A history of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania : from its first beginnings to the present time, including chapters of newly-discovered early Wyoming Valley history, together with many biographical sketches and much genealogical material. Volume II, Part 20

Author: Harvey, Oscar Jewell, 1851-1922; Smith, Ernest Gray
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: Wilkes-Barre : Raeder Press
Number of Pages: 680

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Benjamin Smith continued to make his home at Voluntown, and, owing to the unsettled state of the country, did not venture to visit Wyoming Valley for some years after the death of his father. He finally removed here in the latter part of 1782 and took up his residence in Kingston, on one of the lots belong- ing to the estate of his deceased father. In 1787 he was married to Welthea Ann (born Voluntown, Con- necticut, November 30, 1759), fourth daughter and child of Amios and Lucretia ( Miner ) York. September 12, 1787, Benjamin Smith was appointed by the Orphans' Court of Luzerne County administrator of his father's estate. Mrs. Welthea Aun ( York) Smith and her third child-a lad of some eleven years-died September 27, 1804, of an epidemic which prevailed in Wyoming Valley in the Autumn of that year. Mother and son were buried in one grave in the old burial-ground at Forty Fort, not far from their home. Benjamin Smith was married (2d) some years later to Zurviah (born Groton, Connecticut, January 4. 1758), second daughter and third child of Capt. William and Judith ( Reed) Gallup, mentioned in the note on page 629, ante. Benjamin Smith died at his home in what is now the borough of Forty Fort January 19, 1816, in the fifty-ninth year of his age, and his widow Zurviah died May 18, 1840, in the eighty-third year of her age. Zurviah (Gallup) Smith bore her husband no children.

Benjamin and Welthea Ann ( York) Smith were the parents of five children, all of whoin were born in Kingston Township, as follows : (i) John, born November 4, 1789 ; for many years a well-known phy- sician in Wilkes-Barre, where he died August 24, 1869. (ii) Olive, born about 1791 ; married before March, 1821, to Lodovick Gaylord of Wyalusing, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, son of Justus Gaylord, Jr., and grandson of Justus Gaylord (1732-1820). (iii) Amos, born 1793 ; died September 27, 1801. (iv) Peirce, born about 1795; married March 5, 1817, to Ada, daughter of Capt. Thomas and Eleanor (Shonts) Jenkins ; died subsequently to 1866. (v) Phebe, born about 1797 ; married before March, 1821, to Jonathan Fellows of Huntington Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

For further references to Benjamin Smith and his family see "The Harvey Book," page 908.

* (v) PEREGRINE GARDNER mentioned in the note on page 254, Vol. I.

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"Now ye true Intent and meaning of ye Condition of ye above obligation is that if ye above Bounden PEREGREEN GARDNER His Heirs Execurs or adminors or either of them shall well and truly pay unto Zebulon Butler, Stephen Fuller or Timothy Smith or to ye rest of ye Comtee of setlers or to their Heirs &c : ye full and Just sum of Fifteen pounds Lawfull money of New England on or before ye first Day of July which will be in ye year of our Lord 1773 with Lawfull Interest thereon from ye first Day of July Next Comeing untill paid, and also to Do all ye Duties on sd Right agreeable to ye votes of sd Company, that then ye above obligation is to be Nul and void. But on ye sd Gard- ner's Non performance thereof then to stand & Remain in full force & virtue in ye Law. "Signed Sealed & Delivered in Presence of

[Signed]

"WILLIAM BUCK,

"WILLIAM YOUNG,

"PEREGREEN GARDNER," [L. s. ]

In February and Marclı, 1772, the settlers, with very few exceptions, were still living in Fort Wyoming and the Mill Creek block-house- being about equally divided between the two strongholds. In the early part of the Winter of 1771-'72 both the fort and the block-house had been enlarged and strengthened. Miner, in his "History of Wyoming" (pages 139 and 140, and Appendix, 47), gives a brief description of the block-house at Mill Creek, drawn from data furnished him by persons who had been occupants of the block-house at the period mentioned.

