Abraham Wesson (1738 - 1800)

Born 29 Oct 1738 in Concord, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Husband of Abigail (Allen) Wesson — married 2 Feb 1764 in Lincoln, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died Jun 1800 at age 61 in Livermore, Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Birth

Abraham Wesson was born at Concord, Massachusetts, on 29 Oct 1738, the son of Timothy and Abigail Wesson.^[1]

Marriage

Abraham Wesson married Abigail Alline at Lincoln, Massachusetts, on 2 Feb 1764.^[2]

Death

Abraham Wesson died at Livermore, Maine (then in Massachusetts) in June 1800. Based on the descriptions of his daughters and their spouses in the 1874 history of Livermore, he is undoubtedly the "Mr. Weston" whose death was described in an 1873 memoir by a Thomas Chase. According to this memoir, Mr. Weston had a farm on the east side of the Androscoggin River about a mile below the Livermore Falls, and he was killed along with another man, Eliphelet Rowell, by a tree thet fell the wrong way during a "falling bee."^[3] Eliphelet Rowell's gravestone gives his date of death as June 1800.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Concord, Massachusetts, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850, (Concord, Mass., n. d.) [https://archive.org/details/concordmassachus00conc/page/148/mode/2up page 148
2. ↑ Vital Records of Lincoln, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, 1908), page 141
3. ↑ Israel Washburn, Notes, Historical, Descriptive, and Personal of Livermore, in Androscoggin (Formerly in Oxford) County, Maine (Portland, Me., 1874), page 112
4. ↑ Photo of gravestone of Eliphelet Rowell (Find A Grave: Memorial #176397672)