Daniel
Abbott
Born before in England
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Mary (Unknown) Abbott
— married
about 1628 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Mary (Abbott) Walling and Daniel Abbott
Died
after age 37
in Providence Plantations
Profile last modified
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| Daniel Abbott migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 1, p. 1) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm |
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Disputed Origins
The Great Migration project determined the origins of Daniel Abbott to be unknown. The 1906 genealogy Descendants of George Abbott of Rowley, Mass... had reproduced (on Vol. II, page 974) an English pedigree for Daniel Abbott contributed by John Thomas Abbott of Darlington, England, and William F. Abbott of Worcester, Massachusetts.[1] In that pedigree, Daniel was identified as a son of Thomas Abbott of Bildestone, Suffolk, England. In The Great Migration Begins, Anderson rejected that pedigree, stating "The proposed English origin and ancestry of Daniel Abbott set forth in Descendants of George Abbott of Rowley, Mass... has no documentary basis and should be ignored."[2]
In addition, a transcription of the 1618 will of Thomas Abbott (purported father of the immigrant) reveals that there was no mention of the baptized son Daniel, strongly implying that the baptized son died by 1618 and therefore was not the later immigrant.[3]
Biography
Daniel Abbott was born before 1610, based upon when he was made freeman and the approximate date of his marriage.[4]
He came to America in 1630[5] aboard one of the eleven ships in the Winthrop Fleet, made up of the Arabella, Ambrose, Jewel, Talbot, Charles, Mayflower, William & Francis, Hopewell, Whale, Success and Trial. The fleet departed from London on 8 Apr. 1630 and arrived in Charleston and Salem harbors in Massachusetts between 26 May 1630 and 10 June 1630.
Daniel requested freeman status in the Massachusetts Bay colony on 19 October 1630, and was admitted freeman 18 May 1631 at which time he was also fined 5 shillings for refusing to serve watch, and for other ill behavior showed towards Captain Patrick.[6]
His wife was named Mary. The date of their marriage is uncertain, but they were likely married by by 1630.[7]
He initially resided in Cambridge (where he was granted three acres behind Pine Swamp in 1634/5),[8] but removed to the Providence Plantation colony in Rhode Island, possibly as early as 1636 (the last record of him in Cambridge) and by no later than 4 June 1639, when the Massachusetts Bay court records note that "Daniell Abbot is departed to New Providence."[9]
His wife Mary died in Providence in about 1643, and Daniel died a few years later in 1647.[10]
Children
Children of Daniel and Mary Abbott include:[11]
- Mary, b say 1631; m btw 22 Jan 1650/1 and 28 Jul 1651 Thomas Walling; d. Providence 1669, after which her widower married 19 Jun 1669 Margaret, late wife of Robert Colwell.
- Daniel, b say 1635; m in Providence 25 Dec 1678 Margaret, widow of Thomas Walling (whose first wife was sister Mary)
Sources
- ↑ Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Descendants of George Abbott, of Rowley, Mass., of his joint descendants with George Abbott, Sr. of Andover, Mass., of the Descendants of Daniel Abbott of Providence, R.I., [etc.], (Boston: self-published, 1906), 2:974.
- ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 1:3 ["GMB: 1620-1633"]. AmericanAncestors (subscription)
- ↑ Bernard Quinlan, compiler, "Wills and Administrations of Chelsworth," undated typescript; contained in "Summary of Wills," Chelsworth History-Archives, Wills, (https://chelsworth.org.uk/village/history/archivesnav/wills.html : accessed 13 Jan 2021), will of Thomas Abbott 1618.
- ↑ GMB: 1620-1633, at 1:2.
- ↑ GMB: 1620-1633, at 1:1.
- ↑ GMB: 1620-1633, at 1:3; citing Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 5 vols. (Boston: Press of William White, 1853-54), 1:80, 1:87, & 1:366; image copy, Hathitrust, (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006784513 : accessed 13 Jan 2021) ["MBCR"].
- ↑ GMB: 1620-1633, at 1:2.
- ↑ The Records of the Town of Cambridge (formerly Newtowne) Massachusetts, 1630-1703, (Cambridge, Mass., 1901), 11.
- ↑ MBCR, at 1:267. See also GMB: 1620-1633, at 1:1.
- ↑ Horatio Rogers, et al., The Early Records of the Town of Providence, 21 vols., (Providence, RI: Snow & Farnham City Printers, 1892-1915), 5:203; image copy, Hathitrust, (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008651161 : accessed 4 Jan 2021). As Anderson notes, these "Enroulments of Burialls" in the Providence town records were prepared no earlier than 1680, so these dates may be estimates. See GMB: 1620-1633, at 1:2.
- ↑ GMB: 1620-1633, at 1:3.
See also:
- Arnold, James Newell. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850. 21 volumes. Providence, RI: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1891-1912.
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The pedigree Anderson refers to is here: https://archive.org/details/descendantsofgeo02abbo/page/974/mode/2up Some and perhaps most of that pedigree may lack documentation, but the first step in it -- showing Daniel Abbott as born in Bildestone in 1584, the son of Thomas Abbott -- is consistent with the entry for "Daniell Abbott" in the Ancestry database "England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980" (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1351/) , citing the "British Isles - Vital Records Index," an index of baptismal and marriage from the British Isles that is apparently only available on CD-ROM at FHL and in a repository in the UK (see: https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/742262, and https://www.worldcat.org/title/vital-records-index-british-isles/oclc/866546943). I've only accessed the online Ancestry database at this point, but at least that online database states that the original church record indexed shows a Daniell Abbott, baptized in Bildeston, Suffolk, England on 7 Jun 1584, the son of Thomas Abbott and his wife Rebecca. It Is possible that this is not the same Daniel Abbot who emigrated to America in 1630, but the ages and names are certainly consistent and that region was the origin of many PGM migrants. That seems to me like at least one piece of documentary evidence for the first step of the pedigree published in Abbott's book, contrary to Anderson's claim. Unless I am missing something, it seems like this is a reasonable basis for tentatively concluding that Thomas and Rebecca Abbott are likely to be the parents of the Daniel Abbott who emigrated to America in 1630, and that Daniel was born in Bidleston in about June 1584, consistent with the Abbott pedigree and notwithstanding Anderson's statement to the contrary. At a minimum, it seems like it is enough to justify adding the parents to his profile, noting that the connection is still "Uncertain" while we try to verify that these two Daniel Abbots are in fact the same person. Is this evidence something that the collaborators on this profile have already run to ground and rejected for some reason?
may merge latter think James Wallen was married a few times