Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. I, Part 98

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 858

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The thirteen children of George and Hannah Abbot were: John, Joseph (died young), Hannah, Joseph, George, William, Sarah, Benjamin, Timothy, Thomas, Edward, Nathaniel and Elizabeth. Jo- seph Abbot, born March, 1648, died June 24, 1650. and his death was the first on the town record. Joseph, born March 30, 1652, died April 8. 1676, the first in Andover who fell a victim to Indian warfare. (Accounts of William, Benjamin, Thomas and Nathaniel, with descendants, form a portion of this article).

(II) John, eldest child of George and Hannah (Chandler) Abbot, was born in Andover. Massa- chusetts. March 2, 1648, and died March 19, 1721, aged seventy-three. He resided with his father in the garrison house. He was a man of good judg- ment and executive ability, and was employed in town business, often as selectman, and was deputy to the general court. When the church was organ- ized in the South Parish, in 17II. 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, Novem- ber 17, 1673, Sarah Barker. daughter of Richard Barker, one of the first settlers of Andover. She was born in 1647, and died February IO. 1729, aged eighty-two. Their children were: John. Joseph, Stephen. Sarah, Ephraim, Joshua, Mary. Ebenezer and Priscilla. 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 (1) and Sarah (Barker) Abbot, was born in An- dover, November 2, 1674. and died January 1. 1754, aged seventy-nine. He lived on the homestead of his fathers, "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 command- ments and ordinances of the Lord blameless." They were faithful in commanding their household to keep the way of the Lord, and had the satisfac- tion of seeing them walk into it. He married. Jan- uary 6, 1703, Elizabeth Harndin, of Reading, who died August 9, 1756. Their children were: John (died young), Jolin, Barachias, Elizabeth, Abiel and Joseph.

(IV) Captain John (3). second child of Deacon Jolın (2) and Elizabeth (Harndin) Abbot, was born in Andover. August 3. 1704, and died Novem-

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ber 10, 1793, in the ninetieth year of his age. He, too, resided on the homestead of the immigrant. He inherited the character of his ancestors, and was an influential 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 principle, and hold- ing the truth and his promise sacred. "He was constant in his religious duties, reading the sacred scriptures, and having prayer morning and even- ing. He married, September 28, 1732, Phebe Fiske,

of Boxford, who was born August 4, 1712, and died in December, 1802, aged ninety. They had seven children : Phebe, John, Ezra, Abiel, Jere- miah, William and Benjamin. Of these seven chil- dren three emigrated to Wilton, and became heads of families. John. the eldest son, inherited the ancestral farm and had three 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. Abiel, see forward.

(V) Abiel, fourth child and third son of Cap- tain John (3) and Phebe (Fiske) Abbot, was born in Andover, Massachusetts, April 19, 1741, and died in Wilton, New Hampshire, August 19. 1809, aged sixty-eight. He took the degree of D. D. at Har- vard in 1792, and misister at Hav-

erhill and Beverly. The History of Wilton states that "he was five years a cooper in Andover. In 1764 he settled in Wilton on lot 1, range 3, and on an acre previously cleared he in that year built a two-story house and a 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 com- mittees ; employed in town business every year more or less for forty years ; captain, 1769; second major, 1776; first major. 1781 ; assistant assessor, 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 Burgoyne in 1777, among thousands of volunteers for the defense of Ticonderoga, 'two companies, under the command of Major Abiel Ab- bot, of Wilton, marched June 30, for the threatened fortress' ".

He married, in Andover, Massachusetts, Novem- ber 20, 1764. Dorcas, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Abbot) Abbot. She was born August I, 1744, and died February 23, 1829, aged eighty- five. They had twelve children : Abicl, Jacob, Benjamin, Ezra (mentioned below), Dorcas, a son (born and died the same day), Samuel, Abigial, Persis, Rhoda, Samuel and Phebe.

(VI) Abigail, eighth child and second daughter of Major Abiel and Dorcas (Abbot) Abbot, was born in Wilton, New Hampshire, July 13, 1779, and died June 5, 1812 .. She married Jonathan Liver- more (See Livermore VI).

