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Publication	The Eastern Gazette 3-14-1935 (LHC)
Obituary	LOCAL HISTORY COLUMN Edited by Mrs. Annie W. Murphy and Miss Mary H. Hamilton Contributors solicited Some Descendants of (5)Nathan Abbot Captain Abel Abbot, sixth child of Nathan and Sarah (Ballard) Abbot, was born in Andover, Sept. 7, 1786. His first wife was Sarah, daughter of (5) Job and Hannah (Ballard)Abbot. They had two sons, Abel Abbot, born in Andover in March 1812, and died in Dexter, July 27, 1860; and James Alfred Abbot, born May 17, 1818 and died July 28, 1903. Sarah (Abbot) Abbot died Dec. 1, 1821 and Dec. 28, 1822, Capt. Abel Abbot married Mary Jones. To them was born a son, Abiather Abbot, May 6, 1824. His grandson, Peter Amos Abbot, is authority for the statement that Capt. Abel Abbot came to Dexter about the same time that his broth- ers, Paschal, Jeremiah, Amos and Joshua came and that he was employ- ed at the Abbot, mill. However he soon returned to Andover and died there July 3, 1862. Capt. Abel's old- est son, his namesake, (6) Abel, seems to have been the only one of the family to make a permanent home in Dexter. We do not know when he came but we find the record of his marriage in the town records. Mar- ried in Dexter, "April 29, 1833, Mr. Abel Abbot and Miss Aphia L. Small, both of Dexter". Lysander Cutler, J. P., performed the ceremony. Miss Small was born in Elkinstown Planta- tion, now Dexter, April 15, 1814, the daughter of Ebenezer Small and his wife Hannah. ' We quote Volney Sprague, one of our early historians: "Ebenezer Small cleared the first land, raised the first crop, built the first dwelling in Dexter and brought to this town the first white woman". Joannah Small, his daughter, born Feb. 4, 1802, was the first white child born in this township. The children of Abel and Aphia Le- vitt (Small) Abbot were: Amelia Ann Abbot, born Jan. 10, 1834; died May 6, 1856. William Henry Abbot, born Nov. 13, 1837; died Jan. 23, 1917. Sarah Frances Abbot, born Apr. 10, 1839; died Jan.,17, 1840. George Francis Abbot, born Jan. 11, 1841; died March 8, 1841. Sarah Rowena, born Aug. 11, 1842; died June 10, 1865. Simon Alfred Abbot, born Aug. 19, 1844; died June 5, 1864. George Amos Abbot, born Aug. 19, 1844; died Sept. 11, 1845. Peter Amos Abbot, born June 11, 1847; still living. An interesting account of the family of Abel and Aphia (Small) Abbot, contributed by Mrs. Ruth Towle Dudley, will be found in this column under date of March 29, 1934, under the title of "The Smalls". The two members of the family best known in Dexter are William Henry and Peter Amos, Abbot, the oldest and the youngest son. Both were fond of hunting and fishing, traits which they seem to have inher- ited from their father, and which in- fluenced them in their choice of a business venture. For a number of years they had establishments at Mar- garee Harbor, Cape Breton and at Norfolk, Virginia, where fish and game were frozen and later distribut- ed among the markets of the Atlan- tic cities and summer resorts. They also had a refrigerator plant in Dex- ter, on Park street where their pro- ducts were stored to await the mar- ket call. The Abel Abbot home was on, Pleas- ant street in a house that stood on the site of A. W. Keyte's residence. Later William Abbot built a house on the corner of Park and Forest streets (now the residence of Dr. L. E. Kel- ley). His mother lived here with him until her death in 1894. William Abbot never married. Simon Alfred Abbot was in his twentieth year when he was killed in battle at Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 5, 1864, during the Civil War. Peter Amos Abbott married Evelyn Matilda Additon, (born June 15, 1849, and died July 7, 1921), the daughter of David Harvey Additon and Fran- ces Butterfield Additon. Besides being associated in busi- ness with his brother William for, many years, Peter Amos has employ- ed his time in various ways. He is carpenter by trade, but he has also built canoes and made snowshoes. When nothing else demanded his time he could always go hunting or fishing, as the season indicated. His home is on Forest street adjoining the place formerly owned by his brother. Although eighty-seven, he still goes fishing. The only child of Peter Amos and Evelyn M. Abbott was Letitia Rowe- na Abbott, born April 16, 1871 and died June 4, 1916. She married Cbas. G. Towle, son of Gorham and Lizzie Hunt Towle of Augusta, Me., in the fall of 1894. Mr. Towle died August 23, 1634, aged 71 years, 7 mos., 5 da. He had been employed by the Amos Abbott Compaly for forty years. Ruth Towle, only daughter of Chas. G. and Letitia (Abbott) Towle was born Aug. 7, 1896. She married Sept. 3, 1919, Walter L. Dudley, son of Grace Peavey Dudley. They have one son, Robert Charles Dudley, born Oct. 27, 1920. James Alfred Abbott, second son of Capt. Abel Abbot and his first wife Sarah (Abbot) Abbot, was three times married. His first wife was Mary Jaquith, born Dec. 5, 1819 and died Dec. 8, 1852. They were mar- ried on Dec. 30, 1841. Three children were born of this marriage: George Alfred, who was born Nov. 15, 1843 and died Oct. 4, 1849; Abbie D., born May 13, 1847, never married. Her home was in An- dover, Mass., and she sometimes vis- ited her cousins in Dexter. George A. Abbott, born Sept. 4, 1849 and died July 15, 1913. He married but bad no children. He lived for some years in Bangor, Maine, and used to come to Dexter to visit his cousins, William and Peter Amos, and go fish- ing with them. James Alfred Abbott's second was Hannah Matilda Abbott, born March 31, 1819 and died Nov. 16, 1857. The date of the marriage was Feb. 23, 1854. They had one son, Al- bert A. Abbott, born Nov. 8, 1857 and died Nov. 3, 1909. He married in 1883, Ida Keating of Boston, Mass. Their children were Harold Abbott, born Dec. 22, 1889; and Madeline Ab- bott. James Alfred Abbott's third wife was Mary E. Jones, (born. Sept. 23, 1828, and died July'28, 1907). They bad no children. They were married March 17, 1870. Abiather Abbott, born May 6, 1824 and died July 11, 1859, was the son of Capt. Abel Abbott and his second wife, Mary Jones (who died Jan. 18, 1870). Abiather married Harriet Tuck, Nov. 1, 1846. She died May 19, 1866. They had one son, Edwin Frank Abbott, born 1851 and died April 3, 1872. He married, Aug. 17, 1870, Mary J. Young, who died Sept. 15, 1873. Their son, Frank W. Abbott,' was born Nov. 22, 1871. He married Mary A. Hinxman, Dec. 31,1890. No children. (This account is of 1922). The spelling of the name seems to be according to the authority one is. consulting so if this seems mixed there is good authority for Abbot or Abbott. We cannot tell when the members of the family in Dexter added the second 't'. In the earlier records the name is written "Abbot". We have kove always maintained that a man had a right to spell his name as he saw fit and to pronounce it to suit himself after it was written.