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(V) Job, fifth son of Jonathan and Eliza- beth Philbrick, was baptized in 1729, in the church in Greenland, New Hampshire, and when fifteen years of age was working on his father's farm in Greenland, having a compan- ion and helper, an Irish boy by the name of Malony. They were plowing in a field some distance from the house and hidden from it by an intervening woods, and while there em- ployed they were surprised by a party of In- dians who cut off their retreat to the house by taking a position on the direct path, and they were quickly taken prisoners and carried be- yond house call and thence to Canada, where Job was held a prisoner of the tribe for some years, and on returning home he continued to work upon the farm. He was married to Mary Trufant, of Georgetown, Maine, the marriage taking place about 1752. He set- tled first at "Long Reach," in Georgetown (afterwards Bath, Maine) and then at Vinal Harbor, where he was a farmer, carpenter and shipbuilder and lumberman. He also was scrivener, writing deeds, bonds and other legal papers for the early settlers of his neighbor- hood. By his wife, Mary (Trufant) Phil- brick, he had five children, as follows: I. Jere- miah, born in Georgetown (Bath), Maine, December 8, 1752, resided on part of the homestead and helped work the farm, and when twenty-one years of age married Sarah, daughter of Increase Leadbetter, of Stoughton, Massachusetts, where she was born July 9, 1754. He died in Bath, September 16, 1819, and his widow survived him till February 2, 1847, when she had reached her eighty-eighth year, after having brought up ten of her eleven children and seeing them happily mar- ried and blessing her with numerous grand- children. 2. Mary ( Molly), married William Radcliff, of Thomaston, Maine, and had eight children. 3. Lydia, married John Smith, of Vinal Harbor, and had one child. 4. Joel, born August 14, 1759, married, in January, 1775, Mary, daughter of Increase Leadbetter, born in Stoughton, Massachusetts, December 12, 1761, had fifteen children, and with the
mother and five younger removed to Licking county, Ohio, during the war of 1812, and he died at St. Albans, Ohio, September 15, 1820, and his widow near Etna, Ohio, September 24, 1850. 5. Jane, married Isaac Tolman, she being his third wife, and she had one child, Lydia Tolman, who was the twentieth child of Isaac Tolman, and she married Samuel Has- kell, of Gorham, Maine. Mary (Trufant) Philbrick died in Vinal Harbor about 1774. After his older children were settled Job Phil- brick married Dolly Hinckley, of Castine, Maine, and removed from Vinal Harbor, Maine, and settled on one of the Islesboro group called Job's Island and his sixth child, Job Jr., was born in Castinc, Maine; his sev- enth child, and second by second wife, was Jonathan, mentioned below. The eighth child Hannah was by his third wife, Hannah (Coombes) Philbrick. He died at Vinal Har- bor about 1802. There is an incident recorded of this early settler that describes a phase of life on the frontier at that time. After he had a large family to provide for, from a scant income, he was called from home on business and was detained much longer than he intended, and in his absence provisions in the household, made up of many children, fell short. The heroic mother determined not to allow her children to starve, and not knowing how long her husband might be detained, she, taking with her the oldest child, Jeremiah, then fourteen years of age, and a hand sled and a good supply of ammunition for their two guns, determined to go and hunt food. Their path was through the woods filled with snow and ice, and after following the trail four miles, they met up with a moose and she shot it, and after cutting its throat to let out the blood, the weight of the animal prevented its removal entire, she cut off sufficient to feed the children for several days and returned with it to the home she had left in the morn- ing, four miles distant, and the father getting there the next day, easily brought home the remainder of the carcass of the moose.
(VI) Jonathan (2) Philbrook, fourth son and seventh child of Job and Dolly Philbrick, was born, probably in Castine, Maine, and was a seafaring man. His wife was an Abbot, but her christian name is not recorded. The only child of Jonathan and (Abbot) Phil- brick was John, mentioned below. Jonathan Philbrook died probably the same year from a fall from the deck into the hold of a vessel on which he had shipped.
