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and two females. 3. Samuel, whose son John L. and daughter Mrs. Alonzo Miller lived in Tolland. 4. Dudley, mentioned below. 5. Gaius. 6. Hannah. 7. Mary.
(IV) Dudley, son of Perez Marshall, was born in Simsbury and came to Granville (Tol- land) about 1782. He married Chil- dren: I. Lyman, settled in Wellington, Ohio; married Orpha Huff and had two sons and one daughter. 2. Alonzo, mentioned below. 3. Gaius, settled in Colebrook, Connecticut, and had three sons. 4. Eunice, married George Cowles and settled in Wellington, Ohio; had one son and one daughter.
(V) Alonzo, son of Dudley Marshall, was born about 1800 at Colebrook, Connecticut, and died at Tolland, Massachusetts. He mar- ried Phebe Smith, born at Colebrook, died at Tolland. Children : 1. Dwight L. 2. Charles N. 3. Roswell S. 4. Sarah E. 5. Miles W., born February, 1842, mentioned below. 6. Georgie M.
(VI) Miles W., son of Alonzo Marshall, was born February, 1842, at Colebrook, Con- necticut. He was educated in the public schools of Tolland. He learned the meat and provi- sion business and in 1870 embarked in business on his own account in Westfield, Massachu- setts. For a short time before he conducted a farm, but sold out when he came to West- field. Since 1880 he has been in the ranch business and raised horses and cattle. He has bought and sold several ranches and has been successful in this line of business. He is a Methodist in religion and a Democrat in poli- tics. He married, 1864, Marion Browning Knox, born at Westfield, daughter of Abijah Babcock and Artemisia Desdemona (Catlin) Knox. Her father was born in 1804 at Bland- ford, Massachusetts, died in September, 1876, at Westfield; married Artemisia Desdemona Catlin, born 1806, at Harwinton, Connecticut, and died September 7, 1892, at Westfield ; their children : i. Marion Knox; ii. Lorenzo A. Knox, died in 1899 in Mexico, married Lizzie B. Ide and had Edith, Dorothy and Marion ; iii. Irving Catlin Knox, died April 12, 1908, at Westfield, married Josephine Foley; iv. Marion B., mentioned above. Eli Knox, father of Abijah Babcock Knox, was of an early Scotch-Irish family of Blandford; married Abigail Babcock ; children: i. Eli Knox, Jr., had Eli, Spencer, Abigail, Martha, Emma and Howard Knox ; ii. Abijah B. Knox, mentioned above ; iii. Samnel, had Watson Eli, Waldo Samuel and Wallace Knox. Child of Miles W. and Marion Browning ( Knox) Marshall :
Allan, born July 16, 1865, educated in the Westfield schools and graduated at University of Minnesota; now a teacher in the schools of the West Indies; married Florence Edith Crossley, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Septem- ber 10, 1908.
The name Abbot is derived through ABBOTT the Syriac abba, from the Hebrew ab, meaning father. It has been applied to the head of a religious order by vari- ous peoples from the earliest times and finally became an English surname. There always has been a difference of opinion in respect to the proper spelling of the patronymic, some author- ities contending for the use of but one t, while others use two. Many persons have held that the single letter indicates the ancient and correct form, although careful investigation seems to incline to the opposite theory, for of two hundred and eleven Abbotts whose wills were filed in and about London in the probate courts during the fourteenth, fifteenth and six- teenth centuries one hundred and ninety-five show the use of two t's. In this connection it is proper to mention that Major Lemuel Abbott, United States army, who recently has written a most valuable work on the descendants of George Abbott, of Rowley, finds the same pro- portion among the signatures of the early Amer- ican Abbotts, although he says frankly that he prefers the single t, and always supposed that to be the original and correct form of spelling the name. The ancient English branch of the family lived in Yorkshire, and its arms were a shield ermine with a pale gules on which are three pears or. Above the shield is a closed helmet and the crest is a dove bearing an olive branch in its mouth. The Guilford branch in Surrey, which is said to contain the most dis- tinguished members of the family, has arms on which three pears are prominent, and are varied by the insignia of the bishop's office. The Guil- ford Abbotts present a remarkable record. Maurice Abbott was a rich cloth worker in town during the sixteenth century, and his wife was Alice Marsh, or March. They were staunch Protestants and people of undoubted respect- ability, but their own condition gave little indi- cation of the eminence to which three of their sons would attain. They all were contempor- aries of Shakespeare, and their talents were of the kind brought out by "the spacious times of great Elizabeth." Robert Abbott, eldest of the six sons, became bishop of Salisbury ; George. the second son ( 1562-1633), became lord arch- bishop of Canterbury, which office gave him
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the rank of the first citizen of England; and Morris, the youngest, became a knight, gov- ernor of the East India Company and lord mayor of London. Of the English Abbotts in more recent times, mention may be made of Charles Abbott, son of John Abbott, of Canter- bury, who was made lord chief justice of Eng- land, 1818, and Baron Tenterden, 1827. Another Charles Abbot, son of Rev. John Abbot, of Colchester, was speaker of the house of com- mons from 1802 to 1817, when he became Baron Colchester. The Abbott family of America has not produced men of world-wide fame, but according to Major Abbott, genealogist, the name always has stood for "quiet dignity, con- sideration, kindness of heart and great suavity of manner." Many of them have been farmers, others who are writers, clergymen, professors and educators.