"A ditch was dug around the area (nearly an acre); logs, twelve or fourteen feet high, split, were placed perpendicularly in double rows, to break joints, so as to enclose it. Loop-holes to fire through with 111 usketry were provided. Huts were built all around the inside, against the wall of upright timbers. They were one story high ; several were divided into a number of small but neat and comfortable rooms. The huts of Captain Butler and Nathan Denison adjoined each other. Next in the row was the store of Matthias Hollenback. He had brought up from Lancaster County a variety of indispensable articles. * The. * next in order-the largest building in the stockade-was a boarding- house kept by Dr. Joseph Sprague. Neither a chair nor table nor bed- stead, except the rude construction of an augur and ax, was yet in the settlement. A samp inortar-that is, a large stump hollowed eight or ten inches by burning, the pestle worked by a spring pole-pounded corn, wheat and rye for bread ; and this was their only mill. Venison and shad were plenty, but salt was a treasure. Dr. Sprague would load his horse with wheat and go out by the bridle path* (for as yet there. was no road) to the Delaware at Cushetunk, have his grist ground, get a few spices and a runlet of Antigua rum. * A small number of Indians, friendly and good neighbors, lived on the flatst half a inile above Mill Creek, and frequently visited the stockade. Among them were 'Capt.' Job Chillaway, } 'Black Henry' and John Lystrum. The wife of 'Captain' Chillaway seemed pious and well disposed. From the Moravians she had derived the name of 'Comfort,' and the knowledge to knit and to sew. The men were excellent hunters, and supplied the fort witlı game."

At a town-meeting held January 21, 1772,§ it was voted that Wil- liam Stewart and Phineas Peirce should "have settling rights in ye township of Forty"; and that "Doctr Sprague [was] to have a settling right in Wilksbury, provided he gave a bond of fifty dollars to Capt. Butler and ye rest of ye Comtee for ye use of ye Company." Early in

* The "Upper Road to the Delaware," described on page 646.

+ At or near the site of the former Monsey village, Matchasaung, described on page 213, Vol. I.

# See pages 650 and 701.

¿ See page 1,057 of "The Town Book of Wilkes Barre," previously mentioned.

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February, 1772, in accordance with the abovementioned vote, Dr. Joseph Sprague, who, some four months previously, had come from Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York (see page 713), executed to Messrs. Butler, Fuller and Smith a bond in the sum of £30, conditioned for the payment of £15, with interest, on or before July 1, 1773. "Att a meeting of the Inhabitants at Wyoming legally warned and held in Wilksbury January 27, 1772, John Smith, Esq., was chosen Moderator. The meeting was opened, and adjourned by reason of ye badness of ye weather until the 31st instant, at ten of ye clock in ye forenoon." At the adjourned meeting held on January 31st Curtis Spaulding and Isaac Underwood were "admitted into ye township Forty"; Cyprian Hibbard was admitted, on the right of his brother William Hibbard, and Asa Stevens was admitted into the township of Wilkes-Barré, and gave his bond for fifty dollars. It was "Voted, That Mr. Forgason is not excepted as a setler on John Staples. Right by this Company; therefore ye sd Forgason is voted out by this Company, to depart out of this Com- pany, &c." Eleazar Carey was admitted as a settler in the Forty Town- ship, provided he should give to the committee a bond for sixty dollars. A legally-warned ineeting of the inhabitants was held at Fort Wyoming February 25, 1772, and John Smith, Esq., was chosen Mod- erator. The meeting was then adjourned till February 27th, "by reason ye people on ye west side of ye river can't pass over-ye river being so high." The following extracts are from the minutes* of the meet- ing held February 27th.

"Ye Proprietors in each settling town that is not now filled up shall have ye liberty to admit in settlers into their respective towns until the vacant rights are all filled up in each town, without being voted in by this Company. Voted, That ye right that Capt. Robert Hopkins is on is voted to Robert Dixson. Voted, That Captain Attwaters has no right in ye township Forty & is excluded out of said Forty Township."

The following is a copyt of one of the bonds given to the Commnit- tee representing the proprietors of Wilkes-Barré, under the abovemen- tioned resolution regarding the adınission of new settlers into the town- ships of Wilkes-Barré, Hanover, Kingston, Plymouth and Pittston.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that I JOHN ABBOTT; Late of windham But Now of wilksbury on ye Susquehannah Purchase am Holden and stand firmly Bound unto JOHN SMITH, PEREGREEN GARDNER and AARON WILDER a Comtee for ye town of

* See page 1,059 of "The Town Book of Wilkes Barre.",

t See the original in the collections of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society.

