Isaac Abbot (1732 - abt. 1800)

Born 29 Aug 1732 in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Barker) Abbot — married 29 Apr 1756 in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died about 1800 at about age 67 in Milford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States

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Biography

ISAAC ABBOTT, b. at Windham, 29 Aug 1732 son of Paul Abbot and Elizabeth Gray;^[1] d. at Milford, NH about 1800;^[2] m. at Pomfret, 29 Apr 1756,^[3] MARY BARKER, b. at Rumford (Concord), NH, 23 Nov 1735^[4] daughter of William and Martha (Ingalls) Barker.^[5]

Isaac Abbott was a farmer. He was born in Pomfret and there married Mary Barker who was resident of Pomfret at the time of the marriage. The births of their first seven children are recorded at Pomfret, but there is also a recording of these births at Princeton, Massachusetts. The young family left Pomfret by 1769, were for a time in Princeton where they were early settlers recorded there in 1769,^[6] and finally settled in Milford, New Hampshire where they were about 1778.^[7]

Military

Private Isaac Abbot served with New Hampshire during the American Revolution.

Isaac Abbot is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A000109.

Isaac Abbott served as a private in the company of Col. Stickney during the Revolutionary War.^[8]

Children

Isaac Abbott and Mary Barker had twelve children, the oldest seven recorded at Pomfret, the births of four children recorded at Princeton, and the youngest child whose birthplace is unknown. This youngest child died in Milford.

i MARY ABBOTT, b. at Pomfret, 20 Jan 1757; d. at Lyme, NH, 8 Sep 1849; m. 9 Dec 1778, her first cousin, LEMUEL HOLT, b. at Windham, 28 Feb 1756 son of Joshua and Mary (Abbott) Holt; Lemuel d. 1 Aug 1836.

ii HANNAH ABBOTT, b. at Pomfret, 2 Aug 1758; d. at Stoddard, NH, 9 Mar 1847; m. at Amherst, NH, 25 May 1781, ISRAEL TOWNE, b. at Stoddard, NH, 17 Jun 1761 son of Israel and Lydia (Hopkins) Towne; Israel d. 2 May 1848.

iii CHLOE ABBOTT, b. at Pomfret, 7 Aug 1760; d. at Lyme, 1835. Chloe is reported to have married twice, but the name of her first husband has not been found. She m. 2nd, about 1801, WILLIAM PORTER, b. 1761 son of William and Esther (Carpenter) Porter. William was a widower with several children, his wife Phebe Kingsbury having died in 1800. William d. 3 Mar 1847. Chloe did not have children.

iv SARAH “SALLY” ABBOTT, b. at Pomfret, 14 Oct 1762; d. at Mason, NH, 1846; m. at Amherst, 25 Oct 1795, JAMES BROWN.

v METYLDA ABBOTT, b. at Pomfret, 29 Aug 1764.

vi ISAAC ABBOTT, b. at Pomfret, 17 Jul 1766; d. at Milford, NH, 1 Sep 1831; m. 15 Oct 1793, RUTH AMES, b. at Wilmington, MA, 31 Jul 1776 daughter of Caleb and Mary (Harvey) Ames/Eams; Ruth d. at Milford, 29 Jul 1844.

vii ESTHER ABBOTT, b. at Pomfret, 28 Jun 1768.

viii FIDELIA ABBOTT, b. at Princeton, 29 May 1770.

ix OLIVE ABBOTT, b. at Princeton, 28 Oct 1772. It is possible that she married Isaac Parker 6 Feb 1794 at Amherst. The Olive Abbott that married Isaac was of Milford and she died 2 Jan 1862 at age 89 which fits for this Olive. Isaac Parker was b. at Monson, NH, 2 Mar 1769 son of Josiah and Hannah (Parkis) Parker.

x DOROTHY ABBOTT, b. at Princeton, 10 Sep 1774; d. at Milford, 16 Aug 1802.

xi DEBORAH ABBOTT, b. at Princeton, 10 Sep 1774; d. at Milford, 22 May 1806.

xii STEPHEN ABBOTT, b. 1778; d. at Milford, 9 Jul 1792.

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74V-QLQ : 7 January 2020), Isaac Abbott, 1732.
2. ↑ 1800 is the year of death used by the Daughters of the American Revolution and in Ramsdell’s History of Milford, volume 1.
3. ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP7N-JVV6 : 15 April 2022), Isaac Abbott in entry for Mary Barker, ; citing Marriage, Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, United States, Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 004145783.
4. ↑ "New Hampshire Births and Christenings, 1714-1904", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDNP-8V9 : 18 January 2020), Mary Barker, 1735.
5. ↑ Mary's father died when she was 6 years old and her mother Martha married Jacob Goodale and settled in Pomfret.
6. ↑ Blake, The History of Princeton, p 81
7. ↑ Ramsdell, The History of Milford, volume 1, p 560
8. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 31 Jan 2021), "Record of Issac Abbot", Ancestor # A000109.

Reference List

• Blake, Francis E. 1915. History of the Town of Princeton in the County of Worcester and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Princeton, MA: Published by the town.

• Ramsdell, George Allen, and William P. Colburn. 1901. The History of Milford, Volume 1. Milford, NH: Rumford Press.