(I) George Abbot, the venerable ancestor of a numerous family of sons and daughters, and of a vastly more numerous line of descendants on this side of the Atlantic ocean, is believed to have come from Yorkshire, England, about the year 1640, and was one of the first settlers of Andover, Massachusetts, in 1643, and one of the proprietors of that town. He lived and died on a farm which in 1847 was owned by John Abbot, one of his descendants of the seventh generation. During the period of Indian troubles his house was a garrison and was used as such many years after the death of the immigrant. In 1647 he married Hannah, daugh- ter of William and Anne Chandler ; and George Abbot and his wife were both industrious, frugal and of pious mind. He died December 24, 1681, and his widow married a second hus- band, Rev. Francis Dane, minister of Andover. She died June II, 1711, aged eighty-two years. George and Hannah (Chandler) Abbot had thirteen children, all born in Andover : I. John, March 2, 1648. 2. Joseph, March II, 1649. 3. Hannah, June 9, 1650. 4. Joseph, March 30, 1652, said to have been the first person in Andover who fell a victim of Indian murder. 5. George, June 7, 1655, died February 27, 1736. 6. Will- iam, November 18, 1657, died October 24, 1713. 7. Sarah, November 14, 1659, died June 28, 17II. 8. Benjamin, December 20, 1661, died March 30, 1703. 9. Timothy, November 17, 1663, died September 9, 1730. 10. Thomas, May 6, 1666, died April 28, 1728. II. Edward, died young, drowned. 12. Nathaniel, July 4, 1671, died 1749. 13. Elizabeth, February 9, 1673, died May 4, 1750.
(II) Deacon John, eldest child of George and Hannah (Chandler ) Abbot, was born in
Andover, Massachusetts, March 2, 1648, and died there March 19, 1721. He lived with his father in the garrison house, and is said to have been a man of judgment and executive ability. He was employed much of the time in business for the town, and served as selectman and representative to the general court. When the church was organized in the south parish of Andover, in 1711, he was chosen deacon, and Mr. Phillips mentions that "he used the office well." Both he and his wife were much re- spected for uprightness and piety. Deacon Abbot married, November 17, 1673, Sarah, daughter of Richard Barker, one of the first settlers in Andover. She was born in 1647 and died February 10, 1729. They had nine children, all born in Andover: 1. John, No- vember 2, 1674, died January 1, 1754. 2. Joseph, December 29, 1676, died January 9, 1757. 3. Stephen, March 16, 1678, died May 27, 1766. 4. Sarah, December 7, 1680, died March 6, 1754 ; married, 1707, Zebadiah Chand- ler. 5. Ephraim, August 16, 1682. 6. Joshua, June 16, 1685, died February 11, 1769. 7. Mary, January 2, 1687, died December 2, 1688. 8. Ebenezer, September 27, 1689, died January 14, 1761. 9. Priscilla, July 7, 1691, died May 24, 1791.
