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John Abbe Sr.
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2 August 1613 – 6 September 1689
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Reminder: Dig deep! Please review sources as you place them with the Abbe family. Be SURE to look at land records, including going to your local LDS library. and BEWARE of Findagrave for a number of Abbe's
There are many good sources you all are providing to collaborate.
Note that the EARLIEST mention of John Abbe came from William Weaver's book in History of Ancient Windham, CT in 1864. And Cleveland Abbe notes that in his book, when he published in 1916. (See his intro)
See the difference in years - it is significant. AND Be SURE to look at land records, including going to your local LDS library. You wouldn't believe what you will learn. Cleveland Abbe ONLY took what people had found and there is a lot that is there. I found my 5th great grandmother that Cleveland NEVER found and my 6th great grandfather by looking at land records. also find real spouses!!
1. Always try to look for the earliest. Similarly, Cleveland Abbe probably found his information on Jo Abbey from the NEGHS records of ship records, as those records were published in 1848.
2. Often the intro or forward or sources will give you clues to more info so you can trust what you have found.
3. Findagrave is not infallible. There are a number of entries that have "Burial Details Unknown". That could be ok but then you see someone has probably copied from Cleveland Abbe's book and made a Findagrave (FAG) person. Then you note the record is totally wrong. Sometimes we can prove it with early records and sometimes it is a real "push" to get the record on FAG corrected because the owner of the particular FAG won't change even if it's incorrect. I am seeing this with these records where I even had the evidence to prove it.
5. PLEASE cite your records. There are many times a link is placed as the source and the like won't work. It certainly will not show the original location of where Family Search placed the record by what Family Search tells you to copy for your source. And now with the addition of their showing images in the "new" view which shows sort of like a set of many boxes with the image number of how many images, you do not know what film number it is on.
But there is a way, at so far. Go to what is usually Image 1 and there will be a film number. PLEASE copy the film number or go to that film number through the search and get the info.
Include the following when you cite so you and other can find it later:
Film name; FHL film #, image number of how many images and page number. Sort of like this: Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, Records of births, marriages, and deaths, 1686-1901, FHL 1376017; Vol 1A; P. 230; Image 161 of 197
You will be helping other by doing it that way.
Thank you so much!
By the way, if you want to really dig deep but the book is overwhelming and for the not so faint at heart, you can get a copy of "Evidence Explained: History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace" by Elizabeth Shown Mills. Why is this important? Both Ancestry and FamilySearch use it and Elizabeth Shown Mills is a genealogical expert who knows how to really find things. She has presented at the Family Search Genealogy Conferences in Salt Lake and many other places.
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Kay9418
Biographical notes from previous conributors
FIRST MENTION OF HIS NAME WAS ON PAGE 11,VOLUME I OF THE SALEM LAW
RECORDS ON THE 20TH DAY OF THE 11TH MONTH 1636 - OR 2 APRIL 1637.
1669 & 1671, HE WAS A CONSTABLE.
REFERENCE ABBE-ABBEY GENEALOGY BY CLEVELAND ABBE & JOSEPHINE GENUNG
NICHOLS, NEW HAVEN, CONN.1916 - PAGES 1-5.
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Anna Lenz Hetzel
Who was JOHN ABBE’s 1st wife? Following is the summary of research we have completed. from previous contributor)
BOB HENDERSON replied to a question about the parents of MARY LORING. He says “Some researchers say that this MARY LORING was the daughter of Deacon THOMAS LORING of Hingham, MA, but his extensive pedigree and the will of his wife JANE NEWTON LORING do not mention a daughter. Some pedigrees list MARY's parents as WILLIAM LORING and BRIDGET SANDERS, but there is no record of a WILLIAM LORING in MA before the 1700s.
BOB HENDERSON states: I have been in contact with MAURICE LOARING of England who has done considerable research on the LORING family and he cannot confirm the information on MARY LORING. Many of the records of the parishes involved were destroyed when Exeter was bombed in WW2. What few records survived are too fragmentary to trace many individuals with any degree of certainty.”
From BOB HENDERSON:
Check NEHGS Reg. Vol. 2, Jan. 1848, Pg. 112. This is a list of passengers on the "Bonaventura" in 1634/35. The fourth name from the top in the right hand column is JO: ABBY, age 22. Most pedigrees and databases give JOHN ABBE's year of birth as 1613, which fits nicely. There is no other ABBY on the list, so it would appear he came to the Colonies on his own.
Who did JOHN ABBE (~1613) marry? What I have found is based on the "Abbe-Abbey Genealogy," by CLEVELAND ABBE and NICHOLS. The book entry for the marriage of John lists just MARY ____, with a note "given as MARY LORING, by FREDERICK ORR WOODRUFF, who says the name was found on Enfield records by one who made researches for him there." It seems this is the only supporting statement around that states JOHN ABBE married MARY LORING.
Sent email to PAUL BADER of raogk, to see if he can look for that Enfield record.
Reply to the email from PAUL BADER:
I don't know what records he could have been reviewing. There is a multi-volume collection of Enfield town records, but they start in 1685. I also checked the index for those records, and there is no record for anyone named LORING. I asked the librarian/genealogist if she had any ideas, but she did not.
Thus, there is no support for using the name of MARY LORING until someone finds additional support.
JOHN ABBE, born England, about 1613 (reputedly son of JOHN, born about 1587, wife unknown), died in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, about 1690; married (1), about 1636, MARY, born about 1615; died in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, 9 September 1672, and (2) MARY, widow of RICHARD GOLDSMITH, who was killed by lightning, 18 May 1674.
The birth place and parentage of JOHN ABBE are not known, but current speculation suggests a connection with the ABBYE family of Staverton, Northampton. He apparently came to New England in 1635 aboard the Bonaventure (Register of the names of all the passengers which passed from the Port of London for a whole year ending at Christmas 1635). In the records of Salem, his name appears first in January 1637 (Vol. I, p. 11): "JOHN ABBIE is received for inhabitant and is to have one acre lot for a house next beyond the Gunsmith's and three acres of planting ground where the Town hath appointed beyond Castle Hill." In 1638, in the division of the common marsh and meadow lands, the town of Salem granted JOHN ABBE half an acre: at that time there were just three heads in his family (the size of the allocation related to the size of the family). In 1639, JOHN received an additional grant of five acres "near to Mr. TROGMORTON's hoghouse." In January 1643, JOHN and several others each received ten-acre grants "to be laid out near to King's lot" near the Bass River, but the following month the town exchanged this ten-acre lot for ten acres at Enon, and subsequently granted the Bass River lot to MICHAEL SALLOWS.
