from a fever. Children, b. in Enfield: i. Seth,
b. Aug. 20, 1805, m. and had at least two children, Edmond B., and Roselle, who
d. in Enfield, Aug. 19, 1840, aged 18 months ; ii. Edmond Bement, b. May 3, 1807,
a farmer in Enfield, was transferred to the Thompsonville Presbyterian Church
April 9, 1848, m. (1) Flavia B. Meacham, daughter of Jesse and Naomi ( )
Meacham, who d. Aug. 10, 1847, aged 29, m. (2) Feb. 26, 1848, Augustine
Denison, b. in Palmer, Mass., about 1816 ; iii. Hannah Bush, b. June 26, 1809,
m. in Enfield. Oct. 16, 1832, Lester H. Grover of Tolland ; iv. Diantha Maria,
b. July 31, 1811, m. in Enfield, Dec. 24, 1835, Simeon H. Dunham of Vernon,
Oneida County, N. Y. ; v. Aupha Hamilton, b. June 21, 1813, m. in Enfield,
Nov. 10, 18.36, Charles Killam, son of George Killam, b. in Enfield, Oct. 17, 1812,
and had children, Sarah Maria, bapt. in Enfield, July 5, 1840, and Charles
Armitage, bapt. July 12, 1842 ; vi. Lovisa C, b. June 9, 1816, m. April 27, 1842,
Sylvester Ellis of New Britain, Conn.
331 Dennis (2) Bement, b. Aug. 20. 1782; m. Huldah Holkins.
Delight Bement, m. Oct. 29, 1808, in Enfield, Roderick White, who was transferred
to the Hartford Church, Dec. 6, 1829. Children, b. in Enfield: i. Roderick
Adams, b. Oct. 24, 1809 ; ii. Mary, b. Dec. 4, 1812 ; iii. Deha, b. Jan. 11, 1819 ;
iv. CaroHue Elizabeth, bapt. July 1, 1827.
Charlotte Bement, b. Nov. 3, 1788; m. Richard Abbe, 3d, son of Richard, jr., and
Lydia (Steveson) Abbe; see number 395.
166. NATHANIEL' CHAPIN, JR., son of Nathaniel and Sarah* (Abbe)
Chapin, born in Enfield, Conn., December 31, 1738; died there February 11,
1831. He always resided in Enfield. He served in the Revolution and was
made Ensign of the 2d Company, 3d Battalion, by vote of the Assembly.
Married (1) in Enfield, December 10, 1761, SYBIL TERRY, born in Enfield,
August 8, 1740; died there June 26, 1775. She was daughter of Major Ephraim
and Ann (Collins) Terry.
Married (2) ZERVIAH PARSONS.
Children, prohahly all "by first xcife and horn in Enfield
Jahez (1) Chapin (twin), b. .June 11, 1762; d. in infancy.
332 Nathaniel Chapin (twin), b. June 11, 1762; m. (1) Cynthia Perkins; (2) Lovisa
Sexton.
333 Jahcz (2) Chapin, b. Nov. 24, 1764; m. Lucy Dwight.
ISimcon Chapin, d. in Enfield.
Sybil Chapin, m. in Enfield, Nov. 26, 1788, Thomas Metcalf.
334 Esther Chapin, b. Jan. 20, 1771; m. Moses Allen.
Elizabeth Chapin, d. unm.
Fifth Generation 99
167. ELIPHALET-' CHAPIN, son of Natlianiel and Sarah* (Abbe) Chapin,
born in Enlicld, Conn., March 2, 1741.
Married AZUBA PEASE.
Children
335 EUphalct Chapin, jr., h. nOo: m. Abigail Pease.
tSarah Chapin, d. April 23, 1848, aged 84; m. Levi Meacham of Eufield, and bad
two children.
Polly Chapin, m. James W. Talcott of Chicopee, Mass., and bad four children.
Persis Chapin, resided in Chicopee; m. Eli Hays and had seven children.
Azuha Chapin, resided at Warehouse Point, Conn., later at South Hadley, Mass.;
m. Ebcnezer Collins, a distiller. They had seven children, of whom were:
i. Eliza Dixon, bapt. in Enfield, Jan. 27, 1828, d. May 18, 1835 ; ii. John, b. in
Enfield, March, 1830, d. Oct. 13, 1830 ; iii. Henry E., b. in Enfield, July 7, 1831,
d. May 7, 1835.
336 Thomas Chapin (twin), m. xVnna (or Mary) Pease.
Ohadiah Chapin (twin with Thomas), m. Lois Rose of Granville. Children:
i. Obadiah, jr., lived in New Hampshire, m. and had children; ii. Laura, unm. ;
iii. Harriet, m. Dole of Westfield ; iv. Eliza? m. Lee of Northamp-
ton ; V. Cynthiaett, m. Deacon Alfred Worthington of Agawam.
Lovica Chapin, m. Abel Terry and lived in Auburn, N. Y. They had five children,
one of w^hom was Orrin. Orrin Terry, b. June G, 1806, in Auburn, dealer in
hides and leather in New York City, m. April 23, 1851, Adeline Hall of
Skaneateles, N. Y. No children.
337 George Chapin, b. 1771 ; m. Lucy Parsons.
168. SIBYL5 PEASE, daughter of Ephraim and Tabitha* (Abbe) Pease,
born in Enfield, Conn., May 20, 1754; died September 12, 1822. Her tombstone
inscription reads: Mrs. Sibyl, daughter of Captain Ephraim and Mrs. Tabitha
Pease, 25 years wife of Rev. Elam Potter and 12 years wife of Rev. Nehemiah
Prudden, born May 20, 1754; died September 12, 1822.
Married (1) REVEREND ELAM POTTER, a native of Plymouth, Conn., and
a Yale graduate. He was the third minister settled in Enfield, in 1769, was
dismissed in 1776 on account of a religious controversy. He died in 1794, aged
52. His estate was distributed March 8, 1804, to widow, now the wife of
Nehemiah Prudden, and to the children, Elam 0., Ephraim P., Tabitha Killam,
Sibvl Bontecou, Nancy, Peter P., and Mary.
Married (2) REVEREND NEHEMIAH PRUDDEN, born in Milford, Conn.,;
died September 7, 1815, in his 66th year. He was a Yale graduate and suc-
ceeded Reverend Elam Potter as minister to the Enfield Church. His first
wife w^as Agnes Pease, sister of Sibyl. See number 169. No children by this
wife.
Children of Sihyl and Elam Potter, horn in Enfield
Elam O. Potter, b. July 29, 1775; d. April 16, 1827. He was a merchant in New
York City but later returned to Enfield. He was town clerk in 1822 and for
fifteen years thereafter, justice of the peace, selectman, and was sent as
representative to the General Assembly. Married Sarah but had no
children. His estate was divided between his widow Sarah and relatives :
Tabitha Killam ; Nancy In graham ; Mary TuUy ; children of the late Sibyl
Bontocou ; Ephraim P. Potter ; and heirs of the late Peter P. Potter.
338 Tabitha Potter, b. Nov. 6, 1776; m. Captain Lot Killam.
339 Ephraim Pease Potter, b. Oct. 9, 1777; m. (1) ; (2) Abigail Terry.
Martha Potter, b. Oct. 17, 1779: d. Nov. 20. 1802; not m.
Sihi/l Potter, b. Nov. 20, 1781; d. before 1827; m. in Enfield, Sept. 16, 1798,
Daniel Bonticou. Children : i. Catharine R. ; ii. Daniel, jr. ; iii. Martha ; iv.
Sibyl ; v. Mary.
Xancy Potter; h. March 26, 1784. Married April 3, 1806, in Eufield, Joseph
Ingraham. who d. there June 15, 1842, aged 55. Children, born in Enfield :
i. John, b. June 9, 1807 ; ii. Joseph, b. July 14. 1808 ; iii. EUzabcth, b. Dec. 8,
ISIO: iv. Obadiah Pease, b. Aug. 6. 1813; v. Sarah Potter, b. Dec. 29, 1816;
vi. William Tully, bapt. in Enfield, Aug. 17, 1824, m, there May 13, 1845, Eunice
P. Loomer, both of South Hadley, Mass.
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Peier Pease Potter, b. Aug. 21, 1786; d. June 22, 1827. Married in Enfield,
Oct. 3, 1814, Hannah Wells Reynolds. Children, b. in Enfield : i. Hannah
Reynolds, b. March 31, 1816 ; ii. Peter Reynolds, b. Aug. 29, 1819 ; iii. Maria E. ;
iv. Elani Obadiah, b. July 11, 1827.
Mary Potter, b. April 21, 1791; transferred to the Middletown Church, 1819.
Married in Enfield, Jan. 5, 1813, Dr. William TuUy. Child: Eunice, b. in
Enfield, Nov. 5, 1813.
169. AGNES^ PEASE, daughter of Epliraim and Tabitha* (Abbe) Pease,
born in Enfield, Conn., February 6, 1760; died February 13, 1799.
Married December 10, 1783, REVEREND NEHEMIAH PRUDDEN, born in
Milford, Conn.; died September 7, 1815, in his 66th year. He Avas gi-aduated
from Yale before 1782. He married (2) Sibyl Pease, sister of his first wife.
Children, lorn in Enfield
Agnes Prudden, b. Oct. 11, 1784 ; d. before 1857. She and her daughter Harriet
were dismissed from the church at Enfield in 1829, having removed to Michigan
in 1824 ; and joined the church at Ann Arbor. Married in Enfield, March 23,
1802, Roswell Parsons, b. Oct. 21, 1783, son of Major Joseph and Anna ( )
Parsons. Children, b. in Enfield : i. Harriet Grace, b. Feb. 5, 1803 ; ii. Nehemiah
Prudden, b. Feb. 5, 1805 ; iii. Philo, b. April 15, 1807 ; iv. Addison, b. July 6,
1809 ; V. Wealthy Angeline, b. Aug. 14, 1811 ; vi. James Luther, bapt. Jan. 10,
1834.
Epliraim Pease Prudden, b. Feb. 4, 1788 ; d. in Enfield, July 26, 1836. Married
Laura , who d. March 24, 1840, aged 44. Child, b. in Enfield : Nehemiah
Henry, b. March 10, 1820, d. Sept. 6, 1839, in Enfield. Record of his death is
given as Henry N.
Hannah ISlewton Prudden, b. Sept. 25, 1795 ; was dismissed to the Presbyterian
Church at Ann Arbor, Mich., Sept. 16, 1838.
170. THOMAS^ GEER, son of Thomas and Hannah* (Abbe) Geer, born in
Enfiekl, Conn., October 5, 1746; died April 10, 1827. Removed from Enfield to
Charlestown, N. H., 1780, on the memorable dark day of that year.
Married MARY PEASE, born September 25, 1749 ; died about 1841, aged 92.
Children, first three horn in Enfield, others in Charlestown
Horace Geer, b. March 21, 1773; d. Sept. 23, 1844; m. Nancy Owen.
Mary Geer, b. March 29, 1775 ; d. May 14, 1839.
William Geer, b. Dec. 3, 1777 ; d. May 10, 1834. Probably the William Geer who
lived in Shelburae, Vt.
Philena Geer, b. July 19, 1780; d. Sept. 21, 1840; m. Jan. 18, 1802, Lemuel T.
Cheney, b. Jan. 18, 1802, in Westmoreland.
340 Sibyl Geer, b. April 11, 1783 ; m. Robert Bostwick.
Thomas Geer, jr., b. Aug. 13, 1785 ; d. May 12, 1851. Lived in Vergennes.
Married Feb. 22, 1810, Nancy Woodbridge, b. Aug. 10, 1789, daughter of Enoch
and Nancy (Winchell) Woodbridge.
341 Seth Geer, h. June 30, 1788 ; m. Mary Pier.
Noah Phelps Geer, b. May 28, 1791; d. in Charlestown, N. H., May 22, 1877.
Married Feb. 8, 1814, Sally Buchanan, b. July 25, 1791; d. June 10, 1873,
daughter of Joshua and Anna (Parks) Buchanan. Children; i. Marv, b.
Jan., 1821, d. Oct. 1, 1892 ; ii. Maria, b. May 5, 1823, m. 1844, A. Kingsbury
Maynard of Walpole, N. H. ; iii. William, b. 1826, m. Dec. 21, 1871, Amogene A.
Crosby, daughter of John M. and Amelia ( ) Crosby ; iv. Sibyl, m. 1849,
Henry Turner.
Cynthia Geer, b. Sept. 11, 1793; d. Aug. 14, 1838. Married Sept., 1814, Peter
Joslyn Boynton, who d. Aug. 20, 1867. Resided in Hinesburg. Children :
i. Noble Lovely, b. Jan. 6, 1820, m. twice ; ii. Fidelia, b. Aug. 20, 1821, m. John
F. Miles ; iii. Sidney, b. Nov. 3, 1824, m. Weeks ; iv. Edgar, b. April 14,
1826; V. Cecilia Cynthia, b. Aug. 3, 1828, m. Ebenezer E. Lewis, had children,
Kate and Frank (twins), Ebenezer S., and William O. ; vi. Jane Letisa, b.
Jan. 8, 1831,
Fifth Generation 101
171. ELIHU^ GEER, son of Thomas and Hannah* (Abbe) Geer, born in
Enfield, Conn., May 3, 1749; died May 11, 1801. He was one of the first to
enlist at the Lexington Alarm in Enfield and was later an Orderh^ Sergeant of
Connecticut troops in the Revolution. The family Bible is in the possession of
Everett Selden Geer.
Married in Enfield, December 10, 1774, ELEANOR MC CLESTER, born Sep-
tember 13, 1757; died April 18, 1843, in Manchester. She was daughter of
James and McClester of Enfield and sister of Jane who married Obadiah
Abbe. She is mentioned in the distribution of her father's estate 1778-1786.
(Enfield records.)
Children, horn in Enfield
Nancy (1) Ocer, b. Oct., 1775; d. March, 1776.
Elihu Geer, b. Jan. 7, 1778 ; drowned at sea, Oct. 19, 1801.
Nana/ (2) Geer, b. June 15, 1781; d. 18.32. Married Sept., 1802, Benjamin
Looniis. Ten children. Descendants live in Burnside, Conn., and Galena, 111.
Hannah Geer, b. Dec. 11, 1783; d. Feb. 18, 1847. Married 1804 Joseph Thompson.
Descendants live in Manchester. Conn.
Fanny Geer, b. Jan. 7, 1786. Married Dec. 25, 1808, Chauncey Bryant of East
Hartford. Child: Perry S.
Betsey Geer, b. April 29, 1789 ; m. Aug., 1808, Chester Paine. Descendants live in
Enfield and Boston.
342 Hou-ard Geer, b. Aug. 9, 1792 : m. Sophia Gaboon.
Timothy M. Geer, b. Sept., 1795; d. in Enfield, Oct. 9, 1802.
Miles Morgan Geer, b. 1797 ; d. 1797.
172. ABIGAIL-^ PHELPS, daughter of Noah and Hannah* (Abbe) Phelps,
born in Enfield, Conn., July 20, 1760 ; died in Warren, N. Y.
Mai-ried JOHN WARD, born in Enfield, removed to Middlefield, Mass., and,
in 1798, to "Warren, Herkimer County, N. Y., where he died. He was a Revo-
lutionary soldier; carried dispatches from General Washington's headquarters;
was captured by the British and confined on a prison ship in Boston Harbor,
escaped, was recaptured and again made his escape. In the records of Connect-
ici;t soldiers is given: enlisted in 8th Regiment, Captain John Wells' companj^,
May 8, discharged December 10, 1775; again enlisted April 8, 1777, for three
years in the 3d Regiment, Connecticut line. Captain Abel's company; taken
prisoner September 18, 1777; discharged April 10, 1780.
Children, all hut last two horn in Middlefield
John Ward, jr., settled in Warren, N. Y. ; m. Sally Dusenberry ; no children.
Ahigail Ward, d. March 25, 1813, aged 21 ; m. Timothy Loomis, b. June 4, 1789,
son of Timothy and Mary (Orton) Loomis of Jordanville, N. Y. He was living
in Syracuse, N. Y.. in 1820, and m. (2) Tabitha Haskins, by whom he had:
Lucinda, Delos, Abigail, Clarissa Ann, and Andrew Jackson. Child of Abigail
Ward : Noah, b. 1812. d. aged 22.
343 Samuel Ward, b. about 1785; m. (1) Salome Loomis; (2) Persis Loomis.
Noah Ward, removed to Alden, 111., and d. there ; m. Lovina Warren.
Artemus Ward, m. (1) Diademia Delaney ; (2) Jane Freeman; (3) Almira
Bishop.
Benjamin Ward, m. Huldah Northrop and had two children.
Polly Ward, b. in Warren, N. Y., and lived there; m. Joel Northrop (or Lathrop).
Children, b. in Warren: i. John; ii. Lovisa ; iii. Chester; iv. Juha ; v. Joel;
\\. Mary.
George Ward, b. and Uved in Warren ; m. but had no children.
173. DANIELS PHELPS, son of Noah and Hannah* (Abbe) Phelps, born in
Enfield, Conn., October 9, 1763; died March 21, 1854, in East Windsor, Conn.,
where he had removed with his father. Farmer.
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Married (1) November 17, 1788, ELIZABETH PELTON, bom August 20, 1766,
in East Windsor; died June 30, 1809. She was daughter of Nathan and Ruth
(Thompson) Pelton.
Married (2) December 30, 1812, RUTH PELTON, sister of Elizabeth, born
in East Windsor, September 18 (or 19), 1769; died April 9, 1850.
Children iy first icife, horn in East Windsor
Ruth Phelps, b. Feb. 7 (or 17), 1790; d. in Warren, N. Y., March 16, 1848.
Married Jan. 20, 1823, John Loomis, born, lived and died in Warren. Children,
b. in Warren : i. William, settled in Hudson, Mich. ; ii. Charles, settled in
Oneida, N. Y. ; iii. Charlotte, m. - — — ^ Atherly and lived in Oneida.
Eanniih Phelps, b. Nov. 14 (or 24), 1791; d. June 5 (or 6), 1866, in East
Windsor ; not m.
344 Noah Phelps, b. Oct. 26, 1793 ; m. Lucy Barber.
Daniel Phelps, jr., b. Dec. 29, 1795 ; d. Aug. 6, 1822 ; not m.
345 Elizabeth Phelps, b. Dec. 30, 1797 ; m. Ashbel Barber.
346 Mary Phelps, b. Feb. 20 (or 25), 1800; m. Jason Ellsworth.
James Phelps, b. Sept. 15, 1802; farmer in East Windsor; d. there March 15,
1866. Married May 19, 1831, Mary Allen, b. in East Windsor, May 25, 1807;
d. there 1894, daughter of Joel and Lydia (Butler) Allen. Children, b. in East
Windsor: i. Charlotte, m. Pease of Springfield (Stiles says she m.
Ramsdell) ; ii. Mary, m. Ramsdell ; iii. James, jr.
Charlotte Phelps, b. Sept. (or April) 29, 1804; d. in Warren, N. Y., April 7, 1829.
Married May 11, 1828, Benjamin Allen and settled in Warren.
347 Williain Phelps, b. Sept. 19, 1806 ; m. Mary Ann Soule.
174. 0BADIAH5 PHELPS, son of Noah and Hannah* (Abbe) Phelps, born
in Enfield, Conn., February 24, 1767; died in Turin, N. Y., September 7, 1860.
He was a farmer, settled in Becket, Mass., and removed from there to Turin,
N. Y., where he taught for a time.
Married in East Windsor, Conn., December 12, 1797, LUCY PELTON, daugh-
ter of Nathan and Ruth (Thompson) Pelton, born in East Windsor, November
7, 1775; died in Turin, October 11, 1863.
Children, first three horn in Beeket, others in Turin
Lucy Phelps, b. Aug. 21, 1798 ; d. in Turin, Aug. 5, 1888. Married Homer Collins
of Collinsville, Herkimer County, N. Y.
Ohadiah Phelps, b. Nov. 26, 1800; d. March 4, 1831. He was a physician in
Canandaigua, N. Y. Married Eleanor Booth, and had two children, b. in
Canandaigua, a daughter and a son who has been member of the Legislature
in a western state.
Charlotte Phelps, b. Aug. 3, 1803; d. Jan. 1, 1834. Married Kirkland and
d. in Utica, N. Y.
Elihu Phelps, b. Dec. 8, 1805. He was a captain of a packet boat on the Erie
Canal, and lived in Buffalo, N. Y., where he died. Married in Buffalo. April,
1850, Mary J. Dover, daughter of Joseph and Mary ( ) Dover. Children,
b. in Buffalo : i. William E., b. Aug. 4, 1852, painter and decorator in Buffalo,
m. at Tonawanda, N. Y., Oct. 28, 1878, Mary A. Stegnier, b. Feb. 28, 1826, in
Tonawanda, daughter of Andrew and Sophy ( ) Stegnier. Children, b. in
Tonawanda : Esther F., b. May 26, 1879, WiUiam J., b. March 23. 1880, Mary,
b. Feb. 6, 1882, Emma, b. April 4, 1884, and Helena, b. April 24, 1887; ii.
Ehhu, jr., hved in EUington, N. Y., about 1890.
ISfoah Phelps, b. May 21, 1808 ; lived in Monroe, Green County, Wis.
Julia Phelps, b. Aug. 14, 1810; hved in Turin, N. Y.
Emily Phelps, b. June 2, 1813; d. July, 1819.
William Phelps, b. Jan. 16, 1816, in Port Leyden, N. Y. ; resided in EUington, N. Y.
Married Catherine Jacobs, b. in Nassau, N. Y., Nov. 17, 1825, daughter of
Nicholas and Lydia (Slater) Jacobs. Children: i. Darwin W., b. in Turin,
N. Y., April 18, 1848; ii. Nelhe C, b. in Turin, May 15, 1855; iii. AHda C,
b. May 19, 1857, in Turin ; iv, Wilhe, b. in EUington, July 15, 1869, d. there
Jan. 31, 1881.
Fifth Generation 103
175. OBADIAH'' ABBE, son of Thomas* and Penelope (Terry) Abbe, born
June 15, 1752, in Enfield, Conn. Lived at Warehouse Point. He appears to
have left Enfield after about 1783 as no further records of his family appear
there. One account says he moved from the Ferry ' ' out west. " He is probably
the Obadiah Abbe who was recorded in the 1790 Census in East Windsor,
Conn., 1 male over 16, 2 males under 16, 4 females in his family.
Married JANE MC CLESTER. Stiles' Ancient Windsor wrongly records that
Charles Abbe married Jane Maclester, only child of an Irish merchant, and had
daughters, Jane, born January 6, 1780, and Sally, born October 1, 1792. Mr.
James Allen Kibbe proves this error by an examination of the records in
Enfield and Hartford. He finds that James McClester left an estate settled
between October 20, 1778, and June 13, 1786, mentioning a widow, Elizabeth,
and children, James, John, Jane, wife of Obadiah Abbe, and Eleanor, wife of
Elihu Geer. (Found in Hartford probate files and partly in Book 23.)
Children, first four recorded in Enfield
James Ahte, b. June 1.3, 1775.
348 Jane Ahle, b. Jan. 6, 1778; m. John Chase.
Obadiah Abhe, b. April 5, 1780.
