ABBOTT FAMILY GENEALOGY - Salem County NJ Information located at http://www.rootsweb.com/~njsalem/ On a USGenWeb/NJGenWeb Web site TRANSCRIBED BY JANICE BROWN, County Coordinator in 2007 Please see the web site for my email contact. ---------------------------------- The original source of this information is in the public domain, however use of this text file, other than for personal use, is restricted without written permission from the transcriber (who has edited, compiled and added new copyrighted text to same). ======================================================== SOURCE: HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF FENWICK'S COLONY; Bridgeton, N.J., by Thomas Shourds; pub. by George F. Nixon, 1876 pages 28 George Abbott and his two brothers, John and Thomas, and their sister, Mary Abbott, emigrated from England, to the State of Connecticut, in the year 1690. George left New England with his wife Mary, and his sister, Mary Abbott, and lcoated themselves in the township of Elsinborough, Salem county, New Jersey. In the year 1696, George Abbott purchased of Joseph, the second son of Samuel Nicholson, the emigrant, 136 acres of land, with buildings, out-buildings, and appurtenances thereunto belonging; it being Samuel Nicholson's county seat. It was located on the north side of Monmouth river, now Alloways creek, it being the lowest farm on the north side of said river, to which was added various pieces and parcels of lands, in succeeding years purchased of the Nicholson family. In 1704, George Abbott removed the Nicholson mansion, built a brick dwelling, and in 1724 an addition, also of brick; this house is still standing in good reapir. It remained in the Abbott family to the fifth generation, a period of 150 years. The said property is now owned by Andrew Smith Reeve. The children of George and Mary Abbott were Benjamin, born 2d of 1st month, 1700; Hannah, born 30th of 9th month, 1702; George Abbott Jr., born 13th of 10th month, 1704; Sarah Abbott, born 16th of 2nd moth, 1709; Samuel C. born 20th of 6th month, 1712; and Mary Abbott, born 26th of 8th month 1714. George, the parent of those childen, died in the year 1729; his will, now in the possession of the family, being admitted to probate in that year, devising his real estate to his son Samuel Abbott. His personal property equally between his two daughters, Hannah and Rebecca Abbott. Mary, his widow, survived him eight years. I have no doubt that Benjamin, George, Sarah and Mary died young and unmarried, as the will of their father makes no mention of them in 1729. Hannah, I presume, died unmarried. Rebecca, the daughter of George and Mary Abbott, married a man by the name of Howell; he belonged to the ancient Howell family, of Gloucester county. By the will made by Mary, widow of George Abbott in 1747, her property is devised to her two children, Samuel Abbott and Rebecca Howell; from this I infer, that her daughter had died previously, leaving no issue. Mary Abbott, sister of George abbott, who emigrated with them from the State of Connecticut, married William Tyler Jr. who emigrated from England with his father in 1685; he was born 5th of 7th month, 1680. William and Mary Abbott had six children. William Tyler 3d, born in 1712; Edith Tyler, born in 1714; Rebecca Tyler, born in 1716; Mary Tyler, born in 1718; James Tyler, born in 1720; Samuel Tyler, born in 1723; [See the genealogy of the Tyler family and Thompson and Allen family.] William Tyler Jr. made his will in 1732 and died the following year. Mary Abbott Tyler, widow of William, survived him several years, afterwards married Robert Townsend, of Cape May, in 1735; by this marriage she had one daughter, Rany Townsend, and she subsequently married a man by the name of Stites. The Stites' are one of the ancient families of Cape May county. After the death of Robert Townsend, his widow returned to Salem County, and lived with her Tyler children; the time of her death is not given. I have mentioned heretofore, that family burying grounds in the first settlement of this country was common; the Abbott family had theirs; it was a few rods east of their old mansion in Elsinborough; it, like many others of the kind, has been passed over by the plough, and no trace of the once honored spot is discoverable. Samuel, the third child of George and Mary Abbott, was born 20th of the 6th month, 1712; he was the only male descendant; married Hannah Foster, born 21st of 10th month 1715, daughter of Josiah and Amy Foster, of Burlingotn county, New Jersey, in the year 1733. Samuel and Hannah F. Abbott had three children--George Abbott, their eldest son, born 29th of the 11th month 1734; William Abbott, their second son, born 4th of 4th month, 1737; and Rebecca, the daughter, was born 26th of 11th month, 1740. Samuel their father departed this life 25th of the 11th month, 1760, at the age of forty-eight years, of cancer of the face. In a volume of Memorial of Ministers and the Distinguished Members of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, that lived during the last century, I find the following account of Samuel Abbott, although