In 1642, Mr. FISKE organized a church at Enon; the following year the name of the settlement was changed to Wenham. On 24 August 1644, the new town granted JOHN ABBY "all that wasteground which lyeth between the end of the lott which he lives upon and the meadow which belongs to the town, leaving a poles bredth most convenient for a way. In January 1662, the town granted land to JOHN ABBEY, Sr. and EDWARD WALDRON, to be divided equally between them. The following year, ABBEY was chosen to assist the selectmen in making "the minister's rate" for the year. He served as constable of the town in 1669 and 1671. On 3 April 1675, JOHN deeded ten acres of land to his son SAMUEL -- THOMAS, JOHN, and MARY ABBE witnessed the transaction.
JOHN supported his son, THOMAS, who lived with him and cared for him. In 1683, he dismissed THOMAS on account of bad behavior and called upon his son JOHN Jr. to take charge of his affairs. To seal this transaction, on 3 August 1683, JOHN Sr. filed the following writ:
Know all men by these presents that I, JOHN ABBEY (Senior) of Wenham in the County of Essex, being sensible of my own and my wife's inability to carry on my affaires so as to provide for our Comfortable Livelihood by reason of our age and weakness of body ... do make Choice of and request my son JOHN ABBEY as my feoffee in trust to take into his hands my house and all my lands in Wenham together with what right I have in that land which was sometime RICHARD GOOLDSMITH's, to occupy and improve for my and his mutual benefit so long as my wife and I or either of us shall live, and for his encouragement to manage my affaires as above said and he provide comfortably for my own and my wife's maintenance I do hereby give and bequeath to him my aforesaid feofee all my houses & lands forever except what I do hereby give out of it to the rest of my children, viz. SAMUEL, SARAH, MARAH, REBECA, OBADIA, and THOMAS, and to each of them as follows: viz. to SAMUEL, I having already given him ... land, I give him one shilling more, and to all the rest of my children above mentioned, viz. SARAH, MARAH, REBECA, OBADIA, and THOMAS two Shillings apiece or to so many of them as shall survive at the decease of my self and wife: and in case God shall take away my son JOHN abovesaid before the decease of my self and wife, if his heirs shall continue to manage and carry on my affaires as my abovesaid feoffee ought to do, then they shall have the houses and lands abovesaid as therein ordered, and in confirmation of what is above written I have hereunto set to my hand & seal. Signed sealed and delivered August the 3, 1683, in the presence of THOS. FISKE, Sr. [and] MARTHA FISKE. JOHN ABBEY Sr. did acknowledge this writing above written to be his act and deed August the 3d, 1683, before me, SAMUEL APPLETON, Assistant.
Apparently taking his new responsibilities seriously, JOHN Jr. built a new house for his father early on, as the old one was unfit to live in. In 1696, after the death of his father (1690) and step-mother, JOHN Jr. sold the lands in Wenham to NATHANIEL WALDRON and removed to Windham, Connecticut, where he died on 11 December 1700. Shortly thereafter, THOMAS, then of Enfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, laid claim to his father's estate, naming his father-in-law, WALTER FAIRFIELD of Wenham, his attorney. His actions included a suit for trespass against one PETER LEGRO of Wenham. The court allowed LEGRO to substitute his landlord, NATHANIEL WALDRON, as defendant in this case.
For some reason (possibly because JOHN Jr. failed to probate the will his father signed in 1683), the court determined that JOHN Sr. had died intestate and granted administration of his estate to THOMAS (December 1702). RICHARD HUTTON and JOSEPH FOWLER, whom THOMAS commissioned to appraise the estate, valued the property -- twenty three acres of upland and meadow, the housing, fences and other appurtenances in Wenham, together with JOHN Sr.'s right in the Common -- at £92: "We also being informed that the said deceased in his lifetime did, to accommodate his son OBADIAH according to his desire with a trade for his future benefit when the said OBADIAH was eighteen years old, give to RICHARD GOLDSMITH three years service of his said son OBADIAH and until he was one and twenty years old to learn him to be a shoemaker, and all the said time his said father did find his said son meat and drink and clothes washing and lodging which we do judge to be worth thirty pounds. The account was settled between THOMAS ABBE and his father's Estate by the Children of the said deceased in our presence..."
The heirs -- THOMAS, RICHARD KIMBALL for himself and his wife REBECCA, and MARY KILHAM -- allowed £32 "for several things for which our said father ... was indebted to his son THOMAS ABBE" before his death. The heirs of JOHN Jr., SAMUEL, and SARAH were apparently not represented in these proceedings; nor was OBADIAH, unless he had given his commission to THOMAS. We have yet to discover how NATHANIEL WALDRON fared.
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Anna Lenz Hetzel
John Abbe Sr
grandfather of Lydia (Abbe) Bidlake, was born in England about l613. According to The Families of Abbe and. Abbey by Abbe and Nichols
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WBeverly2
Message Board may provide the answer of person going to Staverton for Abbe Information
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/surnames.abbey/554/mb.ashx?pnt=1
John Abbey Immigrant From England to Massachusetts 1634, Christening Record Staverton, Northampton, England
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John Abbey Immigrant From England to Massachusetts 1634, Christening Record Staverton, Northampton, England
TheTreeDr (View posts)
Posted: 22 Aug 2016 10:16AM
Classification: Query
Surnames: Abbey, Abbe, Harberd
Years ago, long before the internet, someone visited Staverton and abstracted the parish records of John Abbey's christening and other family records. When the first genealogical internet bulletin boards started up in the 1990's, this information found it's way to the bulletin boards and subsequently to public family trees. Never content to just copy a tree, I wanted to examine and link to the original source records of the Abbey branch of my tree. Ancestry has the Staverton parish records, so I was puzzled when John Abbey's baptismal record and other Abbey records did not come up in a search. A little investigating revealed the reason why – whole large sections of the early records have not been transcribed and indexed. But I found the Abbey records by going page by page and have been inputing transcriptions and corrections which I believe will make the records start showing up in searches once my transcriptions have been indexed by Ancestry. In the meantime, so that anyone can look at these records for themselves and link to them, I am including for your information, an image number and other information because it's not easy to read these records.
