George Abbott of Andover

George Abbott (1617 - 1681) was the son of the 2nd George Abbott, of Bishop’s Stortford, and his wife Elizabeth. George lived briefly in Roxbury, MA where he married Hannah Chandler in 1647; they then moved to Andover. Hannah Chandler, daughter of William Chandler and his wife Agnes Bayford; they had 13 children together. Hannah survived him and married Rev. Francis Dane second as his second wife.

Origins

George Abbott, (son of George, b. c. 1550, & Bridget Wyllie) bp. 28 May 1587, m. Elizabeth _. did not leave a will, they had four sons baptized in Bishops Stortford, last one in 1628. Nothing further is known. Their son:

GEORGE ABBOTT was baptized 22 May 1617 Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire son of George and Elizabeth (-) Abbott; Moriarty, G. Andrews, "Ancestry of George Abbott of Andover,” The New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 85, 1931, p. 79-86 AmericanAncestors

http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Andover/aDeathsA.shtml "(ABBOTT (Abbet, Abbett, Abbot)) George [b. in England, was one of the first settlers of Andover, 1643. GR2], Dec. 24, 1681. [a. 66 y. GR2]"

Ben M. Angel notes: George Abbott's family appears to have been in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, well away from Yorkshire, for at least a couple generations by the time he emigrated from England. Not so sure of the source for his having come from Yorkshire.

Disambiguation

The information directly below (about his being from Rowley and a tailor) is about another George Abbott (George Abbott, Sr., of Rowley) altogether.

Came to New England w/ father's family 1642. Lived at Rowley MA @ 14yrs. 1655 settled in Andover. A husbandman and tailor, was thrifty and industrious, considered well-off for that time. A member of Sgt. James Osgood's Militia Company1658-1659 and was previously in Sgt. Stevern's Co. Made freeman May 19, 1669; elected constable Jun 3, 1680. He is the gggg grandfather of President Rutherford B. Hayes.

See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:George_Abbotts_of_New_England

Our Andover ancestor George Abbott (variously spelled Abbot) was born in England. He no doubt arrived in Massachusetts Bay Colony as part of the Great Migration in the 1630s. After a few years he married into the Chandlers, quite a close-knit family. His daughter Hannah Abbott, 1650-1741 married her own first cousin, John Chandler I, 1655-1721, who was the son of George's wife Hannah's older brother Thomas Chandler, 1628-1703. Nephew and son-in-law John's younger sister Sarah Chandler, 1661-1757 became the grandmother of the Samuel Phelps III, 1712-1795 who married John and Hannah's granddaughter Priscilla Chandler, 1713-1778, Samuel's second cousin. George's daughter Hannah and her first-cousin husband had two sons, both of whom are are direct ancestors of ours, so that two of her (daughter Hannah's) great-grandchildren (Priscilla Chandler Phelps's son Joshua Phelps I, 1738-1798 and Lois Ballard, 1746-1836) were also married as second cousins. New England apparently had a very restricted gene pool.

George was 69 years old when he died. His widow, Hannah, survived him by 26 years 5 months 8 days. She also survived her second husband by 14 years 3 months 15 days.

See http://www.milkcanpapers.com/abbott1.html for more information.

Emmigrated to Roxbury 1637. Puritan

George Abbott emigrated from Yorkshire, England about 1640 [SIC]. He was among the first settlers in Andover, Massachusetts in 1643, and a proprietor of that town. He lived and died on the farm which in 1847 was owned by John Abbott, one on his descendants of the seventh generation. His house was a garrison and was used as such many years after his death. George died at age 66 December 24, 1681.

Sources

• 1. Genealogical And Family History of the State of Maine; by George Thomas Little, A.M., Litt. D.; Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York 1909(Southern California Genealogical Society Library, Burbank, Calif.)
• 2. History of Andover From its Settlement to 1829, by Aabiel Abbot,A.M.; published by Flagg and Gould 1829; page 28 (Los Angels, California Public Library, Genealogy Department)
• 3. Historical Sketches of Andover, Massachusetts, by Sarah Loring Bailey; page 83 published by Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1880 (Los Angeles Public Library, Genealogy Department, Los Angeles, CA)

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George Abbott was a husbandman (farmer) and a tailor [SIC]. He was very thrifty and industrious and for that day was financially well off, being, according to the tax list, one of the wealthiest men in Andover