Elizalcih {Betsey) Abhe, b. Aug. 27, 1783.
349 Salli/ Ahhe, b. Oct. 1, 1792 ; m. John Bates.
Mary Ahhe(l).
176. PENELOPES ABBE, daughter of Thomas* and Penelope (Terry) Abbe,
born in Enfield, Conn., March 24, 1755. One account gives the death of
Penelope Abbe May 17, 1759. If so, there must have been two daughters of
that name.
Married March 30, 1786, JOSIAH BICKNELL, born December 4, 1760; died
May 17, 1824, son of Ebenezer and Mary ( ) Bicknell. He married (2)
Submit , who died October 1, 1839, aged 69. Resided in Enfield, where
numerous records of his services are found in the town records.
Children of Penelope Abhe
Laura Bieknell, b. July 17, 1787, at Enfiekl.
350 Ralph Bicknell, b. Nov. 18, 1790; m. Parna Maria Hibbard.
Uannah Bieknell, m. April 25, 1820(?), Henry Parsons of Enfield, who was
administrator of the estate of his father-iu4aw, 1824.
Josiah Bicknell, jr.
111. THOMAS^ ABBEY, 4TH, son of Thomas*, 3d, and Penelope (Terry)
Abbe, born in Enfield, Conn., March 22, 1764. He lived in Enfield at the
Ferry, and is probably the one called Thomas Abbe, 2d, in the 1790 Census,
at Enfield, 2 males over 16, 1 male under 16, and 1 female in the family. In
1810 he was recorded at Oxford, N. Y., with a family of nine, 1 male over 45, 1
female between 26 and 45, 2 males and 1 female between 16 and 26, 1 male and 1
female between 10 and 16, and 2 males under 10. Some of the children, perhaps
the whole family, removed to Ellington, N. Y.
Married in Enfield, January 9, 1787, RUTH BUSH, daughter of Jonathan
and Patience (Killam) Bush of Enfield. Jonathan Bush Avas a Captain either
in the Revolution or state militia, moved about 1800 to Chenango County,
K Y., and for many years kept a hotel at Oxford. Later he moved to a farm
near the present town of Guilford.
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Children, first four recorded in Enfield
351 Harry or Henry Abbey, b. Sept. 2, 1787 ; m. Eve IngersoU.
Harriet Abbey, b. Jan. 23, 1791; m. (1) Knowltou ; (2) Gibbs.
She had a son and daughter by the first marriage. One account says she ra. (1)
KiUam; (2) Wing.
Horace Abbey, b. Sept. 28, 1793. Resided in Columbus, Pa., removed to Kentucky.
Married and had a daughter, Sarah, who was never married but settled in
California and was killed by some unknown person.
Horatius Abbey, h. June 27, 1795; m. Martha Smith.
Hadassah or Hadasea Abbey, birth not recorded in Enfield. Married ApoUos"
Terry, son of Isaac, jr., and Hannah^ (Abbe) Terry of Enfield and later of
Sangerfield, N. Y. She lived in Kentucky in her later years.
352 Herman Abbey, m. .
Harvey Abbey, resided in Batavia, N. Y. This may be the Harvey Abbey who m.
Mary Dunham, daughter of Gideon Dunham, and resided in Oakfield, N. Y., in
1836. Child : Sanford C, b. in Oakfield, 1836, d. in Kansas City, Mo., 1886, was
a stock buyer, m. in Elba, N. Y., 1864, Catherine L. Sleeper, daughter of
John M. and Catherine ( ) Sleeper. She was living in Kansas City in 1912.
They had four children, Chauncey, who d. in 1899, John S., a stock dealer in
Kansas City, Mary E., and Mabel.
178. PETERS ABBEY, son of Thomas* and Penelope (Terry) Abbe, bom in
Enfield, Conn., July 20, 1769; died in Cleveland, Ohio, July 13, 1851. He
removed to Watertown, N. Y,, and, in 1830, accompanied his son, Seth, to
Cleveland.
Married by Rev. Nehemiah Prudden, June 23, 1789, HANNAH ALDEN, bom
May 29, 1771 ; died at Enfield, April 21, 1821. She was the daughter of Colonel
Amos and Hannah (Bush) Alden of Enfield and -was sixth in descent from
John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden. She Avas also descended from Miles and
Prudence (Gilbert) Morgan. A statue of Miles Morgan is in Court Square,
Springfield, Mass.
Children
353 Fanny Abbey, b. Sept. 7, 1789 ; m. Orlo Steele.
354 Dorrephus Abbey, b. July 13, 1792 ; m. Catherine Clark.
355 Althea Abbey, b. July 5, 1793 ; m. AVilliara A. Langworthy.
356 Arabella Abbey, b. about 1786 ; m. William Griffin Adkins, M.D.
357 Seth Alden Abbey, b. Oct. 3, 1798; m. (1) Mercy Hunt; (3) Mary (Lyon)
Goodwin.
Chauncey Abbey, d. 1850. He was a printer, lived in Watertown, N. Y., and was
at one time printer of the Mercury, Hartford, Conn. Married Cassie Russell,
who d. 1828. . A daughter, b. in 1828, m. C. M. Shipman and was living in New
Haven about 1897.
William Abbey, d. 1862 ; lived near Watertown. Married, no children. William
W. Abbey established the Oswego Republican in 1825.
358 Mary Hannah Abbey, b. Jan. 31, 1814 ; m. John C. Huganin.
179. SIMEONS ABBEY, son of Thomas* and Penelope (Terry) Abbe, born
in Enfield, Conn., February 3, 1772 ; died in Albany, N. Y., April 18, 1823. He
was a merchant in Enfield for a time, studied law, and practiced in Somers,
about 1800. From there he removed to Vermont and, later, to New York. He
is said to have possessed an unusual store of natural wit and a considerable
faculty for public speaking.
Married in Enfield, December 24, 1795, TABITHA KILLAM, born in Enfield,
November 7, 1776; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 15, 1851. She was the
daughter of Eliphalet and Submit ( ) Killam.
Children
Tabitha Abbey, b. in Enfield, Sept. 24, 1796; m. Isaac Hoose. Children: i.
Isaac, jr., ii. Jennie, m. Shipman.
Peter^ Abbey
Fifth Generation 105
Eli;:a (1) Ahhcy, b. iu Eufield, Sept. 23, 1802; d. there Aug. 29, 1804.
Eliza (2) Ahhcy, h. in Eufiold, Aug. 12, 1804; m. Spellman Gibbs. Children:
i. Silas ; ii. Sarah.
EUphalet KiUam Ahheij, b. in Somers, Conn., Nov. 12, 180G ; d. Aug. 7, 1834;
buried in Second Presbyterian Burial Ground, Albany, N. Y. Married Jano
Barhitt, who was appointed administratrix for his estate, Sept. 8, 1834. Chil-
dren : i. Louisa ; ii. Mary.
359 Westminster Simeon Ahhey, b. in Keene, N. H., Aug. 5, 1810; m. Harriet Couch.
Sarah Ann Ahhey, b. in Brookline, Vt., Oct. 13, 1814 ; m. James P. Steele. Child :
Cornelia.
180. JOHN'' ABBE, 3D, son of John*, jr., and Sarah (Root) Abbe, born in
Enfield, Conn., November 27, 1739 ; died in 1805. He lived and died in Enfield.
He and his wife, Charity, are on the list of church communicants in 1782. He
was a soldier in the Revolution. See data given under his father's name, some
of which doubtless refers to this John Abbe. His Avill, made October 8, 1804,
probated November 11, 1805, mentions wife Charity, and children, John, Sarah,
Asenath and Timothy.
Married in Enfield, November 19, 1761, CHARITY SIMONS (or SIMONDS),
born September 4, 1738, daughter of John and Sarah (Geer) Simons. See
number 66.
Children, horn in Enfield
360 Charity Ahhc, h. 'Nov. 20, 1762; m. John McKuight.
John Ahhe, 4th, b. May 15, 1764 ; d. Dec. 27, 1764.
361 John Simons Ahhe, b. Sept. 11, 1765 ; m. Hannah Billing.
Sarah Ahhe, b. July 26, 1767; d. at Warehouse Point, Conn., June 20, 1851.
Married in Enfield, April 10 (or 16), 1812, William Hyde of Ellington, Conn.,
b. at Lebanon, Conn., Jan. 16, 1756, son of William and Abigail (Langrel)
Hyde. She was his third wife. By his first marriage to Zerviah F. Hyde, he
had children, Joseph L., William and Sarah. By his second wife, Sarah Bart-
lett, he had children, Nathaniel, Asa, Elisha, Horace, John, Otis, Zerviah, Sarah
and Sophia.
Asenath Ahhe, b. May 4, 1769 ; d. Feb. 26, 1829 ; not m. In her will, made Feb.
23, 1829, probated March 29, 1829, she mentions her sister Sarah Hyde ; niece
Hannah, daughter of John Abbe ; nephew Horace, son of Timothy Abbe ; nephew
David Loveland, son of Timothy Abbe, and father John Abbe.
362 Nancy Ahhe, h. July 21, 1771 ; m. Elijah Burt, jr.
RoxaJcnah Ahhe, b. Sept. 3, 1773; d. young.
Timothy Diah Ahhe, b. April 6, 1775; d. young.
363 Timothy Ahhe, b. Jan. 6, 1779 ; m. Rhoda Prudence Clark.
181. DANIEL-5 ABBE, son of JohnS jr., and Sarah (Root) Abbe, born in
Enfield, Conn., November 7, 1749; died September 26, 1815. Administration
on his estate was granted November 3, 1815, to his sons, Daniel and Levi.
The heirs mentioned were : clnldren, Daniel, Levi, Harris, Sally, wife of Luther
Allen; grandsons, George, son of George, deceased, and Erastus, son of Erastus,
deceased. He resided in Enfield.
Married iu Enfield, November 3, 1774, SARAH PEASE, born in Enfield,
December 2, 1756; died in Enfield, November 23, 1808, buried there. She
was the daughter of Aaron and Anna (Geer) Pease. See number 71.
Children horn in Enfield; dates as given in their family Bihle
364 Daniel Ahhe, jr., h. Aug. 22, 1775; m. Elizabeth Morrison.
Timothy Ahhe, b. June 21, 1777; d. Oct. 10, 1778.
365 Levi Pease Ahhe, b. April 14, 1781 ; m. Dorcas Wolcott.
366 Sally Pease Ahhe, b. March 28, 1783 ; m. Luther Allen.
George (1) Ahhe, b. Jan. 1, 1786; d. July 27, 1787.
George (2) Ahhe, b. Aug. 12, 1789; d. April 4, 1811. Married May 30, 1809,
Mary Clark and had children : i. , d. Aug. 20, 1809 or 1810, aged one day;
ii. George, mentioned in his grandfather's will, 1815.
106 Abbe- Abbey Genealogy
367 Harris Ahhc, b. Nov. 4, 1790; m. (1) Clarissa Wiggins; (2) Thankful Cole.
368 Erasius Ahhc, b. Jan. 12, 1793; m. Sally Beebe.
Stoddard Ahhe, b. May 8, 1795; d. April 17, 1800, aged 5 years.
182. ROXALENAH'' ABBE, daughter of John*, jr., and Sarah (Root )Abbe,
born in Enfield, Conn., July 12, 1751; died there February 20, 1847.
Married in Enfield, February 7, 1771, SIMEON OLMSTED, born September
21, 1748; died in Enfield, December 22, 1803. He was son of Joseph and Martha
(White) Olmsted of Enfield, and was descended from James Olmsted, who
emigrated from England in the ship Lion and settled in Boston in 1632. In
the administration of his estate, 1804, the following heirs are given: children,
Ebenezer, Sally, Timoth}^, Roxalenah McCray, Sjdvanus, George, Joseph and
Simeon. His descendants are said to have a direct Mayflower ancestor.
Children, horn in Enfield
Roxalena Olmsted, b. Feb. 14. 1772; d. March 20, 1827. Married in Enfield,
May 28. 1792, Isaac McCray of Ellington.
369 Simeon Olmsted, jr., b. April 10. 1774; m. Abigail Collins.
370 Joseph Olmsted, h. May 14, 1776; m. Dorothy Terry.
Ohadiah Olmsted, b. Sept. 30, 1778; d. in Enfield, March 4, 1826. His will, made
March 22, 1825, mentions wife Mary and nephew Lathrop Olmsted. Married
in Enfield, April 14. 1803, Mary" Bement, daughter of Dennis^ and Lydia ( )
Bement. See number 165.
Sarah (1) Olmsted, b. March 1. 1779 ; d. Nov. 10 or 19, 1783.
Sylramis Olmsted, b. July 16. 1783; lived in Enfield and d. there Feb. 6, 1826.
Married Dec. 17, 1805, Sabra Allen, b. in Enfield, Jan. 18. 1788; d. there
June 1, 1865, daughter of Moses and Mary (Adams) Allen. Children: i. Roxa,
b. Dec, 1806 ; d. June 22. 1809 ; ii. Sabra Allen, b. Jan. 9. 1809 ; iii. Svlvauus,
b. Feb. 18. 1811 ; iv. William, b. Feb. 28, 1814 ; v. Roxa Abbe, b. Nov. 8, 1816,
d. Nov. 7, 1863.
George Olmsted, b. Dec. 27. 1785; d. in Enfield, Aug. 9 or 11. 1824, aged 38.
Married Sylvia . Children, b. in Enfield: i. Dolly Russell, b. Jan. 23,
1810, m. in Enfield, April 5, 1832, Daniel Welsh; ii. George, jr., b. Oct. 5,
1811 ; iii. Albert, b. March 13, 1814.
Ehenezer Olmsted, b. June 28. 1788; d. Sept. 20. 1807.
Sarah (2) Olmsted, b. April 5, 1791 ; d. Oct. 21, 1835.
Timothy Olmsted, b. Feb. or Julv 24, 1793 ; d. Feb. 1, 1838.
183. HANNAH"^ ABBE, daughter of JohnS jr., and Sarah (Root) Abbe, born
in Enfield, Conn., March 31, 1753; died in Sangerfield, N. Y., June 13, 1822.
Married in Enfield, August 31, 1775, ISAAC TERRY, JR., born in Enfield,
August 15, 1748; died in Sangerfield, December 22, 1824. He was son of
Isaac and Margaret (Downing) Terry. Farmer, and removed to Sangerfield
about 1792.
Children
371 Isaac Terry, 3d, b. July 14, 1776; m. Betsey Livermore.
Hannah Terry, b. in Enfield, Nov. 3, 1777 ; m. Orator Holcomb, a farmer in
Geneseo, N. Y. Children: i. George, m. twice, d. — •; ii. Sylvanus resided
in Sycamore, 111. ; iii. Fleming, m. ; iv. Harriet, m. .
372 Rosu-cll Terry, b. June 2. 1780; m. (1) Marv Leonard; (2) Polly Howard.
373 Sarah Terry, b. Dec. 2. 1781 ; m. Adino Winchell.
374 Willard Terry, b. March 25, 1783 ; m. Anna Leonard.
375 Horace Terry, b. April 16, 1787; m. (1) Elizabeth Chambers; (2) Fields.
376 Bilhah Terry, h. Oct. 21, 1188; m. Chester Clark.
377 George Terry, b. about 1791 ; m. Clarissa Collins.
378 Linus Terry, b. Sept. 19, 1793 ; m. Patty Waters.
Soi)hia Terry, b. about 1795 ; d. Sept. 19, 1810, in Enfield.
ApoUos Terry, removed to Broken Straw, Erie County, Pa. Married Hadassah"
Abbe, daughter of Thomas\ 4th, and Ruth (Bush) Abbe. Children: i. Mary;
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ii. Harriet, m. Gibbs and I'csidod in Aurora, 111. ; iii. Elbert, b. about
Jan., 1821, d. Sept. 21, 1821 ; iv. ApoUos, jr., b. about Jan. 1, 1827, d. July 26,
1828.
184. TABITHA"' ABBE, daughter of Jolin% jr., and Sarah (Root) Abbe,
born in Enfickl, Conn., June 26, 1757; died February 20, 1846.
Married in Enfickl, August 20 (or 13), 1778, ZENO TERRY, bom in Enfiekl,
August 20, 1755; died in Sangerfield, N. Y., January 7, 1838. He was son of
Isaac and Margaret (Downing) Teny. He enlisted on a Sunday in April, 1775,
while at church in Enfield. The minister read a paper calling for volunteers
to repair to Boston and with forty others lie marched the same day to Roxbury
under Hezekiali Parsons as leader, remaining there three months. The follow-
ing December he volunteered for one month and conveyed a load of soldiers
with his father's team from Enfield to Albany. In the spring of 1776, he
enlisted for six months under Captain Harmon in Colonel Mott's regiment,
going to Wliitehall, N. Y., then to Ticonderoga where he joined his regiment,
Avas taken sick and discharged at the hospital at Fort George. March, 1777, he
enlisted for a year with Captain David Parsons but after six weeks obtained
a substitute. In the summer of 1779 he served six months as teamster under
Captain Jonathan Bush and was at Boston, Springfield, Fishkill and opposite
West Point. After the war he lived five years in Sufiield, removed in 1805 to
Sangerfield, where, with the exception of two years at Bj'ron, N. Y., he spent
the remainder of his life as a farmer.
Children
379 Zeno Teirij, jr., b. Aug. 19, 1779 ; m. Mary Griswold.
Tahiihu Tcrnj, b. in Enfield. July 9, 1781; removed to Byron, N. Y. ; m. Paul
Ballard. Children : i. Tabitha ; ii. Electa, lived in Sangerfield, N. Y., m.
Minerva (?) Hale; iii. Lucy; iv. Harriet; v. Palace, b. in Sangerfield; vi.
Mary, b. in Byron, N. Y. ; vii. Elizabeth (or Betsey) ; viii. Norton, m. Margaret
Kapp ; ix. Jeanette.
Margaret Terry, b. in Suffield. Conn., Dec. 21, 1783; d. in Waterville, N. Y.,
July 1, 1866 ; m. William Page, a farmer in Waterville. Children : i. Wash-
ington, a physician, d. aged about thirty ; ii. Lansford, lived in Rochester, N. Y. ;
iii. Putnam, d. 1881, lived in New York City, m. Henrietta Tower ; iv. Henry,
lived in Sangerfield, m. Gifford ; v. HuU. d. unm.
380 Henry Terry (twin), b. Jan. 15, 1786; m. (1) Rebecca JeweU ; (2) Catharine
Emily Root.
381 James Terry (twin), b. Jan. 15, 1786; m. (1) Lodema Norton; (2) Elizabeth
Robinson; (3) Eliza Cronk ; (4) Harriet Monroe.
382 George Terry (twin), b. Jan. 11, 1789; m. Jemima Gillette.
383 Wmiam Terry (twin), b. Jan. 11, 1789; m. (1) Phebe Morse; (2) Mary
Firman.
384 Horace AUe Terry (twin), b. Dec. 8, 1794; m. (1) Elizabeth Chaiabers ; (2)
Fields.
385 Harriet Terry (twin), b. Dec. 8, 1794; m. Aaron Stafford.
386 Dyer Terry, b. 1798 ; m. Caroline Loomis.
185. ISAAC GILLETTE" GLEASON, son of Isaac, jr., and Martha* (Abbe)
Gleason, bom in Enfield, Conn., September 25, 1747. Farmer in Middlefield,
Mass.
Married AZUBAH PEASE.
Children, Tyorn in Middlefield
Aziihah (1) Gleason, b. Oct. 31, 1775; d. Nov. 2. 1776.
387 Azuhah (2) Gleason, b. Sept. 1, 1777 ; m. Hezekiah Allen.
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388 Isaac Gleason, b. Sept. 2, 1779 ; m. Sally Dickson.
Martha Gleason, b. Aug. 9, 1781; m. John Dickson. They resided in Middlefield,
Mass., moved to Liverpool, N. Y., in 183-5, and in 1865, to Beloit, Wis., where
both d. Children : i. Martha ; ii. Charlotte ; iii. John W.
Arid Gleason, b. Nov. 13, 1783 ; d. July 21, 1785.
Aurelia Gleason, h. Feb. 26, 1786.
389 Horace Gleason, b. about 1787 ; m. Huldah Gillette.
390 Ira Gleason, b. April, 1789 ; m. Mary Flint.
Parcel) Gleason, b. May 14, 1806 ; removed to Worthington, Mass. ; m. Isaac
Follette who d. in Worthington. Children : i. Fardis ; ii. Samantha.
186. THOMAS^ ABBE, son of Richard'' and Mary^ (Bement) Abbe, born in
Enfield, Conn., August 21, 1757; died before 1844. Marriage recorded in Hart-
ford, Conn. He spent the early part of liis life as a farmer in Enfield; removed
to Sandisfield,, where he was living in 1800, with 2 boys and 2 girls under 10,
2 boys and 1 girl between 10 and 16. Died in Sandisfield.
Married December 6, 1781, LYDIA PARSONS, born 1764.
Children
Thomas (1) Aihc, jr., b. in Enfield, Feb. 8, 1783; probably d. young; see below.
391 Li/man Ahhe, b. in Enfield, Aug. 30, 1781. His name has been recorded as Simon
through confusion in an old spelling of Limon ; m. Hubbard.
Lydia Ahhe, b. July 21, 1785 or 1786, in Enfield. Married and had a daughter
who m. Austin Pease of Wisconsin.
Elislia Ahhe, b. in Enfield, Nov. 16, 1788 ; d. in New York state.
392 Henry Ahhey, b. April 18, 1791; m. Julia Gibbs.
Mary Ahhe, m. Luman Wilcox of Sunderland. Children: i. Monroe; ii. Maria,
m. Morley.
Tryphosa Ahhe, m. Aruna Price of Danbury, Conn. Child : Elizabeth, b. in Avon,
Ohio, June 25, 1836 ; d. there Nov. 11, 1883 ; m. in Avon, June 26, 1854, Milo
Hamlin Williams, b. in Avon, Oct. 15, 1829, sou of Justin and Reneua (Austin)
AVilliams. He is a farmer in Avon.
Chester Ahhe, d. num., aged 64.
Levi Ahhe, d. aged 45; m. Mehitable Herbert of Pike, N. Y., who d. aged 60.
Children : i. Orlo W., b. in Pike, Sept. 16, 1832, farmer at Rives Junction, Mich.,
m. Jan. 16, 1856, Betsey Ann Wells, b. at Eagle, N. Y., Nov. 10, 1834, daughter
of Calvin and Betsey E. (Parks) Wells, and has two children, Herbert F., b.
Aug. 6, 1858, farmer at Eaton Rapids, Mich., m. Minnie Whitney, and Merritt L.,
b. Dec. 30, 1866, farmer at Rives Junction, m. Aug. 29, 1888, Jennie Whitney ;
ii. Harriet M., b. at Pike, 1834, m. Medcalf ; iii. Mary M., b. 1839,
d. 1846.
393 Thomas Ahhey, jr., b. Sept. 28, 1802, probably in Sandisfield, Mass.; m. Phebe
Goff. He is probably the second son of the name in the family.