(VI) Deacon Ezra, fourth son and child of Abicl and Dorcas (Abbot) Abbot. was born in Wil- ton, New Hampshire, February 8, 1772, and died there April 3, 1847, aged seventy-five. He followed farming on the homestead, as his father had done, but to this he added another and a more profitable industry, starch-making. of which he was one of the pioneers of the state. In the fall of 1811 he built a two-story structure about twenty feet square near his house, in the upper part of which he placed machinery, and fitted the lower story for

a horse to turn a shaft to move the machinery for washing and grating potatoes. In the spring of 1812 he began the manufacture of starch from po- tatoes of his own raising and sold it in Boston, Sa- lem, Andover, and other towns at eight cents a pound. After using the first mill six years, Mr. Abbot and his brother Samuel formed a partnership under the firm name of E. & S. Abbot, and erected a building thirty feet by sixty on the site of a dis- used mill near the border of Mason, where they had water power and used from 6,000 to 26,000 bushels of potatoes yearly, and made a finer, better and lighter article of starch, of which they got seven and one-third to nine and two-thirds pounds from a bushel of potatoes. They sold their product, which averaged about forty tons a year, to the newly erected mills at Lowell and Nashua at from three and one-half to five and one-half cents per pound. December 26, 1828, the starch mill was burned, but was immediately rebuilt. December 17, 1839, the mill was again burned, and at once rebuilt. Ezra Abbot gave his personal attention to the business until 1846, when failing health com- pelled him to leave the business to his son Abiel, who with his brother Harris, under the firm name of A. & H. Abbot, carried on the manufacture of starch until about 1850, when the disease in the potatoes. the coming of railroad and other causes led to the closing of the mill.

Ezra Abbot was a captain of the South Com- pany of Militia ; a selectman ; employed in the set- tlement of estates, and as guardian of Unions ; a deacon of the church for twenty-five years; presid- ing officer of the centennial celebration of 1839; a man of strict integrity, respected for his love of justice, probity of character, benevolence and lib- erality in support of schools, libraries, and other institutions, religious and beneficent. He married, October 6, 1799, Rebekah Hale, who was born Jan- uary 9. 1781, daughter of Lieutenant Joseph Hale, of Coventry, Connecticut, and niece of Captain Nathan Hale, the martyr spy of the Revolution. She died, May 5, 1860, aged seventy-nine. Their children were: Rebecca, a son (died young), Jo- seph Hale, Dorcas, Ezra, Abiel. Emily, Harris, Harriet Nelson, Abby Anne. Sarah Jane, and John Hale.

(VII) Harris, eighth child and fifth son of Ezra and Rebekah (Hale) Abbot, was born in Wilton, September 19, 1812, and died there March 20. 1884, in the seventy-second year of his age. He was edil- cated in the common schools and also at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, and at Phillip's Exeter Academy. He resided on the homestead with his father, and was a good farmer, an energetic man, an upright citizen, and liberal in his ideas of education, and a friend to schools. He served his town as select- man. He married, November 20, 1860, Caroline Ann Greeley, of Pelham, who was born October 20, 1836, daughter of Jonathan B. and Lucy Ann (Coburn) Greeley, of Pelham. Their children are: Ella Caro- line, Stanley Harris, Florence Hale and Charles Greeley. Ella Caroline was born April 22, 1862. She graduated from Cushing Academy, Ashburnham. Massachusetts, in 1882, and subsequently taught for a time and afterward graduated from Smith College. She then taught at Pembroke Academy and other preparatory schools. She married Arthur Wilder and resides at Sterling, Massachusetts. Stanley H. is the subject of another paragraph. Florence Hale, born October 20, 1867, graduated from Cushing Academy in 1887, and is also a grad- nate from Smith College, and from the New York

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Medical College for Women. She is now a practis- ing physician and a member of the medical staff of the Massachusetts State Insane Asylum at Taun- ton. Charles Greeley, horn May 31, 1872, graduated from the Wilton high school in 1888, attended Phil- lips Andover Academy, and graduated from Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology, a director of the Astro Physical Laboratory of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington. D. C., and a member of the American Institute of Arts and Sciences.