The records of the John Abbey family of Staverton, Northampton:
Image 48, the 3rd line under Christenings 1613
John the son of Thomas Abbey was baptized the ___ day of August 1613.
The christening record of John's sister and brother as follows:
Image 45, 7th line
Thomas the son of Thomas Abbey was baptized 2 September 1610
Image 47, 6th line
Mary the daughter of Thomas Abbey was baptized 2 September 1612
Image 6 has the christening record for Thomas the father of John Abbey as follows:
Line 21 (last line of Christenings)
Thomas Abbey baptized ___th of February 1571 (1572 new style. No father given)
There are five other baptismal records of interest because some or most of these could be Thomas' sisters and brothers. No father is given on any of these records.
Image 2, 14th line of Christenings, Helen Abbey baptized ____1564.
Image 3, 2nd line of Christenings, (unreadable) Abbey baptized ____ 1566.
Image 4, 2nd to last line of Christenings, Francis Abbey baptized ______ 1568.
Image 6, 9th line Joane Abbey baptized ___May 1571.
Image 8, 9th line of Christenings, Mary Abbey baptized ___January 1574.(1575 new style)
Image 9, 1st line of Christenings, Joane Abbey baptized ____July 1575.
In addition Image 43, 3rd line of marriages is the marriage of Thomas Abbey to Elizabeth Harberd 1608 who is likely the mother of John Abbey, the immigrant to Massachusetts and both of his siblings.
Image 49, 4th line of burials has the burial record of Thomas Abby ___ August 1614.
I'm still in the process of going page by page through the Staverton Parish Record looking for Abbeys. When I'm done I'll post a complete list.
Re: John Abbey Immigrant From England to Massachusetts 1634, Christening Record Staverton, Northampton, England
TheTreeDr (View posts)
Posted: 23 Aug 2016 10:21AM
Classification: Query
The Staverton parish records of the 1500's are difficult to read but still possible to read many or most of them. Then you get into the 1600's and it's much worse. Many whole pages are not readable at all. But one of the records I found that is barely readable, needs to be added to my previous post because it's another sister of John the immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony. Image 43, line 11 has the following information: Elizabeth the daughter of Thomas Abbey was baptized the 28th day of November 1608.
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Deborah Hudson_1
John Abbe, Sr.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Abbe-11
John Abbe aka Abye, Abby, Abbey, Abbei, Abbye
Born about 1613 in Englandmap
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of Mary Perkins — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of Mary (Loring) Abbe — married about 1634 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay
Father of John Abbe Jr., Sarah Abbey, Marah (Abbe) Kilham, Samuel Abbe, Samuel Abby, Obadiah Abbe, Rebecca (Abbe) Kimball, Thomas Abbe I and Thomas (Abbey) Abbe
Died about 1689 in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts Bay
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Puritan_Great_Migration
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Deborah Hudson_1
Person note - Important, Helpful Research here
John Abbe, born England, about 1613 (reputedly son of John, born about 1587, wife unknown), died in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, about 1690; married (1), about 1636, Mary Loring, daughter of William and Bridget (Sanders) Loring , born about 1615; died in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, 9 September 1672, and (2) Mary, widow of Richard Goldsmith, who was killed by lightning, 18 May 1674.
Note by Tim Farr: I doubt that the above statement about Mary being a Loring and daughter of William and Bridget are true. I found a Mary Loring, daughter of William being buried 5 Oct 1624 in Marshwood, Dorset, England. I also found another Mary Loring getting married in Marshwood 17 Oct 1636.
The birth place and parentage of John Abbe are not known, but current speculation suggests a connection with the Abbye family of Staverton, Northampton. He apparently came to New England in 1635 aboard the Bonaventure (Register of the names of all the passengers which passed from the Port of London for a whole year ending at Christmas 1635). In the records of Salem, his name appears first in January 1637 (Vol. I, p. 11): "John Abbie is received for inhabitant and is to have one acre lot for a house next beyond the Gunsmith's and three acres of planting ground where the Town hath appointed beyond Castle Hill." In 1638, in the division of the common marsh and meadow lands, the town of Salem granted John Abbe half an acre: at that time there were just three heads in his family (the size of the allocation related to the size of the family). In 1639, John received an additional grant of five acres "near to Mr. Trogmorton's hoghouse." In January 1643, John and several others each received ten-acre grants "to be laid out near to King's lot" near the Bass River, but the following month the town exchanged this ten-acre lot for ten acres at Enon, and subsequently granted the Bass River lot to Michael Sallows.
In 1642, Mr. Fiske organized a church at Enon; the following year the name of the settlement was changed to Wenham. On 24 August 1644, the new town granted John Abby "all that wasteground which lyeth between the end of the lott which he lives upon and the meadow which belongs to the town, leaving a poles bredth most convenient for a way. In January 1662, the town granted land to John Abbey, Sr. and Edward Waldron, to be divided equally between them. The following year, Abbey was chosen to assist the selectmen in making "the minister's rate" for the year. He served as constable of the town in 1669 and 1671. On 3 April 1675, John deeded ten acres of land to his son Samuel -- Thomas, John, and Mary Abbe witnessed the transaction.
John supported his son, Thomas, who lived with him and cared for him. In 1683, he dismissed Thomas on account of bad behavior and called upon his son John Jr. to take charge of his affairs. To seal this transaction, on 3 August 1683, John Sr. filed the following writ:
Know all men by these presents that I, John Abbey (Senior) of Wenham in the County of Essex, being sensible of my own and my wife's inability to carry on my affaires so as to provide for our Comfortable Livelihood by reason of our age and weakness of body ... do make Choice of and request my son John Abbey as my feoffee in trust to take into his hands my house and all my lands in Wenham together with what right I have in that land which was sometime Richard Gooldsmith's, to occupy and improve for my and his mutual benefit so long as my wife and I or either of us shall live, and for his encouragement to manage my affaires as abovesaid and he provide comfortably for my own and my wife's maintenance I do hereby give and bequeath to him my aforesaid feofee all my houses & lands forever except what I do hereby give out of it to the rest of my children, viz. Samuel, Sarah, Marah, Rebeca, Obadia, and Thomas, and to each of them as follows: viz. to Samuel, I having already given him ... land, I give him one shilling more, and to all the rest of my children above mentioned, viz. Sarah, Marah, Rebeca, Obadia, and Thomas two Shillings apiece or to so many of them as shall survive at the decease of my self and wife: and in case God shall take away my son John abovesaid before the decease of my self and wife, if his heirs shall continue to manage and carry on my affaires as my abovesaid feoffee ought to do, then they shall have the houses and lands abovesaid as therein ordered, and in confirmation of what is above written I have hereunto set to my hand & seal. Signed sealed and delivered August the 3, 1683, in the presence of Thos. Fiske, Sr. [and] Martha Fiske. John Abbey Sr. did acknowledge this writing above written to be his act and deed August the 3d, 1683, before me, Samuel Appleton, Assistant.