II George Abbot son of George Abbot 1 pioneer ancestor of the Pevey family of Worcester emigrated from Yorkshire to New England in in the same vessel with Hannah Chandler whom afterward married He was one of the first of the town of Andover Massachusetts in and was one of the proprietors He lived and on a farm in Andover that is now or was in the possession of his descendants. His house before his death and long afterward was used a garrison house. He married Hannah who was the daughter of William and Annis Chandler Her brother Thomas Chandler was among the first settlers. George Abbot died December 24 1681 aged sixty six years. George Abbot died December 24 1681 aged sixty six years His widow married Rev Francis Dane who died February 1697 aged eighty one years and his widow died July11 1711 aged eighty two years The children of George and Hannah Abbot were John born March 2 1648 died March 19 1721 Joseph born March 11 1649 died June 24 1650 the first death record in the town Hannah born June 9 1650 died March 2 1740 Joseph born March 30 1652 died April 8 1676 killed first of the Andover victims of King Philip's war George born June 7 1655 died February 27 1736 William born November 18 1657 died October 24 1713 Sarah born November 14 1659 died June 28 1711 Benjamin mentioned below Timothy born November 17 1663 died September 9 1730 Thomas born May 6 1666 died April 28 1728 Edward died young Nathaniel born July 4 1671 died December 1749 Elizabeth born February 9 1673 died May 4 I750

birth based on death date- age 66

• William Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity PP 297,98 By Ellery Bicknell Crane

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Was a member of Reverand Thos. Barnard's church in Andover, MA

Married at Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Biography

4. GEORGE4 ABBOTT (GEORGE3, GEORGE2, WILLIAM1) was born 14 June 1615 in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, and died 24 December 1681 in Andover, Essex Co., MA.1. He married HANNAH CHANDLER 12 December 1646 in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., MA3, daughter of WILLIAM CHANDLER and ANNIS BAYFORD . She was born 22 May 1630 in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, and died 11 June 1711 in Andover, Essex Co., MA.4.

Notes for GEORGE ABBOTT :

Ref. Abbott by Rev. Abiel Abbot & Rev. Ephraim Abbot--1847 George Abbot , one of the first settlers of Andover, MA. came from Yorkshire, England about 1640. He has a brother Thomas who may have emigrated with him, though this fact was not clear from the book. The Reverends said that he died at age 66 and wife Hannah at age 82.

Genealogical History of the Clark and Worth Families by Carol Clark Johnson " GEORGE ABBOT was bon in 1616, and came from Yorkshire, Eng., to Roxbury, MA in 1638 with Rev. Ezekiel Rogers. He lived for a time in Roxbury where he married, Dec. 12, 1646, Hannah, daughter of William Chandler who came on the same ship. Abbot, a tailor and the church sexton, was one of the first Andover settlers in 1643, and the house he built there was for many years in the possession of his descendants. It was used as a garrison for the shelter of neighbors during Indian attacks. It is believed likely that the three Abbots of Andover were related, probably sons of three brothers, one of whom with three sons went to Rowley. Forty-four of this name had graduated from New England colleges by 1844.

George Abbot could write and served on the Grand Jury in 1658 and in 1676; in 1658 was commissioner for Andover and in 1663 was Constable. In 1669 he was chosen arbitrator in a civil case. He died Dec. 24, 1681, in Andover, and his widow married, as his third wife, the Rev. Francis Dane. Hannah survived Mr. Dane and died June 11, 1711, at 82. Their descendants, in respect "for their moral worth and Christian virtues", erected a monument to their memory in 1843."

New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Third Series, Vol. IV by William Richard Cutter "George Abbot, the immigrant ancestor, came from county York, England, in 1640, and was one of the first settlers at Andover, MA. He was a property owner in 1643 and his name was neneteenth on a list of twenty-three names of householders, written in the order in which they came to the town. His house was a garrison and for some time after his death was used for that purpose. The farm descended to at least eight generations of the family. He died Dec. 24, 1681. His will was dated Dec. 12, 1681, and proved March 28, 1682. He bequeathed to his wife Hannah; to eldest son John; the other children to inherit at the death of his wife."

He was born May 15, 1615, in Bishop’s Stortford, England. He was baptized at St. Michael’s, May 22, 1617. In 1637, it is believed that he emigrated to New England on a ship named “Arbella” (see Note #1 below) with the family of William Chandler, also of Stortford. The Chandlers had four children with them on the voyage. One of them, a girl named Hannah, born in May of 1630, was age 7 or 8 when they emigrated. She was to become George’s wife in 1846.