(VII) John, only son of Jonathan (2) and - ( Abbot) Philbrook, was born in Pros-
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pect, Maine, December 10, 1796. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon Daniel Mor- gan, of Sedgwick, Maine, and he followed the sea as had his father. Three children were born to them, as follows: I. John, born in Sedgwick, July 2, 1818, and was lost at sea February 14, when eighteen years of age. 2. Luther Groves, mentioned below. 3. Harriet E., born April 21, 1822, died July 15, 1872. John Philbrook died at Edenton, North Carolina, February 23, 1823, when twenty- six years of age, and his widow at Sedgwick, Maine, August 25, 1876.
(VIII) Luther Groves, second son of John and Elizabeth ( Morgan) Philbrook, was born in Sedgwick, Maine, March 21, 1820. He was bound out to a cabinetmaker in Castine, and after serving his time returned to Sedgwick, where he worked at his trade up to about 1854, when he went to Portland and engaged in the mercantile business. In 1856 he returned to Sedgwick and worked in that town up to 1861, when he was appointed deputy collector of customs and served in President Lincoln's administration and that of President Johnson in 1861-69, and in 1869 was transferred to Castine, the port of entry, where he served as special deputy to the collector of the port, and he was displaced by President Cleveland at the beginning of his first administration in
1881. He continued to live a retired life in Castine, where he was a trustee of the State Normal school up to the time of his death, September 10, 1892. He had served the town of Sedgwick as selectman during his residence there, and on removing to Castine was on the board of selectmen and served as president of the board. He was married July 3, 1843, to Angelia, daughter of Napthali and Abagail Coffin, of Livermore, Maine. She was born March 8, 1823, and died in Castine, Novem- ber 2, 1891. The children of Luther Groves and Angelia (Coffin) Philbrook were : I. Eudora G., born in Sedgwick, Maine, April 28, 1844, married Henry W. Sargent, of Sedg- wick. 2. Edward Everett, born in Portland, Maine, September 21, 1854, became a physi- cian and surgeon. 3. Warren Coffin, men- tioned below.
(IX) Warren Coffin, son of Luther Groves and Angelia (Coffin) Philbrook, was born in Sedgwick, Maine, November 30, 1857. He at- tended the public schools of Castine, and the state normal school, also located in that town, and was fitted for college at the Coburn Classical Institute, matriculating at Colby University in 1878, and graduating A. B., 1882. He taught one year in Farmington
State Normal school, then served as principal of Waterville high school until June, 1887. He studied law with Hon. Edmund Fuller Webb and Hon. Reuben Foster, of Waterville, Maine, and was admitted to the bar in 1884. He opened an office for the practice of law in Waterville, and was made judge of the Wa- terville municipal court. He represented the city in the state legislature for two terms, and was a member of the judiciary committee of the house. He also served as mayor of Wa- terville for two years, and for several years as member of the board of education of the city. He became an effective political speaker, and was sought and held in high esteem as an orator, both on the stump and on notable public occasions. On the occasion of the cen- tennial of the settlement of Waterville held in June, 1902, the choice of orator fell to him, and his oration then pronounced was widely read and gave universal pleasure and was highly praised as an oratorical effort and prized on account of its historical values. He is a member of Waterville Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, past master of the lodge, and a member of the Tacconet Chap- ter and its past high priest ; and has served as commander of the St. Omer Commandery, Knights Templar, and is Grand Generalissimo of the Grand Commandery of Maine. He was given the thirty-second degree in Masonry and made a member of the Maine Consistory at Portland. He also affiliates with the Knights of Pythias, and for the years 1901-02 was grand chancellor of the order in the state. He is a member of the American Order of United Workmen, of the Royal Arcanum, and of the Independent Order of Foresters of America. In 1905, when the legislature cre- ated the office of assistant attorney-general of the state, he was honored by appointment as the first lawyer in Maine to fill the honorable position. In January, 1909, he was elected attorney general of Maine, a position which he now continues to hold. He was married August 22, 1882, to Ada, daughter of Moses C. and Francina (Smith) Foster. Mrs. Phil- brook was born in Bethel, Maine, June 17, 1854.