187. RICHARDS ABBE, JR., son of Richard* and Mary^ (Bement) Abbe,
born in Enfield, Conn., March 2, 1760; died there August 9, 1831. He was a
Revolutionary soldier, enlisted from Enfield for six months, June, 1776, under
Captain Hezekiah Parsons, Colonel Comfort Sage; again for two months
guarded General Prescott, who was captured on Rhode Island; July 1, 1780,
for 414 months under Captain Parsons, Colonel Zebulon Butler. He was
Captain of the Enfield militia in 1792, as his father before him had been in
1779. His widow apjilied for a pension October 1, 1838. At the distribution
of his property the following were mentioned: wife Lydia; sons Joshua,
Cliarles, Richard, Roswell; daughter Lucinda, deceased, wife of Charles Chace,
and her children, Charles A. and Lucinda Chace.
Man-ied in Enfield (or Chatham), Januaiy 16, 1783 (or 1782), LYDIA
STEVENSON of Sheffield, Mass., bom October 20, 1764; baptized in Wethers-
field, November 11, 1764; died June 1, or 2, 1844. She was daughter of Thomas
Fifth Generation 109
and Hannah (Taylor) Stevenson, who were man-ied in Chatham, Conn. Thomas
Stevenson went to the Revolution as 1st Lieutenant in Captain Jonathan John-
son's Company, Colonel Philip Burr Bradley, and never returned.
Children, horn in Enfield
394 C7iaWes A&&e, b. Dec. 1, 1785; in. Harriet Stroug.
395 Ricliard Abhe (twin), b. Dec. 30, 1788; m. Charlotte" Bement, daughter of Dennis'
and Lydia ( ) Bement ; see also number 105.
396 Rosu-ell Abhe (twin), b. Dec. 30, 1788; m. Sarah Olmsted.
Betscij Ahhe, b. Feb. 15, 1790; d. in Enfield ; not m. She was living in Enfield in
1850.
397 Joshua Ahhe, b. Aug. 17, 1792; m. (1) Phila Pease; (2) Rhoda Felt.
398 George Abhe, b. Dec. 24, 1794 ; m. SaUy Chapman.
Harriet Ahhe, b. Feb. 10, 1798; d. in Enfield, Aug. 19, 1825.
Lucinda Ahhe (twin), b. Feb. 2, 1805; d. in Enfield, Sept. 25, 1827. Married in
Enfield, Sept. 17, 1821, Charles^ Chase, son of John and Jane" (Abbe) Chase;
see number 348. He d. March 16, 1833.
Lorinda Abbe (twin), b. Feb. 2, 1805; d. in Enfield, Sept. 24, 1825.
188. TREPHOSA' ABBE, daugliter of Richard* and Mary= (Bement) Abbe,
born iu Enfield, Conn., December 28, 1762 ; died November 20, 1820.
Maii-ied in Enfield, April 27, 1786, JOEL BOOTH, born May 9, 1764; died
January 8, 1829. He was son of John, jr., and Hannah ( ) Booth.
Children
399 Tryphosa Booth, b. Dec. 20, 1787; m. Plyn Parsons.
Joel Booth, jr., m. Nov. 4, 1816, in Enfield, Patience Gleason. In records of the
births of their children she is called Patience Newton. Children, b. in Enfield :
i. Luther, b. Aug. 23, 1817, d. unm. ; ii. Harriet Newell, b. July 4, 1819 ; iii. and
iv. Mary and Martha (twins), b. Nov. 24, 1821; v. John Ruggles, bapt. June 12,
1825, m. Julia Heath and had children, Alice, who married, has a daughter, lives
in the West, Frank a physician in New York City, owns the old homestead in
Enfield and spends the summers there, married, Edward, m. and went West, and
Gertrude, m. and lives in New York.
189. HULDAH^ ABBE, daugliter of Richard* and Mary^ (Bement) Abbe,
born in Enfield, Conn., May 19, 1771; resided in Enfield and died there,
January 21, 1852.
MaiTied (1) in Enfield, September 15, 1791, ISAAC ALLEN, born in Enfield,
March 27, 1768; died there April 26, 1797. He was son of John and Mehitable
(Rumerill) Allen.
Married (2) April 6, 1803, GEORGE LORD, bom at East Windsor, February
17, 1764; died September 3, 1808. At the age of sixteen he fought in the war
of the Revolution. This was his third marriage.
Children by first husband, horn in Enfield
John Allen, b. Aug. 15, 1792; d. in Michigan; no children.
Isaac Allen, b. April 26, 1794 ; farmer, removed to Clarkson, N. Y. Married in
Enfield, Sept. 18, 1817, Mary Terry, b. in Enfield, April 28, 1798 ; d. there about
1878. She was daughter of Solomon and Hannah (Pease) Terry. Children:
i. Chauncey, b. May 26, 1818; ii. Joseph O. (1), b. Sept. 16, 1820, d. Sept. 12,
1824 ; iii. Isaac, b. Oct. 15, 1822, farmer in Clarkson, N. Y. ; iv. Harriet T., b.
June 17, 1824; v. Mary, b. Aug. 28, 1826; vi. JuUa, b. June 27, 1828; \di.
Joseph O. (2). b. Sept. .30, 1830; viii. Emily, b. March 3, 18-34; ix. Henry P.,
b. April 26, 18.36, farmer in Clarkson; x. Charles L., b. Nov. 15, 1838; xi.
Arthur, b. Feb. 28, 1842.
400 Chauncey Allen, b. March 24, 1796; m. (1) Mary Pease; (2) Mrs. Hannah S.
Harris.
110 Abbe- Abbey Genealogy
Children hy second Jiusiand
401 HuJdah Lord, b. July 26, 1804 ; m. Frwlerick Pease.
Dorothy Lord, b. Dec. 20, 1806; m. Ira Simonds, and moved to Antioch, 111.
Children: i. Polly; ii. Henry; iii. Ela ; iv. George; v. Levi; li. Lucy, m. and
d. leaAdng children in Antioch ; vii. Albeit. One son died in the Civil War,
Geoi-ge{?).
SIXTH GENERATION
190. AMOS BURNETT6 ABBE, son of Jolin^ and Jeruslia (Burnap) Abbe,
born in Hoi^kinton, Mass., June 5, 1769; died Jiily 22, 1826; buried in West
Medway.
Married VESTA TURNER, born 1773 ; died April 1, 1834, aged 61.
Children
Betsey Abhe, b. 1797 ; d. Aug. 14, 1871, aged 74.
402 Charles Turner Abhe, b. Feb. 12, 1800; m. Mary Ann Partridge.
403 Nancy Abbe, b. Sept. 15, 1807 ; m. HoUis Rice.
191. JAMES« ABBEY, son of Aaron^ and Anna ( ) Abbey, born in
Hopkinton, Mass., July 4, 1765. He may have been the James Abbey of
Stephentown, Albany County, N. Y., in the 1790 Census, 1 male over 16, 3 females
in family. Family tradition says he was bom in Wethersfield, Conn., and died
in 1849, aged 85. He is also said to have been a brickmaker in Cooperstown,
Otsego County, N. Y.
Married MARY HEAD of Middlefield, Otsego County, N. Y.
Children
Lurinda Abbey, m. .
Ruby Ann Abbey (twin with John), b. March 4, 1815; m. W. Doolittle.
404 John Abbey (twin), b. March 4, 1815; m. Susan Goho.
Saimwl Abbey.
Amanda Abbey, m. Smith.
405 Alanson Orlando Abbey, b. Aug. 1, 1882; m. Harriet Jane McNamara.
Alexander Abbey, moved to Wayland, Mich.
Laurina or Malvina Abbey, m. Josiah Beverly; lived at Howard Flat, Steuben
County, N. Y.
Doll Abbey, not m.
192. WILLIAM^ ABBEY, son of Aaron" and Anna ( ) Abbe, born prob-
ably in 1768; baptized in Hopkinton, Mass., March 18, 1768, although some of his
descendants say he was born in Vermont. He appeared at the state election
in September, 1788, at St. Albans, Vt., and took the freeman's oath. At the
time of his marriage he is called of Milford. He later resided in Ontario
County, N. Y. In 1800 the Census records William Abbee of Somerset, Vt.,
1 male and 1 female betwen 26 and 45, 2 boys and 1 girl under 10.
Married November 27, 1791, ANNA WHITNEY, born July 13, 1770, daughter
of Lieutenant Jesse and Mary (Cheney) Whitney of Milford, Mass.
Rhoda Abbey, b. Feb. 8. 179.3.
Dexter Abbey, b. Oct. 7, 1794.
Rawson Abbey, b. July 12, 1798.
Cheney Abbey, b. Feb. 19, 1801.
Children
Sixth Generation 111
406 WUliam Ahlcy, jr., b. June 19, 1803; m. Mary Ann Bray.
Anna Ahbeij, b. Jan. 26, 1806.
ISaUij Ahhey, b. July 10, 1808.
Aaron Ahbei/, b. Oct. 20. 1810.
Of the above children, two daughters were married : one to Cobb and
has a son William Cobb, living at Honeoye, N. Y. ; the other to William
Thomas.
193. CALVIN" ABBEY, son of Aaron"' and Anna ( ) Abbe, born in Hop-
kinton, Mass., Febniary 19, 1775; died in Danby, Tompkins County, N. Y.,
October 8, 1852, aged 77 yrs., 7 mos., 19 days; buried in the Danby Cemetery.
There was a Calvin Abbey mentioned as an early settler of Charlotte, Chautauqua
County, N. Y. The name also appears as a witness to a deed made by Andrew
Abbey of Albany, N. Y., in 1833. On August 30, 1833, Calvin Abbey bought
property from Sherman and Wealthy Miller in the town of Danby.
Married SALLY , born June 9, 1775; died Apiil 4, 1857, aged 81 yrs.,
9 mos., 25 days; buried in the Danby Cemetery.
Children
Isaac Abbey, b. Jan. 12, 1798 ; d. Feb. 1, 1843, aged 45 years, 19 days ; buried in
Danby. He may have been a son of Calvin although there is nothing on the
tombstone to show it.
Harriet Eliza Abbey, b. about 1804; d. May 1, 1840, in her 36th year; buried in
Danby.
Lydia Maria Abbey, b. March 30, 1816 ; d. Sept. 1, 1876 ; buried in Danby.
194. JOHN*^ ABBEY, son of Aaron^ and Anna ( ) Abbey, born September
1, 1781, birth recorded in Framingham, Mass.; died July 2, 1862. He went
with his father to Richmond, Ontario County, N. Y., in 1800. William Baker,
whose daughter he married, had preceded them to that locality. He may be the
Jno. Abby recorded iu the town of Honeoye, 1810, 3 girls under 10 and 1 boj^
under 10.
Married in 1802, ELIZABETH BAKER, daughter of William Baker, born
1784; died 1853.
Children (order uncertain)
Sinai Abbey, m. 1822, David K. Crooks. Children : i. Dr. John C. K., m. Carrie
Gray and had John who d. ; ii. Tompkins, m. Helen Bentley.
Ann Abbey, b. and d. in Richmond.
John Abbey, b. and d. in Richmond.
Lara Abbey, b. and d. in Richmond.
407 Olivia Price Abbey, b. 1805; m. Jesse Lee Stout.
Alta Abbey, m. Dr. Brown of Canandaigua, N. Y. ; no children.
408 Sarah Abbey, b. May 2. 1815 ; m. Grin Poppleton.
409 Isaac J. Abbey, b. July 10. 1819 ; m. Fanny M. Hawes.
410 Hiram Peter Abbey, b. 1822; m. Betsey A. Gregg.
195. AARON« ABBEY, perhaps son of Aaron^ and Anna ( ) Abbe. It
is probable tliat the following records all refer to the same Aaron Abbey, whose
ancestry is not known. The name is found on the records of Onondaga County,
N. Y., in 1834, as buying property in Manlius ; 1839, Aaron A. and Mary Abbey ;
1847 and 1848, Aaron and Elizabeth, land in Elbridge. In Oneida County is
recorded a deed made by Aaron and Jacob Abbey, 1864, land in Florence.
Possibly the Susannah Abbey who in 1837 bought land in Florence is of the
same family.
Married ROWE.
112 Abbe-Abbey Genealogy
Children, as gii^en ty Miss Alice Annette Ahhey
John (1) Ahbcy, b. about 1800; d. young.
William Ahhey.
Conrad Alley. Tbis is probably the Conrad Abbey whose name appears on records
of Onondaga County, N. Y. : Coorod R., bought hvnd in Maulius, 1834 ; also
written as Conrad R. ; Conrod R., land in Lysander, 1839 ; Coonrod R., land in
Cicero, 1842 and 1845 ; Coonrad R. and Jacob Abby sold land in 1835 ;
Coonrod R. and Lovinia Abby sold land in 1836 and 1844 ; Coonrad R., in 1836.
Calvin Alley. There was a CaMn Abbey who m. Maria Scranton, daughter of
Timothy Scranton, and had six children.
Andrus Alley, or Andrews Alley. He sold land in Westerlo, Albany County,
N. Y., 1833, and bought property in Cicero, Onondaga County, N. Y., in 1840
and 1852. Andrews and Prudence Abbey sold land in 1842 and 1846. The will,
probably of a younger Andrus, made March 27, 1868, probated March 24, 1869,
calls him of Cincinnatus, N. Y'^., and mentions his wife Harriet, and children,
Harriet, Judson Adelbert (aged nine years on Oct. 14, 1867), and EUzabeth
Maria, who became of age April 10, 1884. There was perhaps a child Olive also,
who m. Edward Gillett. One Andrew Abbey, a blacksmith in Fabius, N. Y., Avas
recorded in the Census of 1850, aged about 32, m. Mary , b. about 1827,
had son James, b. about 1844. A Sally Abby, aged 50, resided with them, all
born in New York State.
Jacol Alley. Jacob and Coonrad R. Abby sold land in Onondaga County, N. Y.,
1835 ; Hannah M. and Jacob Abbey, 1836 ; Hannah and Jacob, 1839 ; Jacob
bought land in Maulius, 1835. Jacob and Samuel Abbey sold land in 1811, but
this is more likely an earlier Jacob. Jacob and Aaron Abbey sold laud in
Florence, Oneida County, in 1864.
John Alley, b. Aug. 8, 1814 ; d. Oct. 6, 1858. Went west about 1850. Married
(1) Mary Cans; (2) . Children by first wife: i. Alonzo, b. in Mar-
seilles, N. Y., 1836, m. Sarah A. Pringle, b. in Dover, England, 1842, had two
children, Charles Coy, b. in Clermont, Iowa, July 22, 1864, lives in Thermal,
Calif., studied pharmacy at the University of Michigan, 1889, m. Emma H.
Morison, b. April 10. 1869, has no children, and Edith, who m. George \Mlliam-
son and lives in Redlands, Calif. ; ii. Melissa, b. Dec. 26, 1840, d. Jan. 25, 1885,
m. Nov. 6, 1865, Lewis L. Neville ; iii. Emily. Children by second wife : i.
Elizabeth, b. July 3, 1846, m. Dec. 4, 1865, George Bryant, had five children,
Walter G., b. May 29, 1881, others died in childhood ; ii. Ahce Annette, b. Nov.
23, 1848, lived at Comanche, Iowa, later in Mt. Vernon, Iowa ; iii. Mary Maria,
b. April 13, 1851, m. June 16, 1874, Aaron Rissley, had five children, Clarence
Emery, b. July 21, 1876, Elva Elizabeth, b. June 16, 1888, Clarice, b. Dec. 11,
1895, two d. in infancy ; iv. John Lester, b. May 26, 1854, lives in Comanche,
Iowa; V. Ida Augusta, b. Nov. 6, 1857, m. Sept. 4, 1884, Frederic N. Howson,
has a child, Minna Elizabeth, b. May 1, 1889.
196. MERCY" BROWN, daughter of Abbe^ and Elizabeth (Leavitt) Brown,
born in Kensington, N. H., March 17, 1774; died Februaiy 27, 1860.
Married October (or November) 2, 1797, JOHN SAWYER, born April 30,
1771; died August 23, 1840. He was the son of Josiah and Miriam (Eastman)
Sawyer of Deerfield.
Children
John Sawyer, b. April 29, 1798.
Betsey Sawyer, b. Jan. 28, 1802.
Mercy Sawyer, b. Oct. 12, 1805.
Josiah Sawyer, b. June 6, 1808 ; d. in Andover, N. H., June 10, 1880. Married
Sept., 18.35, Nancy Kittredge, b. June 14, 1805; d. Jan. 13, 1847, daughter of
Joshua and Beulah (Baker) Kittredge of Nelson, N. H. Children: i. Nancy
Maria, b. Dec. 26, 1836, d. Oct. 20, 1852; ii. Juliana, b. March 29, 1838, d.
Feb. 22, 1841; iii. Joanna, b. Aug. 2, 1840, d. April 15, 1841; iv. Victoria
Rosilla, b. Jan. 18, 1842. d. Dec. 7, 1895 or 1896. m. Henry H. Lewis and had
one child; v. George Washington, b. Oct. 20, 1843, m. Aug. 10, 1869, Louise
Coolcdge Barnes, resides in Franklin Falls and has two children.
Moses (!) Sawyer, b. March 15, 1811 ; d. Aug. 17. 1813.
Joanna Saivyer, b. March 5, 1815 ; d. March 22, 1849, in Peoria, 111. ; m. Chandler
Connor. Three children.
Moses- (2) Sawyer, b. Jan. 28, 1819; d. April 26, 1846.
Sixth Generation 113
197. JONATHAN" BROWN, son of Abbe^ and Elizabeth (Leavitt) Brown,
born in Kensini;lon, N. 11., January 25, 1777; died at Tamworth Iron Works,
N. IL, October 5, 1851. They resided in Chelsea, Washington, and Worcester,
Vt., and at Tamworth Iron Works.
Married July 10, 1800, SARAH BLAISDELL, born March 7, 1781, at Brent-
wood, N. H. ; died at Washington, Vt., 1829. She was daughter of Henry and
Hannah (Ross) Blaisdell.
Children
John Brown, b. at Chelsea, Vt. ; d. suddenly near Boston, aged about 20.
Joanna Broun, b. ISOo ; m. Abner Hood and resided in Chelsea.
Sally Broicn, d. young.
Hannah Broirn, d. young.
Amanda K. Broun, b. in Washington, Vt., Nov. 9, 1810; d. at Cambridgeport,
Mass., 1888 ; m. in 183P., Charles White,
Mcrcij W. Broun, b. in Chelsea, Vt., Dec. 26, 1812 ; m. Abner Blaisdell.
Martha Brown, b. in Chelsea; m. Consider Gannett.
Mark B. Brown, b. in Chelsea; m. and d. in CaUfornia in 1902.
Mary V. Brown, b. in Chelsea, Dec. 21, 1816; d. in Tamworth, July 26, 1869;
m. James Emery and had three children.
Ahhy Brown, m. George Parmenter.
Henry B. Brown, m. Judith Hubbard.
Melissa Broicti, d. aged one year.
198. MOSES" BROWN, son of Abbe^ and Elizabeth (Leavitt) Brown, born
in Andover, N. H., November 27, 1783; died there July 5, 1852.
Married December 25, 1805, SARAH HILTON, who died at Clinton, Mass.,
December 17, 1865, daughter of Charles and Mary (Wadleigh) Hilton.
Children, lorn at Andover
John Pike Hilton Brown, b. Jan. 17, 1807; d. at East Andover, July 27, 1852.
He lived at Franklin, N. H., Lowell, Mass., and East Andover. He was an
overseer in the Hamilton Mills in Lowell. Married Feb. 22, 1828, Hannah
Sanborn, b. in Sanbornton, N. H., June 7, 1808 ; d. in Corinth, Vt., March 7,
1890. She was the daughter of Simon and Anna (Chase) Sanborn, and m.
(2) Aug. 21, 1853, Samuel Merrill of Bradford, Vt. Children, b. at Frankhn :
i. Mary Jane, b. Feb. 16, 1830, m. (1) Edmund B. Haywood, (2) Albert S.
McConnell ; ii. Martha Lang, b. June 3, 1836, m. (1) James C. Ewer, (2) John
Merrill ; iii. Adahne Anne, b. Aug. 5, 1838, d. Nov. 27, 1839.
^^aiicy Hilton Brown, m. Gilman Moody Palmer ; no children.
May Hilton Brown, b. Dec. 23, 1823. Married (1) John Warren Ware, (2) Alvah
W. Lewis.
199. JOSEPH" BROWN, sou of Abbe^ and Elizabeth (Leavitt) Brown, born
in Andover, N. H., September 9, 1786; died at Franklin, May 19, 1848. He
was a soldier in the War of 1812 and resided in Chelsea, Washington, and Barre,
Vt., and Franklin, N. H.
Married (1) SARAH COLBY.
Married (2) BETSEY GILES, born August 2, 1807, in Derry; died in Frank-
lin, February 15, 1904. She was the daughter of Benjamin and Jane (McCoy)
Giles.
Children
Oscar Brown, b. in Chelsea, Vt., May 7, 1827 ; d. in Chelsea. Mass., April 5, 1902.
Elizaheth Brown, b. in Chelsea, Vt., July 21, 1828. Married J. D. Kimball and
resided in Fitchburg, Mass.
Orlando Brown, b. in Washington, Vt., March 11, 18.30; d. in Boston, Mass.,
Sept. 5, 1883.
Orrin Broun, b. in Washington, Dec. 18, 18.32 ; d. in Danbury, Conn., Oct. 2, 1885.
Benjamin Brown, b. in Barre, Vt., Sept. 21, 1834. Resided in Calif.
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114 Abbe- Abbey Genealogy
VaroVmc Brown, b. in Barrc, June 22, 1836; m. William Rowell and resided in
Franklin, N. H.
Martha liroiru, b. in Chelsea, Vt.. Juno 12, 1839; d. at Franklin, Nov. 2, 1857.
John Brown, b. in Franklin, N. H., July 1, 1842; d. in New York, Aug. 12, 1892.
200. MOSES" BROWN, son of Captain Joseph^ and Ann (Brown) Brown
of Kensington, N. H., born December 9, 1763; died in Andover, February 23,
1831. He settled on Beech Hill in Andover, before 1790, and was known as
Lieutenant Moses BroAvn.
Married December 1, 1788, ABIGAIL TRUE, born October 23, 1763; died in
Andover, October 28, 1842. She was the daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Clough)
True of Seabrook.
Children, horn in Atidover
Joseph Brown, b. July 16, 1790; d. Feb. 6, 1833. He was a Captain. Married
Jan. 24, 1819, Mary W. Sweatt of Andover, who d. Feb. 23, 1861. She was the
daughter of Peter and Mary (Wadleigh) Sweatt. Children: i. Daniel Wadleigh,
b. June 24. 1820, d. July 16, 1843, at Port Leon, Fla. ; ii. Peter Sweatt, b.
July 12, 1822 ; iii. Alden Partridge, b. July 19, 1824, d. June 22, 1826.
Thomas Brown, b. Aug. 1, 1792 ; d. in Manchester, Aug. 15, 1849. He was a
phvsician and practiced in Deerfield, Concord, and Manchester. Married Nov. 12,
1823, Mary or Polly Moore, b. April 25, 1799, d. Nov. 8, 1871, daughter of
Dr. Jacob Bailey and Mary (Eaton) Moore of Andover. Children: i. Lucretia
Anne, b. in Deerfield, Oct. 9, 1824, d. in Manchester, Feb. 3, 1873; ii. Moses
True, b. in Deerfield, d. in Sandusky, Ohio, Sept. 19, 1900, m. Cora Barney of
Sandusky, no children ; iii. Jacob B., b. in Deerfield, Aug. 15. 1829, d. in
Nevada, Calif., March 25, 1859 ; iv. Thomas Scott, b. in Concord, Oct. 10, 1831,
d. in Manchester, Aug. 10, 1866; v. Mary A., b. in Concord, July 6, 1834, d. in
Manchester, Nov. 14, 1871.