The Abbots and the Chandlers first settled in Roxbury, Masschusetts. George lived a few years in Roxbury, but when a new plantation was planned in 1643 at Andover (see Note #4 below), originally called “Cochichawiche,” the land was purchased from Cutshamache, the Sagamore of Massachusetts (part of the Pennacook Confederacy who spoke the Algonquin language) for “6 pounds and a coat.” (5) This notable bargain is commemorated in Andover’s official seal. The settlement was incorporated as a town in 1646 and was most likely named after Andover, England, which is near the home of some of the first residents. George became one of the first proprietors and settlers of that town, #19 on the list. He first lived in the northern section of Andover. George and Hannah were married in Roxbury on December 12, 1646 in the First Church (see Note #2 below) by Reverend John Eliot, known as the “apostle to the Indians” (see Note #3 below). Shortly after they were married, George “received his bride into his humble cabin which was a garrison house for many years.” (4)

About 1660, he established a farm in the South Parish. His home was a fortified garrison, built about 1673-75, where villagers would flee for protection against Indian attacks. “The house was built of heavy hewn or sawed logs with the corners securely fastened, the eaves extending out over the walls by two feet or more, so that in case of attack, the defenders could fire down upon the enemy or pour water to put out a fire if started.” “The garrison house was home to the family until 1704, when it was replaced by a structure which later became known as “The Old Red Abbot House”. This stood until 1858, when it was torn down to be replaced with the first section of a fine, large house.”

George and Hannah had thirteen children (eight sons and five daughters) and eleven survived to maturity. The first child, John, was born March 2, 1648, he would later become the first deacon of South Church in 1711. The second child, Joseph, died when little more than a year old, the first recorded death in the town of Andover. #The fourth child, also named Joseph, was killed by Indians. “The first violence and damage occurred on April 19, 1676. Mr. Ephraim Stevens discovered the enemy about a mile this side of Bidwell’s Ferry, but escaped upon his horse, and alarmed the inhabitants. The Indians pursued along the main road, without doing any mischief, till they came to the south part of town, where they killed Joseph Abbot and took Timothy Abbot. Joseph was stout and resolute, and probably made resistance; and there is tradition, that he killed one, or more of them, before he was slain. He was in his 24th year.” “After suffering great hardships at the hands of his captors, Timothy was returned by a squaw his grandmother had been kind to, in August, near the point of starvation.” (5)

No picture or physical description of George has been handed down. “He was a man of some education; a deeply religious Puritan; and a successful businessman and farmer. His industry and judicious application of labor secured success in forming a good farm. His honesty, integrity, and wisdom secured the confidence and respect of the community. He was much employed in the business of the town, was the friend of the widow, the guardian of the orphan, and the helper of the poor. (1) He could read and write and was surveyor of highways in 1673, served on the Grand Jury in 1658 and in 1676; in 1658 was commissioner for Andover, in 1663 was Constable, in 1669 he was chosen arbitrator in a civil case, and brander of cattle in 1676.” At his death on December 24, 1681, at the age of 66, his estate was valued at 587 pounds, “6th highest in Andover.” In his will, dated December 12, 1681, 12 days before his death, he paid his wife Hannah a remarkably tender tribute: “Considering the great love and affection I bear unto my loving wife Hannah Abbot and also considering her tender love and respect she hath had to me and also considering her care and diligence in helping to get and save what God hath blessed us withal and also prudence in management of the same, I do therefore leave my whole estate to her.” (1) “At the time of her husband’s death,

Hannah was fifty-two, had been married 35 years and borne 13 children, four of whom were still under age. Nine years later, in 1690, she married the pastor of the church, as his third wife, the Reverend Francis Dane (see note #5), her step-brother (Hannah’s mother married Francis’ father John Dane), likewise somewhat older than herself. She survived him by fourteen years, passing away June 11, 1711, at the age of 82 years. Her will, dated February 10, 1707, is also on record and is considered remarkable since it is said to be the only will of the time on record in which a woman alone conveys real estate after the death of her husband.” (1) “The descendants of George Abbott and Hannah Chandler are very numerous and most respectable, and possess a marked character of their own for industry, sobriety, economy, and for the peaceful, conscientious discharge of every duty as citizens.” “They were industrious, economical, sober, pious, and respected. With Christian fortitude and submission 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.” (1)

Family

See also “Genealogical register of the descendants of George Abbot, of Andover ... “ Page 5 Archive.Org

List of Children:

• 1. John, born March 2, 1648, died March 19, 1721. The first deacon of South Church upon its establishment in 1711, he "used the office well." (11) He was married on November 17, 1673 to Sarah Barker, "daughter of Richard Barker, one of the first settlers of Andover, she was born in 1647, died February 10, 1720."(11) John and Sarah had nine children. “They were respected for their uprightness and piety. Their children, by their instructions and example, were religiously trained, and respected.” (1) The grounds for the meeting house, school, and burial grounds were donated by John in his will. “He was employed in town business, often a selectman, and was deputy to the general court.” Click here for a list of John & Sarah's children.
• 2. Joseph (1st), born March 11, 1649, died June 24, 1650. First death on Andover town records.
• 3. Hannah, born June 9, 1650, died March 2, 1741. Married Captain John Chandler on December 20, 1676. Click here for a list of Hannah & John's children.
• 4. Joseph (2nd), born March 30, 1652, died April 8, 1676. First inhabitant of Andover killed by Indians. “The Indians came to avenge the death of the old and blind redmen in the Nauset wigwams, who had been burned by Joseph and his fellow soldiers on the way home from the Chelmsford garrison.” The soldiers said they “did not know that the old Indians were left behind in the village.” The soldiers were “filled with hot cider and war fury,” so the deaths can be attributed to “liquor.” (4)
• 5. George, born June 7, 1655, died February 26, 1736. He married Dorcas Graves on April 17, 1678. He was a Captain and fought in King Philip’s War. “George was a selectman of Andover and a man of Christian character.”(2) Click here for a list of George & Dorcas' children.
• 6. William, my next heir, born November 18, 1657, died October 24, 1713.
• 7. Sarah, "born November 14, 1659, died June 28, 1711. Married Ephraim Stevens on October 11, 1680. He was born about 1634 and died about 1685." (14)
• 8. Benjamin, born December 20, 1661, died March 30, 1703. Married Sarah Farnum on April 22, 1685, they had four children. He served in the military as a Corporal and fought in King Philip’s War. Benjamin was a carpenter and at the age of 24 he built a house (click here for more info)”for his bride on 75 acres along the Shawsheen River that was part of a bigger estate owned by his father.” “Ben built the house like a fort in order to withstand Indian attacks.” “Ben was rightfully nervous about Indians, for he’d lost a brother in an Indian raid, and had another brother kidnapped.” “Abbot’s emotional sensitivity apparently applied to more than just Indians. He became involved in a property line dispute with the owner of the neighboring land, Martha Allen Carrier. Many thought her to be too strong-willed for a woman and she’d once had smallpox.” “She was not one to stand down if she thought she was right.” “When she argued with Ben Abbot, her anger got the better of her.” “She told him she’d be as close to him as bark on a tree until the property issue was settled; then she cursed him for seven years.” “Ben was sensitive to Carrier’s words, especially the curse, and he became bewitched, developing maladies such as a swollen foot and a giant pustule on his side that drained gallons of fluid. He accused Martha Carrier of being a witch.” “Hers was the most famous witch trial and she refused to confess, calling the witnesses liars and denying that the judges told the truth.” “Two of her children, adolescent boys (ages 18 and 15), were tortured until they testified against her”. She was “hanged as a witch on August 19, 1692.” “After she was arrested and executed, sensitive Ben recovered.” (8) Martha Allen married 7 foot 4 inch tall Welshman Thomas Carrier. Much has been written of this citizen of Billerica and Andover who is said to have been a refugee from the vengeance of Charles II, having been the substitute for the regular executioner at the beheading of Charles I." He was "of Billerica in 1674" and his real last name was said to be "Morgan."(19) Click here for a list of Benjamin & Sarah's children.
• 9. Timothy Sr., born November 17, 1663, died September 9, 1730. “Timothy took one of the powder horns, as he supposed, the morning his brother (Joseph) went to cut elder bushes by the swamp, now Brothers’ Field, but it was the horn of sand, used to whet the scythes, so they had no ammunition. When the Indians came upon them, Joseph was bound not to be taken or let Timothy go, as he knew he would be tortured because he was among those who burned Nauset lodges on his way back from the war. So he resisted, and was killed. Timothy was taken prisoner by Indians on April 8, 1676, he was returned some months later, by a friendly squaw, near the point of starvation.” (1) First marriage to Hannah Graves, when she passed away he married Mary Foster on December 9, 1717. He was a carpenter and builder of the “Old Red Abbot House” in 1704. “Purchased and moved to brother William’s home in 1720.” Click here to see a list of Timothy's children.
• 10. Thomas Sr., born May 6, 1666, died April 28, 1728. He was a farmer who married Hannah Gray on December 7, 1697, they had 10 children." Click here for a list of Thomas & Hannah's children
• 11. Edward, born about 1668, died young (drowned)
• 12. Nathaniel Sr., born July 4, 1671, died December, 1, 1749. Married Dorcas Hibbert on October 22, 1695. They had 4 children. Occupation: wheelwright. He was a lieutenant in the military. “About 1725 he moved to Concord, New Hampshire (originally called Rumford) and was one of the original settlers. The first European child born in Concord was born in his house.” (14)Click here for list of Nathaniel & Dorcas' children
• 13. Elizabeth, born January 29, 1673, died May 4, 1750. Married Nathan Stevens on November 24, 1692.