(III) Ephraim, son of Deacon John and Sarah ( Barker) Abbot, was born in Andover, Massachusetts, August 16, 1682, and died there June 8, 1748. He was a farmer and spent his life in the town in which he was born. He married, January 6, 1715, widow Sarah Hunt, of Billerica, who survived him and married for her third husband, August 1, 1749, John Dane. Ephraim and Sarah (Hunt) Abbot had eleven children, all born in Andover : I. Sarah, March 8, 1716, married, September 8, 1736, Samuel Gray, of Amherst, New Hampshire. 2. Eph- raim, July 22, 1718, farmer of Amherst, New Hampshire, and of Andover ; married (first) Mary Abbott, (second) Hannah Kneeland. 3. Mary, July 9, 1720, married, May II. 1743, Robert Read, of Litchfield. 4. Joshua, October I, 1722, lived in Amherst, New Hampshire ; married, November 20, 1749, Phebe Ingalls. 5. Daniel, September 14, 1724, a blacksmith by trade and lived in Andover ; married, May 21, 1752, Widow Lydia Henfield. 6. Elizabeth, June 29, 1726, married Asa Abbot. 7. Josiah. September 26, 1728, a farmer and lived in Lyndborough, New Hampshire ; married Han- nah Hobbs. 8. Ebenezer, February 20, 1731. 9. Martha, March 31, 1733, died April 24, 1733. IO. Peter, May 8, 1734, died April 18, 1774; lived in Kingston, New Hampshire ; married,
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September 22, 1757, Widow Elizabeth Damon, of Reading, Massachusetts. II. Martha, July 13, 1737, married Archelaus Towne, of Mil- ford, New Hampshire.
(IV) Ebenezer Abbott, son of Ephraim and Sarah (Hunt) Abbot, was born in Andover, February 20, 1731, died there December 19, 1771. He was a cordwainer by trade. He married, January 1, 1752, Lydia Farrington, who survived him and was still living in 1776. They had seven children, born in Andover : I. Hannah, January 27, 1753, died July 24, 1816; married. September 18, 1777, Abijah Clark. 2. Lydia, June 18, 1754, married, De- cember 26, 1773, Peter Towne. 3. Ebenezer, January 15, 1757. 4. Ephraim, March 19, 1759, married (intentions October 26, 1781) Esther Eastman, of Conway. Maine. 5. Jethro, April 18, 1761, died May 2, 1764. 6. Theodore, September 10, 1763, died May 14, 1764. 7. Sarah, December 7, 1765, married, December 28, 1784. David Stevens.
(V) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (I) and Ldyia (Farrington) Abbott, was born in Andover, January 15, 1757, died in 1803. He was a cordwainer and lived in the north parish of Reading. He married, January 20, 1783, Sarah Graves, by whom he had six children, all probably born in Reading: I. Ebenezer, March 11, 1784. 2. Ephraim, 1786. 3. Sally, 1788, died young. 4. Eliab, 1790, died in ser- vice during the war of 1812-15. 5. Sally, 1792. 6. Daniel, 1794. 7. Lydia, 1796. 8. Nabby, 1799. 9. Joshua, 1801.
(VI) Ebenezer (3), son of Ebenezer (2) and Sarah ( Graves ) Abbott, was born in Read- ing, Massachusetts, March 11, 1784, died in 1867. He was a soldier in the American army during the second war with the mother country. He married, in 1707, Betsey Swain, who died in 1852, having borne her husband ten children : I. Ebenezer T., North Reading, March 4, 1808, died November 9, 1888; married, February 19. 1835. Ruth Hewes, born May 16, 1816. 2. Sumner S .. June 9, 1809, died December 14, 1885; married, December 2, 1835, Elvina Symonds, born May 12, 1814, died May 13. 1883. 3. Betsey, October 11, 1810, died March 1, 1838; married, February 27, 1834, William Walls. 4. Benjamin S., April 19, 1812, died in Francistown, New Hampshire, September 5, 1894; married (first ) Harriet Quigley, (sec- ond) Eunice Upton Richardson. 5. Joseph H., March 4, 1814. 6. Samuel E., April 9, 1816, died March 7, 1898; married ( first ) January 25, 1846, Abbie Stone, (second) November, 1856, Margaret Stone, (third) August 14, 1862,
Helen M. Bean, died January 7, 1907. 7. Sara G., April 7, 1818, married, June 12, 1835, War- ren Eaton, born February 5, 1810, died Febru- ary, 1895. 8. Frederick, April 19, 1820, died June 24, 1902; married, November 26, 1844, Martha Wright, died October 12, 1907. 9. William W., July 5, 1827, died October, 1827. IO. Daniel G., February 9, 1829, died May I, 1892 ; married, August 2, 1851, Anna U. Stone.