The name Abbott is derived ABBOTT through the Syriac, abba, from the Hebrew, ab, meaning father. It has been applied to the head of a religious order by various races from early times and finally became an English surname. There has been considerable controversy about the spelling of the patronymic whether with one
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or two t's. Many have held that the single let- ter indicates the ancient and correct form. Historical investigation would seem to indicate otherwise. Of the two hundred and cleven Abbotts, whose wills were filed in the courts in and about London during the fourteenth, fif- teenth and sixteenth centuries, one hundred and ninety-five have signed their names with two t's. Major Lemuel Abijah Abbott, United States army, who has recently written the valuable work in two volumes on the Descend- ants of George Abbott, of Rowley, finds the same proportion among the signatures of the early American Abbotts, though he frankly says that he personally would prefer the single t, and always supposed that it was the origi- nal form. To come still nearer home, the pioneer Abbotts of Concord, New Hampshire, frequently used the double letter, as can be seen by their signatures (they never were obliged to make their marks) to the early provincial papers.
The ancient English branch of the Ab- bott family lived in Yorkshire and their 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 bear- ing an olive branch in its mouth. The Guil- ford branch in Surrey, which contains the most distinguished members of the family, have arms in which the three pears are promi- nent, but they are varied by the insignia of the bishop's office. The Guilford Abbotts present a remarkable record. Maurice Abbott was a cloth worker in the town during the sixteenth century and his wife was Alice March or Marsh. They were staunch Protes- tants and people of undoubted respectability, but their own condition gave little indication of the eminence to which three of their sons would attain. They were all contemporaries of Shakespeare, and their talents were of the kind brought out by "the spacious times of great Elizabeth." Robert Abbott, the eldest of the six sons, became bishop of Salisbury ; George, the second ( 1562-1633), became lord archbishop of Canterbury, which gave him the rank of the first citizen of England; and Mor- ris, the youngest, became a knight, governor of the East India Company and lord mayor of London. Of English Abbotts in more recent times mention may be made of Charles Abbott, son of John Abbott, of Canterbury, who was made lord chief justice of England in 1818, and Baron Tenterden in 1827. Another Charles Abbott, son of Rev. John Abbot, of Colchester (name with one t), was speaker of the house of commons from 1802 to 1817,
when he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Colchester. The Abbott family in this country has produced few people of world-wide fame, but according to Major Lemuel A. Abbott, previously quoted, the name has stood for "quiet dignity, consideration, kindness of heart and great suavity of manner." Many of the family have been farmers who lived for generations on their ancestral lands, a home- loving, law-abiding, peaceful folk; but there are many writers, clergymen and college pro- fessors on the list. The writers number men like the brothers, Jacob and John S. C .; and the clergy such names as Dr. Lyman Abbott, son of Jacob. Mrs. Sarah ( Abbott) Abbott, of Andover, Massachusetts, became the founder of Abbott Academy, February 26, 1829, the first school exclusively endowed for girls in the country. She was the great-great- granddaughter of George Abbott, whose line follows. Among other Americans who have the Abbott blood, but not the name, are Presi- dent Hayes, Abbott Lawrence, minister of the Court of St. James, and Bishop Lawrence, of Massachusetts.
(I) George Abbott, the venerable ancestor of a numerous progeny, emigrated, as tradi- tion reports, from Yorkshire, England, about 1640, was among the first settlers in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1643, and a proprietor of that town. He lived and died on the farm owned (1847) by John Abbott, the seventh in line of descent. His house was a garrison and was used as such many years after his death. In 1647 he married Hannah Chandler, daugh- ter of William and Annie Chandler. They were industrious, economical, sober, pious and respected. With christian fortitude and sub- mission they endured their trials, privations and dangers, of which they had a large share. They brought up a large family well and trained them in the way they should go, from which they did not depart. George Abbott died December 24, 1681, aged sixty-six. His widow married (second) Rev. Francis Dane, minister of Andover, who died February, 1697, aged eighty-one. She died June II, 17II, aged eighty-two. The thirteen children of George and Hannah Abbott were: John, Jo- seph (died young), Hannah, Joseph, George, William, Sarah, Benjamin, Timothy, Thomas, Edward, Nathaniel and Elizabeth. Joseph Abbott, born March, 1648, died June 24, 1650, and his death was the first on the town rec- ords. Joseph, born March 30, 1652, died April 8, 1676, the first in Andover who fell victim to Indian warfare.
