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Abbe-Abbey Genealogy, In Memory of John Abbe and His Descendants on page 191 & 192 states: 361. JOHN SIMONS (6) ABBE, son of John (5), 3d, and Charity (Simons) Abbe, born in East Enfield, Conn., September 11, 1765; died July 19, 1847. He sold his lands in Enfield and removed to East Windsor in 1805 and opened a hotel called Abbe's Tavern on the banks of the Connecticut River near the ferry at Warehouse Point. Several of the family had earlier kept taverns in Enfield. He was the first man at Warehouse Point to tolerate Methodist preachers. He could never accept Calvinism and opened his house for the meetings of the Methodists and became a member of their organization. He was a prominent Jeffersonian Democrat and a member of the Masonic lodge.
Married in Somers, Conn., November 25, 1789, HANNAH BILLING (Billings in Family Bible), born April 10, 1775; died November 6, 1839. She was daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Bradley) Billing of Somers. She was for forty years a member of the Congregational Church at Scantic Parish, East Windsor.
Children, births and children's deaths recorded in Enfield, dates given as in the Family Bible:
Hannah Abbe, b. July 22, 1791; d. Oct. 4, 1855. She did not marry and was a member of the Immersion Baptist Church.
Harriet Abbe, b. Aug. 19, 1793; d. Aug. 30, 1865; unm. She was a teacher in Richmond, Va., and removed to Lebanon, Wilson County, Tenn., where she with her sisters Sophronia and Asenath Ann, established a noted ladies' seminary which was chartered as the "Abbe Institute." After her sisters' death, she removed to Mount Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa, and made a home for her adopted son, Andrew Abbe Rutland, son of her sister Asenath Ann.
615 Alanson Abbe, b. Jan. 17, 1795; m. (1) Eliza Woodruff Barnes; (2) Hepsah Burgess; (3) Margaret Livingston Douw.
Lorinda Abbe, b. March 22, 1797; d. Feb. 15, 1804.
Charity Abbe, b. March 28, 1799; d. Feb. 26, 1805.
Hezekiah Abbe, b. Feb. 14, 1801; d. Feb. 12, 1804.
Rensalaer (or VanRensselaer) Billings Abbe, b. March 9, 1803; d. Feb. 16, 1804.
616 John Billings Abbe, b. June 4, 1805; m. (1) Abigail Harriet Kingsbury; (2) Maria Halin; (3) Mrs. Nancy Miller.
Loretta (Lority) Abbe, b. March 11, 1809; d. Aug. 27, 1818.
617 Sophronia Abbe, b. Jan. 20, 1811; m. Myron Kilbourn.
James Madison Abbe, b. Nov. 11, 1812; d. Feb. 1, 1841. After a business failure he was traveling in the South and was murdered in Georgia or Louisiana. Married Adeline Westfall of Albany, N. Y. No children.
Ann Asenath Abbe, b. Aug. 1, 1815; d. April 21, 1847 (or May 6, 1849, Family Bible). Married in Tennessee about 1840, James B. Rutland who was for several years clerk of the court at Lebanon, Wilson County, Tenn. Children: i. Lelia, d. before 1847; ii. Fella, d. before 1847; iii. Andrew Abbe, b. April, 1847 (?), m. and lived in California. He was adopted by his aunt, Harriet Abbe.
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