# JOHN ABBOTT was born in the town of Windham, Windham County, Connecticut. September 27, 1741. the seventh and youngest child of Philip and Abigail ( Bickford) Abbott, mentioned in the note 011 page 718. George Abbot, or Abbott, born in Yorkshire, England, about 1615, settled in 1643 at Andover, Massachusetts, where he was married in 1647 to Hannah Chandler (born in 1629). He died in 1681 and she died in 1711. They were the parents of sixteen children, the sixth of whom, William, was born November 18, 1657, and died October 21. 1713. He was married to Elizabeth Gray (who died in December. 1712), and they became the parents of twelve children, among whom were Paul and Philip. Paul Abhott had a son Benjamin (born July 25, 1724), who was the father of Asa Abbott (born May 25. 1756), who was married to Mrs. Sarah ( Bidlack ) Fuller, as mentioned in the note on page 718.

Philip Abbott, mentioned above, was born April 3, 1699, the ninth child of William and Elizabeth (Gray) Abbott. He was a farmer, and in 1722 removed from Andover and settled in Windham, Connecti- cut, where he was married October 8, 1723, to Abigail Bickford, and where he died April 17, 1749. Philip and Abigail (Bickford) Abbott became the parents of the following. named children, all born in Wind- ham : (i) John, born July 12, 1724 ; died July 18, 1740. (ii) Abiel, born March 3, 1726 ; died May 21, 1772. (iii) Stephen, born April 21, 1728 : married January 3, 1750, to Freelove Burgess, and had Susannah, born October 23, 1752. (iv) Hannah, born March 16, 1730. (v) Mary, born July 6, 1732; married to Stephen Fuller, as previously mentioned ; died May 5, 1803. (vi) Joseph, horn February 14. 1735. (vii) John, born September 27, 1741 ; killed in August. 1778.

(ii) Abiel Abbott, who was a Captain in the Connecticut militia, was named as one of the grantees in the Indian deed of July, 1754 (see page 272, Vol. I), he having subscribed for one share, or right, in the Susquehanna Purchase. In February, 1772, he conveyed one-half of this right to his son Philip. (ii) Abiel Abbott was married at Windham June 5, 1750, to Abigail Fenton. Abiel died May 21, 1772, at Wind- ham, and his widow was afterwards married to John Chamberlain of Amenia Precinct, Dutchess County, New York, and died August 14. 1776. The children of Abiel and Abigail ( Fenton) Ahhott were : (1) Philip, born March 23, 1751 ; died March 8, 1834. (2) James, born March 9, 1753. (3) Abiel, horn Novem- ber 28, 1754. (4) Abigail, born February 21, 1763. (5) Anna, born September 18, 1765.

(1) Philip Abbott, eldest child of Capt. Abiel Ahbott, came to Wyoming Valley from Windham, Con- necticut, early in March, 1772, in coinpany with his uncle (vii) John Abbott, and was admitted as a settler in Wilkes-Barre. When, in the ensuing month, a distribution of the Wilkes-Barre lands was made to the

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proprietors of the township (see page 727), Philip Abbott was allotted Lot No. 34 in the town-plot, Lot No. 44 in the 1st Division, Lot No. 37 in the 3d Division and Lot No. 11 in the 4th Division. These lots he owned until September 23, 1777, when he conveyed them to his brother James, who, June 13, 1787, sold them to Matthias Hollenback. Philip Abbott remained at Wilkes-Barre only until 1773 or '74, and then returned to Windham County, where, at Brooklyn, July 6, 1775, he was married by the Rev. Josiah Whit- ney to Anna Hewitt. She died December 29, 1796, and a year or two later Philip Abbott returned to Wilkes- Barre with his children. March 17, 1815, he was married (2d) at Wilkes-Barre to Mabel Merritt. He died at Kingston, Pennsylvania, March 8, 1834, aged eighty-three years. The children of (1) Philip and Anna ( Hewitt) Abbott who grew to maturity were: (i) Philip, born April 14, 1781; died August 1, 1854. (ii) James Hewitt, born in 1786 ; died in 1809. (iii) Hannah, born February 28, 1788 ; inarried June 13, 1807, to Luther Yarington of Wilkes-Barre (see sketch of Yarington family) ; died May 23, 1858. (iv) Abiel, born October 7, 1790 ; died October 2, 1838. (v) Mary, born in 1793 ; became the wife of Dr. Josiah Jack- son, of Kingston, Pennsylvania.