(VII) Joseph H., son of Ebenezer (3) and Betsey (Swain) Abbott, was born in North Reading, Massachusetts, March 4, 1814, died in Holyoke, August 24, 1899. He lived in North Reading, where his father was a cord- wainer and was carrying on the business of making shoes in a limited way and also engaged in farming. Joseph H. was brought up to the trade of his father and followed it during the greater part of his life, although he too did some farming. During the civil war he en- listed and made a good record as a soldier in a regiment of heavy artillery. In politics he was a firm Republican and in religious prefer- ence a Unitarian. Mr. Abbott married, May 14, 1837. Hepzibah F., daughter of William and Esther (Damon) Sawyer, and by whom he had six children, all born in North Read- ing: 1. Henry Stocker, March 8, 1838, died October 15, 1841. 2. Joseph Edwin, April 16, 1841, died in Bangor, Maine, September 19, 1857. 3. Harriet F., May 14, 1843, married (first ) November 17, 1863, Alexander Terry, who was drowned at sea, February 10, 1864; married ( second) John N. Davis. 4. William H., November 30, 1846. 5. Nathan P., Octo- ber 24. 1850, married, December 24, 1873, Parthenia E. Crosby. 6. Lydia Betsey, Janu- ary 26, 1853, married, May 22, 1872. Arthur A. Loomis.
(VIII) William Henry, son of Joseph H. and Hepzibah F. (Sawyer ) Abbott, was born near North Reading, Massachusetts, Novem- ber 30, 1846, and when about nine years old went to Ohio to live with the family of his uncle. U'ntil he was fourteen years old he was sent to the district school, working on his uncle's farm during vacation intervals. At the breaking out of the civil war he went from his uncle's home and applied for enlistment. This was in the summer of 1861, before he had at- tained his fifteenth birthday. Although quite large for his years he did not look to be eighteen and at the recruiting office the captain in com- mand asked if he was eighteen years old. His answer was that he did lack a little of it, and then was told, with a smile from the officer, that if he were not allowed to enlist he should
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have a chance to go as a waiter ; but when the company was organized he was accepted with- out further question. He was mustered as private in Company I. Twenty-ninth Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry, which command, after re-en- listment, became known as "Ohio Veteran Volunteers." Company I was perhaps one of the most shattered companies which ever enter- ed the service during the war from any state. At the battle of Port Republic, when through some misunderstanding twenty-five hundred Union men were left alone to fight thirty thous- and Confederate troops, and when the regi- ment (under cover of the main army, which had come up during the retreat ) stacked arms there were only thirteen men of the regiment present ; but during the following night a few stragglers came in to camp. Mr. Abbott was wounded in this engagement and for the next two months lay in the hospital at Alexandria ; and he was again wounded at the battle of North Edisto River. At Chancellorsville his regiment held its position to the very last and was last to leave the field. Among the many other important battles in which he took part there may be mentioned Shenandoah Valley, Gettysburg, Dug Gap (Georgia), Resaca ( Geor- gia ). New Hope Church, Pumpkin Vine Creek, Dallas (Georgia), Pine Knot, Kenesaw Moun- tain, Peachtree Creek, and still others might be added to the list. His was the first regiment in Savannah at the siege of that city, and it also took part in the siege of Atlanta. Mr. Abbott received his discharge as corporal, July 23, 1865, having served three years eight months ten days. He enjoys the pleasant distinction of having been the youngest man serving the longest time in the whole army. It may be said incidentally that only one officer returned with the Twenty-ninth Ohio who went out with it when it was mustered into service in 1861. At the end of the war Mr. Abbott re- turned to Northampton and with his uncle went into the business of manufacturing soap. After four years he removed to Holyoke and started in business as sole owner and proprietor, remaining in Holyoke until 1888, when his factory was removed to Smith's Ferry, where it still stands and he still is owner and operator, For many years he has been a prominent figure in business circles in Holyoke and is known as one of the progressive and public-spirited citi- zens of that constantly growing city. He is a Master Mason, member of Mt. Tom Lodge; past commander of Kilpatrick Post, No. 71, Grand Army of the Republic, having served five terms as commander, and now is senior
vice-commander ; member of the Sons of Vet- erans, and in politics is a Republican. Mr. Abbott married, April 20, 1869, Ella L., daugh- ter of Charles M. and Submit ( Walker) Ken- ney, and by whom he has eight children: I. Charles H., born January 29, 1870, married, March 31, 1891, Harriet Rowe, of Holyoke; children : Ruth E., April 12, 1892; Pearl I., April 20, 1894; William H., August 9, 1903. 2. Bernard F., March 24, 1872, married, June 6, 1897, Lillie Pickup ; child, Herold F., Janu- ary 19, 1900. 3. Wilbur, March 18, 1874, died August 9, 1874. 4. Annie Lee, February 18, 1876, married, May 21, 1902, Arthur E. Ben- nett. 5. May Pearl, May 29, 1880, married, January 7, 1903, Frank Todd ; child, Beatrice A., February 6, 1904. 6. Belle Clara, January 8, 1878, died October 5, 1878. 7. Bessie Ken- ney, July 1, 1883, married, January 24, 1906, Thomas Kirley ; child, Bessie E., September 6, 1907. 8. Fred Walker, April 15, 1886, mar- ried, January 3. 1907, Emily D. Vincent ; child, Charles H., September 30, 1907.