Joanna Broicn, b. Aug. 24. 1794; m. Jesse Graves.
Sally Brown, b. July 4, 1796; m. (1) Joseph S. Huntoon ; (2) Feb. 12, 1839,
Noah Rowe.
Moses Brown, jr., b. Sept. 13, 1798; d. Dec. 14, 1825.
Daniel Brown, b. Aug. 10, 1800; d. Nov. 4, 1818.
Stephen Brown, b. April 12, 1803; d. in Deerfield, April 11, 1877. Physician in
Nottingham. Raymond, and Deerfield. Married (1) April 22, 1830, Mary
Reynolds of Lee, who d. June 26, 1842, aged 39; (2) Feb. 1. 1843, Miriam F.
Collins, daughter of Colonel Samuel and Sarah (Haines) Collins of Deerfield,
b. Feb. 28, 1804 ; d. Aug. 23, 1878. Children : i. Moses, b. May 29, 1831, m.
Susan R. James; ii. Joseph T., b. June 28, 1833, m. Mary E. Batchelder ; iii.
Mary Abigail, b. Aug. 3, 1837, d. July 12, 1874; iv. Martha A., b. Jan. 9, 1842,
d. May 10, 1842 ; v. Sarah Collins, b. July 17, 1848, d. April 4, 1874.
True Broirn, b. April 4, 1805 ; d. in Elgin, 111., Aug., 1870, to which town he had
removed in 1854, from Andover. Married June 27. 1830, Lucinda Blake, b. Aug.
15, 1805; d. in Elgin, April, 1869, daughter of William and Hannah (Purmoit)
Blake. Children, b. in Andover, N. H. : i. Lucinda Ann, b. March 16, 18.32,
d. Aug. 5, 1877. m. Sept. 30. 1858. H. F. Plummer of Elgin, had three children ;
ii. Joseph True, b. Jan. 12, 18.35, d. 1868, was Captain of Company I, 52d
Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, m. Oct. 19, 1861, Emma Chase ; iii. Charles
Carroll, b. July 29, 1838, d. at St. Louis, Mo., June 1, 1862, was Sergeant-
Major in the 52d Regiment, Illinois Volunteers ; iv. Daniel Webster, b. March
29, 1840, d. Aug. 7, 1890, was private in Company A, 36th Regiment, Illinois
Volunteers, m. 1876, Maria Deane, had three children ; v. Francis Moses, b.
Feb. 8, 1845, lives in Iowa, m. Oct. 7, 1865, Nettie Bangs ; vi. Ella Augusta,
b. Feb. 12, 1848, d. Nov. 10. 1868, m. 1867, Henry Sawyer.
Ahigail Brown, h. May 3, 1807. Married Oct. 21, 1829, Benjamin Franklin
Scribner, b. in Andover, 1806 ; d. there Dec. 30, 1890, son of Josiah and
Mary A. (White) Scribner. Children : i. Abigail B., b. June 7. 1831, m. Gilbert
T. Kilbum; ii. Frank B., b. May 13, 1834, m. (1) Mrs. Nettie Dudley, (2)
Helen I. Stanley ; iii. Frances A., b. May 12, 1836, m. Owen B. Stevens ; iv.
Mary E., b. Feb. 9, 1843, m. Calvin Campbell; v. George Henry, b. Jan. 21,
1849. in Andover, m. June 5, 1870, Lucia Ella Thompson, b. Dec. 3, 1854,
daughter of Moses P. and Lucia Ann (Garland) Thompson of Salisbury, and
had five children, the first four b. in Salisbury : Mary Alice, b. Oct. 11, 1871,
d. April 4, 1872, Harold Frank, b. Jan. 21, 1875, d. Nov. 12, 1883, Katie May,
Sixth Generation 115
b. March 2. 1878. Eth.-l Stanley, b. Aug. 24, 1879, m. July 14, 1901, William
Cadv, and Ella noronco, b. in Audover, Nov. 13, 1887, m. July 16, 1907, Ernest
AV. BUss.
201. JONATHAN" BROWN, son of Captain Joseph^ and Ann (BroAvn)
Brown, born February 4, 1768; died in Andover, N. H., November 28, 1844:.
He was i)robably born in Kensington, N. H., and settled on Beech Hill in
Andover in 1790.
Married November 22, 1792, ELIZABETH HUNTOON, born May 3, 1771;
died in Andover, August 9, 1853.
Children
Mercy Brown, b. April 3, 1793 ; d. March 11, 1871 ; m. June, 1815, Nathaniel
Rollins.
Mary Broicn, d. young.
Nancy Broicn, b. March 23, 1795; d. in Wilmot, N. H., July 28, 1853. Married
July 8, 1828, Josiah Stearns and resided at North Wilmot. Children, b. in
Wilmot : i. Susan, b. Nov. 1, 1829, m. Seth Goodhue, had three children ; ii.
Josiah Lane, b. March 19, 1831, m. — ; iii. Minot, b. Feb. 7, 1833, was a
soldier in Company C, IGth New Hampshire Regiment, in the Civil War, m.
Aug. 25, 1861, Sarah J. Hazeltine of Springfield, had six children ; iv. Tiras,
b. June 9, 1835, soldier in Company D, 112th Illinois Regiment, was killed in
battle in Tennessee, Oct. 23, 1863 ; v. Pluma, b. Aug. 15, 1836, d. July 24, 1903,
m. Sept. 7, 1859, Joshua Holland ; two others d. less than a year old.
EUzaleih Brown, b. Dec. 20, 1796; d. Nov. 20, 1867. Married (1) March, 1827,
John Bailey ; (2) Newton.
Hannah Brown, b. Dec. 20, 1796; d. June 14, 1887. Married Dec, 1822, Thomas
S. French of Hopkinton and had two children.
411 Jonathan Broicn, jr., b. July 5, 1799; m. Abigail Philbrick.
iiyrcna Broicn, b. June 17, 1802; d. Jan. 27, 1880. Married April 6, 1856, Robert
Shields of Illinois.
John Broicn, b. May 7, 1804; d. March 29, 1874. Married (1) April 28, 1834,
Eliza Noyes of Springfield ; (2) Dolly Spiller.
Benjamin Hxintoon Broicn, b. Aug. 23, 1806; d. in Illinois, June 24, 1886.
Married (1) April 21, 1828, Fannie N. Jewett ; (2) Mary A. Lamb.
Mary J. Broicn, b. Aug. 23, 1809 ; d. Nov. 15, 1888 ; m. June 27, 1827, Stephen
Noyes.
Rachel R. Broicn, b. Aug. 17, 1811 ; m. April 13, 1837, Joel Whittemore.
202. FREDERICK^ ABBEY, probably son of Joseph^ and Deliverance
(Armstrong) Abbey, born October 20, 1765, in Willington, Conn.; died in
Randolph, Cattaraugus County, N. Y. He was a Revolutionary soldier from
Vermont and owned land in Lot 21, Randoli^h, N. Y., as early as 1832, at least.
Married SALLY TIFF.
Children, seven sons
Amos Aibey.
Joseph Abbey.
412 Orange J. Abbey, b. 1799, youngest son; m. Polly Stanley.
203. AMASA« ABBEY, son of Joseph" and Deliverance (Armstrong) Abbey,
born March 9, 1769, in Willington, Conn. Amasa Abbey, according to records
from members of his family, was born April 9, 1770, and died October 26, 1842,
son of Joseph and Dilla (Pitcher) Abbey. It seems likely that the two records
refer to the same person.
Married HULDAH PETTINGALE, born in Comington, Mass., September 26,
1776; died March 19, 1839. She was the daughter of Joseph Pettingale.
Children .
Daniel Abbey, b. April 10, 1794 ; d. Feb. 4, 1879.
Samuel Abbey, b. March 27, 1796.
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Joseph Alley, b. Nov. 3, 1799 ; d. Nov. 15, 1835.
Clarissa Ahhcy, b. July 19, 1800; d. Nov. 17, 1803.
Mariam Ahhcy, b. Feb. 15, 1803; d. about 1870.
Ira Ahhcy, b. Oct. 17, 1805.
Laura Ahhcy, b. Sept. 9, 1807.
Amasa Ahhcy, jr., b. June 3, 1809 ; d. March 27, 1812.
Alphcus Ahho/, b. Juue 2G, 1811; d. Sept. 13, 18GG. Married aud had a daughter
Laura, who m. A. B. Strattou and resided at Beebe Plains, Vt., iu 1880.
Sally Ahhcy, b. May 24, 1813; d. June 25, 1814.
Naomi Ahhcy, b. July 1, 1815 ; d. Oct. 26, 183G.
Sarah Ahhcy, b. April 15, 1817.
Hepsihah Ahhcy, b. Jan. 11, 1819.
204. JOSEPH^ ABBEY, son of Joseph^ and Deliverance (Armstrong) Abbey,
born about 1770; died in Michigan about 1860.
Married .
Children, prohahly the following, and others
Parker Ahhcy, resided at Eaton Rapids, Eaton County, Mich., 1880.
Melissa Ahhcy, m. Dixon.
Alfred Ahhcy, went to California during the gold excitement and d. there about
Jan., 1908.
human 0. Ahhey, b. in Carlton, Orleans County, N. Y., April 4, 1831 ; d. Jan. 12,
1908. He was the youngest of 13 children. His mother died when he was a child,
his father married again, and, as he disliked his step-mother, he left home at the
age of 14 aud made his own way in the world. He had a brother Alfred and a
sister, Mrs. Melissa Dixon. The father was blind in later life and was drowned
by falling through a bridge. Luman O. Abbey w^as a harness maker at Rolling
Prairie, LaPorte, Ind., removed to Minneapolis, thence to Kansas in 1878 and
d. in Ness City, Kans. Married (1) in Manchester, Washtenaw County, Mich.,
May 8, 1856, Julia M. Robinson, b. in Batavia, N. Y., daughter of George (?)
and Eliza (Thompson) Robinson; d. April 20, 1902. Married (2) in Ness City,
Dec. 5, 1904, Mrs. H. S. Greenlee. Children, all but first b. in Rolling Prairie :
i. EstcUa Idelette, b. July 8, 1854, in South Bend, Ind., d. Nov. 10, 1864; ii.
Dewitt C, d. in infancy ; iii. Inez Rose, b. Fob. 19, 1863, resides in Ness City,
m. Sept. 8, 1885, W. H. Towner and has a daughter ; iv. Evelyn May, b. Oct, 3,
1865, m. C. J. Bills ; v. Willard Raymond, b. Dec. 18, 1866, d. in infancy.
205. ONORAH« ABBE, daughter of Obadiah^ and Zeruiah (Balch) Abbe,
born in Asliford, Conn., September 26, 1766 ; died November 20, 1845.
Married in 1780, JOHN GEER, son of Ezra Geer, born April 2 (or 27), 1759,
in Kent, Conn. ; died December 25, 1840, in Peru, Mass. Lived in the south part
of Peru.
Children, recorded in Peru, Mass. (dates as there recorded)
Calvin Gecr, b. June 8, 1781 ; d. April 1, 1807. Married (intentions published in
Peru, Mass., Feb. 18, 1804) Unity Anderson, who m. (2) April 1, 1810. in Peru,
Zachariah Haskell. Child of Calvin Geer, Mary Parker, b. in Peru, March 29,
1806, d. Sept. 25, 1840, m. Caleb Judson Chaffee, son of Caleb and Martha
(Fletcher) Chaffee, b. Oct. 22, 1804, d. in Lexington, Mo., 1861. He was twice
m. after Mary Geer's death. Children of Mary P. Geer : i. Mary M. C, b. Sept.
10, 1828, d. i829 ; ii. Henry Calvin B., b. Sept. 23, 1831, killed at Petersburgh,
Va., 1863 ; iii. Calvin Geer, b. March 15, 1834.
413 Alphcus Geer, b. Sept. 19, 1783 ; m. Kezia Judd.
414 Luther Geer, b. April 21, 1786; m. (1) Joanne Geer; (2) Lydia Bisbee.
415 John Geer, jr., b. March 30, 1789; m. (1) Polly Croziers ; (2) Charlotte Wood;
(3) Lois Woerder.
416 Susannah Geer, b. Feb. 6, 1792; m. Luther Granger.
Elizahelh Gecr, b. Dec. 5, 1794 ; d. Feb. 7, 1854. Married in Peru, Nov. 29, 1815,
John Ferguson, son of Samuel and Jemima (Abbe) Ferguson. See number 423.
Ohadiah Geer, b. Aug. 14, 1797. Married (intentions, Dec. 24, 1818, at Peru)
Amelia Wing. Children : i. Fanny, m. Scott ; ii. Mary Ann, m. Aaron
Matthews and had five children ; iii. George, m. , had five children ;
iv. Jane, d. aged 16.
Sixth Generation 117
417 Peter Geer, b. March 8, 1800; m. (1) Molly Kent; (2) SaUy S. Kent.
418 Ira Oeer, b. Aug. 21, 1802 ; m. Lucy Raymond.
Lvniari Gccr, b. June 23, 1805 ; d. March 20, 1818.
Calvin (2) Oeer, b. May 8, 1808; d. Jan. 25, 1821.
206. ROGER« ABBE, son of Obadiahs and Zeruiah (Balch) Abbe, born
June 14, 17G7; died January 24, 1813, in Peru, Mass. He was school collector
in Peru in 1800. Some of this family lived in Belvidere, 111. Residence of
Roger in marriage intention given as Partridgefield, May 18, 1789. (Becket, Mass.,
Vital Records.) In 1800 he and his wife were living at Partridgefield, Mass.,
with 3 girls and 2 bovs under 10.
Married HANNAH FERGUSON, who died 1843.
Children
419 John Able, m. Thirza Gilbert.
420 Russell Ahhc, h. March 7, 1794; m. Martha Sprague.
Hannah Alio, b. July 30. 1796; na. James Ferguson, b. May 8, 1789, son of Samuel
and Jemima (Abbe) Ferguson; sec number 207.
Anna Ahbe, h. Aug. 13, 1799: probably d. in Peru, Mass., Nov. 12, 1829.
421 Sardis Aibe, b. Sept. 4, 1801 ; m. .
Lcity Abbe, b. June 11, 1804, in Peru, Mass. ; d. there Dec. 8, 1804.
422 -4w(^i A&6c, b. July 15, 1806; m. (1) Sybil Bates ; (2) Susan Collins.
Philander Abbe, b. Sept. 27, 1809, in Peru.
Electa Philena Abbe, b. June 15, 1811, in Peru; m. William^ Ferguson, see
number 424.
207. JEMIMA« ABBE, daughter of Obadiah^ and Zeruiah (Balch) Abbe,
born March 30, 1769.
Married (intentions published at Becket, Mass., November 3, 1788), SAMUEL
FERGUSON.
Children
Orry Ferguson, b. 1787 ; d. 1795.
423 John Ferguson (twin), b. May 8, 1789; m. Elizabeth Geer.
Ja7nes Ferguson (twin), b. May 8. 1789; m. Hannah Abbe, b. July 30, 1796, at
Peru, Mass., daughter of Roger and Hannah (Ferguson) Abbe; see number 206.
They are said to have lived at Hamburg, N. Y., and Spring Lake, Mich.
Children : i. Clinton ; ii. ; iii. George.
Susan Ferguson, h. 1793; m. Samuel Reynolds. They moved to Canada.
Annie Ferguson, b. 1795; m. Nathan Rockwood. They lived in Hamburg, N. Y.
and had four children, one of whom was William.
Sally Ferguson, b. 1797; m. Jeremiah Olmstead. Children: i. William; ii. Mary
Ann ; iii. Hannah. They resided in Granville, N. Y.
Samuel O. Ferguson, h. 1799 ; d. 1823 ; m. Lovina Graves. No children.
Joseph 8. Ferguson, b. 1801 ; resided in Lysander, N. Y. ; m. Mary Hopkins.
Children: i. Samuel, d. (perhaps June 17, 1832); ii. George; iii. Mary;
iv. Nathan.
Hannah Ferguson, b. April 17, 1804; resided in Middlefield, Mass. Married in
Peru, Mass., Feb. 28, 1832, Jairus Ruck, who d. Jan. 29, 1861. Their births
were recorded in Middlefield, Mass. Children : i. Charles, b. Nov. 24, 1834. d. in
the army, March 27, 1862 ; ii. Henry B., b. March 14, 18.35, d. Feb. 16, 1842 ;
iii. Samuel F., b. Jan. 5. 1838. m. Jan. 12. 1858. Fidelia Watson ; iv. George W.,
b. March 24, 1840, d. Feb. 19, 1842 ; v. Andrew J., b. Jan. 4, 1842 ; vi. Lucy
Ann, b. Oct. 10 (or 19), 1843.
424 JVilliam Ferguson, h. April 2, 1806. Married (1) Electa Philena Abbe, daughter
of Roger and Hannah (Ferguson) Abbe (see number 206) ; (2) Theda Tower.
Jemima Ferguson, h. 1808; d. 1813.
Bafhshcba Ferguson, h. 1810; m. Daniel Goldthwaite. Children: i. Lucy, m. (1)
Hiram Russell, (2) John Campbell; ii. Squier, m. (1) Susan , (2)
Harriet McCoy, (3) ; iii. Daniel, settled in Rome, N. Y., m. Emma
; iv. William, was killed ; v. Mary, m. Goffe ; vi. Clarina, m.
Cyrus Ayres.
118 Abbe- Abbey Genealogy
208. OBADIAH" ABBE, son of Obadiahs and Zeruiah (Balcli) Abbe, born
April 14, 1777, in Peru, Mass. ; died there September 26, 1826.
Married (1) (intentions published at Peru, November 14, 1803), POLLY
RAMSDELL.
Married (2) (intentions published at Peru, June 4, 1804), MARGARET
MARSH.
Child hy first wife
Hiram Ahhe, b. March 22, 1804, at Peru.
Childreti by second wife, horn in Peru
Ruhina Ahhe, b. June 17, 1805 ; resided in Pittsfield, Mass. Married Porter
Strickland, intentions published Dec. 18, 18o0, in Lee, Mass.
Sophronia Ahhe, b. Nov. 9, 1806.
Anson Marsh Ahhe, b. Nov. 4, 1808.
Philander Ahhe, b. Sept. 10, 1810.
Almon Washington Ahhe, b. Feb. 8, 1814 ; d. Sept. 18, 1827.
Emeline Ahhe, b. Feb. 12, 1816.
Marinda Ahhe, b. March 20, 1819 ; m. Thompson.
209. BENJAMIN'' ABBE, son of Jeremiah'^ and Mary (Armstrong) Abbe,
born in Ashford, Conn., July 16, 1761. It seems likelj^ that the following records
refer to this Benjamin, although the date of his birth is given by some descend-
ants as July 16, 1764. He died April 21, 1837. The Census of 1790 records
him at Canaan, Columbia County, N. Y., 1 male over 16, 2 males under 16,
1 female in the family. He was a Baptist minister.
Married ELIZABETH KNAPPIN, born December 2, 1771 ; died July 30, 1851.
Children, numher and order not known
425 Jeremiah Abhey, h. June 7, 1792; m. (1) Lydia Huntley; (2) Harriet .
426 Asa Ahhey, m. Phebe Ann Crandall.
427 Samuel Ahhey, m. .
Sherhel Ahhey; m. and had children: Adeline; Emeline; Eimice ; Lorenzo D.
Perhaps this is Lorenzo Dow Abbey, who was one of the charter members of
the I. O. O. F. in Jefferson, Wis., 1876, and Noble Grand of Hebron Lodge later.
Harry Ahhey.
[Statement is made by the family that Samuel liad brothers Sherbel, Harry,
and Jerry. It is possible that they are descended in this line : John^, SamueP,
Ebenezer^ Gideon*, John", John", who had sons Timothy^ and Harry'.]
210. JEREMIAH« ABBE, JR., son of Jeremiah^ and Mary (Armstrong) Abbe,
born in Ashford, Conn., December 30, 1769. The following records probably
refer to this Jeremiah. Was living in Soutli Windsor, Conn., in 1850, aged 80,
with his wife and a Charles Abbe, aged 11, all born in Connecticut.
Married LYDIA ARMSTRONG, born about 1776.
Children, order of births not Jcnotcn
428 Jeremiah Ahhe, jr., b. about 1795 ; m. Althea Payne.
Charles Ahhe, a brother of the above Jeremiah, was living in Manchester, N. Y.,
about 1838.
Miles Ahhe, b. about 1798 : d. in East Windsor, Conn., Dec. 21, 18.37, aged 39.
Harriet Ahhe, b. about 1801 ; d. in East Windsor, July 6, 1807, aged 6.
Minerva Ahhe, b. about 1805 ; d. in East Windsor, Sept. 20, 1808, aged 3.
429 Rufus Armstrong, b. about 1807; m. (1) Martha Jane Fowler; (2) Ruth Har-
monia Amidon.
430 Henry Ahhe, b. about 1808; m. Lucretia . Probably he was a son of this
Jeremiah.
Sixth Generation 119
8uhnna Ahhc, b. 1795 ; d. 1874 ; m. Zebina Squyrcs, — may ho of this family. She
had the following children : i. Martha Sabrina, b. Feb. 17, 1819, d. iu Spring-
field, Mass., Sept. 12, 1912, m. (1) Aug. 19, 1845 (?), Stephen Chase, b. Aug. 18,
1818, d. March 2, 1855, son of Joseph and Mehitablo (Hall) Chase, (2)
Clapp, had a daughter by the first husband, Martha Jane, b. April 18, 1849, in
Wolcottville, Conn.; ii. Jeremiah; iii. Lester; iv. Henry; v. Zebina ; vi. Lydia ;
vii. Minerva ; viii. Stillman ; ix. Stephen.
211. MARTHA'* TICE, daughter of John and Elizabeth^ (Pease) Tice, born
in Williamstown, N. J., May 13, 1757; died 1842.
Married 1772, ISAAC HOOPER, son of William and Mary (French) Hooper
of Burlington, N. J. He was descended from Thomas French who was bap-
tized 1639 in the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Nether Heyford, England,
and after religious persecution, became a Quaker and died at Racacas, N, J.
Mrs. Hooper often related to her descendants that her husband, Isaac Hooper,
was a soldier in the Revolution, was engaged in the battle of Long Island, and
that she watched the battle from afar, out of her attic window, near Flatbush.
Later he was in the Commissary Department at Valley Forge. No official
records have been found of his service.
Child
431 Elizabeth Hooper, b. April 15, 1773 ; m. Stephen S. Rhodes.
212. HANNAH" TICE, daughter of John and Elizabeth^ (Pease) Tice, born
February 25 (or March 24), 1763.
Married April 8, 1782, JOHN GIBERSON.
Children
Elizabeth Oiberson, b. about 1783; m. Josiah Evan.
Ilannah Giberson, m. William Curtis.
Rebecca Oiberson, m. John Prickett.