(VIII) Stanley Harris, second child of Harris and Caroline Ann (Greeley) Abbot, was born in Wilton, October 20, 1863. After graduating from Cushing Academy, in 1882, he returned to the home- stead where lie has since been engaged in general agriculture, and has given special attention to dairy- ing. Ile is president of the Boston Co-operative Milk Producers Company, formerly the New Eng- land Milk Producers' Company. He is a surveyor and has established many lines in his locality. In politics he is a Republican, and is now ( 1907) a member of the Wilton school board. In religious faith he is a Congregationalist. He is also a lead- ing member of Advance Grange, No. 20, Patrons of Husbandry. He married, in Monson, Massa- chusetts, November 15, 1894, Mary Kimball, who was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, March 9, 1868, daughter of Leonard and Phebe (Mack) Kimball. They have seven children: Leonard Harris, born September 19, 1895: Marion Kimball, March 5, 1898; Howard Stanley. January 7, 1900; Edith Hale, November 27, 1901; Sidney Greeley, August 19, 1903; Charles Mack, March 15, 1905, and Helen, July 10, 1906.

(II) William, sixth child and fifth son of the immigrant, George, and Hannah (Chandler) Abbot, born March 18, 1657, died October 24, 1713. He was a Puritan in faith and christian conduct. Hc lived near Professor Stuart's house in Andover. He married, June 2, 1682, Elizabeth Gray, who died December, 1712. Their twelve children were': Elizabeth, William, George (died young). Ezra, George, Nathan, James, Paul. Phillip, Hannah, Ca- leb and Zebadiah. (Paul and descendants receive extensive mention .in this article).

(III) James, sixth son and seventh child of William and Elizabeth (Gray) Abbot, was born February 12, 1695, at Andover, Massachusetts. He was a farmer in that town. but removed before 1735 to (Concord) then Penny Cook, New Hampshire, where he became a proprietor by purchase of the rights of Bezalecl Toppan and Stephen Emerson. His name first appears on the town records in 1735 when he and Deacon Merrill were empowered to hire a man to keep school for four months during the next winter. He was elected tything-man at the March meeting in 1735-6, and surveyor of high- ways in 1736-7, 1744 and 1749. James Abbott had his full share of the hardships of pioneer life. In 1746 he and his family were living in the Lovejoy Garrison at West Concord where the Garrison School now stands. Later in that year, at the time of the Bradley Massacre, he was on duty at the Parson Walker Garrison, which protected the hoine of the first minister. In 1748 of thereabouts James Abbott and his family and Joseph Farnum were living in four log cabins, surrounded by a stockadc, which stood on the . west side of the present State strect near a bubbling spring opposite the present home of Andrew James Abbott, great great-grand- son of the original James. The region was then called Rattlesnake Plain, now West Concord, and this farm has always been the family homestead. though James Abbott owned considerable land near

Long Pond and in other parts of the town. The same kind of corn, brought from Andover, has been planted on this place for one hundred and forty years. James Abbott was a respected and worthy citizen and one of the early members of the Old North Church, being admitted by letter from the church in Andover. He died December 27, 1787, aged ninety-three years. In January, 1714, James Abbott married Abigail Farnum, born in 1692, and they had fifteen children: Abigail, James, whose sketch follows; Elizabeth, William. Rachel, Ezra, Reuben. whose sketch follows; Simeon, Amos, whose sketch follows; Phebe; a son born and died in 1729; Sarah and Rebecca (twins) ; Mary and Hannah. Three of the sons, William, Ezra and Simeon, died within five weeks, from October 29 to December 5, 1741. They were stricken with fe- ver, for which no medical treatment was available in those days, and their lives were lost just as they were entering upon young manhood, being respect- ively twenty-two, nineteen and seventeen years of age. When James and Reuben were ready to mar- ry, their father gave to each of them a farm back of Long Pond, while the youngest son, Amos, was awarded the home place.