he died comparatively a young man. It shows how highly he was appreciated by his fellow memebers and others: "He was born of believing parents, who carefully educated him in the ways of truth, laboring in the ability afforded them to bring up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. His father dying when he was still young, the care of providing for the family fell upon him. In the responsible station to which he was thus raised, he endeavored to act with great watchfullness, in uprightness and integrity. His orderly, consistent walking amongst men, gained him a good report, and by his obedience to the inspeaking word of Divine grace he obtained the favor of his heavenly Father. As he continued faithful to the manifestations of truth, a further increase of the day spring from on high was granted him, and about the twenty-second year of his age a gift of gospel ministry was committed to his cahrge. He was led by his beloved friends to travel in the different neighboring provinces in the work of the gospel, and in love to the souls of his fellow creatures, and good accounts of his labors in the churches abroad were received by his friends at home. His death took place 25th of 11th month, 1760, as one entering into a sweet 'sleep.'" Hannah his widow, married Samuel Nicholson, of Elsinborough, she being his second wife, in 1763. She die din the year 1693, aged seventy-eight years. Josiah and Amy Foster, parents of the above named Hannah Abbott, were residents, as before stated, of Burlington county. They had a large family of daughters, who married in the families of the Abbotts, Reeves, Nebolds, Millers, and Whites, and others, whose descendants now in 1876, distantly connected, are very numerous in Philadelphia and New Jersey. Josiah Foster died 1st of 9th month, 1770, aged eighty-eight years. Amy, his widow, died 15th of 8th month, 1783, aged ninety-eight years, three months and eleven days. George, son of Samuel and Hannah F. Abbott, born 29th of 11th month, 1734, the family have no knowledge of, other than that he signed two marriage certificates recorded in the Salem Monthly Meeting of Friends, in the year 1756 and 1758. The presumption therefore is, that he never married, and that he died before his father, at the age of about twenty-four years, and he is not mentioned in the will of his father, which is dated 8th month, 1759, nor does his name appear on any record after the year 1758. William, the second son of Samuel and Hannah F. Abbott, was born 4th of the 4th month, 1737, married Rebecca, the daughter of William Tyler 3d, and Elizabeth, his wife; Rebecca was born 18th of the 2nd month, 1743, and they were married 2d of the 2d month, 1763. They had three children--Samuel, born 27th of 11th month, 1763; George was born 27th of 9th month 1765; and Josiah Abbott born 23d of the 9th month 1768. William Abbott, their father, after an active life as a farmer, died in the 1st month, 1800, in the sixty-third year of his age, devising by will dated 1st of 12th month, 1799, the old homestead farm of the family, in Elsinborough, to the eldest son, Samuel Abbott; George Abbott, his second son, a farm which he purchased of Christianna Miller, in the township of Mannington; to his son Josiah Abbott, the plantation purchased of Mark Miller and Benjamin Wynhook; the said farm is located in Mannington, near Salem. Rebecca, his widow, survived him about six years, and died 28th of the 7th month, 1806, aged about sixty-four years. Rebecca, the daughter of Samuel and Hannah Foster Abbott, born 26th of 11th month, 1740, married Joseph, the son of John Brick Jr., and Ann Nicholson Brick, of Gravelly Run, Cumberland county, 17th of 12th month, 1760. Soon after their marriage they settled on a farm in the township of Elsinborough, that was left to his wife by her father, Samuel Abbott, who had purchased it in 1756 of Thomas and Sarah Morris Goodwin. Joseph and Rebecca Abbott Brick had three children--Ann, Hannah, and Samuel Abbott Brick. Rebecca A. Brick, wife of Joseph Brick, departed this life 16th of the 11th month, 1780, agead thirty-nine years. Ann Brick, their eldest daughter, married Joseph, son of Clement and Margaret Hall, of Elsinborough [See genealogy of Hall family.] Hannah Brick, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca A. Brick, married Anthony Keasaby, of Salem. Samuel Abbott Brick married Ann Smart, daughter of Isaac and Ann Smart, of Elsinborough. Samuel, the eldest son of William and Rebecca Abbott, born 27th of the 11th month, 1763, married Marcia Gill, daughter of John and Amy Gill, of Haddonfield, N.J. They were married 24th of 11th month, 1791. Their children were William Abbott, born 22nd of 8th month 1792; Rebecca Abbott, born 29th of 7th month, 1794; and Hannah Abbott, born 3rd of 4th month 1796; Sarah, the fourth child, born 1797, died in infancy. William, son of Samuel and Marcia Abbott, married Rachel Denn, daughter of James Denn, of Alloways Creek; by her had five children--Ann, Hannah, John, Mary and Amy Abbott. After the death of William's wife Rachel, he married Martha Reeve, of Cumberland county; they had no