John Abbott (1669 - 1719)

Born 1669 in Berwick, Maine

Ancestors

Husband of Martha (Lord) Littlefield — married 22 Jan 1716 in Berwick, Maine

Descendants

Died 23 Jul 1719 at about age 50 in Berwick, Maine

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Biography

John was born in 1669. He is the son of Thomas Abbott and Elizabeth Green. He passed away in 1719. ^[1]

'(III) John, son of Ensign Thomas Abbott, was born about I670, in Berwick, York county, Maine. He was a weaver by trade, and lived in Berwick. He was constable there I710, and grand-juryman I 714. May 24, I699, he was granted about fifty acres of land by the town in that part of Kittery which is now Berwick. He sold twenty acres, inherited from his father.

He married (first) January 3, 1694, Abigail, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah Nason.^[2]

He married (second) January 22, 1716-17, Martha Littlefield. His widow Martha bought an acre and a half of land in Berwick, October 14, 1719, which was probably not long after his death. She was the administratrix of his estate, of which the inventory was three hundred and fifty-three pounds, four shillings, five pence. She received the personal estate, a third in his Quamphegan sawmill, and a third interest his Quamphegan sawmill, and a thi_rd interin one hundred acres of land on Rocky Hill, Berwick, a third of the homestead farm, the property after her death to be equally divided among his children. This division was made May I3, I720. Children, born in Berwick: 1. Abigail, June 12, 1696. 2. Samuel, March, 1699. 3. Jonathan, February 21, 1701-o2. 4. Moses, September I, I704, mentioned below. 5. Elizabeth. 6. Sarah. 7. Aaron 8. Joshua.

(IV) Moses, son of John Abbott, was born September I, 1704, in Berwick. He is credited with the following colonial service: private, thirty-one weeks, six days, Captain \Villiam Gerrish’s company, scouting between Lebanon and Saco river, March 5 to November I, I756; private, thirtyeight weeks, five days, Captain Humphrey Chadburn’s company, March 5 to November 3o, 1760, fourteen days billeting home.

(V) Moses (2), son of Moses (1) Abbott. was born about I740 in or near Berwick. He is called Jr. when serving in Captain Ichabod Goodwin's company in the French war, April I2, I758. In the census of 1790 Moses Abbott, of Shapleigh, had in his family two males over sixteen and one female. There were also at Shapleigh, Moses Jr. with two males over sixteen and one under that age and four females; Jonathan with onemale over sixteen, five under that age and three females; also Samuel with one male over sixteen, two under that age and three females. .

(VI) Moses (3), son of Moses (2) Abbott, was a soldier in the revolution, a corporal in Captain Daniel Sullivan’s company, Colonel Benjamin Foster’s regiment, in I777, at the Machias alarm; also in 1780 in gie force called out to protect Frenchman’s Bay. . Page 381 [Northern New York]

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Toby Rockwell, Nov 1, 2012
2. ↑ York County, Maine Probate Records, No. 1, 1687-1707, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89JS-L9ZH-V  : 7 April 2021), FHL microfilm 007600380, image 114.

• Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Volume 1 page 329
• Genealogical and Family History of Northern New York: A Record of ..., Volume 1 By William Richard Cutter
• Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Portland, Me., 1928-1939), page 57
• Joseph Crook Anderson II, "Eleven Thomas Abbotts of Berwick, Maine, and Vicinity," The American Genealogist, volume 70 (1995), page 88 (subscription required)
• Marriage to Martha: John Eldridge Frost and Joseph Crook Anderson II, eds., Vital Records of Berwick, South Berwick and North Berwick, Maine, To The Year 1892 (Camden, Me., 1993), page 111