Apparently taking his new responsibilities seriously, John Jr. built a new house for his father early on, as the old one was unfit to live in. In 1696, after the death of his father (1690) and step-mother, John Jr. sold the lands in Wenham to Nathaniel Waldron and removed to Windham, Connecticut, where he died on 11 December 1700. Shortly thereafter, Thomas, then of Enfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, laid claim to his father's estate, naming his father-in-law, Walter Fairfield of Wenham, his attorney. His actions included a suit for trespass against one Peter Legro of Wenham. The court allowed Legro to substitute his landlord, Nathaniel Waldron, as defendant in this case.
For some reason (possibly because John Jr. failed to probate the will his father signed in 1683), the court determined that John Sr. had died intestate and granted administration of his estate to Thomas (December 1702). Richard Hutton and Joseph Fowler, whom Thomas commissioned to appraise the estate, valued the property -- twenty three acres of upland and meadow, the housing, fences and other appurtenances in Wenham, together with John Sr.'s right in the Common -- at £92: "We also being informed that the said deceased in his lifetime did, to accommodate his son Obadiah according to his desire with a trade for his future benefit when the said Obadiah was eighteen years old, give to Richard Goldsmith three years service of his said son Obadiah and until he was one and twenty years old to learn him to be a shoemaker, and all the said time his said father did find his said son meat and drink and clothes washing and lodging which we do judge to be worth thirty pounds. The account was settled between Thomas Abbe and his father's Estate by the Children of the said deceased in our presence..."
The heirs -- Thomas, Richard Kimball for himself and his wife Rebecca, and Mary Kilham -- allowed £32 "for several things for which our said father ... was indebted to his son Thomas Abbe" before his death. The heirs of John Jr., Samuel, and Sarah were apparently not represented in these proceedings; nor was Obadiah, unless he had given his commission to Thomas. We have yet to discover how Nathaniel Waldron fared.
As to the surname of John Sr.'s first wife (Loring), it was supplied by Frederick Orr Woodruff, who said the name had been found in Enfield records by one who made searches for him there. See Ancestors of the Bingham Family of Utah.
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Wenham, Mass. Vital Records; Pope's Pioneers of Mass p.9; Cem of America Genealogy vol 1 p.39, 174; Abbe-Abbye Genealogy by C. Abbe & J.G. Nichols, p.5
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Anna Lenz Hetzel
The Abbe genealogy
Geneological Mormon Society of Utah
Abbe. This name is listed in Bardsley's "English Surnames" as a "surname of office."
"Ralph le Abbe" appears in the Calendarium Rotulorum Patentium in Turri Londinensi.
The name is found in old records spelled Abbe, Abbee, Abbei, Abbie, Abbye, and Abby.
i. John Abbe, first of the American family, arrived in Salem and was granted land there in November, 1636. He received further grants in 1638, 1639 and in 1642, and on December 15, 1642-3, was granted 'and at Enon, now Wenham.
In 1683 he disposed of his estate by dividing it among his children. His first wife, Mary _____, died in Wenham, September 9, 1672.
His second wife, Mary Goldsmith, whom he married November 25, 1674, was probably the widow of Richard Goldsmith. His second marriage took place in Wenham, as did his death, which occurred about 1689.
Issue:
1. John. Of whom presently.
2. Samuel. Of whom presently.
3. Sarah.
4. Marah.
5. Rebecca, m. Richard Kimball, in Wenham, Mar. 13, 1667.
6. Obadiah. Of whom presently.
7. Thomas. Of whom presently.
2. John Abbe, eldest son of John Abbe, No. I, lived in Wenham. He disposed of his Wenham property in 1696, and removed to Windham, Connecticut, where he died December II, 1700. He and his wife were charter members of the Windham Church, having joined December 10, 1700, one clay before his death.
Hannah his wife, survived him, and married Jonathan Jennings, of Windham.
Issue:
9. John. b. May 5, 1665, d. May 15, 1665.
10. John. b. Dec. 15, 1666.
11. Thomas, b. Dec. 5, 1667. d. young.
12. Joseph, .b. Aug. 12, 1673. Of whom presently.
13. Obadiah. m. Elizabeth Wilkinson at Maiden, Dec. 26, 1701. Removed to Ashford, Conn.
14. Abigail, m. Daniel Sabin, of Windham, Mar., 18, 1701.
15. Richard, b. 1682-3, Feb. 9. Of whom presently.
16. Mary. b. Sept. 16, 1684. m. James Pease, of Enfield, Conn.
17. Mercy, b. Mar. 5, 1689. m. Nathaniel Flint, of Windham.
18. John, b. Apr. 20, 1691. Lived in Windham, m. twice and had issue.
19. Hannah, b. Aug. 13, 1693. m. Thomas Welch, of Windham.
20. Lydia. b. May 21, 1696. m. Benjamin Bidlack.
21. Sarah, b. Mar. n, 1699, in Windham, m. John Welch.
3. Samuel Abbe, second son of John Abbe, No. I, husbandman, was made freeman October 3, 1680. He married Mary Knowlton, in Wenham, October 12, 1672; and lived first in Wenham, removing to Salem Village, now Danvers, in 1682. He returned to Wenham in 1697, where he died in 1698. His wife, Mary, survived him and married Abraham Mitchell.