(II) John, eldest child of George and Han-
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nah (Chandler) Abbott, was born in Andover, Massachusetts, March 2, 1648, died March 19, 1721. He resided with his father in the garri- son house. He was a man of good judgment and executive ability, and was employed in town business, often as selectman, and was deputy to the general court. When the church was organized in the South Parish, in 1711, he was chosen deacon, and Mr. Phillips states that "he used the office well." He and his wife were respected for their uprightness and piety. He married, November 17, 1673, Sa- rah Barker, daughter of Richard Barker, one of the first settlers of Andover. She was born in 1647, died February 10, 1720. Their chil- dren were: John, Joseph, Stephen, Sarah, Ephraim, Joshua, Mary, Ebenezer and Pris- cilla. One child died young. The average ages at death of the eight who survived was eighty years and three months.
(III) Deacon John (2), eldest child of John (I) and Sarah (Barker) Abbott, was born in Andover, November 2, 1674, died January I, 1754. He lived on the homestead of his fath- ers, "was a selectman, and a useful citizen, and a deacon of the church thirty-four years; mild, cheerful and humble." His wife, "like Elizabeth of old, with her husband, walked in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, blameless." They were faithful in com- manding their household to keep the way of the Lord, and had the satisfaction of seeing them walk in it. He married, January 6, 1703, Elizabeth Harndin, of Reading, who died Au- gust 9, 1756. Their children were: John (died young), John, Barachias, Elizabeth, Abiel and Joseph.
(IV) Captain John (3), second child of Deacon John (2) and Elizabeth (Harndin) Abbott, was born in Andover, August 3, 1704, died November 10, 1793. He, too, resided on the homestead of the immigrant. He inherited the character of his ancestors, and was an in- fluential citizen and engaged in the town's business. He was selectman and a captain, 1754, in the French and Indian war. He was a person of integrity, always acting on princi- ple, and holding the truth and his promise sacred. "He was constant in his religious duties, reading the sacred scriptures, and hav- ing prayer morning and evening." He mar- ried, September 28, 1732, Phebe Fiske, of Box- ford, born August 4, 1712, died in December, 1802. They had seven children : Phebe, John, Ezra, Abiel, Jeremiah, William and Benja- min. Of these seven children three emigrated to Wilton, and became heads of families. John, the eldest son, inherited the ancestral farm,
and had distinguished sons : John, who graduated from Harvard College in 1789 and became a professor in Bowdoin College; Ben- jamin, who took his degree at Harvard in 1788, and was fifty years principal of Phillips Exeter Academy.
(V) Abiel, fourth child and third son of Captain John (3) and Phebe (Fiske) Abbott, was born in Andover, Massachusetts, April 19, 174I, and died in Wilton, New Hampshire, August 19, 1809. He took the degree of D. D. at Harvard in 1792, and was a minister at Haverhill and Beverly. The history of Wil- ton states that "he was five years a cooper in Andover. In 1764 he settled in Wilton on lot I, range 3, and on an acre previously cleared, he, in that year, built a two-story house and barn. He married, in Andover, November 20, and moved into the new house, before its doors were hung. He was town treasurer in 1765; town clerk eleven years; selectman eleven years ; representative ; on the committee of safety and numerous other committees; em- ployed in town business every year more or less for forty years; captain, 1769; second major, 1776; first major, 1781 ; assistant as- sessor, 1798; a justice of the peace fifteen years ; a deacon of the church sixteen years ; a guardian of orphans and helpful to the poor and needy. On the advance of General Bur- goyne in 1777, among thousands of volunteers for the defense of Ticonderoga, 'two com- panies, under the command of Major Abiel Abbott, of Wilton, marched June 30, for the threatened fortress.'" He married, in And- over, Massachusetts, November 20, 1764, Dor- cas, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth ( Ab- bot) Abbot (as they spelled the name). She was born August 1, 1744, died February 23, 1829. They had twelve children: Abiel, Jacob, Benjamin, Ezra, Dorcas, a son (born and died the same day), Samuel, Abigail, Persis, Rhoda, Samuel and Phebe.