(For preceding generations see Edmund Frost 1). (III) Joseph, son of Deacon
FROST James Frost, was born March 21, 1682-3. He was living at Tewksbury on December 18, 1737. He mar- ried ( first) April 5, 1710, Sarah Flint, of Charlestown, daughter of John Flint ; ( second) December 8, 1718, Rebecca, daughter of James Frost. Children : 1. Joseph, born January 22, 17II-12 ; mentioned below. 2. Sarah, May 31. 1716. 3. Benjamin, March 6, 1717-8. 4. Eph- raim, June 9, 1721.
(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph ( I) Frost, was born January 22, 1711-2, and died Janu- ary 29, 1751. He resided in Tewksbury, Mass- achusetts. He married, October 25, 1731, Abi- gail Kittridge, daughter of Daniel. Children, born at Billerica and Tewksbury: 1. Abigail, March 6, 1733-4. 2. Mehitable, September 4, 1735 ; died January 24, 1736. 3. Joshua, April 3. 1737 ; soldier in the revolution. 4. Joseph, February 20, 1738; mentioned below. 5. Jon- athan, February 20, 1740. 6. Benjamin (twin), February 10, 1742. 7. Sarah (twin), February IO, 1742. 8. Mehitable, June 4, 1745. 9. Eliz- abeth (twin), August 16, 1747. 10. Daniel (twin), August 16, 1747. II. Abigail, April 30, 1749.
(V) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) Frost. was born in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, Febru- ary 20, 1738-9. He was a soldier in the revo- lution, in 1779, in Captain Truell's company, Colonel Brown's regiment (Seventh), age given
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as forty, height five feet ten inches. He was in the service at other times.
(VI) Joseph (4), son or nephew of Joseph (3) Frost, was born about 1770, probably in Tewksbury. In early life he settled in Charle- mont, Massachusetts, and was a prosperous farmer. He lived to the age of seventy years. He married and had five sons and two daugh- ters.
(VII) Elmer, son of Joseph (4) Frost, was born in Charlemont. He was educated in the district schools there, and learned the trade of carpenter. He settled in the adjacent town of Buckland. Franklin county, and followed his trade for a period of thirty years. He then bought a hundred acres of land in Buckland, erected a house, barn and other buildings, and followed farming the rest of his life. He died at the age of sixty-five years. In politics he was a Democrat, and took an active part in town affairs, serving as assessor, overseer of the poor and selectman for many years. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Buckland. He married Mary, daugh- ter of Samuel and Betsey (Leonard) Brackett ( see Leonard and Brackett ). Children : Justus B., mentioned below : Mary A., Sarah, Amelia, Joseph.
(VIII) Justus B., son of Elmer Frost, was born in Buckland, December 28, 1821. He was educated in the public and select schools. At the age of sixteen he began to learn the car- penter's trade, and a few years later became a contractor and builder on his own account. He entered partnership with Samuel Toby and his firm conducted a large business, employing regularly twenty carpenters, and erecting many buildings in Buckland and vicinity. This firm built the Congregational church and the school house at Buckland, and the brick school house at Shelburne Falls, and many houses and busi- ness blocks in that village. He was a prime mover in constructing the waterworks, bringing an excellent supply of water from mountain springs. He retired from the building busi- ness in 1861, and bought a farm and saw mill in Buckland, carrying on the lumber business in connection with his farm for ten years. Then he built the saw mill and grist mill for Lam- son & Goodnow, and in partnership with A. W. Ward conducted these mills until 1875, when D. C. Bartlett bought the interests of Mr. Ward. . The business was continued by the new firm until 1895. Mr. Frost has also been a very successful merchant, having a store in the basement of the stone hotel, of which he is a part owner, and conducting an extensive
flour and grain business, wholesale and retail. He had a livery stable in Shelburne Falls for twenty-five years, and still owns and manages two farms. He was assessor, collector of taxes and selectman, in Buckland. In politics he was a Republican. He died August 19, 1906. He married, December 31, 1846, Eve- line. daughter of Lyman and Myra Wood. Children, born at Buckland: 1. Ida, died aged eighteen. 2. Ernest C., mentioned below.
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