Sarah Giberson, m. Jonas Burnett.
Eeziah Giberson, m. John English. Children : i. Josiah G., of Pleasant Plain,
Ohio; ii. , father of Frank C, president of William and Vashti College,
at Aledo, 111., and of William D., a minister of Felicity, Ohio.
Ann Giberson, m. 1808, George Harley. Children: i. Jacob, b. 1819, m. Mary
Ford; ii. Priscilla, b. 1822, m. James Copper; iii. Hannah, b. 1824, m. Charles
Shreve; iv. John, b. 1827, m. Rebecca Shreve ; v. EUzabeth, b. 1831, m. 1853,
Buren Larson, and had four children, (1) Halvor, b. 1854, d. aged 23, unm.,
(2) Ann Serena, b. 1856, m. 1879, Edward Caum and had Linda, b. 1880,
Edward, b. 1883, Halvor, b. 1885, Mildred, b. 1889, Harry, b. 1891, and Frank,
b. 1896, (3) Birtha, b. 1856, m. Daniel W. Horner, and had Brita, b. 1885,
Frances, b. 1887, and Larson, b. 1889, (4) Ida, b. 1861, m. as his second wife,
after Birtha's death, 1897, Daniel W. Horner, and had Alice, b. 1898, d. in
infancy, and Helen, b. 1900 ; vi. George, b. 1833, m. Ellen Mclntire ; vii. Josiah,
b. 1836, m. Susan Mapes ; viii. Mary Ann, b. 1839, m. Job Pidgeon ; ix. Susanna,
b. 1841, m. Oliver Larson ; x. Hester Ann, b. 1847, m. William Watson.
Isabell Giberson, m. John Baker.
Hester Ann Giberson, b. April 1. 1808; d. July 3, 1890. Married Edmund Burdsall,
b. Aug. 17, 1806 ; d. Jan. 4, 1866. Children : i. Joseph Liel. b. and d. April 2,
1828 ; ii. Hannah, b. Sept. 2, 1829. d. Aug. 23, 1841 ; iii. Elizabeth A., b. Jan. 22,
1833, d. June, 1884, m. Shields ; iv. Sarah, b. Dec. 4, 1834, d. July 10,
1857, m. Reed ; v. Hester Ann, b. March 23, 1837 ; vi. Rebekah, b. Sept.
7, 1839 ; vii. John Wesley, b. Nov. 23, 1841, Methodist minister iu WilUamsburg,
Ohio, m. (2) Louella ; viii. Mary Jane, b. Dec. 4, 1843; ix. Edmund,
b. June 14, 1845, Methodist minister at Batavia, Ohio; x. Josiah, b. Nov. 18,
1848, d. July 3, 1900, local preacher in the Methodist Church; xi. William,
b. Nov. 7, 1851, local preacher ; xii. Lydia, b. March 1, 1854, d. Feb. 10, 1874,
m. Prall.
John Giberson, m. Sarah Egbert.
Josiah Gibei-son, m. Sarah Burnett.
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213. JOHN FORD« SMITH, son of Jolm and Keziali^ (Pease) Smith, born
June 19, 1787, in Granville, Mass.; died March 17, 1854, at West Granville.
He was Captain in Fourth Regiment, First Brigade, Fourth Division Massa-
chusetts Volunteer Militia, resigned April 22, 1822. He was a member of
Mount Pleasant Lodge of Free Masons in Granville and was first president of
the Washingtonian Society in Granville.
Married ERPERCIA CAROLINE SEWARD, daughter of Amos and Mary
(Mead) Seward.
Children
432 Margaret Maritta Smith, b. March 4, 1817 ; m. Joseph Chapin.
Maria Louisa Smith, b. Dec, 1818; m. Harvey Bancroft of Galesburg, 111. Child:
Nettie, d. young.
433 Caroline Keziah Smith, b. Feb., 1820 ; m. Seth B. Hoisington.
Joseph Napoleon Smith, b. 1822 ; m. Julia Ann Griffin. Children : i. Caleb ; ii.
Augustus ; iii. Josephine.
Augustus B. Smith, b. 1823; was a minister; m. . Children: i. James,
d. ; ii. John Zebina, resides in Owcnsboro, Ky.
434 Harriet Corintha Smith, b. April, 1824; m. Billings Moulton.
435 Invin Zebina Smith, h. Nov., 1827; m. (1) Elizabeth Kew ; (2) Isabella Fallen.
Seward Stnith, b. Aug. 1, 18.30. Judge in Des Moines, Iowa. Married May 4,
1869, Mary E. Hyde. Child : Mary Hyde, m. Oct. 23, 189.5, Halle Sheffield Ray,
son of Rev. Charles Walter and Julia Tracy (Sheffield) Ray. He is an official
of the Rock Island Railway and resides in Des Moines, Iowa. They have one
child, Margaret Mary, b. Nov. 15, 1911.
436 Mary Jane Smith, m. Hulbert W. Munson.
Antoinette Erpercia Smith, resides in Springfield, Mass. ; m. Frederic Pickett.
Child : Frederic Smith, b. 1865, graduate of Yale and Columbia Medical Depart-
ment, physician in Philadelphia.
George Ali^honzo Smith, m. Ellen L. Treat. Children : 1. George Lincoln, b. 1867,
graduate of New Bedford (Mass.) High School, military captain of his class,
a lawyer; ii. Charles Treat, graduate of New Bedford High School, in business
in New York City ; iii. Louisa Erpercia, d. young.
437 Ford Smith, m. Caroline Dwight Lathrop.
214. ZEBINA" SMITH, son of John and Keziah^ (Pease) Smith, born in
Granville, Mass., August 7, 1789; died in Baltimore, Md., September 20, 1826.
He was a physician and lost his life through his devotion to duty during an
epidemic in Baltimore.
Married March 26, 1820, SARAH TOWSON of Baltimore.
Children
John Iririn Smith, b. .lau. 16, 1821; d. July, 1885; m. Martha Shearer Towson.
Resided in Baltimore. Children : i. Zebina Clay, d. 1845 ; ii. Irwin Towson,
d. 18.50 ; iii. Sidney Coakley, d. 1850 ; iv. Sarah Louisa ; v. Mattie Shearer,
resided in Baltmore, m. 1853, C. W. Mitchell, and had five children, Irwin Chap-
man, Mildred Cassin, Martha Towson, Jennie, and John Smith ; vi. Oscar Boyd,
d. 1876 ; vii. Leila Cassin ; viii. Ida May.
William Sydney Smith, b. June 21, 1823; d. Sept., 1830.
Jacob Zebina Smith, b. March 18, 1825 ; d. 1828.
215. HENRY" SMITH, son of John and Keziah^ (Pease) Smith, born in
Granville, Mass., March 4, 1792; died 1867. The town of Smithville, Ontario,
was named for him. He was a noted educator, a magistrate, and held several
ofifiees under the Crowui.
Married DOCINDA CUTLER, bom August, 1802; died December, 1844.
Children
437a Margaret Maritta Smith, h. July, 1822 ; m. Russ.
438 George Augustus Smith, b. 1825 ; m. .
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Martha Ann Smith, b. 1827; d. 1902; m. Samuel Wiggins of Wellaiulpoi't, Ontario.
Children : i. Ida ; ii. Samuel G., of Chicago ; iii. S. Jackson, of Chicago ;
iv. Emma Estella.
Ii[ar!/ Louisa Smith, b. 1829; d. 1838.
439 Henry Franldin Smith, b. 1831; m. Amurtha Avery.
MeJiss-a Smith, h. 1835; m. Curran. Child: Maud, m. Rev. W. B. Smith
of Hespeler, Ontario, and has two children.
Emma Jane Smith, h. 1839; m. George Sutherland of Welland, Ontario. Children:
three daughters who d. young, and George W., who has been mayor of Welland
for several terms. He is m. and has three children : Anna Marcia, b. Feb. 1889 ;
George Franklin, b. 1891 ; Fred Morton, b. 1899.
440 Caroline M. Stnith, h. 1841 ; m. Henry.
216. THOMAS J.« SMITH, son of John and Keziah^ (Pease) Smith, born
April 3, 1796; died Jul}-, 1869. Wont to Virginia to live in 1820.
Married, 1827, JANE L. BRANSON of Lebanon, Va. Their seven sons were
all in the Confederate Army.
Children
Edwin Ruthven Smith, b. in Abington, Va., 1826. Was Colonel in General Pickett's
Division, served during the battle of Gettysburg and was in the gallant charge
that Pickett made upon the enemy's entrenchment. He m. and had four children.
Austin Braniiough Smith, b. 1828; d. in British Honduras in 1869. Was Lieu-
tenant in the Confederate Army. Married and had one child, Victoria Toledo.
George Washington Smith, b. 1831 ; was killed at the battle of Port Republic.
Thomas Jefferson Smith, b. 1836.
Margaret E. Smith, b. 18.37; d. 1912; m. T. G. Barret.
441 Joseph Lewis Smith, b. 1839; m. .
Uenry Alhert Smith, h. 1843; d. Jan., 1865, at Camp Morton, after being in prison
fifteen months.
John Ford Smith, b. 1844.
Sarah J. S7nith, b. 1846.
Amanda C. Smith, b. 1848; m. Duff.; resides in Lebanon, Va. Children:
i. Myrta Jane, b. April, 1880, lives in Paris, Ky., ni. 1899, Ross W. Thompson
and has three children, Lucien, b. about 1900, Burnley Alexander, b. 1902, Gladys
Catherine, b. 1905 ; ii. Samuel Roy, b. April 24, 1882, m. 1902, Flora Blanker-
ship, and has three children, Joseph Horner, Frank Cecil and Harry Smith ;
iii. Bessie Clare, m. Arthur Little, a large stock dealer in Russell Covmty, Va.;
iv. Mattie Graham, b. Feb. 2, 1888, m. 1911, Harry Bundy of Tazewell, Tazewell
County, Va. He is a large stock raiser. They have one child, Sam Galsey.
217. ALBERT GALLATIN« SMITH, son of John and Keziah^ (Pease) Smith,
born April, 1801. Resided in Granville, Mass., and East Windsor, Conn.
Married SARAH HARGER, born July 5, 1800.
Children
Josephine Smith, b. Jan. 2, 1826 ; m. .Tarvis Osborne.
Benjamin Franklin Smith, b. 1827 ; m. .
Timothy A. Smith, b. June 29, 1829; m.
442 Fanny Elizaheth Smith, b. July 1, 1831 ; m. Charles Spellman.
Sarah J. S7nith, b. Oct. 11, 18.32 ; m. Samuel Flight.
Samuel H. Smith, b. Sept. 29, 1837 ; m. .
Jaines A. Smith, b. June 22, 18.39; m. .
443 Mariita Margaret Smith, b. April 18. 1841; m. Martin Phelps Tinker.
Joseph K. Smith, b. Jan. 5, 1843 ; m. .
218. CLARISSA^ KEYES, datighter of John and Mary^ (Wales) Keyes, born
April 30, 1768, at Ashford, Conn.; died May 14, 1846, in Gilboa, Schoharie
County, N. Y.
Married REV. WINSLOW PAIGE, who died March, 1838.
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Children
John Keyes Paige, b. Aug. 2, 1788, iu Hardwick, Mass.; d. Dec. 10, 1857, in
Schenectady, N. Y., was clerk in the Supreme Court at Albany for many years.
Married and had children : i. J. C. T., graduate of Williams College, m. and had
a son Leonard who was graduated from Union College in 1878 ; ii. John
Keyes, jr., b. in Albany, Dec. 14, 1843, was graduated from Union College,
resides in Schenectady, N. Y., m. Nov. 20, 1873, Janet McClellan Franchot,
daughter of Hon. Richard Franchot, have two sons, John Keyes, 3d, b. Feb. 11,
1876, and Richard Franchot, b. Jan. 22, 1878 ; iii. Aldigo C, a graduate of
Union College.
Hannah Winsloiv Paige, b. Aug. 13, 1791, in Stephentown, N. Y. ; d. April 3, 1852,
in Gilboa, N. Y". ; m. Archibald Croswell.
Maria C. Paige, b. March 24, 1794, in Schaghticoke, N. Y. ; d. Aug. 11, 1873 (or 4),
in Schenectady, N. Y. Married in 1805, David Cady, son of David and Ann
(Shuler) Cady, b. May 26, 1794; d. in the winter of 1839 or 40; b. and lived in
Florida, N. Y. Children : i. Winslow, b. Aug. 5, 1824, was killed by the
explosion of a steam boiler in San Francisco Bay, April 3, 1859 ; ii. Sarah
Smith, b. Sept. 25, 1825. d. March 13, 1891.
Aldigo C. Paige, b. July 31, 1798, at Schaghticoke, N. Y. ; d. March 31, 1868, in
Schenectady where his family resides. He was Judge of the New York State
Court of Appeals, and was a graduate of Williams College. Married and has a
son Edward Winslow, a graduate of Union College and Cambridge Law School,
lives in Schenectady.
Diana C. Paige, b. Feb. 25, 1800; d. May 19, 1863, in Schenectady, N. Y.
Married Allen H. Jackson and had three sons who were graduated from Union
College.
Antoinette Paige, b. Aug. 11, 1805, in Schaghticoke, N. Y. ; lived in Schenectady,
Married (1) 1825, George Smith, who d. at Fort Johnson, N. Y., Aug., 1828.
Child : Mary, b. 1827 ; m. in Schenectady, 1847, B. T. Potter, a lawyer, who
d. March 18, 1870. Antoinette Paige m. (2) 1836, Judge Piatt Potter.
219. ZACHARIAH" KEYES, son of John and Mary^ (Wales) Keyes, born
1778; died November 4, 1834, at Cherry Valley, N. Y.
Married (1) at Burlington, Vt., October 5, 1800, LYDIA STANTON, daughter
of Judge Stanton. She died December 18, 1822, in Sharon, N. Y.
Married (2) at Sharon, September 4, 1823, NANCY WHITTAKER, died July
4, 1837, at Cherry Valley.
Children hy first wife
Stephen Pearl Keyes, b. Nov. 2, 1801 ; drowned June 22, 1827, at Lake St. Peter's,
below Montreal ; not m.
Norman Landon Keyes, b. July 4, 1804 ; d. July 26, 1848, at Cherry Valley, N. Y.
Married May 15, 1830, at Sharon, Sarah E. Whittaker, who d. April 28, 1861,
at Sharon. No childi'en.
Mary Wales Keyes, b. Oct. 6, 1806; d. Sept. 6, 1852, in Binghamton, N. Y.
Married at Sharon, Dec. 17, 1823, John N. A. Waldron. Children : i. Cornelius ;
ii. Stephen ; iii. Charles, lives in Binghamton ; iv. Henry, lives in Dallas, Ore. ;
v. George, lives in Dallas; vi. Zachariah, lives in Chicago; vii. (son), lives in
Chicago.
444 Eliza C. Keyes, b. Feb. 22. 1810 ; m. George Warnick.
Henry Stanton Keyes, b. Jan. 22, 1812 ; d. Aug. 25, 1850, in Amsterdam, N. Y. ;
not m.
Child hy second wife
John W. Keyes, b. Aug. 26, 1825, in Cherry Valley, N. Y. ; resides at Amsterdam,
N. Y. Married at Amsterdam, Sept. 16, 1847, AM B. Wager, who d. Oct. 12,
1859. Children: i. Edward S., b. June 15, 1848, d. ; ii. Sarah E. Young,
b. Sept. 29, 185- ; iii. Charlotte E., b. Sept. 11, 1856.
220. ALMIRA CATHERINE« KEYES, daughter of John and Mary^ (Wales)
Keyes, born 1785; died October 16, 1842. With her family slie removed from
Connecticut to Canajoharie, N. Y. She attended the first fashionable boarding
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school establislicd west of Albany. The sessions were held in a log house at
Cooi)erstown. James Fenimore Cooper, then a boy of four, was also a student.
Married 1808, JOHN PECK, born IMay 1, 1785, son of Joseph and Hannah
(Lambert) Peck of Woodbury. He was a physician in Burlington, Vt., Avhere
he died July 24, 1862.
Children, horn in Btirlington
Francis C. reel; b. Nov. 29, 1809 ; d. March 20. 1813.
John Henry Peek, b. Dec. 24, 1810. For some time he was a member of the firm
J. and J. H. Peck, and took a prominent part in railroad enterprises in Vermont ;
removed to New York 1855 : returned to Burhngton 1874. and d. there Aug. 18,
1877. Married (1) 183.3, Mary Loomis, daughter of Luther Loorais. She d. in
1834, leaving a son, Charles Loomis, b. 1834, who d. and was buried in Lone
Mountain Cemetery, San Francisco. John Henry Peck m. (2) 1837, Lucia
Bradley, daughter of Harry Bradley.
Julian Cassius Pomeroi/ Peck, b. Dec. 17, 1812 ; studied at Castletou and University
of Vermont ; merchant at Ausable Forks, Burlington and New York City.
General of Vermont militia. Died suddenly in Jersey City, N. J., Aug. 5, 1872.
Married 1833, Lucia Wait, daughter of Colonel Marmaduke Wait. She d. June
19, 1878.
Francis C. Peck, b. Nov. 28, 1814 ; d. Aug. 19, 1817.
ISamucl C. Peck, b. May 29, 1816; d. Nov. 3, 1816.
Theodore Ausiuslus Peck. b. Aug. 8, 1817; d. May 18, 1872. Druggist in Burhng-
ton, 1840-62, then in Watertown, N. Y. Married 1842, DeUa SafCord, daughter
of Rev. Hiram Safford, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Burlington.
Children, b. in Burlington : i. Theodore Safford, b. March 22, 1843, resided in
Burlington, was Colonel on the Governor's staff, and Colonel of the 1st Regiment
Infantry, Vermont National Guard. Colonel commanding 1st Regiment Vermont
Volunteers and State Guard ; ii. Edward Sprague, b. Oct. 24, 1844, was gradu-
ated from University of Vermont, assistant professor of surgery in its medical
department, later practiced medicine in New York City ; iii. Charlotte Almira,
b. Nov. 25, 1846, resides in Plattsburg, N. Y., m. Sept. 11, 1873, WiUiam
Van Schoonoven Woodward, son of Hon. J. Douglass Woodward, lawyer and
Assistant U. S. District Attorney.
George Huntington Peck, b. Nov. (or March) 4, 1819; was graduated from Uni-
versity of Vermont. On account of poor health he went on a cod-fishing voyage
to Labrador in 1838, and spent the winter of 1839-40 in the West Indies ; was
admitted to the bar in 1841 but, as his health failed, went to sea until 1849,
when he lauded in San Francisco ; opened a law office at Dutch Flat in Placer
County ; taught in Sacramento and San Francisco ; principal and superintendent
of schools in Spring Valley and El Monte, Los Angeles County. Married (1)
1851, Mrs. Sarah Thornton from whom he was divorced in 1862. Children :
i. John Henry Fenton, b. Jan. 25, 1853, in Yolo County, Calif. ; ii. George
Huntington, jr., b. Oct. 15, 1856. George H. Peck m. (2) April 30, 1864, Mary
Wanostracht, daughter of Nathaniel Chater of London, England. Children :
i. Kate W., b. Jan. 28, 1866 ; ii. Mary Chater, b. Nov. 1, 1867.
WiUiam Ware Peek, b. Jan. 21, 1821 ; graduate of University of Vermont and
Harvard Law School ; practiced law in Burlington and New York City ; in 1878
was appointed U. S. District Judge and Assistant Supreme Judge of Wyoming
Territory. Married 1846, Hannah Mumford, daughter of Benjamin Mumford of
Schenectady. Children : i. John, b. 1847 ; ii. Catherine ; iii. Benjamin Mumfoi-d,
a ci\'il engineer ; iv. Clara ; v. Joseph ; vi. Harriet.
Edu-ard William Peek, b. Jan. 20, 1823; merchant in Burlington till 1878.
Married about 1845, Harriet Clark, daughter of Hon. Joseph Clark, of Milton,
Vt. No children.
Helen M. Y. Peck, b. Aug. 19, 1825 ; d. Feb. 23, 1827.
221. HEZEKIAH H.« ABBEY, son of Hezekiah^ and Martha (Manning)
Abbe, born January 31, 1785, at Windham, Conn. ; died March 5, 1858, at Greig,
Lewis County, N. Y. He removed with his father's family to Vermont at the
age of seven years and resided in Westminster for a time. In October, 1826,
he removed to Greig. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and was
in 1854 a trustee at the incorporation of the "Forest Church in connection
with the Presbytery of Watertown." This church was situated in the town of
Greig near the junction of the Black and Moose Rivers.
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Man-ied (1) at Westminster, January, 1810, BETSEY FULLER, who died
February 13, 1820.
Married (2) November, 1820, ANNA GOODELL, born July 21, 1788, at West-
minster; died April 24, 1862, at Lowville, N. Y. She was the daughter of
Deacon Abiel and Mrs, Margaret ( ) Goodell of Westminster.
Children hy first icifc
Alanj IT. Abbey, b. Aug. 28, 1811; d. June 19, 1881. Married Parker.
Resided iu 1858 at Moiuit Clemens, Macomb County, Mich.
Laura M. Abbey, b. Jan. 26, 1813; d. June 19, 1859. Resided in Buffalo, N. Y.,
in 1858. Married Hoskins.
445 Rockwell Manning Abbey, b. Sept. 26, 1815; m. Elmira Smith.
Betsey M. Abbey, b. Nov. 26, 1819; d. May 29, 1895; m. Hutchins.
Resided in Michigan in 1858.
Children by second wife
446 Mason EezeUah Abbey, b. Aug. 9, 1821; m. (1) Maryetta C. Scovel ; (2) Jennie
Miles.
Simon G. Abbey, b. Aug. 25, 182.3; d. March 12, 1842.
William Abbey, b. Feb. 21, 1826; d. Feb. 20, 1882. Resided in Greig in 1858.
Martha Abbey, b. June 23, 1828 ; d. Oct., 1828.
David D. Abbey, b. July 16, 1830; d. Aug. 17, 1905, at YiUisca, Iowa. Married
at Boonville, Oneida County, N. Y., Nov. 21, 1866, Sarah L. Wardwell, b. May
30, 1840, at Turin, Lewis County, N. Y. Children : i. David Purdy, b. Sept. 18,
1867 ; ii. Leon Talcott, b. Sept. 3, 1877 ; iii. Ralph, b. Aug. 11, 1881, d. Aug. 23,
1881.
222. ELISHA° ABBEY, son of Mason^ and Sarali (Frissell) Abbey, born in
Amherst, Mass., January 7, 1794; was a wheelwright in Belehertown, Mass.,
where he died October 25, 1863. He was a deacon in the Braincrd Congrega-
tional Church wliicli united in 1841 with the Belehertown Church. In 1850 the
deacons all resigned and a new election was held at which he was one of the
four chosen.
Married (1) December 29, 1828, SOPHRONIA TARBELL of Brimfield, born
September 3, 1803; died November 12, 1833. She was daughter of Elijah, jr.,
and Submit (Richardson) Tarbell. No children. She joined the church in
Brimfield in 1829.