Issue:
22. Mary. b. Circa 1673. d. unmarried.
23. Samuel, b. Circa 1675. m. Hannah Silsbee, of Lynn, Mar. 15, 1710. Hannah was b. Oct. 3 1687 and d. Circa 1759.
24. Thomas, b. Circa 1678. Of whom presently.
25. Elizabeth, m. William Slate.
26. Ebenezer. b. July 31, 1683, in Salem Village, m. Abigail, daughter of Isaac Goodale, of Salem. He lived in Norwich in 1705, in Windham in 1706, and in Mansfield Conn., in 1739. He had thirteen children.
27. Mercy, b. Mar. 1, 1684-5, in Salem Village, m. Jonathan Ormsby, of Windham.
28. Sarah, b. July 4, 1686, in Salem Village, m. John Fowder, of Lebanon.
29. Hepzibah. b. Feb. 14, 1688-89, in Salem Village, m. Samuel Palmer.
30 Abigail, b. Nov. 19, 1690, in Salem Village, m. Joseph Ormsby.
31. John. b. June 4, 1692, in Salem Village, d. 1790.
32. Benjamin, b. June 4, 1694, in Salem Village. m. Mary, daughter of Dr. Joseph Tryon, Jan. 4 1716 Settled in Glastenbury, and had five children.
33. Jonathan, b. Circa 1696. Settled in Willington, and d. there in 1760. He had five children
7. Obadiah Abbe, sixth child of John Abbe, No. 1, settled in Enfield, Massachusetts, now Connecticut, about 1682/ He married twice, his second wife being Sarah, widow of Joseph Warriner. He died 1752.
8. Thomas Abbe, seventh child of John Abbe, No. 1, settled in Enfield. He married Sarah, daughter of Walter Fairfield, of Wenham, December 17, 1683, in Marblehead. He died 1728. His wife survived him.
Issue:
34. Sarah, b. Mar. 31, 1684. m. before 1721. ____ Geer.
35. Thomas, b. 1686. Of whom presently.
36. Mary. b. Feb. 3, 1689. m. James Pease, who was b. at Salem, Mass., 1679, of Enfield, in 1710, and settled in Somers, Conn., in 1713. Mary d. before 1728.
37. John. b. 1692. Of whom presently.
38. Abigail, m. ______ Warner before 1721.
39. Tabitha.
12. Joseph Abbe, fourth son of John Abbe, No. 2, had with other children (?).
Issue:
40. Joseph ABBEY.
(not understood why there was not a 13 and 14)
15. Richard Abbe, seventh child of John Abbe, No. 2, was born in Wenham, Massachusetts, February 9, 1682-3. He lived in Windham, Connecticut, where he
was a prominent citizen and man of wealth. He married November 17, 1703, Mary Jennings, and died without issue July 10, 1737.
24. Thomas Abbe, third child of Samuel Abbe, No 3, was born Circa 1678. He married Sarah _______ and had
Issue:
41. Mary. d. Wenham, Oct. 15, 1705.
35. Thomas Abbe, second child of Thomas Abbe, No. 8, was born in 1686. He lived in Enfield in 1726. Married in 1714, Mary Pease, who died in 1746. *
Issue:
42. Obadiah. b. 1728. d. young.
43. Thomas, b. 1731. d. 1811.
44. Mary. m. Dennis Bement in 1737.
45. Sarah, m. Nathaniel Chapin.
46. Tabitha. m. Ephraim Pease in 1740. He became wealthy as a contractor in the French and Indian War. He was born in 1719 and died in 1801.
37. John Abbe, fourth child of Thomas Abbe, No. 8, was born 1692. He lived in Enfield in 1726.
Issue:
47. John. m. Sarah Root in 1739. Lived in Enfield.
48. Thomas.
49. Daniel.
50. Richard.
40. Joseph Abbey, son of Joseph Abbe, No. 12, was of Exeter, New Hampshire. He married, November 30, 1705, Abigail Severance, and died in the winter of 1706.
His widow married Philip Greeley, of Salisbury, December 11, 1707.
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51. Joanna Abbey, b. Salisbury, Mass., Nov. 15, 1706. m. Jonathan Brown, of Hampton, who was b. Feb. 17, 1725-6. They lived in Kensington, New Hampshire, where Joanna died Sept 7, 1757.
Of this family there was a Joseph Abbe, of Ipswich, who married Thomasin or Tamazin, daughter of William Baker, of Ipswich (Pub. November 5, 1721). He lived in the house in which the late W. K. Bell, Esq., resided, near the town house, which he is said to have built; and was a blacksmith by trade, having a shop called "Abbe the smith's shop' in which considerable work was prosecuted. He was living in Ipswich in 1749, when he sold his house, blacksmith's shop and land. His children were born in Ipswich.
Issue:
1. Sarah, bap. Nov. 25, 1722. d. Jan. 6, 1722.
2. Sarah, bap. June 28, 1724. d. Nov. 18, 1726.
3. Joseph, bap. May 7, 1726. d. Aug. 25, 1726.
4. Joseph, bap. June 25, 1727. d. July 8, 1727.
5. John. bap. July 21, 1728. d. July 12, 1736.
6. James, bap. Aug. 16, 1730. d. June 22, 1731.
7. Tamasin. bap. Mar. 12, 1731. d. Sept. 3, 1733.
8. William, bap. Feb. 10, 1733. d. Aug. 14, 1734.
9. James, bap. May 25, 1735. d. Aug. 30, 1736.
10. John. b. Dec. 27, 1736.
11. Tamasin. bap. April, 1739. d. April 19, 1742.
12. William, bap. Jan. 11, 1740.
13. Mary. bap. Feb. 6, 1741.
14. Martha, d. Oct. 25, 1745.
15. Aaron, bap. Sept. 20, 1747.
(Pub. Frankfort, Pa: Martin & Alldardyce)
(From notes by F. J. A. Wallace.)
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Abbe--Abbey genealogy : in memory of John Abbe and his descendants by Abbe, Cleveland, and Mary Josephine Genung Nichols. 1916.