(1V) Deacon James (2), eldest son and second child of James (1) and Abigail (Farnum) Abbott, was born January 12, 1717, in Andover, Massachu- setts, and died in Newbury, Vermont. in 1803, at the age of eighty-six years. He was a farmer in Concord, New Hampshire, whence he removed in 1763, to Newbury, being one of the first settlers there and deacon of the first church of Newbury. He was married in 1742 to Sarah Bancroft, who was born February 19, 1722, daughter of Captain Samuel and Sarah (Lamson) Bancroft, of Reading, Massachusetts. His fifteen children were: Sarah, Abigail, Mary, James, Judith, William, Bancroft, Ezra (died young), Susannah, Ezra and five others who died in infancy. All of his children and many of his descendants were members of the Congrega- tional Church.

(V) Abigail, second daughter and child of Tames (2) and Sarah (Bancroft) Abbott, was born January 22, 1746. and was married April 15, 1767, to Major Asa Bailey, of Haverhill, New Hamp- shire (see Bailey V). They removed from that town to Landaff, an adjoining town, where she died. Her fifteen children were: Abigail, Samuel, Phoebe, Sarah, Asa, Caleb and Anna (twins), Ja- bez. Cloy, Amos, Olive, Phineas, Judith, Simeon and Patience.

(V) William (2), second son and seventh child of Deacon James (2) and Sarah (Bancroft) Ah- bott, was born April 24, 1755, at West Concord, New Hampshire. When a child he moved with his people to Newbury, Vermont, and. in 1777 married Mahel Whittlesey, of East Guilford, Connecticut. William (2) Abbot died June 14, 1807. His chil- dren were: Moses. Lois, Jacob, Elizabeth, MIehita- bel, Sarah, William, Amos, Ann, Abigail, son born and died, and Mary.

(VI) Moses (1), eldest child of William (2) and Mabel ( Whittlesey) Abbott, was born at Bath, New Hampshire, June 16. 1778, and in that town was a farmer all his life. He was married (first) April 7, 1802, to Lucy Willis, who was born July 25, 1784, and died July 13. 1842. She was the moth- er of all his children. He was married (second) August 14, 1844, to Mrs. Lucy Wells. He had four- teen children : Myron, Adams, Cynthia, William B., Lucy Maria, Charity, Mabel, Moses C. (died young ). Amanda, Moses, Sarah Ann, Alhert L., Milo J .. and Ira. Moses (1) Abbott died May 7,

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1856, at Bath, and his second wife died July 13, 1874, at the same place.

(VII) Moses (2), fifth son and tenth child of Moses (I) and Lucy (Willis) Abbott, was born at Bath, New Hampshire, December 27, 1818, and died July 30. 1889. He lived in that town all his life, was a farmer and lumberman, and during the Civil War was a buyer of produce and wool. He was twice married. On September 7, 1848, Moses (2) Abbott married Lucia K. Eastman, daughter of Moses and Sally ( Smith) Eastman. ( See Eastman VII). She was born July 18, 1826. They had two children: Chester, whose sketch follows; and Lucia Celia, born September 12, died December 27, 1852. Mrs. Lucia (Eastman) Abbott died April 14, 1853. and Moses (2) Abbott married (second) May 5, 1855, Mary P. Weeks, born March 3, 1829, daughter of John C. and Maria Powers Weeks, of Bath. They had four children, namely: Charles Freemont, John Weeks, Lucia Maria and Edwin Moses.

(VIII) Chester. elder child and only son of Moses (2) and Lucia K. (Eastinan) Abbott, was born October 13, 1850, in Bath, New Hampshire. He was educated in the schools of Woodsville and Bath, and at a select school in Wells River, Ver- mont. He taught school for a time in Newbury, Vermont, and Woodsville, New Hampshire. He then traveled for three years as a canvasser for Powell Brothers of Syracuse, New York, and for two years more as a canvasser on his own account, traveling in nineteen states, New Brunswick and Canada. Returning home he worked in the Na- tional Bank of Newbury at Wells River, Vermont. Then for twenty years he was engaged as a clerk for the Woodsville Lumber Company, and for Ira Whitcher. Mr. Abbott is a civil engineer, and is also interested in the insurance business and real estate. He was a member of the building commit- tee of the Woodsville Aqueduct Company, is treas- urer of the Opera Block, and was the first clerk of the Fire Commission. He is a Republican in politics, and is a justice of the peace and notary public. Mr. Abbott has been twice married. On November 1, 1877. he married Mary Elizabeth Whitcher, daughter of Ira and Lucy (Royce) Whitcher, who was born in Benton, New Hamp- shire, July 17, 1847, and died April 15, 1897. in Woodsville. On June 22, 1889. he married Abbie S. Williamson, daughter of Fred D. and Lois Hale Williamson, who was born August 4, 1871, in Wat- erford, Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Abbott having no children of their own are generously rearing and educating a protege, Albert Abbott, an orphan from the New England Home for Little Wanderers of Boston.