Married (2) December 9, 1834, MARY BARROWS, born September 19, 1805,
in Monson, daughter of Charles and Huldah (Frisell) Barrows. Huldah Frissell
was a sister of Sarah Frissell who married Mason Abbey. Mary Barrows lived in
Brimfield and joined the Congregational Church in Belehertown, 1835. She
removed to Sunderland, Mass., in 1866 and died there April 15, 1882.
Children
Charles Mason Abbeij, b. in Belehertown, Nov. 12, 18.35 ; lived in Ashficld and
Greenfield, Mass. Married Sept. 10, 1873 or 4, Ellen M. Miles, b. Aug. 31, 1845,
in Ashficld, Mass., daughter of Philander and Viletta A. (Hall) Miles. Child:
Fanny Letta, b. Nov. 8, 1875, lives in Greenfield. She is a milliner, with shops
in Greenfield and Northampton.
Ue7iry EUsha Abbey, b. Aug. 12, 1837; d. at Springfield, Mass., Jan. 8. 1893.
Married Dec. 4, 1863, Adelaide Victoria Pierce, b. in Palmer, Mass., Feb. 6, 1841 ;
d. in Holyoke, April 18, 1904. She was daughter of Emery and Sophronia
(Barnes) Pierce. Child: Ira D., b. in Thomaston, Conn., about 1874. ra. in
Springfield, March 31. 1898, Edgar N. Whitaker, b. in Chicopee about 1875, son
of George A. and Adeline M. (Clark) Whitaker.
447 George Francis Abbey, b. Dec. 12, 18.39; m. Eliza Ann Pomeroy.
Edv:ard Payson Abbey, d. in infancy.
Sophronia Tarbell Abbey, b. Nov. 27, 1844; d. in Sunderland, Oct. 21, 1873.
Married Aug. 31, 186.3, JuUus Manning Marshall, b. at Shelburne Falls, Mass.,
Nov. 3, 1840 ; d. at Worcester, May 9, 1912. He was son of Thomas Marshall ;
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served iu the Civil War in Company I, 46th Massachusetts Infantry, also in
Company L, 2d Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. Child: May Blanche, b. in
Sunderland, Oct. 7, 1873, lives in Worcester, ui. Oct. 7, 1897, Luther Calvin
ManniuK, b. ISIarch 7, 1865, in Magog, Quebec, son of Calvin Charles Manning,
has children, Roy Marshall, b. and d. Feb. 24, 1905, Arthur Calvin, b. in Wor-
cester, June 7, 1906, and Ruth EUza, b. in Worcester, May 22, 1911.
223. GEORGE" ABBEY, son of Masoii= and Sarah (Frissell) Abbey, born
January 7, 1801 ; died in Sunderland, Mass., April 13, 1864. He lived for a time
iu Belchertown and joined the Congregational Chureli there in 1819. Wliecl-
wriglit.
Married (1) in Dedhani, April 10, 1831, HANNAH GAY, daughter of Abner
and Anne ( ) Gay of Dedham. She died in 1847.
Married (2) January 30, 1850, PHEBE PARSONS of Northampton, Mass.,
born FebriTary 18, 1805, daughter of Elisha and Phebe (Hulbert) Parsons. She
died March 21, 1894.
Children
448 George Mason Alheij, b. April 2, 1833 ; m. Sarah Aureha Ramsdell.
Harriet Ann Alley, b. at Belchertown, June 20, 1834 ; d. in Sunderland, Nov. 8,
1896. She joined the Congregational Church in Belchertown, 1850. Married in
Sunderland, June 3, 1862, Horace Graves Sanderson, b. Dec. 16, 1836, son of
Apollos and Roxana (Bartlett) Sanderson of Sunderland. He m. (2) Eunice
Lyman Strong. Children of Harriet Abbey : i. George Dwight, b. March 30,
1863, d. Nov. 1, 1868; ii. Emma Dora, b. in Sunderland, Jan. 1, 1867, lives in
Honolulu, m. in Sunderland, Jan. 29, 1892. Perley Leonard Home, who was
b. in Topeka, Kans., Dec. 30, 1866. Has children, Mildred Amy, b. in Cambridge,
May 7, 1894, and Robert Sanderson, b. April 26, 1897. in Sunderland. Perley L.
Home was graduated from Harvard in 1892, A.M. 1894, assistant instructor in
history at Harvard 1893-1896, principal of Dummer Academy, 1896-1904, presi-
dent of the Kamehameha Schools in Honolulu, 1904-1914, industrial schools for
Hawaiian children.
Laura Thompson Alley, b. Nov. 14, 1837; d. June 14, 1898. Lived in Northamp-
ton, Hadley, and Sunderland. Married Sept. 4, 1860, Jesse Lemuel Delano, b.
Aug. 31, 1835. He served in the Civil War in the 52d Massachusetts Volunteers.
Children: i. Fanny Jane, b. Nov. 13, 1861, d. Feb. 25, 1896; ii. Cora Belle,
b. Dec. 5, 1862, d. April 11, 1892, m. April 10, 1889, George Edward Shipman
of Hadley, sou of George and Harriet N. (Bartlett) Shipman, and had child,
Raymond Delano, b. Feb. 12. 1892 ; iii. William Ansel, b. June 20, 1869, Uves in
Amherst, m. Oct. 13, 1891, Etta L. Waite, daughter of Wright Noble and Mary
(McGuire) Waite of Amherst, has child, Louis Fhihp, b. Oct. 28, 1892.
224. LUCRETIA« ABBEY, daughter of Mason^ and Sarah (Frissell) Abbey,
born December 13, 1803; died at Sunderland, Mass., May 14, 1893. She joined
the Church at Belchertown in 1826 and removed to Brimfield after her marriage.
Married September 5, 1833, ELI BARROWS, born at Monson, Mass., August
22, 1808; died at Sunderland, December 28, 1881. He was the son of Charles
and Huldah (Frissell) Barrows and a brother of Mary Barrows who married
his wife's brother Elisha. Huldah Frissell was a sister of Sarah who married
Mason Abbey. Charles Barrows was descended from John Barrows, who settled
in Salem in 1637.
Childreii
Allert Huntington Barrows, b. Jan. 11, 1837 ; d. July 28. 1843.
Charles Mason Barrotvs, b. March 11, 18.38. Married Sept., 1864, Adelaide V.
Marden who d. Dec. 15. 1864.
George Boven Ban-ows, h. May 11. 1840. He served in the 42d Regiment, Massa-
chusetts Volunteers in the Civil War.
Sarah Lucretia Barroivs, b. Jan. 29, 1843.
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225. CHARLES HUNTINGTON" ABBEY, son of Richard^ and Dolly (Ellis)
Abbey, born in New York State, January 1, 1800; died in Yazoo City, Miss.,
about 1815. He was a Drum-Major in the War of 1812 and his wife was a
pensioner of that war. His first maiTiage was in New Orleans, but when his
son by that marriage was nine months old, he removed to Cleveland, Ohio, where
his wife died two years later. After his second marriage he went to Texas,
where he remained until his son Charles was about fourteen. He then started
back to Ohio, but died at the home of his brother, Richard. He resided for a
time in Rochester, N. Y.
Married (1) in New Orleans, La., ST. CLAIR of Vicksbm-g, Miss.
Child
449 Charles Ellis Abbey, b. April 25, 1829 ; m. Mahala Jane Vanfleet.
Married (2) in Hillsboro, Oliio, MARIA SHORTS, born in Pennsylvania, June
24, 1807; died in Water Valley, Miss., about 1898, aged 90.
Children
Sarah Abbey, m. John VanVlect of Newport, Ky. Son : Charles, lives at Newport.
450 Thomas Benton Abbey, b. Aug., 1833; m. (1) Ellen Virginia Broomall ; (2) Mrs.
Kittle Tabor.
Mary C. Abbey, b. about 1842; resides in Cincinnati, Ohio; not m.
451 Richard John Abbey (twin), b. July 19, 1843; m. Margaret M. Jennings.
John Riehard Abbey (twin), b. July 19, 1843; d. in infancy.
226. RICHARD" ABBEY, 3D, son of Richard^ jr., and Dolly (Ellis) Abbey,
born November 16, 1805, in Genesee County, N. Y., 16 miles west of the present
site of the city of Rochester; died 1891 in Yazoo City, Miss. His early life
was spent in Ncav York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Missouri. At the age of
15 he w^as mail carrier from Jackson, Mo., to Golconda, 111., working half the
year to defray the expenses of his schooling the other half. At 19 he went
to Natchez, Miss., and became a clerk in a dry-goods store, of wliich he soon
became partner and sole manager. In 1833 the partner died and after a few
years Mr. Abbey closed out the business and went to Natchez, where he pur-
chased a cotton plantation. Since early life he had been a Methodist and
about tliis time he felt impressed with a call to preach. He was for some years
a local preacher in tlie Methodist Episcopal Church South and in 1856 joined
the Mississii^pi Conference and was appointed agent of the book and tract
establishment of that Church in Vicksburg. From 1858 to 1862 he was financial
secretary of tlie Soutliern M. E. Publishing House at Nashville and sole agent
of that house until after the war. In 1867 he was appointed Presiding Elder
of the Jackson District, Mississippi Conference. The last four years of his
stay at Nashville, by his courage and vigilance he prevented the confiscation or
destniction by the government or the army of the property of the Church in
that city. From 1872 to 1878 he spent much of his time in Washington, D. C,
prosecuting a claim against the United States in favor of tlie M. E. Cliurch
South. In 1876 failing health compelled him to retire from active service and
to be put tipon the supernumerary list. He made his home thereafter in Yazoo
City, Miss. He was always a hard and industrious student and is the author
of many books and articles, chiefly of a doctrinal or scientific nature. Among
his best-known works are the following: End of the apostolic succession; Creed
of all men; Diuturnity; Ecce ecclesia, a reply to Ecce homo; City of God;
The Church makers.
Married 1831, JULIA BATES of Natchez, who died in 1882.
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Rev. Richard'^ Abbey, D.D.
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452 Julia Ahhey, b. July, IS.'^O : m. Dr. Augustin Freeland Magruder.
Charles Ahhcy, d. in childhood.
227. MASON ELLIS" ABBEY, son of Richard^ and Dolly (Ellis) Abbey,
born in Franklin, Pa., July 4, 1812; died in Atlanta, Ga., February 20, 1892.
He was baptized June 19, 1846, by the Reverend W. Carey Crane.
Married (1) .
Married (2) at VanBuren, Ark., April 1, 1850, HARRIET REBECCA
NEWLAND, born in Knoxville, Tenn., November 18, 1824; died in Atlanta, Ga.,
April 23, 1899. Slie was baptized in the summer of 1850 at VanBuren by the
Reverend Mr. Westbrook.
Children iy first wife
Florence Ahhey.
Agries Ahhey.
Children hy second wife
453 Richard Keicland Ahhey, b. Sept. 20, 1852; m. (1) Fannie Dora Snowden ; (2)
Myrtle Beers.
Kaie Ahhcy, b. in Louisville. Ky., Jan. 8, 1855 : d. Aug. 4, 1855.
Julia Angusta Ahhcy, b. in Burlington, Iowa, March 26, 1857. Resides in Atlanta,
Ga. Married in Atlanta, Sept. 23, 1890, Samuel H. Trainham, b. in Virginia,
Dec. 3, 1854. Children, b. in Atlanta : i. Ruby, b. Dec. 13, 1891, m. in Atlanta,
July 10, 1915, W, F. Winn, jr. ; ii Ethel, b. July 21, 1893 ; iii. Floyd, b. March
16, 1896, m. in Athens, Ga., April 9, 1916, Marie Patricia Reviere.
Emma Verona Ahhcy, b. in Burlington. Iowa, Dec. 4, 1858; resides in Atlanta.
Married there March 22, 1888, Dr. Morgan Asberry Davis, b. in Orangeburg,
S. C. Children, b. in Atlanta : i. Homer Abbey, b. May 4, 1889, m. at Fairburn,
Ga., Oct. 3, 1912, Mary Irene McCurry, b. in Fairburn, March 31, 1891, has
children, Helen McCui-ry, b. April 3, 1915, and Pearl Virginia, b. July 6, 1916 ;
ii. Pearl Verona, b. Aug. 3, 1892, m. in Atlanta, Oct. 2.3, 1912, Ernest Blair
Durham, b. near Adairsville, Ga., Dec. 13, 1882. Mrs. Durham d. in Atlanta,
May 8, 1916, after a long illness.
Ella Cassandra Ahhey, b. in Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 29, 1861 ; resides in Atlanta.
Married there Nov. 18, 1885, John Daniel McMillan, b. in Scotland, Ga., Aug. 3,
. 1860. Children, b. in Atlanta : i. Roy Neal, b. Dec. 9, 1888, law student and in
real estate business, m. in Atlanta, Oct. 21. 1914, Elizabeth Bayly, daughter of
P. J. and Emma ( ) Bayly ; ii. May Elizabeth, b. Jan. 12, 1890 ; iii. Ruth
Miriam, b. Feb. 25. 1895 ; iv. John Daniel, jr., b. June 24, 1898.
Tirginia Mendora Ahhey, b. in Choctaw County, Miss., June 19, 1863. Resides in
Atlanta; m. there Feb. 22, 1893, Dr. Basil Monroe Wooley, b. in Marion,
Ala., Sept. 28. 1834. Children, b. in Atlanta: i. Basil Monroe, jr., b. Dec. 30,
1893 ; ii. Marion Nina, b. Feb. 17, 1897.
William Augustus Ahhey, b. in Choctaw County, March 5, 1865 ; d. at Sardis,
Miss., Aug. 9, 1872.
Theodore Howell Ahhcy, b. at Water Valley, Miss., Aug. 1, 1867. Married in
Atlanta, Feb. 26, 1889, Jessie May Harris, b. in Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 12, 1867,
daughter of Asa L. and Julia E. ( ) Harris. She resides in Atlanta with her
children. Children, all but third b. in Atlanta : i. Lucile Harris, b. Jan. 29,
1891 ; ii. Theodore Harris, b. Feb. 3, 1897 ; iii. Guy Harris, b. at Barnes\alle,
Ga., July 10. 1900, d. at Gainesville, Ga., June 9, 1901 ; Leonard Broughton,
b. Nov. 29, 1902.
228. SAMUEL MANNING" WELCH, son of Eleazer^ and Alathea (Manning)
Welch, born September 17, 1791; died March 3, 1823. Lived at Windham,
Conn.
Married February 11, 1817, LUCIA CAREY, born June 16, 1795 ; died August
5, 1877. She man-ied (2) William Russell of Albany. Her sous removed to
Albany with her but went to Buffalo after a short time.
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Children, horn in Windham
Thomas Gary Welch, b. Oct. 11, 1819; d. in Liverpool, England, June 13, 1864.
He removed to Buffalo, N. Y., before 1840. Married July 10, 1850, Maria Allen
Mead, b. in Gorbam, Maine, June 23, 1828. Children: i. Samuel Manning,
b May 1 1852, lives in Buffalo ; ii. Jane Mead, b. March 11, 1854, lives in New
York City ; iii. Walter, b. 1858, d. 1861 ; iv. Wilfred, b. Oct. 19, 1861, d. 1870 ;
V. Thomas Gary, b. Oct. 16, 1864, lawyer in Buffalo, m. Dec. 26, 1892, Jane
Augusta Baker, has children, Jane Mackay, b. Oct. 8, 1893, d. Nov. 7, 1896,
Stuart Cary, b. Aug. 8, 1895, and Elizabeth Alden, b. July 6, 1899.
William Wallace Welch, b. Sept. 21, 1821; physician; was Uving in Galesburg,
111., in 1900.
Samuel Manning Welch, b. Oct. 12, 1823 ; d. in Buffalo, Nov. 12, 1902 ; m. 1853,
Elizabeth Deschler of Columbus, Ohio. Children : i. Deschler, of Buffalo ; ii.
(daughter), m. Lucien Wild of Baltimore; iii. Elizabeth D., m. Whiting
of Buffalo ; iv. Emily E., m. Copeland of Switzerland.
229. SYLVESTER*' WELCH, sou of AshbeP and Margaret (Dorrance)
Welch, born in Windham, Conn., January 11, 1798; died near Frankfort, Ky.,
December 6, 1852.
Married (1) at Indiana, Pa., November 23, 1831, SARAH G. STANNARD,
died February 21, 1838.
Married (2) MRS. ARABELLA (SCOTT) DAVIS of Kentucky.
Children by first wife
Ashhel Welch, m. Nov. 1, 1855, Priscilla Adams. Children : i. Mary, m. William
Handy about 1880 ; ii. Daniel ; iii. William ; iv. , d. in infancy.
Sarah Welch, d. in infancy.
Children iy second wife
Mary Dudley Welch, b. July, 1839 ; m. 1859, Edward Hensley. Children : i
d. in infancy ; ii. Alexander Crittenden, an Episcopal clergyman, not m. ; in.
Arabella Welch, b. 1864, m. Oct., 1886, Lieutenant Charles Elwood Colohan of
the U. S. Navy, who d. March 12, 1904, was buried at Annapolis, had one son,
Charles Elwood, jr. ; iv. Edward Alfred, physician, not m.
Louisa Welch, lived at Frankfort, Ky. ; m. Leopold Lebrot, who d. Feb. 2, 1911.
Children : i. Sylvester, m. and lives in New Orleans ; ii. Irma, m. in Frankfort,
Ky., in 1911.
Elizabeth Sharp Welch, b. Dec. 14, 1843; m. Torbert Coryell of Lambertville,
N. J. No children.
Sylvester Welch, jr., m. Nellie Smith. No children.
Arabella Welch, m. Edward Bryan of Frankfort, Ky., Louisville, St. Louis, and
Yonkers, N. Y. He d. at San Juan, Porto Rico, Jan. 23, 1910, aged 64 years.
Children : i. John, not m. ; ii. Scott, b. 1877, lives in New Orleans, m. June 15,
1904, Susan Camp Nickerson of St. Louis, has two daughters ; iii. Edward, lives
near Bound Brook, N. J., m. in 1901, Eliza ; iv. Ashbel Welch; v.
Sylvester, b. 1887, m. June 16, 1907, Alice Beatrice O'Brien, daughter of John T.
O'Brien of New York, b. 1889, has two children.
230. ASHBEL" WELCH, son of AshbeP and Margaret (Dorrance) Welch,
born December 4, 1809, in Nelson, Madison County, N. Y.; died September 25,
1882, at Lambertville, N. J. He was a civil engineer, and, at one time, presi-
dent of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He was chief engineer of
the Delaware and Raritan Canal for nearly forty years. In 1865 he devised
for the New York and Philadelphia Railroad a syste/u of safety signaling that
developed into the present block system. He became president of the United
Railroads and Canals of New Jersey in 1867 and, after the system was acquired
by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1871, he Avas consulting engineer for various
enterprises.
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Married October 25, 1834, MARY HANNAH SEABROOK, born December 17,
1813, in Amwell ToAvnship, Hunterdon County, N. J.; died April 1, 1874.
She was the daughter of James and Merriam (Lambert) Seabrook.
Children, born at Lambertville, N. J.
(Son), b. and d. Oct. 28, 1835.
Margaret (1) Welch, b. March 8, 1837; d. May 1, 1838.
454 Caroline Corson Welch, b. Nov. 23, 1840 ; m. William Corwin.
Mary Merriam Welch, b. Dec. 3, 1843 ; is not m.
Elizaleih Seabrook Welch, b. May 23, 1846; d. April 8, 1879; m. May 12, 1875,
Rev. RosweU Randall Hoes, now of the U. S. Navy. Children: i. Isabel Dor-
rance, b. June 3, 1876 ; ii. Jobn Paul, b. March 7, 1879.
Margaret (2) Welch, b. Sept. 21, 1851 ; d. Dec. 30, 1853.
Ashicl Welch, b. Feb. 5, 1854. General manager of the Philadelphia Belt Line
Railroad, Uves in Germantown, Pa. Married Jan. 1, 1878, Emma Deha Finney,
b. May 27, 1855, at Middlebush, Somerset County, N. J., daughter of John and
Ebza Boice (Coriell) Finney. Mrs. Welch collected all the records of this
branch of the family. Child : Ashbel Russell, b. July 17, 1879, in Lambertville,
was graduated from Yale, 1901 ; is in insurance business in New York City
and resides in Westfield, N. J. ; m. in Brooklyn, April 7, 1906, Hedebnd Elsa
Beck, daughter of Captain Louis Constantine and Caroline Storrs (Hopkins)
Beck, b. in Stuttgart, Germany, Jan. 22, 1882 ; has a child, Hedebnd EUzabeth,
b. in Howarth, N. J., Dec. 21, 1909.
William Welch, b. Nov. 20, 1860. Married Marie Lair, b. Aug. 6, 1869 ; d. Feb. 12,
1897. Child ; Victoria Oh\da, b. Dec. 29, 1888, m. at Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 16,
1913, Charles Adelbert Gibhn.
231. ARCHIBALD'' WELCH, son of Moses Cook^ and Charissa (Ashley)
Welch, born in Mansfield, Conn., March 13, 1794; was killed in a railway
disaster at Norwalk, May, 1853. Physician at Mansfield for twenty years,
later in Wethersfield and Hartford. He was a Yale graduate.
Married March 16, 1818, CYNTHIA HYDE, daughter of Daniel Hyde of
Lebanon, Conn. She died March 6, 1853.
Children
Mary Throop Welch, b. April, 1819 ; d. 1852.
Henry Kirk White Welch, b. in Hartford, Jan. 1, 1821 ; d. there Nov. or Dec. 25,
1870. He was a graduate of Yale in 1842 and practiced law in Hartford.
Married (1) 1852, Fanny Goodrich, daughter of Professor Chauncey A. Goodrich
of Yale and widow of Bernard Williams of Hartford. She d. in 1855. He m. (2)
Susan Goodwin of Hartford, by whom he had four sons. Children : i. Archi-
bald A., hfe insurance actuary in Hartford ; ii. Lewis S., b. July 9, 1867, editor
and publisher of the Yale Alumni Weekly in New Haven, in 1901.
Charissa Ashley Welch, b. June, 1825. Married Rev. Ebsha W. Cook.
Moses Cook Welch, b. Sept., 1827, d. Sept. 6, 1899. He was a minister and a
graduate of Yale.
Archibald Welch, jr., b. Sept., 1829; d. in Morristown, N. J., April 7, 1898.
Merchant in New York City. Married about 1870, Sarah D. Coit (widow of
Borrows) who d. 1893.
232. EUNICE" ABBE, daughter of Isaac^ and Eunice (Church) Abbe, born
April 12, 1755, probably in North Windham, Conn.
Married in Windham, November 21, 1775 (as his second wife), JONAH
LINCOLN, a doctor, of Windham, Conn. He is found in the 1800 Census of
Windham, with 11 persons in his family.
Children, recorded in Windham
Asena Lincoln, b. March 23, 1778.
Pamela Lincoln, b. Sept. 4, 1782.
455 Hannah Lincoln, b. June 17. 1786; m. Israel Gates.
Phele Lincoln, b. Sept. 20, 1793.
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233. ANNAo ABBE, daughter of Isaac^ and Eunice (Church) Abbe, born in
Windham, Conn., March 14, 1757.
Married (1) in Windham, September 20, 1775, JEREMIAH LINCOLN, born
in Windham, November 14, 1751, son of Tliomas and Prudence (Lamphear)
Lincoln; died Ajjril 30, 1794, in Windham.
