George A Abell, Sr

George Abell, son of Robert was born in 1561 in Derby. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford and admitted to the Inner Temple in 1581. He was Executor to his father's Will in 1588.

The information says that he died after Sept. 8, 1630/

• 'George Abell, Gent.1,2
• ' M, b. circa 1561, d. circa 8 September 1630
• Father Robert Abell3,2 b. 1531, d. 17 May 1588
• ' George Abell, Gent. was born circa 1561 at Stapenhill, Derbyshire, England; Age 17 in 1578.3,2 He married Frances Cotton, daughter of Richard Cotton, Esq. and Mary Mainwaring, on 1 May 1599 at Wrenbury, Cheshire, England; They had 3 sons (George, Robert, & Richard) and 1 daughter (Mary).3,4,2 George Abell, Gent. died circa 8 September 1630 at Hemmington in Lockington, Leicestershire, England. He left a will on 8 September 1630.3,2 He was buried on 13 September 1630 at Lockington, Leicestershire, England.3,2 His estate was probated on 7 February 1631.3,2
• 'Family Frances Cotton b. c 1573, d. bt 1630 - 16 Apr 1646
• Children
  • ◦Joanne Abell+
  • ◦Mary Abell b. c 1600, d. a 1646
  • ◦George Abell b. c 1602, d. a 1646
  • ◦Robert Abell+5,2 b. c 1605, d. 20 Jun 1663
  • ◦Richard Abell b. c 1608, d. a 1646
• Citations
• 1.[S2727] Unknown author, Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, by David Faris, p. 1.
• 2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 2.
• 3.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 33.
• 4.[S15] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, p. 1.
• 5.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 34.
• Reference: Our Royalty
• Robert Abell was born in about 1605[1] in Stapenhill, Derbyshire, England and died at Rehoboth, Massachusetts on 20 June 1663.[2] He was among the early settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and ...
• Family background
• Robert was the second son of 'George Abell (1561–1630)[7] and Frances Cotton (b. abt. 1573-d. by 1646).[8]' On his mother’s side, he was descended from a long line of English, Norman and French aristocrats and royalty.[9]
• His maternal grandfather, “Rt. Hon. Sir George Cotton,” was “Vice-Chamberlain of the Household to the Prince of Wales, (later King Edward VI) . . . a Privy Counsellor . . . [and] Esquire of the Body to King Henry VIII.”[10] Henry knighted him before or in 1542.[11]
• Robert’s father, 'George Abell, at the age of 17 enrolled in Oxford University’s Brasenose College (8 December 1578).[12] By November of 1580, he had become a barrister and a member of the Inner Temple.[13] Before June 1630, he arranged an apprenticeship in London for his son, but Robert decided to try his luck in the New World, instead. This was a move that his father disapproved of, but, nevertheless, financed.
• 'In his will, dated 8 September 1630, George Abell states (original spelling retained), “I bequeath unto my second sonne Robert Abell onelie a Twentie shilling peece for his childs parte in regard of ye charges I have beene at in placeing him in a good trade in London wch hee hath made noe use of and since in furnishing him for newe England where ......
• Notes
• 1.^ Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Shepard, Jr.; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, p. 66
• 2.^ Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896. p.789
• 3.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p. 11
• 4.^ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins
• 5.^ Banks, Charles Edward. The Winthrop Fleet of 1630. p. 57
• 6.^ Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Massachusetts, p. 4
• 7.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p. 41
• 8.^ Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Shepard, Jr.; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, p. 66
• 9.^ Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Shepard, Jr.; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700
• 10.^ Mosley, Charles, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, Vol. 1, p. 871
• 11.^ Boyer, Carl. Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 71
• 12.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p. 41
• 13.^ Cooke, William Henry. Students admitted to the Inner Temple, 1571-1625, p. 35
• 14.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p. 42
• 15.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p.43
• 16.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, pp. 14-15
• 17.^ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins
• 18.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p. 43
• 19.^ Bliss, Leonard. The History of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, pp. 38-39
• 20.^ Bliss, Leonard. The History of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, pp. 42-43
• 21.^ Bliss, Leonard. The History of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, p. 43
• 22.^ Bliss, Leonard. The History of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, p. 45
• 23.^ The History of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, p. 47
• 24.^ Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896, p. 917
• 25.^ Bliss, Leonard. The History of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, p. 48
• 26.^ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins
• 27.^ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins
• 28.^ Luther, Leslie L. and George A. Luther. The Luther genealogy, p. 30
• 29.^ Luther, Leslie L. and George A. Luther. The Luther genealogy, p. 29
• 30.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p. 47
• 31.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p. 56
• 32.^ Bliss, Leonard. The History of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, p. 117
• 33.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p. 50
• 34.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p. 52
• 35.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, pp. 54-55
• 36.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p. 15
• Bibliography
• Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America: Robert Abell of Rehoboth, Mass., his English ancestry and his descendants, other Abell families and immigrants, Abell families in England. Rutland, VT: Tuttle Pub. Co., 1940.
• Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Vol. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
• Anderson, Virginia DeJohn. New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK: 1991. ISBN 052144764X
• Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896. Providence, RI: Narragansett Historical Publishing, 1897.
• Banks, Charles Edward. The Winthrop Fleet of 1630: An Account of the Vessels, the Voyage, the Passengers and their English Homes, from Original Authorities. 1930. ISBN 0806300205
• Bliss, Leonard. The History of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts: Comprising a History of the Present Towns of Rehoboth, Seekonk, and Pawtucket, from Their Settlement to the Present Time; Together with Sketches of Attleborough, Cumberland, and a Part of Swansey and Barrington, to the Time that They Were Severally Separated from the Original Town. Boston, MA: Otis, Broaders, & Co., 1836
• Boyer, Carl. Medieval English ancestors of Robert Abell: Who died in Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, 20 June 1663: with English ancestral lines of other colonial Americans. C. Boyer, 2001.
• Cooke, William Henry. Students admitted to the Inner Temple, 1571-1625. London: F. Cartwright, 1868.
• Finley, R. Mainwaring. A Short History of the Mainwaring Family. London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, 1890.
• Fischer, David Hackett. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989. ISBN 0195069056
• Rider, Fremont. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library.
• Luther, Leslie L. and George A. Luther. The Luther genealogy: a history of the descendants of Captain John Luther who arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1635. Lakeland, FL: G.A. Luther, 2001.
• Mosley, Charles, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th Edition, 3 Volumes. Wilmington, DE: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
• Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Massachusetts: A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns, and Churches, and Other Contemporaneous Documents. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1998. Originally published in 1900. ISBN 0806307749
• Richardson, Douglas, and Kimball G. Everingham, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2005. ISBN 0806317590
• Richardson, Douglas, Kimball G. Everingham, and David Faris. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2004. ISBN 0806317507
• Roberts, Gary Boyd. The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States Who Were Themselves Notable or Left Descendants Notable in American History. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. ISBN 0806317450
• Roberts, Gary Boyd, Julie Helen Otto, and New England Historic Genealogical Society. Ancestors of American Presidents. 3rd Edition. Boston, MA: C. Boyer, 1989. ISBN 0936124148
• Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. Vol. 1-4. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1862.
• Thompson, Neil D. "Abell-Cotton-Mainwaring: Maternal Ancestry of Robert Abell of Weymouth and Rehoboth, Mass," The Genealogist, Vol 5, No 2 (Fall 1984): 158-71, 9 (1988): 89
• Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Shepard, Jr.; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. ISBN 0806313676
• Winthrop, John. Winthrop's Journal, "History of New England" 1630-1649. Vol. 1 & 2. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908.
• External links
• Great Migration Study Project [1]
• Luther Family Association [2]
• Winthrop Society [3]
• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America [4]
• The National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons [5]
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Abell
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• Reference: Combermere