(VI) Phebe, youngest child of Abiel and Dorcas (Abbot) Abbott, married Benjamin Abbott (as they spelled the name), and re- sided in Temple, Maine.
(VII) Abigail, daughter of Benjamin and Phebe (Abbott) Abbott, became the wife of Hannibal Hamlin, of Waterford, Maine ( see Hamlin VI).
(For first generation see preceding sketch.)
(II) Nathaniel, tenth son and
ABBOTT twelfth child of George and Hannah (Chandler) Abbott, born July 4, 1671, died in December, 1749. Was a member of Rev. Thomas Barnard's
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church, Andover. He married (first) Dor- cas Hibbert, who died February 7, 1743. Their ten children were: Nathaniel, Mary, Joseph, Tabitha, Jeremiah, Joshua, Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth and Rebecca.
(III) Joseph, son of Nathaniel and Dor- cas ( Hibbert) Abbott, was born February 2, 1705, died August 2, 1787. He lived with his father while in Andover and moved to Wilton, New Hampshire, about 1776, and died there at the age of eighty-two years. He was deacon of the church and a man of great simplicity of manner and sound piety. For many years he tuned the song, while his cousin, Deacon Isaac Abbott, read it line by line. He married, August 12, 1731, Deborah Blanchard, who died in July, 1773. Their children were: Deborah (died young), Joshua (died young), Bathsheba, Nathaniel (died young), Joshua, Deborah and, Joseph (twins), the former born July 15, 1740, and the latter on the 16th, died young; Anna, Jo- seph (died young), Hannah, Joseph, Jacob, Dorcas, Obadiah, Nathaniel and Rebecca.
(IV) Jacob, son of Joseph and Deborah ( Blanchard) Abbott, was born in Andover, Massachusetts, March 22, 1746, and when a young man removed to Wilton, New Hamp- shire, where he built the first mill erected on the Souhegan river at Wilton. He repre- sented the town in the general court of New Hampshire and was the first justice of the peace of the town and he served as justice of the court of common pleas and as a member of the governor's council. He removed to Andover, Massachusetts, where he was a trus- tee of Phillip's Academy, and in 1797 re- moved to Concord, New Hampshire, which town he represented in the general court for three years. In 1802 he went to Brunswick, Maine, and was a senator in the Maine legis- lature and a member of the board of over- seers of Bowdoin College. He was married in 1767 to Lydia Stevens, and they had ten children, among whom were: Lydia, married, in 1789, Thomas Russell, of Temple, Maine; Phebe, married Benjamin Abbott, of Temple, a distant relative, and became the mother of twelve children, including Abigail, the wife of Hannibal Hamlin, vice-president of the United States, and mother of Abby, the wife of Rev. Lyman Abbott and Jacob Abbott (1776- 1849). He died in Brunswick, Maine, March 5, 1820, and his widow and five of his ten children survived him.