(i) Philip Abbott, son of Philip and Anna (Hewitt) Abbott, came to Wyoming Valley with his father, brothers and sisters. December 25, 1805, he was married at Tobyhanna, then in Northampton, but now in Monroe, County, Pennsylvania, to Lucy Waller. She died May 27, 1822, and September 5, 1836, Philip Abbott was married to Sybil (born February 17, 1802; died in August, 1879), daughter of John and Sybil Gridley and widow of Edward Rohn, all of Wilkes-Barre. (i) Philip Abbott was, in middle life, a con- tractor and builder, and in the years 1835-'37 built a number of locks and dans in the Lehigh River for The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company mentioned below. A few years later, in partnership with his son Merritt, he constructed the first railway in Wyoming Valley. (See Chapter XLVIII.) Philip Abbott died August 1, 1854, in Plains Township, Luzerne County, where, for a number of years, he had been a farmer and a Justice of the Peace. By his first wife he had the following-named children : Merritt (born in 1806 ; md. to Isabella Adamns), Eliza (1808), Anna Maria (born in 1810; md. to Thomas Van Horn), Polly W. (born in 1812; md. to Luther Andrus), Arrilla W, (1816). By his second wife Philip Abbott had : (1) Lucy Waller (born May 18, 1838; married November 3, 1856, to Richard C. Totten of Wilkes-Barré) and (2) Philip. The last-named was born in Wilkes-Barre April 8, 1840. From 1855 to 1866 he was a clerk in the hardware establishment of Ziba Bennett, Wilkes-Barre, and from 1866 to 1883 was a niember of the firni of Z. Bennett & Co. (successors to Ziba Bennett). In 1884 Mr. Abbott renioved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he now resides-being engaged with his elder son in the manufacturing business at Minneapolis. (2) Philip Abbott was married at Wilkes-Barré October 12, 1869, to Jennie, daughter of George and Sarah (Sealy) Willetts, and they are the parents of two sons ( both born in Wilkes-Barre): (i) Clinton Philip Abbott, born October 23, 1875; graduated at Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, in 1899. (ii) John G. Abbott, born August 26, 1878 ; graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1905, and now practising medicine in St. Paul.

(iv) Abiel Abbott, son of Philipand Anna ( Hewitt) Abbott, was, at the age of fourteen years, indentured to George Chahoon of Wilkes-Barre to learn the trade of carpenter and joiner. He served seven years as an apprentice, and then pursued his trade on his own account. On Sunday, October 17, 1813, he was mar- ried at Kingston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, by the Rev. Benjamin Bidlack, to Celinda (born 1795), daughter of Elisha and Eunice (Carver) Atherton of Kingston. (See a sketch of the Atherton family in a subsequent chapter.) In 1814 Abiel Abbott went to Mauch Chunk, in the employ of Messrs. Miner, Cist & Co. of Wyoming Valley, who were attempting to mine and ship anthracite coal fromn a bed near Manch Chunk. (For an account of that venture, and Abiel Abbott's connection with it, see Chapter LI.) Re- turning to Wilkes-Barré after a few months' absence Mr. Abbott opened a carpenter-shop here and re- sumed work at his trade. September 4, 1815, he became a member of Lodge No. 61, F. & A. M., of Wilkes- Barré. When, in 1819, The Lehigh Navigation Company (afterwards The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company) began its operations at and near Mauch Chunk, Abiel Abbott-having lost by fire at Wilkes- Barré his shop, tools and, indeed, all the profits of several years' industry, and his wife and infant daugh- ter having died July 2, 1817-went down to Mauch Chunk with several other Wilkes-Barre men in search of employment. Messrs. White and Hazard soon learned to appreciate Abiel Abbott's merits. They found in him, in addition to a correct knowledge of his trade, a sound judgment, enlarged and liberal views in respect to business in general, quickness to discern and skill to execute ; and all these qualities were com- bined with strict integrity and spotless honor. Within fifteen years Mr. Abhott rose to the position of Superintendent of the L. C. & N. Company's works, with a salary of $2,500 per annum, which, for those