Anna Abbe married (2) in Windham, March, 1796, MITCHELL RICHARDS.
Children hy first husband, born in Wifidham
Stephen Lincoln, b. March 4, 1777 ; m. in Windham, March 3, 1804, Polly Abbee
. Children, b. in Windham : i. Prudence, b. Oct. 13, 1805 ; ii. Isaac, b.
June 19, 1807 ; iii. SaUy ; iv. Samuel, b. April 26, 1812.
Irena Lincoln, b. April 5, 1779.
Isaac Lincoln, b. Dec. 13, 1781.
Nancy Lincoln, b. March 18, 1785.
Jeremiah Lincoln, b. March 18, 1789.
, infant of Jeremiah Linkon, d. July, 1792 (Windham Knell).
Child by second husband
Lucy Richards, b. in Windham, Aug. 21, 1796.
234. ABNER6 ABBE, son of Isaac^ and Eunice (Church) Abbe, born Novem-
ber 5, 1758, in North Windham, Conn.; died December 13, 1803, in Granby,
Mass. He served during the Revolution in Captain Nathaniel Wales' Company
from Windham, Conn., August 22 to October 22, 1777, a militia regiment. He
resided in Stafford, Conn., 1785-6; bought land in Wilbraham, Mass., 1786;
in Longmeadow, 1790; in Granby, November 28, 1796. In 1800 he was recorded
in the Census of Granby, 1 male and 1 female over 45, 1 female between 26
and 45, 1 male between 16 and 26, 2 males and 1 female between 10 and 16, 2
males and 2 females under 10, comprising his family. His will made November
7, 1803, was probated December 27, 1803, in Northampton, Mass.
Married at Springfield, Mass. (intention), November 9, 1782, SARAH SWET-
LAND of Springfield, born August 22, 1762, daughter of John, jr., and Abi
(Deming) Swetland of Hartford, Conn. She moved to Conneant, Ohio, after
her husband's death and probably took the last five children with her. She
married (2) before May 12, 1815, Solomon Wright of New Salem, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, as proved by a deed by which she sold her share of the property
to Amos Abbe.
Children (first five born in Longmeadow, last four in Granby, Mass.)
456 Amos Abbe, b. Nov. 2, 1783; m. Patty Abbe.
457 Abner Abbe, jr., h. Aug. 31, 1785 ; m. (1) Sibyl Brown ; (2) Lucy Robbing.
458 John Sivetland Abbe, b. Sept. 2, 1787; m. Mrs. Electa (Chapin) Warner.
459 Sarah Abbe, h. April 14, 1790; m. Horace Hendrick.
460 Shubael Abbe, b. June 17, 1793 ; m. Sarah Sanford.
Adolphus Abbe, mentioned in his father's wiU, next to Shubael.
Polly Abbe, b. March 10, 1797.
Betsey Abbe, b. Dec. 18, 1799. Either Betsey or Polly went west with her mother
and m. Thayer but had no children.
Da7iiel Abbe, b. Nov. 8, 1801.
461 Perley Abbe, b. Sept. 8, 1803 ; m. Thankful Clark.
235. NATHANIEL" ABBE, son of Isaac^ and Eunice (Church) Abbe, born
in Windham, Conn., July 13, 1765. He was perliaps living in Windham in
1790, when, by the Census, he had 1 male over 21 and 6 females in the family.
Probably this Nathaniel Abbe married TABITHA HAZEN, eighth child of
John Hazen, who was born in Hamburg, Conn., 1737-8, and his wife, Annie
Landon. Jolm Hazen settled later in Orange County, N. Y., near Westtown.
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Children
Polly Ahhe, was last heard from about 1859 ; m. Mathis Moss. Had a son John,
who was living in 1864, and other children.
Ainer Ahhc, m. and had children: Orin ; Amanda; Lucinda.
Airaham Ahhe.
Amasa Ahhe (or Amzi), m. and had children: Benjamin, and two daughters.
462 Joseph Ahhc, h. May 7, n9Q; m. Knight; (2) Sarah Mulford.
236. JOHN" MCCLELLAN, son of General Samuel and Rachel^ (Abbe)
MeClellan, born in Woodstock, Conn., January 4, 1767; died in Woodstock,
August 1, 1858. He was prepared for college under Reverend Eliplialet Lyman,
entered Yale in 1781 and received his first degree in 1785; studied law in
Norwich, was admitted to the bar of Windham County, August, 1787, and took
up his practice in Woodstock. During a period of some twenty years he was,
with some intervals of retirement, a member of the Connecticut legislature,
and wielded a commanding influence in debate by his animation, perfect good
temper and brief speeches, often seasoned by a vein of humor and anecdote.
He was influential in the town and county in both secular and religious affairs;
was, with liis father, brother James and others, instrumental in the establish-
ment of Woodstock Academy in 1802; acted as selectman, director in Windham
County Fire Insurance Company; was Brigade-Major in the militia. He was
once Presidential elector and a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1818.
Mr. McClellan was a most perfect example of the Christian gentleman of the
old school, with whom politeness was both a sentiment and a habit. His
family of 10 persons with 1 slave is recorded in the 1800 Census at Woodstock.
In 1850 he was on the Census lists, wife probably dead and sons John and
Joseph living at home. He was disabled by a paralytic stroke in 1849, and
spent his last years in helplessness. He was the last survivor of his class at
Yale and had outlived all graduates of earlier classes.
Married in Lebanon, November 22, 1796, FAITH WILLIAMS, born in Lebanon,
Conn., daughter of William and Mary (Trumbull) Williams. William Williams
was a Harvard gi-aduate. Commander of a Revolutionary regiment, member of
the Continental Congress and Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Faith
Williams was gi-anddaughter of the first Governor Trumbull and through his
wife was descended from John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden.
Children, lorn wi Woodstock
463 Many Trwnhiill McClellan, b. Jan. 31, 1800 ; m. Isaac Webb.
464 Faith WiUia?ns McClellan, b. April 27, 1804 ; m. Rufus Smith Mathewson.
Sarah Isabella McClellan, b. April 8. 1807; d. in New Haven, April 23, 1875.
Married (1) in Woodstock, May 19, 1842, Isaac Webb of Middletown ; (2) in
Woodstock, Sept. 17, 18.51, as his second wife, Benjamin Silliman, youngest child
of General Gold Sclleck Silliman, Yale 1752, and Mary (Fish) Noyes, was b. in
North Stratford, Conn, (now Trumbull), Aug. 8, 1779; d. in New Haven,
Nov. 24, 1864. He was b. while his father was a prisoner with the British
forces and his mother had left the family home in Fairfield for a temporary
place of safety. He was graduated from Yale in 1796 and studied law. He
became a tutor in Yale and in 1802 was appointed Professor of Chemistry and
Natural History. He m. (1) in Lebanon, Sept. 17, 1809, Harriet Trumbull,
daughter of Governor Jonathan and Eunice (Backus) Trumbull, who d. Jan. 18,
1850. By this first marriage he had five daughters and four sons. One of the
sons was graduated at Yale and succeeded his father in the instruction in
Chemistry in the Academic Department and in his professorship in the Medical
School. Professor Silliman wielded a wide influence as an instructor in natural
science, both in the college and by means of popular lectures outside of New
Haven. His many published works include scientific treatises and text books,
books of travel and biographies.
Jane Calhoun McClellan, b. Sept. 16, 1809. Married in Woodstock, Dec. 2, 1849,
Jonathan Weaver of the Island of Cuba. Resided in Danielson.
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465 John McClellan, jr., b. Aug. 31, 1812 ; m. Olive Anna Child.
Joseph McClellan, b. July 8, 1814 ; d. April 7, 1904 ; not m. He was a farmer and
lived with his father in Woodstock in 1850.
237. ANNA (NANCY) ^ MCCLELLAN, daughter of Samuel and RacheP
(Abbe) McClellan, bom May 7, 1768. They settled in Albany, N. Y.
Married JOHN LOVETT, who died in 1808. He was on General 's
staff.
Children
Nancy Lovett, d. in Albany.
Lucretia Lovett, d. in Albany.
John Erskine Lovett.
John Jay Lovett.
Caroline Lovett.
Mary Lovett (twin).
Angelica Lovett (twin).
Alexander Hamilton Lovett.
238. JAMES« MC CLELLAN, son of Samuel and Rachel^ (Abbe) McClellan,
born in Woodstock, Conn., September 20, 1769; died at Woodstock, 1837. He
was a farmer in Woodstock, and was identified with many of the town's inter-
ests. In 1821 he was secretary of the Windham County Agricultural Society.
In 1802 he was with his father, brother John, and others, one of those who
were instrumental in establishing the Woodstock Academy. His family of ten
persons, with one slave, is recorded in the 1810 Census of Woodstock.
Married (1) in Brooklyn, Conn., February 25, 1796, EUNICE ELDREDGIE
of Brooklyn, who died November 22, 1804. She was the daugliter of Captain
James and Lucy (Gallup) Eldredge of Brooklyn, Conn.
Married (2) December 8, 1805, NANCY ELDREDGE, sister of Eunice.
Children hy first wife, horn in Woodstock
466 George McClellan, b. Dec. 22, 1796 ; m. Elizabeth Brinton.
Lucy McClellan, b. May 14, 1798 ; d. at East Greenwich, Conn. ; not m.
467 Samuel McClellan, b. Sept. 21, 1800 ; m. Margaret Carswell Ely.
Nancy McClellan, b. Dec. 26, 1803; d. about 1900. Married in Brooklyn, Conn.,
Oct. 27, 1831, John Grigg of Philadelphia, a publisher. Children : i. John, unm. ;
ii. Nancy ; iii. Fanny, m. Lent of the United States Army ; iv. Emily,
m. Fry and had a daughter who m. an Italian marquis.
Children hy second wife, recorded in Woodstock
James Eldridge McClellan, b. Aug. 14, 1806.
Mary Lucretia McClellan, b. probably about 1809.
Marion Louisa McClellan, b. Aug. 23, 1819.
239. MARY LUCRETIA" (or LUCRETIA MARY) MC CLELLAN, daughter
of Samuel and RacheP (Abbe) McClellan, born in Woodstock, Conn., May 15,
1773; died in Norwich, November 5, 1819.
Married in Woodstock, October 7, 1795, EBENEZER HUNTINGTON, born
December 26, 1754, in Norwich, Conn.; died June 17, 1834. He was son of
Jabez and Hannah (Williams) Huntington. He was graduated from Yale in
1775; joined the army as a volunteer the same year, was rapidly promoted
through various offices rintil 1799, when he was, at the recommendation of
Washington, appointed a Brigadier-General in the army raised by Congress in
expectation of a war with France. He was present at the surrender of Corn-
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wallis, and was one of the most efficient officers in the army. He was twice
elected to Congress from Connecticut, 1810-11 and 1817-19. His home was in
Norwich, Conn., where he was engaged in mercantile business. He married (1)
December 10, 1791, Sarah Isham of Colchester, by whom he had a son, Alfred
Isham.
Children, recorded in Norwich
Wolcott Euntingion, b. Aug. 20, 1796; d. in Norwich, March 2G, 1861. Married
May, 1837, June E. Watkins of Middletown, Conn., who resided in Middletown
after his death. No children. He was engaged in mercantile and later, insurance
business.
Louisa Mary Huntington, b. Feb. 20, 1798 ; d. 1877 ; not m.
George Washington Huntington, b. Nov. 22, 1799 ; d. 1870. He was a merchant in
New Orleans ; probably never m.
Emily Huntington, b. Aug. 6, 1801 ; d. Dec. 26, 1871 ; not m.
Nancy L. Huntington, b. April 6, 1803 ; d. 1878.
Walter B. Huntington, b. Nov. 11, 1804 ; merchant in New Orleans ; d. unm.
Sarah Isham Huntington, b. May 1, 1806 ; d. 1885 ; not m.
Elisabeth Mary Huntington, b. Aug. 24, 1808; d. July 17, 1845, in New Orleans.
Married in Norwich, Nov. 19, 1839, Gabriel W. Denton of New Orleans.
Maria H. Hutitington, b. Dec. 13, 1810. Married in Norwich, Oct. 5, 1837, George
Perkins, a lawyer of Norwich, Conn. Children : i. Sarah Huntington, b. in
Norwich, Feb. 11, 1839, d. unm.; ii. EUzabeth Denton, b. in Norwich, May 7,
1848.
240. NATHANIELS MC CLELLAN, son of Samuel and RacheP (Abbe)
McClellau, born in Woodstock, Conn., Januaiy 16, 1777(?); died in Norwich,
Conn., September 15, 1863, aged 87, buried in Woodstock.
Married (1) in Woodstock, March 22, 1808, GRACE MALBONE of Pomfret,
who died May 23, 1813, in Woodstock.
Married (2) September 15, 1815, OLIVE M. PERKINS, born March 13, 1786,
in Plainfield, Conn., daiighter of Elisha and Sarah (Douglass) Perkins. She
died August 1, 1870, buried in Woodstock.
Children by first icife
Edward Ingersoll McClellan, b. in Woodstock, Feb. 12, 1809 (?)
Rachel Abbe McClellan, b. in Woodstock, Dec. 30, 1810.
Child by second wife
Grace Malbone McClellan, b. Sept. 20, 1820 ; d. unm. in 1899, buried in Woodstock.
She resided in Norwich.
241. JUDAH ALDEN6 MC CLELLAN, son of Samuel and RacheP (Abbe)
McClellan, born May 25, 1780. Graduate of Brown University; settled in
Canaan, now Bloomfield, Maine, 1803. He was County Attorney 1824-1834;
representative to Massachusetts Legislature 1815, county treasiirer for six years.
A granddaughter, Caroline, was living in Darien, Conn., in 1907.
Married ELIZABETH WHITE.
Children
Helen McClellan, d. young.
Samuel McClellan, lawyer in Dexter, Maine. He was graduated at WaterviUe in
1828.
E7nily McClellan, b. 1813 ; d. 1837.
William McClellan, b. 1816 ; m. and had a son in Colorado.
Edicard McClellan, b. 1818.
Henry McClellan, b. 1820. He was graduated at Water\ille, 1842, and became a
merchant in New York City.
John McClellan, b. 1822.
Abby McClellan, b. 1824.
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242. GURDON« HEBARD (or HIBBARD), son of Nathaniel and Mary^
(Abbe) Hibbard, bom in Windham, Conn., October 29, 1770; died at Bozrah-
ville, Conn. Resided in Norwich after about 1800. In the Norwich Vital Records
the name is first spelled Hibard, later Hibbard, and finally Hebard and Hebbard.
Married in Windham, November 27, 1796, IRENE FRINK, who died December
11, 1856.
Children, first born in Windham, others in Norwich, Conn.
Andretv Hehard, b. Dec. 30, 1797. He was engineer of the steamboat Fulton,
between Norwich and New York, and is said to have run the first steamboat up
the Connecticut River. Died in Buffalo, N. Y. Married (1) Eliza Hodge; (2)
Sarah Hodge. Children by first wife : i. Andrew F., d. ; ii. George
Frederick, b. 1826, resided in Buffalo, m. 1857, Susan M. Gillespie and had a
son Robert H., b. 1847; iii. John H., b. 1828, resided in Buffalo, m. Maria J.
Crego and had a son Andrew E., b. 1854. Children by second wife : i. Ebza A.,
d. young ; ii. Andrew G., d. young.
John Hebard, b. Feb. 6, 1801. Resided in Norwich and Buffalo, N. Y. He was a
carriage maker and engineer. Married in Norwich, June 17, 1834, Mrs. Jane
Hopkins of Norwich, "Captain John Hebard of Buffalo." Child : George L.,
b. 1841, d. Sept. 1859.
Mary Abbe Hebard, b. June 2, 1803 ; d. unm.
Oliver Edwin Hebard, b. April 14, 1805. He was a carriage maker and engineer
and was supposed to have been lost at sea, as, in 1859, no news of him had been
heard for nine years. Married in Norwich, Nov. 14, 1826, Abby Smith of
Norwich. Lived in Norwich. Children, Mary Lucretia, b. 1829, and two
daughters who d. young.
Lydia Hebard, b. May 19, 1808. Married in Norwich, April 24, 1833, Leander Gris-
wold. Lived in Norwich.
George Hebard, b. March 2, 1810 ; m. and lived in Norwich. Child : Mary
Augusta.
Fanny Irena Hebard, b. April 21, 1812 ; m. D. B. Miner ; resided in Norwich.
Harriet Lee Hebard, b. May 20, 1815; m. in Norwich, April 14, 1842, Edward
Breed of Norwich.
243. AUGUSTUS^ HEBARD (or HIBBARD), son of Nathaniel and Mary^
(Abbe) Hibbard, born in Windham, Conn., February 1, 1772; died September,
1841. Resided in Lebanon, Conn.
Married March 19, 1796, BATHSHEBA LEARNED, who died January 18, 1855.
Children
Charles Hebard, b. in Windham, Dec. 18, 1796. He removed to Owensborough, Ky.,
where he m. twice. Children by first wife : i. Harriet ; ii. BushneU ; iii.
Learned ; iv. Charles.
468 Learned Hebard, b. April 24, 1799 ; m. Persis Elizabeth Strong.
Eliza Hebard, b. March 31, 1801.
George Hebard, b. in Windham, July 28, 1803 ; m. Jan. 2, 1831, Hannah or
Harriet Young. Children, b. in Norwich: i. Alfred Y., b. Dec. 15, 18.32, m.
Feb., 1856, Jane Young, had a daughter, Harriet, b. March 29, 1857 ; ii. George
S., b. Oct. 25, 1834, m. Congdon of Norwich and had a son, Prank H.,
b. Feb. 18, 1857 ; iii. Henry, b. Sept. 24, 1836 ; iv. Ann Eliza, b. Oct. 25, 1837 ;
V. Horace S., b. Dec. 31, 1839 ; vi. Harriet, b. Nov. 28, 1841.
Abby Hebard, b. Feb. 15, 1807.
Alfred Hebard, b. in Windham, May 10, 1810 ; lived in Kansas in 1848 ; m. May,
1841, Anna Huntington. Children : i. Augustus H., b. Jan. 23, 1842 ; ii. Ade-
laide L., b. May 21, 1844; iii. Mary S., b. June 3, 1847 ; iv. Anna M., b. Jan. 9,
1852.
Shubael Hebard, b. in Windham, Aug. 2, 1812 ; resided in Iowa in 1856 ; m.
May 12, 1840, Martha L. Pettis. Cliildren, younger ones b. in Iowa : i. Edward
A., b. July 9, 1841 ; ii. Frederick, b. Nov. 8, 1842, d. Aug. 15, 1843 ; iii. James,
b. Feb. 17, 1845 ; iv. Mary, b. May 14, 1848 ; v. EUzabeth L., b. Nov. 2, 1850 ;
vi. Sarah M. ; vii. Charles, b. Jan. 4, 18.58.
Mary Hebard, b. July 25, 1818 ; m. William Gaside of Iowa.
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244. NATHANIEL^ HEBARD (or HIBBARD), JR., son of Nathaniel and
Mary^ (Abbe) Hibbard, born in Windham, Conn., July 15, 1781. Resided in
Windham.
Married SUSAN P. CONGDON of Nan-agansett, R. I.
Children, horn in Windham
Elizabeth Hehard, b. Jan. 4, 1806 ; d. May, 1806.
ISiisan P. Ilebard, b. Jan. 12, 1807 ; d. 1834.
Oliver Hehard, b. Oct. 8, 1808 ; d. Jan. 16, 1817.
Nathaniel Hehard, 3d, b. Dec. 13, 1809 ; resided in Dorchester, Mass. ; m. Nov. 7,
18.30, Carohne M. Jones. Children : i. Amon H., b. April 13, 1832, d. Oct. 2,
1834 ; ii. Leander, b. Nov. 1, 1834, d. March 2, 1835 ; iii. Ezra B., b. Aug. 22,
1836, m. Nov. 16, 1857, Emma J. Rundlett of Glastonbury, Conn. ; iv. Susan M.,
b. Feb. 26, 1838, d. Sept. 19, 1841.
Samuel G. Hehard, b. April 29, 1811 ; resided in Dorchester ; m. April 1, 1832,
Mary P. Maples of Montville, Conn. Children : i. Susan A., b. Sept. 29, 1839 ;
ii. Henry J. A., b. Feb. 23, 1843 ; iii. Samuel C, b. Dec. 27, 1847.
Timothy Hehard, b. Jan. 25, 1813 ; d. Nov. 1, 1822.
Ezra S. Hehard, b. Aug. 29, 1814; d. June 14, 1852; resided iu Dorchester.
Married May 2, 1842, Achsah W. Pratt of Chnton, Maine. Children : i. Samuel
O., b. Dec. 28, 1843 ; ii. Ezra S., b. Jan. 24, 1849.
Benjamin F. Hehard, b. May 29, 1817. He was a broker in Dorchester. Married
July 3, 1838, Bathsheba S. Howes of Chatham, Mass. Children, three youngest
b. in Dorchester : i. Emehne F., b. in Milbury, Mass., April 13, 1839 ; ii.
Amelia C, b. at Newton Lower Falls, Mass., June 25, 1841 ; iii. Charles W.,
b. June 7, 1844 ; iv. Benjamin F., b. Feb. 28, 1848, d. April 15, 1848 ; v. Lucy
E. H., b. June 6, 1856.
Sylvester H. Hehard, b. Oct. 16, 1819 ; resided in Dorchester ; m. April 1, 1841,
Tryphosa Pratt of Clinton, Maine. Children : i. Mary E., b. Aug. 22, 1842 ;
ii. Sylvester H., b. Feb. 19, 1845 ; iii. Susan P., b. Sept. 23, 1846 ; iv. Nathaniel
E., b. Feb. 24, 1849.
George Alexander Hehard, b. July 7, 1823; resided in South Boston, Mass.; m.
Dec. 18, 1842, Elizabeth L. Brown of Gardiner, Maine. Children : i. George A.,
b. in Newton, Mass., Oct. 7, 1843, d. Sept. 7, 1844; ii. George P., b. in Boston,
July 24, 1845 ; iii. Caroline M., b. March 1, 1847 ; iv. Elizabeth L., b. in Dor-
chester, Nov. 17, 1851 ; v. Frederick C, b. in Boston, July 8, 1856.
245. HENRY« WEBB, son of Nathaniel and Zerviah^ (Abbe) Webb, born
September 2, 1768; died February 10, 1840. Lived in Windham, Conn., and
was sheriff for some years.
Married June 1, 1794, HANNAH CLIFT, daughter of Major Waterman Clift,
born about 1770; died February 10, 18.33, aged 60 years.
Children
Williain Wehh, b. May 19, 1797 ; committed suicide while temporarily deranged ;
physician. Married Jan. 6, 1824, Amanda Wolcott, daughter of Jonathan Wol-
cott. Children : i. Wilham H., d. unm. ; ii. Charles, b. March 11, 1833, Uves
at Norwich, m. Backus, and had children, Mabel and Arthur.
Mary Clift Wehh, b. Jan., 1800 ; m. Thomas Gray of Windham. No children.
469 Lucretia Wehh, b. Oct., 1802 ; m. as his second wife, Thomas Gray.
Harriet Wehh, d. May 20, 1807.