Notes

Note #1: Arbella or Arabella “was the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet on which, between April 8 and June 12, 1630, Governor John Winthrop, other members of the Company and Puritan emigrants transported themselves and the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company from England to Salem, thereby giving legal birth to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The ship was first known as the Eagle. Its name was changed in honor of Lady Arabella Johnson, who was a member of Winthrop’s Company, along with her husband Isaac Johnson. Lady Arabella was the daughter of Thomas Clinton, 3rd Earl of Lincoln.” This is the same ship that brought George and Hannah to New England in 1637. (for further information about the ship click here)

Note #2: First Church in Roxbury, MA “was built in 1632, that same year Thomas Weld was ordained as the first pastor and John Eliot was ordained as the first teacher”. This church is where, on December 12, 1646 George Abbot and Hannah Chandler were married. “It was the starting point for William Dawes’ Midnight Ride, April 18, 1775, in different direction than Paul Revere.” Repository for the records is the Andover-Harvard Library, Harvard Divinity School.

Note #3: Reverend John Eliot “the Indian missionary called The Apostle.” “He became minister and teaching elder at the First Church in Roxbury. In that town, he founded the Roxbury Latin School in 1645.” (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) “From 1649 to 1674, he was assisted in the Roxbury ministry by Samuel Danforth.” “He developed an interest in the Indian language and customs, and began to preach to the Indians in 1646, at first in English, but within a year in their own tongue, Algonquin. Eliot planned towns for Indian converts, away from the white towns, in areas where they could preserve their own language and culture and live by their own laws. He prepared Indians to be missionaries to their own people.” Born in 1604, “he died after a long illness on May 21, 1690.” (6)

Note #4: Andover boasts an impressive history of Presidential presence. “Washington came through Andover on November 5, 1789, on his tour of the eastern states following his inauguration. In his diary for that year, he writes that he enjoyed breakfast at the Abbot Inn on Elm Street. While at the inn, the president bestowed a kiss on the cheek of Priscilla Abbot, innkeeper Isaac Abbot’s daughter, who handily repaired the president’s riding glove. During his visit he toured the newly founded Phillips Academy.” “On July 1, 1833, President Andrew Jackson came to Andover.” “President Jackson and Vice President Martin van Buren...were welcomed at the Andover town line by the ringing of bells and the firing of artillery.” “The president spent the night at the Mansion House at Phillips Academy.” “Years later, President Franklin Pierce found a second home in Andover, known as the Summer White House. His wife’s sister lived there and the president and his wife visited frequently. Two months before his inauguration as the 14th President, while traveling on a train, one of the axels broke sending Pierce’s car into an embankment near Frye Village. The accident killed his 12 year old son.” “ Former President Theodore Roosevelt attended his son Archibald’s 1913 commencement from the academy. Former president William H. Taft was an honored guest at the academy’s Founder’s Day celebration that same year.” “In 1923, President Calvin Coolidge addressed students and residents in honor of the school’s 150th anniversary.” In 1959, Senator John F. Kennedy made a campaign stop. “President H.W. Bush spent five years studying at Phillips Academy.” “George W. Bush attended from 1962-1964.” (for more information click here)