days, was a large one. Early in 1838, finding that his health was giving way, he purchased a farm in Kings- ton Township, to which he removed with his family a few months later, and there he died October 2, 1838. I11 1822 he had married (2d) Sybil Wheeler (born 1792), daughter of James Wheeler, who bore him six children, as follows : James W. (Cashier, at one time, of the First National Bank of Tamaqua, Pennsyl- vania), Celinda, Edwin, Anna, Hannah and Louisa. Mrs. Sybil ( Wheeler) Abbott died August 14, 1853, and is buried by the side of her husband in Forty Fort Cemetery. By his first wife Abiel Abbott had two children ; (1) Jacob Dorman, b. at Wilkes-Barre in 1815, and died at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Feb- ruary 5, 1833. (2) Celinda, born and died at Wilkes-Barre in 1817.

(vii) JOHN ABBOTT-born September 27, 1741, son of Philip and Abigail (Bickford) Abbott-who ex- ecuted the "settler's bond" printed on the next page, was married in the parish of Canada (later Hamp- ton), in the town of Windham, November 4, 1762, to Alice (born at Windham in 1741), daughter of Stephen Fuller, Sr., and sister of Capt. Stephen Fuller, mentioned on page 717. John Abbott was by trade a carpenter and joiner. As previously noted he came to Wyoming with his nephew Philip in March, 1772, and, having been duly admitted a proprietor in Wilkes-Barré, participated in the distribution of lots which took place in April, 1772, and was allotted Lot No. 35 in the town-plot, Lot No. 48 in the 1st Division, Lot No. 10 in the 3d Division and Lot No. 2 in the 4th Division. He lived either in the fort or the block-house at Wilkes-Barre until about 1774, when, having erected a house on one of his lots in what is now Plains Township, opposite Forty Fort, he removed to it with his family. Prior to 1778 he disposed of his town-lot (No. 35) to the Rev. Jacob Johnson.

John Abbott took part in the battle of Wyoming as a private in the Sixth, or Upper Wilkes-Barre, Company of the 24th Regiment, Connecticut Militia, commanded by Capt. Rezin Geer, Escaping froin the field of battle in the general rout he waded through the shallow water of the Susquehanna to Monocanock Island. Crossing the island he, being unable to swim, was aided over the deep channel of the river be- tween the island and the Wilkes-Barre shore by his neighbor and fellow-soldier George Cooper, who was also fleeing from the scene of carnage. In the flight of the inhabitants of Wyoming from the valley after the surrender of their various forts to the enemy, Mr. Abbott took his family down the river to Sunbury, and, leaving them there, joined the detachment of militia under the command of Lieut. Col. Zebulon Butler (see inuster-roll of the same in Chapter XVI) and marched to Wilkes-Barre on August 4, 1778. Stone says ("History of Wyoming," p. 270) that Mr. Abbott found "his house and his barn had been burnt, his cattle slaughtered or driven away and his fields ravaged. The gleanings only remained to require his atten- tion. These he attempted to gather [about the middle of August], but in doing so, while engaged in the field with a neighbor named Isaac Williams, a young man, or rather youth of eighteen years, of fine promise, they were shot by a party of Indians who stole upon them unawares, scalped, and left dead upon the spot. "The widow, with her helpless charge [of nine children, the eldest of whom was a daughter fourteen years of age], being now entirely destitute, was compelled to seek her way back to Hampton-a distance of more than 300 miles-on foot, penniless, heart-broken, and dependent upon charity for suhsistence. But the journey was effected without loss of life or limb. * * She remained at Hampton several years after the troubles [in Wyoming] were over, and until her sons were grown up Returning then to the valley, and reclaiming successfully the estate of her husband, she settled thereon with her fainily." Sep- tember 20, 1782, Capt. Stephen Fuller was appointed administrator of the estate of John Abbott, deceased. After her return to Wilkes-Barre Mrs. Alice ( Fuller) Abbott was married, as his second wife, to Stephen

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wilksbury In sd Purchase In ye full & just sum of Thirty pounds Lawfull money of New England to be paid unto theni ye sd JOHN SMITH, PEREGREEN GARDNER and AARON WILDER or to their sucksessors in sd office or to either of their Heirs, Execuors or adminors or assigns to ye which payment well & Truly to be made & Done I Bind my self my Heirs Execuors & adminors Firmly by these Presents. Signed with my Hand & sealed with my seal this 23rd Day of march A. D. 1772 & in ye 12th year of his majesties Reign George ye 3rd King &c :