(IV) Reuben, fourth son and seventh child of James (I) and Abigail (Farnum) Abbott, was born in Andover, Massachusetts, April 4, 1723. When a lad lie came with his people to Concord, then Penny Cook, New Hampshire; and he was the first one to drive an ox team from Andover to the new settlement, about the year 1735. Mr. Abbott became one of the strong men of his generation. At birth he weighed but four pounds, and his head could be covered by a tea-cup of ordinary size, while as an object of curiosity he was put into a quart tankard and the cover shut down. He grew to be six feet in height with a robust physique, able to handle bears and catamounts, could swing his scythe at eighty and mow his swath with any man. He lived to become one hundred years old, lacking a few months, and to see his descendants of the fourth generation, all bearing the name of Reuben.

dwelling under his roof. In 1739 he began a diary, which is still preserved in the family. Reuben Ab- bott is the man, who on Monday morning, August II, 1746, while mowing on the Fan, where land is still kept in the Abbott name, heard the alarm gun sound from Parson Walker's fort which gave the news of the Bradley massacre on the road to Hop- kinton. It was he who, all others refusing, drove the cart containing the six mangled and dead bodies back to town. Near the close of his life Mr. Abbott related circumstantial account of this massacre to Hon. Richard Bradley, grandson of Samuel Bradley, one of the slain; and this narrative was incorpo- rated by Dr. Bouton in his history of Concord. On October 12, 1743, Reuben Abbott's father gave him a farm of one hundred and ten acres back of Long Pond in West Concord, where he afterwards built a log cabin in which he lived about ten years. At first no one dared stay on the land on account of the Indians, and the men used to go up in armed gangs to mow the grass and cultivate their crops. Before 1760 Reuben Abbott built the present large two-story house with lean-to which, several times remodeled, is still the family home. The heavy oak frame is pinned together with wooden pegs. Mr. Abbott in his old age enjoyed relating stories of his early hardships and the primitive life of the time. He said he used to kill deer enough to give him fresh meat during the winter, and to salt down for summer use. The skins he dressed for mit- tens and for leather breeches which, with a cocked hat, he continued to wear as long as he lived. He was a Puritan of strict religious principles, and a member of the First Congregational Church or "Old North," as it is generally called, a firm friend of Parson Walker's. and a man who brought up his family in the fear of the Lord, and walked therein himself. Reuben Abbott married Rhoda Whittemore, eldest child of Deacon Elias and Rho- da (Holt) Whittemore, of Pembroke, New Hamp- shire, who died January 27, 1785, aged fifty-five. (See Whittemore, I). They had children: Reu- ben, who died young: Reuben, whose sketch fol- lows: Rhoda. Elias, Phebe, who was drowned in her second year: Phebe, Ruth, Ezra and Nathan (twins). Reuhen Abbott married for his second wife Widow Dinah Blanchard, who died March II, 1826, at the age of ninety-four years. Reuben Abbott himself died at the home in West Concord, May 24, 1822, being in his hundredth year, and the oldest man who. has ever spent his life in Con- cord. Mrs. Lydia Tenney, who lived on a neigh- boring farm. died at the age of one hundred and three, the oldest woman who has ever lived in town.