(V) Jacob (2), eldest son of Jacob (I) and Lydia (Stevens) Abbott, was born in Wilton, New Hampshire, October 20, 1776. He re-
ceived a limited education judged from the point of necessity for college training, but was under excellent home training in the family of his father who was a manufacturer, jurist and legislator. He worked in his father's mill, at- tended the public school, and on April 8, 1798, married Betsey Abbott, a distant kinswoman, who was born in Concord, New Hampshire, August 6, 1773, and died in Farmington, Maine, July 30, 1846. In 1800 he removed from Wilton, New Hampshire, to Hallowell, Maine, for the purpose of better looking after the interests of the Phillips and Weld fam- ilies, who had settled on the wild lands of Maine, out of which grew the thriving towns of Phillips, Weld, Madrid, Salem, Temple, Avon and Carthage. He, during this period, made a temporary residence in Brunswick, Maine, to give his children better educational advantages, but he removed to the town of Weld in order that he might better direct the settlement of lands he owned and those placed under his trusteeship. His influence, coupled with that of his father and other kinsmen, shaped the moral and religious character of the early settlers of the townships of Phillips and Weld, and made them models of good citi- zenship. He introduced the planting of shade trees on every street and contributed in that way to the rare beauty of the village scenery. In 1836 he removed to Farmington, Maine, where he purchased of the widow of Stephen Titcomb Jr. the estate on the southern border of the village known as "Few Acres" and in these beautiful and peaceful surroundings he passed the remainder of his life. He died at "Few Acres" in 1847, the year following that in which he had followed his beloved wife to her grave, after having passed forty-eight years in her company. The children of Jacob and Betsey ( Abbot) Abbott were: 1. Sallucia, born in Hallowell, Maine, August 7, 1801, lived unmarried in Farmington during her en- tire life. 2. Jacob, November 14, 1803. 3. John Stevens Cabot, Brunswick, Maine, Sep- tember 18, 1805. 4. Gorman Dummer, Sep- tember 3, 1807. 5. Clara, October 8, 1809, married Elbridge G. Cutler, and lived in Farmington. 6. Charles Edwards, December 24, 1811, graduated at Bowdoin College, 1832, and at Andover Theological Seminary, 1837; married Mary Spaulding; was a successful teacher in New York City and Hartford, Con- necticut, and died July 24, 1880. 7. Samuel Phillips, December 8, 1814, graduated from Bowdoin, 1836, Andover Theological Semi- nary, 1840, ordained to the Congregational ministry at Houlton, Maine ; married Hannah
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Barker, of Nottingham, England ; conducted a school for boys, 1844-49, and died June 24, 1849.
(VI) Jacob (3), son of Jacob (2) and Bet- sey (Abbot) Abbott, was born in Hallowell, Maine, November 14, 1803. He was fitted for college at the Hallowell Academy, and when only fourteen years old passed examination for the sophomore class at Bowdoin College, and was graduated A. B., 1820, A. M., 1823. He taught school in Portland, Maine, 1820-21, and prepared for the Congregational ministry by a few years' course at Andover Theological Seminary, during which time he taught a school at Beverly, Massachusetts. He became a tutor of mathematics in Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1824-25, and was professor of mathematics and natural philoso- phy at Amherst, 1825-29. He conducted the Mount Vernon School for Young Women, Boston, Massachusetts, 1829-32. On the for- mation of the Eliot church at Roxbury in 1834 he was its first pastor, 1834-36. He began his literary career as author of the "Young Chris- tian" (1832), and nine thousand copies were sold the first year, and it was read and largely circulated in England, Scotland, France and Germany. The series of four volumes as periodically issued were each equally success- ful, and are said to have greatly strengthened christian faith throughout the world. In 1837 Mr. Abbott purchased the Little Blue property at Farmington, Maine, and his first modest cottage was the nucleus of the present man- sion that gives dignity to the estate. Here he wrote the "Rollo Books," the "Lucy Books," and the "Jonas Books," 1837-43, and he removed to New York City in 1843, and in connection with his brothers, Gorman Dummer and John Stevens Cabot, he con- ducted a school for young women in New York City, 1843-51, and he retained his resi- dence in New York after 1857 to continue there his literary labors. He did not lay aside his pen till 1872, and in that time he wrote and passed through the press one hundred and thirty books and the titles of his books issued during his lifetime, either written or compiled by him, comprise not less than two hundred and eleven titles. He made his winter home in New York City, and his summer home in Farmington, Maine, and as age advanced his winter days in New York grew shorter and his summer days at Farmington lengthened, and in 1870 "Few Acres" became his permanent residence. The ten last years of his life were spent in comparative leisure, and as his bodily strength waned, his life finally came to an end
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