George Abell, gentleman, a native of Stapenhill, which was part of Derbyshire until the Local Government Act of 1888, matriculated Dec. 8, 1578 at Brasenose College, Oxford, aged 17. In Nov. 1580 described as 'late of Clements Inn' he was admitted a student at the Inner Temple, and admitted a member in Nov. 1584. The arms of the Abells of Stapenhill, as described in the 1611 Visitation of Derbyshire, were 'Argent, on a saltier engrailed Azure, nine fleurs de lis of the field'.

On May 1, 1599 in the chapel at Wrenbury, Cheshire, he married Frances Cotton, daughter of Richard Cotton, esquire, of Combermere Abbey, Cheshire, by his wife Mary Mainwaring.

George Abell, gentleman, of Hemington died testate with a will dated Sept. 8, 1630, which was proved Feb. 7, 1630/31. His legatees were his wife Frances, daughter Mary Abell, eldest son George Abell, second son Robert Abell, and third son Richard Abell, then serving his apprenticeship. For the overseeing of his estate he requested the assistance of his brothers[-in-law], George Cotton, esquire, and Andrew Cotton, gentleman, both of Combermere, and his good friend Sir Richard Harpur.

Note on his descendants. George's second son Capt Robert Abell settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and along with fellow Puritan merchant, Capt John West (1590-1659), traded in Virginia and Maryland, including St Mary's County, during the Commonwealth years. George's third son Richard Abell finished his apprenticeship at the Merchant Tailors School in London, before becoming a merchant factor in St Mary's County, Maryland, founding a branch of the Abell family in that county. One of Richard's descendants is my 3rd-great-grandmother Julia Ann Abell Ritchie (1818-1897).