Abbe, Cleveland, and Mary Josephine Genung Nichols. 1916. Abbe-Abbey genealogy: in memory of John Abbe and his descendants. New Haven, Conn: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co. Full text online: https://archive.org/stream/abbeabbeygenealo00abbe#page/n19/mode/2up
Connecticut, and Henry Phelps Johnston. 1889. Record of service of Connecticut men in the I. War of the Revolution, II. War of 1812, III. Mexican War. Hartford: [Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co.]. Full text online: https://archive.org/stream/waroftherevolution00recorich#page/n11/mode/2up
Hinman, R. R. 1852. A catalogue of the names of the early Puritan settlers of the colony of Connecticut, with the time of their arrival in the country and colony, their standing in society, place of residence, condition in life, where from, business, &c., as far as is found on record. Hartford: Case, Tiffany. Full text online: https://archive.org/stream/catalogueofnames010hinm#page/n9/mode/2up
Mackenzie, George Norbury, and Nelson Osgood Rhoades. 1900. Colonial families of the United States of America, Vol. III. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. Full text online and searchable from Ancestry: http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=48548
Perley, Sidney. 1897. The Essex antiquarian: an illustrated ... magazine devoted to the biography, genealogy, history and antiquities of Essex County, Massachusetts. Volume 1. Salem, Mass: Essex Antiquarian. Full text online: https://archive.org/stream/essexantiquarian01perluoft#page/n7/mode/2up
Pope, Charles Henry. 1900. The pioneers of Massachusetts; a descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns, and churches, and other contemporaneous documents. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. Full text online: https://archive.org/stream/pioneersofmassac00pope#page/n5/mode/2up
Stocking, Charles H. W. 1967. The history and genealogy of the Knowltons of England and America. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah. Full text online: https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01stoc#page/n11/mode/2up
Use Stocking's work with this: Knowlton, George Henry, and Charles Henry Wright Stocking. 1903. Errata and addenda to Dr. Stocking's History and genealogy of the Knowltons of England and America, together with a complete index to both books and a supplement with copies of old wills, administration records, etc. Boston: The Everett Press Co. Full text online: https://archive.org/stream/errataaddendatod00know#page/n3/mode/2up
Wallace, F. J. A. 1900. The Abbe genealogy. Frankford, Penn: Martin and Allardyce. Full text online: https://archive.org/stream/abbegenealogy00wall#page/n5/mode/2up
Weaver, William Lawton. 1864. History of ancient Windham, Ct. Genealogy: containing a genealogical record of all the early families of ancient Windham, embracing the present towns of Windham, Mansfield, Hampton, Chaplin and Scotland, part I. A-Bil. Willimantic: Weaver & Curtiss. Full text online: https://archive.org/stream/historyofancient64weav#page/n5/mode/2up
Wenham (Mass.). 1904. Vital records of Wenham, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. Salem, Mass: Essex Institute. Full text online: https://archive.org/stream/vitalrecordsofwe00wenh#page/n3/mode/2up
Williams, Cornelia Bartow. 1915. Ancestry of Lawrence Williams: part I, Ancestry of his father, Simeon Breed Williams, descendant of John Williams of Newbury and Haverhill, Mass., 1600-1674; part II, Ancestry of his mother, Cornelia Johnston, descendant of Thomas Johnston of Boston, Mass., 1708-1767. Chicago: Priv. prin. [R.R. Donnelley and Sons Co.]. Full text online: https://archive.org/stream/ancestrylawrenc00willgoog#page/n10/mode/2up
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[Stout.ftw] Abbe-Abbey Genealogy In Memory of John Abbe And His Descendants Cleveland Abbe and Josephine Genung Nichols The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co. New Haven, Connecticutt Published 1916 JOHN 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-s16-d3 To John Abbe due for worke to save the corne & thresh the ry & killing the swine & carrying them to Salem & about fencing, £1-s18-d6. March 9, 1694-5, he sold to Francis Wainwright a house and lands in Wenham, 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 purchased 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, 1895, Jo. Abbey was a witness to a deed of Exercise and Sarah Conant of Beverly (Essex Deeds, Volume 2, page 101). He sold his farm in Wenham, 30 acres with buildings, to Nathaniel Wainwright, 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, Senr, of Windham. He and his wife, Hannah, were d ismissed 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. Wenham 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 ChristÕs 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 Comtortable settlement in church order, according to the rules of the gospell: the elders & messengers of Neighhor churches yielding their approbation thereto, & accepting you as a sister church with them: bound up in the bond of thatt holy ffellowship, 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 Joh n 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 Will 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 Will of the said Abby the persons that were witnesses to the said Will 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 l700. The Will 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 life, 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 Larrabees 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 Will, 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. vallned as money by us the subscribers vizt to- Imps his wearing apparell at £1 18-00 2 small beds and coverlids, sheets, in the Little room 02-0000 a feather bed and the furniture in the great room 06-00-00 Table linnen 7s Iron pott, Iron kettle & frying pan 20s 0107-00 Iron pott, tramell & tongs 11s 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/9d 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 4£ 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 5£ 2 cows 6£ one heiferr 50s 2 young creatures 5Os 16-00-00 one horse, saddle, bridle and pillion 25s a warming pan 6s 01-11-00 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 Joshun Ripley, Jonathan Crane. The said Estate is Indebted about £14-3-2 . September 4, l701. John Abbe married (1) -. Isaac Goodale, who was perhaps the son of Isaac and Patience Goodale, called John Abbe his uncle, so this first wife may bave 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, Obadiah, and five children under age. (Windham Deeds, Liber D.) One of the provisions was "moved by the love and affection I bore to my beautifull daughter, Mary Abbe." Children by first wife, births recorded in Wenham, Mass. John (1) Abbe, 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) Abbe, b. Dec. 15, 1666; probably d. young. "John, the son of John Abbie, borne the 15th of December, 1666" (Wenham Records). Thomas Abbe, b. Dec. 5 (or Nov. 4), 1667; probably d. young. Thomas, son of John Abbey, b. the 5, 12 mo., 1667" (Wenham Records). Joseph Abbe, b. Aug. 13 (or 18), 1673; m. Abigail Severance. Obadiah Abbe, b. about 1675; m. Elizabeth Wilkinson. Abigail Abbe, 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: i. Elisha, b. Feb. 25, 1725; ii. Daniel, b. Jan. 18, 1733; iii. Eliezer, b. July 8, 1734, iv. Abigail, b. Feb. 22, 1731. Children by second wife, births recorded in Windham, Conn., but all but last probably born in Wenham, Mass. Richard Abbe, b. Feb. 9, 1682-3; m. Mary Jennings. Mary Abbe, b. Sept. 16, 1684; m. James Pease. Mercy Abbe, b. March 5, 1689; d. Dec. 5, 1771; m. in Windhnm, D ec. 11, 1
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John Abbey of Staverton, Northampton, England has a sister, Elizabeth
September 16, 2019
Re: John Abbey Immigrant From England to Massachusetts 1634, Christening Record Staverton, Northampton, England
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Posted: 23 Aug 2016 10:21AM
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The Staverton parish records of the 1500's are difficult to read but still possible to read many or most of them. Then you get into the 1600's and it's much worse. Many whole pages are not readable at all. But one of the records I found that is barely readable, needs to be added to my previous post because it's another sister of John the immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony. Image 43, line 11 has the following information: Elizabeth the daughter of Thomas Abbey was baptized the 28th day of November 1608.
