Abel Gunn (bef. 1643 - 1688)

Born before 19 Jun 1643 in Milford, New Haven Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Smith) Davis — married 29 Oct 1666 in New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Died 19 Mar 1688 after age 44 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Doctor Abel GUNN ^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]} was born ^[20] Jun 1643 and was christened ^[21] 19 Jun 1643 in Milford, New Haven Colony. He died ^[22][23] 1688 in Derby, New Haven, CT. Abel married ^[24] Mary SMITH on 29 Oct 1666.

His will is dated 19 May 1689 and recorde in New Haven.^[25]

Sources

1. ↑ Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, p. 4. . http://www.oxfordpast.com/hp4.htm.
2. ↑ Baldwin, Charles Candee, The Candee Genealogy : with notices of allied families of Allyn, Catlin, Cooke, Mallery, Newell, Norton, Pynchon, and Wadsworth (Cleveland, Ohio, Leader Printing Company, 1882), p. 86.
3. ↑ Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), p. 299. . Indian Deed - 1687 http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/299.html.
4. ↑ Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901.), 4,. . "1667 ... 1670 ... 1678 ... Pagasett ..." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/004.html.
5. ↑ Colonial Connecticut Records, 1636 - 1776 (http://www.colonialct.uconn.edu/). "Presented for Freemen... Milford: Samuel Burwell, Benjamin Fenn, john Plumbe, Samuel Nuton, Josi: Baldwin, Samuel Baldwin, Samuel Samford, Jos: Hawkins, Abel Gunn, Ephraim Smith, Sameul Clark, Georg Clarke." 13 May 1669.
6. ↑ Phillips, Derby Town Records, p. 6. "Work Done upon the generall Account in the yeare 1667... .. francis french... Samuel Riggs... Abell Gunn..." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/006.html.
7. ↑ Phillips, Derby Town Records, p. 6. "work Don upon the generall account: 1670.. fran: french ... Sam: Rigges... Ephraim: Smith... Abell Gunn..." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/006.html.
8. ↑ Phillips, Derby Town Records, p. 7. "... ere mark for cattle.." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/007.html.
9. ↑ Phillips, Derby Town Records, pp. 8 - 9. "Pagaset inhabetants mett to gether and have made an agreement... rhis agreement was meade this : 4 : feb : 1667 John Brown frances french Samuell Riges Ephraim Smith Abell Gun Josiph hakins Edward woster." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/008.html.
10. ↑ Phillips, Derby Town Records, p. 9. "March : 15 : 16670 The in habetants of Pagaset are as foloeth : Ed: woster: frances french: Joseph Hawkins: Samuell Riges: Ephraim Smith Abell Gun: Stephen person Jerymiah Johnson." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/009.html.
11. ↑ Phillips, Derby Town Records, pp. 17 - 22. 29 Feb 1671 - Division of land at Paugasett. http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/017.html.
12. ↑ Phillips, Derby Town Records, p. 23. 11 Apr 1672 - Pagasett http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/023.html.
13. ↑ Phillips, Derby Town Records, p. 32. "Decem : 20 : 1677 : at atown meting at Derby the town hath Chosen jer : Johnson cunstable for the were inSueing : & Samuell Riggs Ebenezer Johnson & John hulls Towns men for we were inSueing : & Abell Gun Recorder." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/032.html.
14. ↑ W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), pp. 88 - 89. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. "... this sixt day of Agust in ye year of our lord christ one thousand Six hundred eighty and Seaven... Between cockapatouce: John banks: Jack chebrook... indians propriewtars of wesquantack & puttatuck... Ebenezer johnson edward woster & Abell Gunn agents for the town of derby.. to be paid att MR. Nicoles Campes att Milford... sold to the sd lieut eb: Johnson, ed: Woster & Abell gunn together with the inhabetants of Derby propietors with them: one percell of land being & liing in the great Neck: at Derb: Bounded on the South east with the four mile Brook & another littel Brook that fals into the littel River & Bounded North & North east with the little river that Runs into the nagatuck River: & Bounded north west & west with the eight mile Brook: & Bounded west & South west with the west channill of the puttatack River, & woodbury path from the six mile Brook to the four mile Brook: ... Signed b Cockapatouce John Banks, Joshua Lee, John Sristen, Jack..." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/089.html.
15. ↑ Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 410.
16. ↑ Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five., New Haven, The Price & Lee Company, 1896, p. 362.
17. ↑ William Cothren, History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), p. 53.
18. ↑ W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 84. " ... 1680 ... it had become necessary to establish the town bounds between Derby and Waterbury and on May 18th of that year the Plantations of Derby and Mattatuck appointed a committee to set the bounds. The latter appointed Wm. Judd, Thomas Judd and John Stanley, Jr., and Derby appointed Joseph Hawkins and Abel Gunn." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/084.html.
19. ↑ Phillips, Derby Town Records, p. 43. "ABell Gun his Book 1675 May 30." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/043.html.
20. ↑ Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of CT Families, vol 3, p 410.
21. ↑ Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), p. 318.
22. ↑ Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of CT Families, vol 3, p 410.
23. ↑ Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 318.
24. ↑ Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 318.
25. ↑ “New Haven Probate Records, Vol. 1-2, 1647-1703”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-G9ND-G  : 11 March 2021), New Haven, Connecticut, FHL microfilm 007626739, image 257. New Haven Probate Record, 1668-1703, Vol. 2, Part 1, page 2.

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