(V) Reuben (2), eldest surviving child of Reu- ben (1) and Rhoda ( Whittemore) Abbott, was born at the old homestead in West Concord, New Hampshire, February 5, 1754. He served several campaigns in the Revolution. He was one of the Minute Men who enlisted April 24. 1775, in the company of Captain Joshua Abbot. of Concord, and servel for three and a half months in the reg- iment of Colonel John Stark, which performed such memorable service at the battle of Bunker Hill. Reuben (2) Abbott was a farmer all his life, and a consistent member of the Old North Church. On September 24. 1776, he married Zerviah Far- num, seventh child and third daughter of Joseph and Zervialı (Hoit) Farnum, of West Concord. ( See Farnum, IV). She was born about 1752, and died in 1813, at the age of sixty-six. Reuben (2) and Zerviah (Farnum) Abbott had seven children : Ruth, who married Henry Chandler. Phebe, who

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married Peter C. Farnum. Rebecca, who married Thomas R. Brock, Susanna, who never married. Zerviah, who married Jesse C. Tuttle. Polly, who marrie:1 Henry Martin, and Reuben (3), whose sketch follows. Reuben (2) Abbott died December 12, 1834, aged eighty years.

(VI) Reuben (3), onl son and youngest of the seven children of Reuben (2) and Zerviah (Farnum) Abbott, was born at the old homestead in West Concord, New Hampshire, October 23. 1790. He cultivated the ancestral farm all his life, was a Whig in politics, and one of the founders and original members of the West Concord Congrega- tional Church. In 1815 Reuben (3) Abbott mar- ried Hannah Abbot, second daughter and child of Daniel Abbot and Mercy Kilburn, his second wife, nearby neighbors. (See Abbott, IV). She was born October 28, 1791, and died September 13, 1876, at the age of eighty-five years. Reuben (3) and Hannah ( Abbot) Abbott. had children : Reuben Kilburn, whose sketch follows. Catherine Wheeler. who married Daniel Farnum, of West Concord. Hannah Gerrish who married Deacon John Bal- lard. of Concord. Elizabeth Bradley, who married Franklin B. Carter. Esther Martin, who married Albert G. Dow. Ezra Carter, who went to Cum- berland, Wisconsin. Peter Green, who went to Al- pha, Iowa. Henry Chandler, who went to Leroy, Kansas, where he became postmaster. Reuben (3) Abbott died June 27, 1869, in the same room in which he was born.

(VII) Reuben Kilburn, eldest child of Reuben (3) and Hannah (Abbot) Abbott, was born at the old homestead, West Concord. New Hampshire, November 20, 1815. He was seven years old when his great-grandfather, the original Reuben, died ; and till that time four generations of Reubens were living in the same house. Reuben K. Abbott inher- ited the ancestral farm to which he added by pur- chase till it now numbers one hundred and fifty acres. He was much interested in horticulture, and took great pleasure in caring for his trees and vines, of which he had a good variety, Black Walnut and Burr-Oak being among his collection. He has one hickory tree planted by the first Reuben Abbott which is yet in good bearing condition. He was a member of the West Concord Congregational Church, and a Republican in politics, serving as a member of the Concord city council during the years 1869 and 1870. For several years he was one of the prudential school committee, acted as road agent, and held various other town offices. He in- herited the best traits of huis ancestors, and was a worthy and respected citizen. On October 19, 1847. Reuben Kilburn Abbott married Mary Manuel Em- erson, eldest child of John and Hannah (Nudd) Emerson, who was born at Concord. New Hamp- shire, November 3. 1817. ( See Emerson, III). They had four children : Mary Kilburn, whose sketch follows; Lois Ann, Ella Maria, whose sketch follows: and Sarah Manuel. Lois Ann Ab- bott was born August 31. 1852, at the old homestead in West Concord, and on May 19, 1880, was mar- ried to Caleb P. Little, of Concord, New Hamp- shire, who was born April 14, 1851, at Webster, this state. They have two children: Clarence Ar- thur, born August 22, 1887; and Eva Susan, born August 15, 1890, both at Concord. Clarence A. Lit- tle was graduated from the Concord high school in 1906, and is now employed in the office of the city engineer. Sarah Manuel, youngest of the four daughters of Reuben K. and Mary M. ( Emerson) Abbott, was born August 26, 1858, at the old home- stead in West Concord, was married to Henry G.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. I, Part 98

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923 Publication date: 1908 Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 858

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 858