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Found this information about John Abbey of Staverton, Northampton, England~Ancestry has all records
September 16, 2019
John Abbey Immigrant From England to Massachusetts 1634, Christening Record Staverton, Northampton, England
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Surnames: Abbey, Abbe, Harberd
Years ago, long before the internet, someone visited Staverton and abstracted the parish records of John Abbey's christening and other family records. When the first genealogical internet bulletin boards started up in the 1990's, this information found it's way to the bulletin boards and subsequently to public family trees. Never content to just copy a tree, I wanted to examine and link to the original source records of the Abbey branch of my tree. Ancestry has the Staverton parish records, so I was puzzled when John Abbey's baptismal record and other Abbey records did not come up in a search. A little investigating revealed the reason why – whole large sections of the early records have not been transcribed and indexed. But I found the Abbey records by going page by page and have been inputing transcriptions and corrections which I believe will make the records start showing up in searches once my transcriptions have been indexed by Ancestry. In the meantime, so that anyone can look at these records for themselves and link to them, I am including for your information, an image number and other information because it's not easy to read these records.
The records of the John Abbey family of Staverton, Northampton:
Image 48, the 3rd line under Christenings 1613
John the son of Thomas Abbey was baptized the ___ day of August 1613.
The christening record of John's sister and brother as follows:
Image 45, 7th line
Thomas the son of Thomas Abbey was baptized 2 September 1610
Image 47, 6th line
Mary the daughter of Thomas Abbey was baptized 2 September 1612
Image 6 has the christening record for Thomas the father of John Abbey as follows:
Line 21 (last line of Christenings)
Thomas Abbey baptized ___th of February 1571 (1572 new style. No father given)
There are five other baptismal records of interest because some or most of these could be Thomas' sisters and brothers. No father is given on any of these records.
Image 2, 14th line of Christenings, Helen Abbey baptized ____1564.
Image 3, 2nd line of Christenings, (unreadable) Abbey baptized ____ 1566.
Image 4, 2nd to last line of Christenings, Francis Abbey baptized ______ 1568.
Image 6, 9th line Joane Abbey baptized ___May 1571.
Image 8, 9th line of Christenings, Mary Abbey baptized ___January 1574.(1575 new style)
Image 9, 1st line of Christenings, Joane Abbey baptized ____July 1575.
In addition Image 43, 3rd line of marriages is the marriage of Thomas Abbey to Elizabeth Harberd 1608 who is likely the mother of John Abbey, the immigrant to Massachusetts and both of his siblings.
Image 49, 4th line of burials has the burial record of Thomas Abby ___ August 1614.
I'm still in the process of going page by page through the Staverton Parish Record looking for Abbeys. When I'm done I'll post a complete list.
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JOHN ABBE AND MRS. MARY GOLDSMITH NEVER HAD CHILDREN
January 4, 2018
John Abbe and Mrs. Mary Goldsmith never had children. All of John Abbe's children were born to him and Hannah:
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HORATIO HAMILTON ABBE (deceased) was born September 11, 1828, in Enfield, Hartford Co., Conn., the youngest son of Timothy and Rhoda (Clark) Abbe, both of whom are deceased.
Mr. Abbe’s genealogical record, which is an interesting one, on both the paternal and maternal sides, is given in succeeding paragraphs. As a boy he assisted his father on the farm, and attended the district schools. He entered the shop of a joiner, and later a machine shop, with a view to selecting a trade. Having a natural aptitude for mechanical work, he decided upon becoming a machinist. In 1860 he came to East Hampton, where he entered the employ of Markham & Strong, manufacturers of coffin trimmings. In 1865 he patented the Abbe gong-door-bell, and in April of the following year the Gong Bell Manufacturing Company, of East Hampton, was formed, the stockholders being Ezra G. Cone, Elijah C. Barton, A. H. Conklin and H. H. Abbe. In 1898 Mr. Cone died, and N. N. Hill has since purchased his interest. This company was the pioneer in the manufacture of bell toys. Besides the invention covered by his first patent Mr. Abbe perfected several other devices in bells, one of which, known as the Abbe table-call-bell, he sold to Lyman Skinner. Up to the time of his death he devoted his entire time to the superintendence of the plant in which he was interested, not only overseeing the packing and shipping of toys but also devoting especial attention to the mechanical features of the work — a task for which he was especially well qualified by both nature and training. His political creed was that of the Republican party, and he was socially popular. He was a member of Anchor Lodge, No. 112, A. F. & A. M., of East Hampton, of which he was the first master, filling the position four and one-half years successively; and of Cyrene Commandery, No. 8, K. T., of Middletown, of which he was past eminent commander. He was held in high esteem by his fellow citizens, not only for his personal worth but also for his broad and enlightened public spirit. Mr. Abbe passed away August 29, 1902, sincerely mourned by a wide circle of friends and acquaintances.
On January 26, 1853, Mr. Abbe was united in marriage with Laura Ann Hayes, who was born in Windsorville, Conn., a daughter of Levi and Abigail (Hamilton) Hayes.
The Abbe (or Abbee or Abby) family was founded in America by John Abbe, who at the age of twenty-two came to America, in 1635, in the good ship “Bonaventura,” and was received as an inhabitant of Salem, Mass., November 2, 1636, and was given grants of land, most of which lay in what was afterward the town of Wenham, where he lived. He married (first) Mary, who died September 9, 1672, and (second) November 25, 1674, Mary, widow of Richard Goldsmith, and died in Windham in 1690. John Abbe did not join the church until shortly before his death, and his power to make a will was not granted previous to that connection. By a document made in 1683, he made his eldest son, John, “ffeiofe in trust” of his estate for the benefit of his children. They were: John, Samuel, Sarah, Marah, Rebeckah, Obadiah and Thomas. John settled in Windham, and was the progenitor of numerous posterity ; Samuel also settled in that town; Obadiah and Thomas settled in Enfield, where the descendants of the latter are now numerous; and Obadiah died childless.