• Source: Find-A-Grave

GEORGE ABELL, of Stapenhill in Derbyshire and Hemington in Leicestershire. He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1581; was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford. He married Frances Cotton, daughter of Richard Cotton, of Combermere. George made his will dated 8 Sept. 1630 and it was proved 1 Feb. 1630/31.

Sources:

1. Ancestors of American Presidents - (1989) p. 296 2. Source: Burke's American Families, pg. 2529. 3. The Abell Family in America, p. 37,41-43 4. Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists by David Faris, p. 1 5. Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell by Carl Boyer, 3rd (2001) 6. Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith 7. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Douglas Richardson); 2013; Vol. 1:107 8. AFN: FKK6-X1

This is the will of George Abell of Hemington, Leicestershire, England. The source: Boston Transcript, Nov. 17, 1926.

The authority for the statement that Robert Abell of Rehoboth, Mass.--name given in first list of Freeman of Massachusetts May 18, 1631--was a son of George Abell of Hemington Leicestershire, Eng., is found in the will of George Abell proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury Feb. 7, 1631. This will was found by John Matthews, genealogist of London. It has been seen by a visiting American, who was interested, and the copy made by Mr. Matthews found to be authentic. The will is dated Sept. 8, 1630. A copy reads:

I, George Abell, of Hemington, in the county of Leicester, gentieman, being sicke in bodye, but of good and perfect memory etc.--And for that portion of worldly estate and goods I doe devise and bequeath the same in manner and form following:

Item. I bequeath unto my third sonne--Richard Abell Tenn pounds of good and lawful English money to be disposed for his benefit until the time of his apprenticeship shall have ended, and expired, and my will is that my brother, Andrew Cotton, of Cumbermere in the countie of Chester--gentleman, shall have the disposint of it for his aforesaid benefit for the time above named.

Item. I bequeath unto my 2nd sonne, Robert Abell, onelie a 20 shilling piece, for his childs parte in regard of the charges I have been at in placinge him in a good trade in London wch hee hath made noe use of and since in furnishing him for New England--where I hope he now is.

Item. I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary Abell all the monie or coyne that nowe is at my decease out of this transitorie life shall be in her owne possession and custodie, with all the mault rock lyeth in the chamber on the left hand of the stairs, as we go to the mault room. And my will is that shee shall have halfe the sheeps wch are or shall be betwixt her and me at my decease.

Item. All the rest of my goods, chattels and debts with all other my worldlie estate whatsoever I give and bequeath to the use of my wife Frances and George Abell mine eldest sonne. And my will is that my above named brother Andrew Cotton, with the advice of my brother George Cotton Esquire of Cumbermere aforesaid have the disposing of the same for the taking of something either for life, lives or for years for them what shall seem best in both their judgments. And my will is further that my said wife shall have halfe the profits thereof during her natural life, and my aforesaid sonne George Abell to have the reversion and remainder to him and his whatsoever. And I do hereby constitute and appoint my aforesaid brother Andrew Cotton, my sole executor of this my last will and testament, hopine that he will faithfully perform the same according to the trust I have reposed in him, and for his paines to be taken therein I shall give him the best saddle horse wch I have or shall have at my decease. And I doe make overseers hereof of my loving brother George Cotton, before named, and my approved good friend Sir Richard Harper of Little Over, in the countie of Derbie Knight.

I have hereunto sett my seal and subscribed my name. George Abell.

On May 1, 1599 in the chapel at Wrenbury, Cheshire, he married Frances Cotton, daughter of Richard Cotton, esquire, of Combermere Abbey, Cheshire, by his wife Mary Mainwaring.

George Abell, gentleman, of Hemington died testate with a will dated Sept. 8, 1630, which was proved Feb. 7, 1630/31. His legatees were his wife Frances, daughter Mary Abell, eldest son George Abell, second son Robert Abell, and third son Richard Abell, then serving his apprenticeship. For the overseeing of his estate he requested the assistance of his brothers[-in-law], George Cotton, esquire, and Andrew Cotton, gentleman, both of Combermere, and his good friend Sir Richard Harpur.

Note on his descendants. George's second son Capt Robert Abell settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and along with fellow Puritan merchant, Capt John West (1590-1659), traded in Virginia and Maryland, including St Mary's County, during the Commonwealth years. George's third son Richard Abell finished his apprenticeship at the Merchant Tailors School in London, before becoming a merchant factor in St Mary's County, Maryland, founding a branch of the Abell family in that county. One of Richard's descendants is my 3rd-great-grandmother Julia Ann Abell Ritchie (1818-1897).

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