"THE CONDITION of ye above written obligation is such that whereas ye company of setlers on ye Susquehannah Purchase Did at their meeting Legally warned and Held in wilksbury February 27th 1772 voted that ye Propriators in each setling town that is Not filled up shall have ye Liberty to admitt in setlers into their Respective towns untill ye vacant Rights are all filled up in each town. And whereas JOHN SMITH, PEREGREEN GARDNER, & AARON WILDER are a Comtee appointed by ye town of Wilksbury to trans- act ye affairs of sd town and to admitt setlers &c .: and whereas ye above Bounded JOHN ABBOTT niade application to sd Conitee for ye town of Wilksbury for to Purchase a setling Right in sd town of wilksbury and sd Comtee Granted sd setling right and it was voted by sd companey &c :

"Now ye true Intent and meaning of ye condition of ye above obligation is that if ye above Bounden JOHN ABBOTT his Heirs Execuors or adminors or either of them shall well & truly pay or cause to be paid unto JOHN SMITH, PEREGREEN GARDNER or AARON WILDER or to their sucksessors in sd office ye full & Just sum of Fifteen pounds Lawfull

Gardner of Wilkes-Barré, mentioned in the note on page 254, Vol. I. Mrs. Gardner died at her home, in what is now Plains Township, in June, 1816, and her remains are interred in the little grave-yard between Port Bowkley and Plainsville which is almost hidden from view and shut off from access by immense piles of culm and rock, deposited there in the course of recent coal-mining operations carried on near by. (See the photo-illustration facing this page.)

The children of John and Alice ( Fuller) Abbott were as follows : (i) Alice, born April 17, 1764. (ii) Abigail, born December 15, 1765; died young. (iii) Stephen, born December 6. 1767; died June 19, 1770. (iv) Charles, born June 3, 1769 ; died after 1853. (v) Stephen, born April 19, 1771 ; died July 22, 1853. (vi) Abigail, born about 1773; died unmarried. (vii) Reuben. (viii) Lydia, became the wife of - Swet- land, and was living in Knox County, Ohio, in 1853. (ix) Celinda, became the wife of Reuben Taylor, and in 1853 was living in Scott, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, having survived her husband. (x) and (xi) Mary and Hannah (twins). (xii) Sarah, born February 28, 1778 ; became the wife of - - Kennedy, and in 1853 was living in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania.

(iv) Charles Abbott returned to Wyoming from Windham County with his mother, brother and sisters, and settled in that part of Wilkes-Barre Township which later became Plains Township. Prior to 1800 he was married. His name appears in the tax-lists of Wilkes-Barre for 1796, 1802, 1807 and other years. Some years later he removed to Delaware County, Ohio, where he was still living in 1853.

(v) Stephen Abbott, born April 19, 1771, third son of John and Alice ( Fuller) Abbott, returned to Wyo- ming with the other members of his mother's family and settled on the fine farm on Jacob's Plains which had been owned by his father. There he resided until his death. Stephen Abbott was married at Wilkes- Barre in 1799 to Abigail (born at Stonington, Conn., June 25, 1779), daughter of William and Philomena (Frink) Searle and granddaughter of Constant Searle, who was killed at the battle of Wyoming. Mrs. Abigail (Searle) Abbott died June 2, 1842. and Stephen Abbott was married (2d), a few years later, to Mrs. Sarah (Denison ) Ferrier (born in 1794; died in 1883), youngest child of Col. Nathan and Elizabeth (Sill) Denison, and widow of Thomas Ferrier.

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A history of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania : from its first beginnings to the present time, including chapters of newly-discovered early Wyoming Valley history, together with many biographical sketches and much genealogical material. Volume II, Part 20

Author: Harvey, Oscar Jewell, 1851-1922; Smith, Ernest Gray Publication date: 1909 Publisher: Wilkes-Barre : Raeder Press Number of Pages: 680

Author: Harvey, Oscar Jewell, 1851-1922; Smith, Ernest Gray
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: Wilkes-Barre : Raeder Press
Number of Pages: 680