Joseph Abbott (1744 - 1792)

Born 2 Apr 1744 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Barker) Abbott — married 1763 (to 1790) in Wilton, Hillsborough, New Hampshire

Descendants

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Biography

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Lieutenant Joseph Abbott served with 27th Massachusetts Bay Provincial Regiment (1775), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Joseph Abbott is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A000139.

Joseph Abbott was born in Andover on 2 April 1744. He was the son of Joseph Abbot and Deborah Blanchard.^[1]

He was a farmer and lived in Andover, Massachusetts, as well as Wilton and Packersfield, (now Nelson), New Hampshire.^[2] At the time of the American Revolution he resided in Wilton.^[3][4]

Joseph became a Sergeant in Captain Nathan Ballard's Company, mustering out of Wilton. The company was ordered to march to Ticonderoga, New York on 29 June 1777. They first arrived at Fort No. 4 in Charlestown at which point they were ordered home, making it all the way to Dublin, New Hampshire, before being ordered to march post haste to Fort Ticonderoga. Upon reaching Otter Creek, word was received of the evacuation of Ticonderoga. His enlistment in the war at this time encompassed the days between June 20 and July 12, 1777.^[4]

The records of the town of Packersfield, (now Nelson), New Hampshire, show that he came to the town sometime within the next ten years, and built his home in the northern part of town. He would become the Town Moderator for town meetings in 1787 and for many years after.^[4]

He married Mary Barker^[5] and died of cancer in 1792.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ "Vital Records of Andover, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 Topsfield Historical Society, Topsfield, Mass., 1912 (https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofan01ando_0/page/30/)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} The Essex Antiquarian: An Illustrated ... Magazine Devoted to the Biography, Genealogy, History and Antiquities of Essex County, Massachusetts, Volume 1 (https://archive.org/details/essexantiquarian00sale/page/n227/)
3. ↑ "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War. Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, published in 1896 (https://archive.org/details/masssoldiers01bostrich/page/11/mode/1up)
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} "Celebration by the town of Nelson", by the Nelson picnic association, Nelson, N.H. [from old catalog]; Griffin, Simon Goodell, 1824-1902. [from old catalog]; Tolman, Ebenezer, 1748-1838. [from old catalog]. Publication date 1917 (https://archive.org/details/celebrationbytow00nels/page/n41/)
5. ↑ Ezra Stearns, "History of Littleton, New Hampshire, Vol. III Genealogies" (Cambridge, MA: University Press, 1905), p. 4 (https://archive.org/details/historyoflittlet03jack/page/4/)

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 2022-09-12), "Record of Joseph Abbott", Ancestor # A000139.

• Heitman, Francis Bernard. Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution (W.H. Lowdermilk & Co., Washington, DC, 1893); p. 62