Abel Plummer (1765 - 1841)

Born 2 Mar 1765 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Province

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Biography

Abel Plumer/Plummer was born 2 Mar 1765 and baptized 10 March 1765 in Rowley, Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[1] He was the son of Abel Plummer and Mary Early. He married, first, Elizabeth Hale. She was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and died Nov. 16, 1806, aged thirty-four. He married, second, Mary Anderson of Londonderry, N. H., Sept. 8, 1824 ; and she died Feb. 21, 1832, at the age of forty-five. Capt. Plumer died Nov. 3, 1841, aged seventy-six.

Children by first wife:

1. Persis Plumer, born 28 Aug 1796 at Londonderry NH; married David Tenney
2. Arley Plumer, born 20 Jan 1798 at Londonderry NH
3. Abigail Plumer, born 28 April 1799 at Londonderry NH; m. Jeroboam Howe (see)
4. Eliza Plumer born Sep 1800 at Londonderry NH; m. Joseph Colburn
5. Warren Plumer, born 6 June 1802 at Londonderry NH; m. Amina Stetson
6. Abel Plumer, born 4 June 1804 at Londonderry NH; m. Sophia Sargent
7. Joshua Hale Plumer born Oct 1806 at Londonderry NH; m. Eliza Davis

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZKL-GVZ : 15 January 2020), Abel Plumer, 1765.

• Birth. "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZKL-GVZ : 15 January 2020), Abel Plumer, 1765.
• The Plumer Genealogy: Francis Plumer, Who Settled at Newbury, Massachusetts, and Some of His Descendants by Sidney Perley. 1917. At Internet Archive. Page 136 (https://archive.org/details/plumergenealogyf00perl/page/136/mode/2up?view=theater&q=Abel)
• George Brained Blodgette and Amos Everett Jewett. Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts. 1933. Reprinted by the New England History Press, Somersworth, New Hampshire. 1981. Page 314. Also available at: [1]