L^lcia Wehh, b. March 23, 1809; m. Chester Woodworth. Children: i. Harriet,
d. — ; ii. Benjamin, d. , was a successful banker in Westport, Conn.;
iii. Caroline, and iv. William Chester (twins), resided, unmarried, in the old
Webb house at Windham.
246. LUCY6 ABBE, daugliter of SliubaeP and Lucy (Chester) Abbe, born in
Windham, Conn., May 21, 1778; died in Bridgeport, Conn., March 17, 1822.
Married in Windham, November 18, 1795, ELIJAH WATERMAN, born in
Bozrah, Conn., November 28, 1769; died October 11, 1825, while on a visit to
Springfield. He w-as son of Captain Nehemiah, jr., and Susanna (Isham)
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Waterman, grandson of Nehemiah and Sarali (Gifford) Waterman, great-grand-
son of Ensign Thomas and Elizabeth (Allyii) Waterman, great-great-grandson
of Lieutenant Thomas and Miriam (Tracey) Waterman, and great-great-great-
grandson of Robert and Martha (Bourne) Waterman, Robert Waterman came
from Norwich, England, in 1636 and settled in Marshfield, Mass. Martha Bourne
was a sister of the wife of Governor Bradford's son, John Bradford. Lieutenant
Thomas Waterman was one of the original proprietors of Norwich, Conn. Elijah
Watemian was graduated from Yale College in 1791, and taught in Hartford for
a year. He had intended to study law but decided to take up theology instead.
He was licensed to preach in Preston, Conn., May, 1793, and continued his
studies, preaching as supply, until 1794, when he took charge of the church
at Windham. He continued its pastor for ten years, and, after a short period
of supply at New Milford, he was called to the church at Bridgeport, where he
remained until the close of his life. He was known as an earnest, independent,
public-spirited man, highly esteemed as a preacher. Several of his sermons
and orations were published. He collected materials for a history of Windham
which unfortunately became scattered and were never used. While he was
pastor at Windham he made a trip to the western part of New York State in
order to secure copies of early Windham Church records and he made a copy
of those records as far as he could obtain them at the time.
He married (2) MRS. LUCY (WOLCOTT) TALCOTT of Springfield, widow
of Captain Henry Talcott of Windsor, by whom he had one daughter, Lucy,
who married Henry Thomas.
Children of Lucy Aihe
Mary Watertnati, b. in Wiudham, April 5, 1797 ; m. Euos Bussey, Children :
i. Elijah ; ii. George ; iii. Mary.
Julia Water7nan, b. in Windham, Jan. 12, 1799 ; d. Aug. 17, 1884 ; m. Alanson
Freeman Lewis. Children : i. Frederick Alanson, d. Nov. 15, 1845, aged 20 ; ii.
Julia Abbe, b. Oct. 19, 1828, lives in Bridgeport, m. Nathan B. McEwen, no
children ; iii. Thomas Edwin, b. July 5, 1831, d. July 2, 1907, unm. ; iv. Mar-
garet Isham, b. Sept. 24, 1835, unm., lives in Bridgeport; v. Elizabeth Water-
man, b. Aug. 4, 1837, Uves in Bridgeport, m. James H. Moore, no children ;
vi. Mary Isabel!, b. Aug. 1, 1842, d. Jan. 19, 1862.
470 Thomas Tileston Waterman, b. Sept. 24, 1801 ; m. Delia Storrs.
Susanna Isham Waterman, b. Sept. 10, 1804 ; d. Dec. 5, 1888 ; m. Alfred Chi-
chester. Children : i. Thomas, m. Annie ; ii. Alfred, m. Ophelia Seymour ;
iii. Edwin, m. Mary Phillips Stuart, had a daughter, Mary P., who m.
Chichester and lives in Norwalk, Conn. ; iv. Helen, m. Lemon.
Lucij Able Waterman, b. May 13, 1806 ; m. Edwin Van Antwerp. Child : Isabel,
m. William P. Smalley, no children.
George Waterman, b. June 24, 1808 ; d. Nov. 19, 1809.
Betsey Johanna Waterman, b. April 16, 1809. Married (1) Henry Day of Provi-
dence, R. I. Child : Susan P., m. Edward Burnet of Newark, N. J., and d. at
birth of child. Married (2) Edwin Van Antwerp, who m. her sister Lucy.
247. NANCY" ABBE, daughter of ShubaeP and Lucy (Chester) Abbe, born
February 24, 1780, in Windham, Conn.; died July 15, 1846, in New York;
buried in Greenwood Cemetery.
Married 1806, SAMUEL DARLING, born 1782 (or 3); died 1874. Son of
Samuel and Clarinda (Ely) Darling of New Haven.
Children
Shubael Abbe Darling, b. June 4, 1807; d. March 28, 1878.
471 Samuel Darling, jr., b. April 3, 1809 ; m. Margaret G. Brown.
Edwin Augustus Darling, b. Jan. 6, 1811 ; d. Feb. 10, 1851.
Thomas William Darling, b. Sept. 19, 1813 ; d. Nov. 28, 1858 ; m. Dec. 14, 1856,
Sophia A. Garlick.
Charles Henry Darling, b. Aug. 4, 1816 ; d. Feb. 10, 1855.
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Frances Eliza Darling, b. Oct. 11, 1818 ; d. Dec. 18, 1835.
Amelia Eliza Darling, b. April 1, 1822 ; resided in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1897.
Clarinda Lucy Darling, b. Aug. 2, 1824; m. Dec. 17, 1846, George W. Palmer;
resided in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1897. They had two children who d. in infancy,
and a son, Charles Henry, b. 1860.
248. FREELOVE« ABBE, daughter of Shubael^ and Lucy (Chester) Abbe,
born October 21, 1784, in Windham, Conn.; died March 12, 1824; buried in
Windham.
Married in Windliam, April 12, 1801, DAVID F. YOUNG, born in Windham,
1774; died July 28, 1828, in Windham; buried there. He was probably son
of David Young of Windham and Lebanon, Conn. ; was graduated from Yale
in 1798, and remained at college for a year as College Butler; was a lawyer
in Windham and member of the Legislature in 1815.
Children, births recorded in Windham
Guilford Dudley Young, b. Feb. 23, 1802; d. in MeadviUe, Pa., 1825. He was
graduated from Yale in 1822 and became a lawyer.
Lucy Young, b. Nov. 4, 1803 ; d. Feb. 5, 1809, buried in Windham.
Nancy Young, b. April 9, 1806.
Henrietta Young, b. April 13, 1808 ; d. May 30, 1809, buried in Windham.
Lucy W. Young, b. March 23, 1810. Married Samuel Bishop Huntington, b. in
Windham, Nov. 20, 1805 ; d. in Huron, Ohio, June 5, 1840, son of Gurdon and
Mary (Brown) Huntington. No children.
Mary Young, b. July 23, 1812 ; m. BHss.
Caroline (1) Youtig, b. Oct. 26, 1814.
Caroline (2) Mumford Young, b. Nov. 16, 1816; m. Aug. 1, , Ebenezer Dale
of Boston. Children: i. Mary BUss, b. May 20, 1840, m. Sept. 10, 1862,
Charles N. Trumbull; ii. Ebenezer, jr., b. Jan. 3, 1843, d. Sept. 9, 1889, m.
Nov. 3, 1880, Lily J. Storrow ; iii. George Wilder, d. .
472 David Young, b. Jan. 10, 1819; m. (1) Mary Esther Harris; (2) Annie Frances
Davis.
Edward Young, b. Feb. 20, 1822.
, b. Jan. 20, ; d. next day.
249. LUCIUS« ABBE, son of ShubaeP and Lucy (Chester) Abbe, born in
Windham, Conn., April 3, 1702; died November 6, 1841; buried in Windham.
He was called "uptown Lucius."
Married in Mansfield, Conn., April 18, 1813, MRS. MARY B. (VIOL) YOUNG,
widow of Edward Young of Philadelphia, born in Newport, December 11, 1782;
died in Mansfield, August 11, 1866.
Children
Antoinette Charotte Ahhe, b. in Windham, Nov. 11, 1814. Married in Mansfield,
Sept. 1 or"ll, 1839, Augustus Storrs, b. June 4, 1817, son of Royal, jr., and
Eunice (Freeman) Storrs. He was in business at Mansfield and Willimantic
and, after 1851, in Brooklyn. With his brother Charles he founded the Storrs
Agricultural School at Mansfield. Children: i. Harriet Fitch, b. Oct. 10, 1844,
in Gurleyville, Conn., d. July 31, 1867, while on a visit to Mechanicsville, N. Y.,
buried in Mansfield; ii. Marie Antoinette, b. Oct. 3, 1848, m. Nov. 6, 1872,
Benjamin Eyre, b. in Philadelphia, March 5, 1847.
A7in W. Ahie, b. in Windham, Sept. 15, 1817; d. March 16, 1819.
Harriet Fitch Able, b. July 17 or 27, 1822; m. Samuel S. Hovey of Mansfield,
Child : Kate L.
Katie L. AbbeCi).
Mary B. Abbe, b. April 17, 1826; m. Jan. 2, 1853, FrankUn Dunham of Mansfield,
b. July 24, 1826.
250. MARY8 ABBE, daughter of Phineas^ and Mary (Bingham) Abbe, born
March 29, 1773; died in Windham, August 27, 1860; buried there.
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Married CHARLES TAINTOR, born December 17, 1762, son of John and
Sarah (Bulkley) Taintor of Colchester, Conn. He died November 23, 1854;
buried in Windham. He was a prominent and prosperous farmer of Windham.
Children
473 Eliza Taintor, b. Nov., 1794 ; m. Colonel Rufus Lathrop Baker.
474 aHes Taintor, b. July 17, 1802; m. Mary (Nowell Williams) West.
Advertisement from the Phenix or Windham Herald, May 21, 1796.
Bulkley & Taintor
Have just received a large supply of Goods from New York, viz. Broadcloths, Kersimeres,
Velvets, Tliicksetts, Fustians, Clouded, striped and plain Nankeens, a large assortment of
Shawls, Dimities, sprig'd and plain Jackonett and Book Muslins, Muslin Handkerchiefs,
Chintzes and Calhcoes, Furniture, do. India Satins and Lutestrings, black and white
Laces and Edgings, Merseilles and Mushnet Waistcoating, Humhums, Linens, Oil-Cloth,
Silk Stockings, plated do. Men's and Women's Cotton, do. an assortment of Looking
Glasses, Patent Lamps, Violins, Brass Kettles from 2 to 14 gallons ; a general assortment
of Hard Ware, Pewter, Crockery, and Glass Ware, Powder and Shot, Junk Tobacco, first
quality Russia Iron, Rum, Brandy, Sherry, Lisbon and Malaga Wines, Hyson, Souchong
and Bohea Teas, Rice, Pepper, Alspice, Flotong and French Indigo &c. &c. All which
will be sold very cheap for cash.
Windham, 20th May, 1796.
Peter Webb advertised in the same issue a similar assortment of goods but
"wanted in pay, Butter, Cheese, Check Flannel in September next, Tow and
checked Linen Cloth, Feathers, Pork and Beef, in the fall, all kinds of grain
and Cash."
In the fall, November 19, 1796, Bulkley and Taintor advertised their winter
goods
— consisting of Broadcloths, Kersemeres, striped and spotted elastic cloths. Coatings,
Baizes, and Flannels. A great variety of fashionable waistcoating, India Taffaties and
Sattins, black and white Laces and Edgings, Linens, Humhums, Silk Stockings ribb'd
worsted do. Silk and Cotton do. Jaekonet and Book Muslins, very cheap. A great variety
of striped and plain Sattin, Sash Ribbons, white and black Feathers, a large assortment
of Necklaces, Beads and Pendants, &c. &c.
Also, a general assortment of Hardware, Russia Iron, suitable for Cart-tire, German
Crawley, Hopel and English Steel, 8d and lOd Nails, Powder and Shot, Flotong and
French Indigo, Rum, Gin, Brandy, Sherry and Malaga Wines, Hyson, Souchong and
Bohea Teas, Coffee, Pepper, Cinnamon, Allspice, Ginger, Loaf and Brown Sugar and
Molasses. A gootl assortment of Crockery ware, China cups and saucers — pint and half-
pint glasses as low by the dozen as can be bought in New York.
Windham, Nov. 10, 1796
251. JOSHUA« ABBE, son of Phineas^ and Mary (Bingham) Abbe, born
February 15, 1775, on tlie farm south of Windham Center, Conn., later bought
by his brother George; died at East Thomaston (Rockland), Maine, January 20,
1849. At 14 he was a clerk with a Mr. Woodbridge in Norwich, where he
probably remained until he was 21. He then went to New London, and about
1802 to New Gloucester, Maine, with Godfrey Grosvenor. In 1832 he moved to
Bangor and after eight years, having retired from business, he broke up house-
keeping and went to live with his daughter at Rockland, then East Thomaston.
He was a successful merchant, though not well known outside of his immediate
circle of friends, owing to his retiring disposition which led him to refuse offers
of public office.
Married in Hudson, N. Y., August 15, 1815, MARCIA GROSVENOR, born
October 23, 1770; died December 20, 1857. She was the daughter of Seth
and Abigail (Keyes) Grosvenor of Potnfret, Conn.
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Child
475 Mary Abigail Orosvenor Ahhe, b. Aug. 17, 1816; m. Samuel Clement Fessenden.
252. GEORGE'' ABBE, son of PliineasS and Susanna (Brown) Abbe, born
in Windham, Conn., May 17, 1781; died in Windham, September, 1851. He
resided for many years in New York City, where he was a member of tlie firm
of Hill, Fish and Abbe, a transportation company between New York and Phila-
delphia. Mr. Hill of the firm attended to its interests in Philadelphia, Mr. Fish
at Trenton, and Mr. Abbe at New York. Boats were used between New York
and Perth Amboy and these were in charge of Captain Jacob Vanderbilt and
his brother Cornelius, afterwards known as Commodore. From Amboy pas-
sengers were taken to Philadelphia in coaches. The transportation company was
merged into the Camden and Amboy Railroad when that was built. It was the
first passenger railroad in the United States. Mr. Samuel Badger Abbe, then
a mere child, was taken on the excursion train that he might ride on the
first passenger car in America. Mr. Abbe moved to Windham in 1835. He
had a large fortune, as fortunes went in those days, when he left New York,
but much of it disappeared before his death in various enterprises with which
he was connected.
Married CHARLOTTE HACKSTAFF, born November 19, 1798, at Sing Sing,
N. Y., daughter of Lodowick and Anne (Halleck) Hackstaff; died January, 1865.
Childreti
Samuel Badger- Alhe, b. in New York City, Nov. 25, 1829 ; d. at Fort Snelling,
Minn., Oct. 4, 1864. Married at Scotland, Conn., Aug. 25, 1858, Abby Fuller,
b. at Scotland, March 15, 1833. She resides in St. Paul, Minn. The following
account of Mr. Abbe's life is taken from a letter of Mrs. Abbe :
"Of the early life of my husband I know little, only he was placed at school
when be was six years of age, somewhere up the Hudson, and later attended
school at Pomfret, Conn., perhaps elsewhere. From a few old letters to his
brother, I find that he sailed from New York to California, Nov. 17, 1849, in
company with a young man of his own age, barely twenty. The boat had been
fitted for them with the intention of its being placed on the Sacramento River
when they arrived. Evidently it was unfit for ocean travel as it was so small it
could only carry fuel from port to port. After going through the Straits of
Magellan with great difficulty and danger, they landed at Panama, July 7, 1850,
eight months from New York, and one month later reached San Francisco. The
boat fulfilled its intention and was placed on the Sacramento River and was a
financial success.
"Mr. Abbe remained in California until early in 1852. His father's death had
occurred a short time before, and, urged by his mother, he went home to look
after his father's estate. He crossed the Isthmus on his return, a rough trip at
that time. He remained in Windham until the spring of 1853 when he went to
St. Paul, met with a severe accident that detained him there some mouths,
abandoned the idea of returning to California, decided to remain in the then
young territory of Minnesota, and, like all the young men there, lent himself
to the work of building up a new state. He was a member of the Legislature,
a delegate to Railroad and State Conventions, laid out town sites and many other
matters pertaining to the youth of a new country. A year or two later, a sale
was made of the large military reservation at Fort Ripley on the upper Missis-
sippi, in which he became interested, and, in 1860, built a house there, pre-
paratory to starting a ranch, but before his plans were completed, the Civil War
broke out. The regular troops were ordered away, in consequence came the
Indian outbreak which swept the entire state. They burned the Missions, drove
off the settlers and moved down to the Agency. The Government Agent, crazed
with fright, committed suicide and the country was left to frontiersmen. We
went into the Post, Fort Ripley, which was garrisoned with only a few raw
recruits. After days and weeks of suspense, the Commissioner of Indian affairs,
with Mr. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln, and a few troops,
came to our relief. Even then, after long delay, the Chiefs met them in council,
they were all surrounded, and barely escaped with their lives, as Mr. Nicolay
wrote afterwards in an article in Harper's Monthly.
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"Mr. Abbe never recovered from the labor and suspense involved. We never
returned to our home but went to St. Paul. Mr. Abbe went to Washington,
made a hasty visit to AVindham and went with the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs and other officials to the Red River, where the Indians were turbulent,
to make a treaty. He took a sevei'e cold from which he never recovered. He was
given officer's quarters at Fort SneUing where he lived for some months, and in
that gray old fort, that had seen so many tragedies, his adventurous and promis-
ing life ended."
Charlotte llackstaff Aibe, b. about 1832; d. young, was buried in Trinity Church-
yard, New York City.
Oeoi-ge Ahhe, jr., b. in New York City about 1834; m. about 1860, Martha Ann
Youle of New York. No children. He went to California, where his wife died,
returned to Windham at the time of his mother's death, but went back to
California in 1866.
Josephine Abhe, b. in New York, May, 1836; d. at Green Cove Springs, Fla.,
July 10, 1870. Married at Windham, April 4, 1860, George Fuller, b. at Scot-
land, May 18, 1826 ; d. . They left one child, Abby Abbe, b. in St. Paul,
April 23, 1864, now living at St. Paul with her aunt, Mrs. Samuel Abbe.
An7ie Halleck Able, b. in AVindham, about 1838 ; d. about 1894 ; m. about 1859,
James Johnson of Windham. No children.
Mary Taintor Abbe, b. at Windham, April 4, 1840; d. May, 1913, buried at
Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. Married Oct. 18, 1865, Jacob Kennedy Lock-
man, b. in New York City, 1829 ; d. in New York City, March 22, 1904, buried
in Greenwood Cemetery. He was a lawyer of prominence, of the firm of DeWitt,
Lockman & DeWitt. They resided in New York and at Windham. One child :
DeWitt McClellan, an artist of note in New York City.
William Hackstaff Abbe, b. in Windham, about 1842 ; d. on a trip to the far west
and was buried in Windham. Married 1863, Marian Shegogue, daughter of Mrs.
Shegogue, an artist in Paris. No children.
253. CHARLESo ABBE, son of Phineas^ and Susanna (Brown) Abbe, born
January 17, 1783, in Windham, Conn. He was deputy-sheriff in Windham about
1805. He removed to Solon, Cortland County, N. Y., about 1814 and died in
New York State. He was by trade a stone cutter and, according to one account,
died in Canada about 1827.
Married MARY (or NANCY) WELCH, who died about 1819, aged 36.
Children
476 Phineas Abbe, h. March 3, 1811 ; m. Mary Stillman.
Henry Clinton Abbe, b. Aug. 13, 1813; d. Dec. 17, 1889, at Scriba, Oswego County,
N. Y. Married in Oswego, May 25, 1877, Mary Dixon, b. in Onondaga County,
N. Y., March 5, 1833, daughter of Samuel and Laura (Littlefield) Dixon.
Miranda Abhe, b. in Solon, Feb. 3, 1815 ; d. in Onondaga County, N. Y., Feb. 15,
1905; m. in Cortland, March 12, 1836, John L. Wilcox, b. Aug. 11, 1811.
Children: i. Edgar C, b. March 12, 1837 (?) ; ii. Charles A., b. June 12, 1838;
iii. Nancy E., b. Aug. 20, 1844.
477 Hart Abbe, b. Feb. 20, 1817 ; m. Katherine Fisher.
254. MOSES CLEVELAND" ABBE, son of Phineas^ and Susanna (Brown)
Abbe, born in "Windham, Conn., November 16, 1785 ; died there January 26, 1871.
He was a farmer and settled early in life in Ashford. He later sold that farm
and bought at ''Dog Hill," near Windham. About 1818 he moved into the
present homestead at Dog Hill. From 1830 to 1835 he resided at New Boston.
The homestead is now owned by his grandson, Walter Abbe. His will, made
May 9, 1870, probated March 10, 1871, names his wife, Talitha, as sole heiress
and executrix.
Married by Rev. William Andrews, pastor of the Congregational Church at
Windham Center, February 1, 1809, TALITHA WALDO, born March 10, 1789,
at Waldo Place, Windham, Conn., daughter of Zaccheus and Esther (Stevens)
/* *^ k.
Moses Cleveland" Abbe
Mrs. Talitha (Waldo) Abbe
John Randolph" Abbe
Charles Smith'' Abbk
Sixth Generation 141
"Waldo and a descendant of Cornelius Waldo, Thomas Dimock, Major-General
Daniel and Rev. John Denisou, Henry Kingsbury, and Nathaniel Saltonstall of
Colonial fame.
Children
478 Susan Broicn Able, b. April 15, 1810; m. Andrew Frink.
479 George Waldo Albe, b. Oct. 26, 1811 ; m. Charlotte Colgate.
480 Elka Tainior Abie, b. Sept. 23, 1814 ; m. Henry S. Walcott.
481 Mariette (or Mary) Abbe, b. Aug. 24, 1816; m. Charles Smith.
482 Joshua Orosvenor Abbe, b. June 26, 1827 ; m. Sarah E. Fuller.
483 John Randolph Abbe, b. July 12, 1833; m. (1) Lucy EUen Avery; (2) Josephine
Louise Robbins.
255. LUCIUS'' ABBE, son of Phineas^ and Susanna (Brown) Abbe, born
November 16, 1785; died about 1856. Famier, on his father's farm, two miles
south of Windham Centre, Conn., and, after 1846, at Lake Mills, Wis., where
he died. He and his family were recorded in the 1850 Census at Lake Mills.
Married 1811, MARTHA JOHNSON, born in Franklin, Conn., August 16,
1790, daughter of Oliver and Martha (Perkins) Johnson. She was living at
Lake Mills in 1860.
Children, born in Windham
Edward Abbe, b. about 1812 ; m. Annette M. Boture who was b. in New York
about 1816 ; resided at Lake Mills ; d. there in 1872. No children.
Frances Abbe, b. about 1815 ; d. in Lake Mills about 1845 ; m. in Windham, May
25, 1835, James Payne of Pomfret, Conn. They removed to Wisconsin where
she died. Three children. Caroline Payne, aged 10, b. in Wisconsin, was living
in the family of Lucius and Martha Abbe at Lake Mills in 1850. She was
probably one of Frances' children.
Caroline Abbe, b. April 1, 1819; d. in Windham, March, 1840 (?) ; m. in Windham,
Jan. 6, 1839, Marvin SpafPord of Windham, b. April 1 