The records of Essex county, Mass., show that letters of administration upon the estate of John Abbe, Sr., were granted December 12, 1702, to Thomas Abbe, of Enfield.
(II) Thomas Abbe removed to Enfield about 1682. His wife’s name was Sarah. According to the Enfield records, their children were: Sarah, born March 31, 1684; Thomas, October 30, 1686; Mary, February 3, 1688; John, September 27, 1692; and Tabitha, March 27, 1695. Thomas Abbe died May 17, 1728, and his will showed that he then had, besides the sons, two daughters, Sarah Geer and Abigail Warner.
(Ill) John Abbe, son of Thomas, was one of the first settlers in Upper King street. His wife's name was Hannah. The first of their children was baptized in Wethersfield in 1715, with the name of John, and died soon after. The births of the others, as far as known, were as follows: John, April 18, 1717; Hannah, April 19, 1719; Thomas, December 18, 1721; Sarah, January 23, 1723 ; Daniel, May 8, 1726; Martha, March 1, 1728; Richard, 1735.
Thomas and Daniel were soldiers, and died at Cape Breton in 1745. Richard married his cousin, Mary, daughter of Capt. Dennis Bement.
(IV) John Abbe, son of John and Hannah, died in 1794. He served as a private in Capt. John Simons’ company, of Enfield, called out by the Lexington alarm, 1775. On February 11, 1739, he married Sarah, daughter of Capt. Timothy Root, of Somers, and settled in East Enfield, where his descendants still live. It is probable that he had other children, besides the two sons of whom record appears, namely : John, born November 27, 1739; and Timothy, December 6, 1747.
(V) John Abbe, son of John and Sarah, was many years a farmer in Enfield, where he died at the age of sixty-five years. On November 19, 1761, he married Charity Simons, and their children were: Charity, born November 20, 1762, married John McKnight ; John died December 27, 1764: John Simons, who died at Warehouse Point in 1847, aged eighty-two years; and Timothy, born January 6, 1779.
(VI) Capt. Timothy Abbe, son of John and Charity, died July 2, 1871, aged ninety-two years and six months. He was extensively and successfully engaged in farming and continued to do a full day’s work until eighty years old, when he commenced to enjoy a richly earned rest. With his wife he was received into the Enfield Church August 26, 1821, and until his demise he was a consistent and active member. In early life he was a Whig, and later gave his earnest support to the policy and candidates of the Republican party. On December 11, 1805, he married Rhoda Prudence Clark, of East Hampton, the ceremony being solemnized by the Rev. Joel West, of whose life and work an interesting account may be found elsewhere. Mrs. Rhoda (Clark) Abbe was a daughter of Stephen Clark, a Revolutionary soldier and pensioner. To Mr. and Mrs. Abbe were born children as follows : Harvey C., who died at Broadbrook, Conn., at the age of thirty-five; Charity, who died at the age of eighty-four years, was twice married (first) to Willis Alien and (second) to Levi Hayes ; David Loveland, who died at the age of ninety years ; Horace died at the age of fifty years, at Thompsonville, Conn. ; Timothy H., who1 lives in retirement at Enfield ; Rhoda, the wife of Arnold Hamilton, of Broadbrook, Conn., who lived to celebrate her sixty-third birthday; Francis Le Baron, who died at the age of twenty-five years ; John, who died at the age of over fifty years, in Enfield ; and Horatio H. The mother died April 15, 1872, aged eighty-seven years, one month and five days.
Rhoda (Clark) Abbe traced, her lineage back to William Clark, one of five brothers — William, Aaron, Moses, Ebenezer and John — who were born in the town of Middletown, and were given a grant of land in the northern part of Chatham town, in consideration of their building the first bridge across Little River. Of Ebenezer and John little is known, apart from the fact that the first-named removed from Connecticut to New York, in which State he died. Moses was born in 1718 and died October 13, 1801 ; and Aaron, who was born in 1721, died in 1800.
William Clark, the eldest of the brothers, was born in 1713, and died September 26, 1812. By trade he was a shoemaker. After the grant of land above mentioned was made to himself and brother's, he settled in Chatham, near Clark's Hill, where he chiefly supported his family by hunting and fishing. His wife, Mary, was born in 1721 and died February 18, 1797. He had two sons, — Stephen and Samuel.
Stephen Clark was born June 25, 1754, and served with distinction in the struggle of the Colonies for independence. He always lived on Clark’s Hill, and died there October 3, 1852, at the age of ninety-eight years. His children were: William, born July 3, 1783, married
May 8, 1809, Sophronia Post; Rhoda, born March 10, 1785, became the wife of Timothy Abbe; Amy (1), born July 10, 1787, died young; Amy (2), born April 9, 1792, died unmarried ; and Horace, born September 21,1793. Horace Clark youngest son of Stephen, was twice married, (first) to Lydia Potter, of Portland, who was born June 11, 1795, and who died at the age of thirty-six years. The children born of this marriage were: Lyman H., born August 26, 1821; Julia, July 2, 1823 ; William F., July 29, 1826, died August 26, 1898; and Jane E., December 25, 1829. For his second wife Horace Clark wedded Phoebe Bonfoy, but no children were born of this union. He died November 13, 1879.
Lyman H. Clark, the eldest child of Horace I Clark, was married, on November 26, 1846, to Julia Elizabeth Allen, daughter of Willis and Charity (Abbe) Allen. Willis Allen was born January 26, 1800, and died September 22, 1837. Charity Abbe, his wife, is a daughter of Timothy and Rhoda (Clark) Abbe, and was a sister of our subject. She was born May 6, 1808, and after Mr. Allen’s death married (in 1842) Levi Hayes, who by a previous marriage was the father of Laura Ann (Hayes) Abbe, widow of Horatio Hamilton Abbe."
Quoted from the "Commemorative Biographical Record of Middlesex County", p. 76-78.
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