Note #5: Reverend Francis Dane, (1615-1697) (Hannah Chandler Abbott’s second husband) “Dane moved to Andover in 1648, he became the second pastor of the North Parish in 1649. During that time he founded a school for Andover youth. Around 1680, when Francis Dane was 65 years of age, church members became concerned about his ability to fulfill his role leading the church and requested that a younger minister be sent to them. In January, 1682, Rev. Thomas Barnard, a recent Harvard graduate arrived. Shortly following Barnard’s arrival, Francis Dane’s salary was stopped.” “Dane petitioned the General Court in Boston to have it reinstated. The town complied, but split the salary of 80 pounds a year so that Dane received 30 pounds and Barnard 50. Neither man was pleased with the solution.” “He was seventy-six years old when the Salem Witch Trials began. Reverend Barnard did much to facilitate the witch hunt, holding prayer meetings in the church that resulted in touch tests where the accusers could simply touch community members who were then accused of witchery. Reverend Dane refused to take part in the witch hunt from the outset, and perhaps because of this, as well as the tension between Dane and Barnard, more members of Dane’s family were accused than any other single family in the entire episode. In addition to Dane’s extended family, two of Dane’s daughters, his daughter-in-law, and five of his grandchildren were accused.” “Regardless of the motives behind what occurred in Andover in 1692, Dane emerged as a fearless and effective leader. He suffered under the accusations of numerous members of his family, yet found the strength to guide an entire community through an irrationality that could have lead to many more innocent deaths had he not taken such an outspoken, controversial and admirable stand.” (Salem Witch Trials in History and Literature)

Note #6: I discovered that, in addition to my heir George Abbot of Andover, there was also a George and Thomas Abbot of Rowley, Massachusetts (located not far from Andover). "There is some evidence that the three Abbots were related. Perhaps George of Andover was a son of an older, and Thomas of a younger brother of George of Rowley. Coincidence of names in their families indicates relationship. All three name sons John and daughters Sarah. George of Andover, soon after the death of Thomas of Rowley and the marriage of Thomas of Andover, named a son Thomas. The same George, after naming his first daughter for his wife, called his second Sarah for the wife of George of Rowley, who at that early date had no daughter; but in reasonable time returned the compliment by naming his third daughter Hannah. Thomas had six sons, five are named after five of those of George of Andover." "The tradition that three brothers came from England, and settled in Andover and vicinity, from whom originated all the Abbots in the country, may have arisen from the fact, that the three were probably sons of three brothers in England."

Name George Abbot
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George Abbot (in some sources George Abbot, III) was born in Hertfordshire, England in 1615. Around 1640, he emigrated from Hertfordshire (although some sources say Yorkshire), England. He first settled in Roxbury; the Chandler family (he later married Hannah Chandler) was also in Roxbury. However, in 1643 the families relocated to Andover when a new plantation was planned there. The land for the Andover settlement was purchased from the Sagamore of Massachusetts (an Algonquin language tribe) for “6 pounds and a coat.”

In 1647, George married Hannah Chandler who also emigrated from Hertfordshire. George and Hannah were busy producing 13 children. Their second child, Joseph, died in June, 1950 at about 15 months old and this was the first death on the town record. Another child, whom they also named Joseph (1652-1676), was the first Andover victim of Indian warfare. The oldest son, John (1658-1721), became the first deacon of South Church in 1711.

George owned and lived on a farm and his house was used as a garrison for the town. He was a deeply religious Puritan. When George died, he left his entire estate to Hannah. In 1690, Hannah married Reverend Francis Dane, the pastor of the church. George is buried in the South Parish Church in Andover.

Sources:

• Abbot, Abiel. "History of Andover, From Its Settlement to 1829." Flagg and Gould, 1829 (books.google.com/ebooks?id=acwTAAAAYAAJ) (Available for free reading at Google Books)
• Abbot, Abiel and Abbot, Ephraim. “The Genealogical Register of the Descendants of George Abbot,” James Munroe and Company, 1847. (Available online at this link: https://archive.org/details/genealogicalregi00byuabbo)

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Children
John Abbot 1648–1721

Joseph Abbot 1649–1650

Hannah Abbot Chandler 1650–1741

Joseph Abbot 1652–1676

George Abbot 1655–1736

William Abbott 1657–1713

Sarah Abbott Stevens 1659–1711

Benjamin Abbot 1662–1703

Timothy Abbot 1663–1730

Thomas Abbot 1666–1728

Edward Abbot 1668 – unknown

Nathaniel Abbot 1671–1749

Elizabeth Abbot Stevens 1673–1750

References

• Abbott, Patricia A. 2019. The Descendants of George Abbott of Andover and Hannah Chandler Through Six Generations: Including Male and Female Lines of Descent from Generation One to Generation Six. Emerald Isle, NC: Patricia A. Abbott. ISBN:13: 978-0-578-51595-3.
• https://www.abbottgenealogy.com/about
• https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Andover/aBirthsA.shtml