issue. William died 20th of the 4th month, 1835, in his forty-second year. Rebecca, the second child of Samuel and Marcia Abbott, married Andrew, the eldest son of Joshua and Rebecca A. Thompson of Elsinborough. They were married 1st of 4th month, 1818. She died in 1821, aged twenty-seven years, leaving one daughter, Hannah Ann Thompson, who subsequently married Elisha, son of Elisha and Mary Nicholson Bassett, of Mannington. Hannah, the daughter of Samuel and Marcia Abbott, married Jedediah T., son of David and Rebecca Allen of Manington; she was his second wife. They had issue, two children--Hannah and Chambless Allen. Their mother survived her husband several years; she died 25th of 12th month 1866, aged seventy-one years. Marcia, first wife of Samuel Abbott, died 2d of the 1st month, 1798, aged thirty-four years. Samuel Abbott's second wife was Martha Ogden; married 1st of 10th month, 1809. She was the daughter of Samuel and Mary Ann Ogden of Pilesgrove. She was born 2d of the 2d month, 1779. They had five children--Mary Ann Abbott, born 20th of the 10th month 1810; Lydia Abbott, born 21st of the 1st month 1813; Samuel, born 14th of the 3rd month 1815; George born 13th of the 7th month 1817; Martha Abbott born 4th of the 4th month 1811. Samuel Abbott was an active and successful agriculturist, and accumulated a fortune. He died 14th of 4th month 1835, in the seventy-second year of his age. In the division of his estate, he gave his son George Abbott, the old homestead in Elsinborough; the same property was purchased by George Abbbott, the emigrant in 1696. Samuel Abbott's widow died 4th of the 5th month 1848, in her seventieth year. George Abbott, son of William and Rebecca Abbott, was born 27th of the 9th month 1765. He married Mary Redman, of Haddonfield. George, soon after his marriage, sold the farm devised to him by his father, William Abbott, and removed to the city of Philadelphia, and pursued the business of a druggist. He died at Haddonfield, N.J. 15th of 11th month, 1831, aged sixty-seven years. His wife, Mary died also at Haddonfield, a short time before her husband. They had five children who attained their majority. First their daughter, Rebecca R. Abbott, born 2d day of the 5th month 1798. She married Josiah Holmes, and died without issue 6th of the 4th month, 1824. William, son of George and Mary R. Abbott, born 8th of the 8th month, 1800, died at Philadelphia, unmarried 29th of 12th month 1867. Samuel W. son of George and Mary R. Abbott, born 18th of 10th month, 1807, married Helen Lambert, of Lambertville, New Jersey, and died without issue at Philadelphia, 27th of 2nd month, 1868. James, son of George and Mary R. Abbott, born 29th of 3d month, 1811, went to Philadelphia in 1830, there married Caroline Montelius, 21st of 12th month, 1837. Redman, son of George and Mary R. Abbott, born 28th of 10th month, 1813, went to Philadelphia, there married Susan F. Leaming of Cape May county. William, son of George and Mary R. Abbott, of the firm of Wood & Abbott, of Philadelphia was a successful merchant. He never married, and died in 1868, in his seventy-seventh year, leaving a large estate. James Abbott, fourth child of George and Mary Abbott, and his wife, Caroline Montelius Abbott, have six children--Montelius, Francis R., Mary H., Harry James, William J. and Helen D. Abbott. Redman, son of George and Mary R. Abbott, and his wife Susan, have three children--Ellen F., William Louis, and Gertrude Abbott. All four of George Abbott's sons were merchants in the city of Philadelphia. Josiah Abbott, the third son of William and Rebecca Abbott, was born 23d of 9th month, 1768. He married a young woman by the name of Wilson. Soon after his marriage he removed to the city of Richmond, Va., and carried on the hatting business; having at Salem served an apprenticeship to that trade. Josiah and his wife had two children, Josiah and Adaline Abbott; they were born about the years 1792 to 1794. Josiah Abbott Jr. studied law and practices for some years; he married and left three children, one son and two daughters. Josiah died in 1850, leaving a widow. His sister, Adaline Abbott, married Thomas H. Drew of Richmond. They had children. Mary Ann Abbott, eldest daughter of Samuel and Martha Abbott, was born 20th of 10th month, 1810, departed this life 10th of the 1st month, 1844, in the thirty-fourth year of her age. Lydia, the second daughter of Samuel and Martha Abbott, born 21st of the 1st month 1813, and died 14th of the 6th month, 1845, aged thirty-three years. Martha Abbott, the youngest daughter of Samuel and Martha Abbott, born 4th of 4th month, 1819, married Samuel S. Willets 6th of 10th month, 1841 of Haddonfield, New Jersey; she departed this life 13th of 7th month 1845, aged twenty-sive years, leaving one son, Samuel A. Willets, who subsequently married Abby Evans, daughter of Josiah and Hannah Evans, of Haddonfield. Samuel, the eldest son of Samuel and Martha Ogden Abbott born 14th of the 3rd month 1815, married Sarah Wistar. She was born 20th of the 6th month, 1818. Their children are as follows: Mary Ann Abbott, born 24th of the 9th month 1847; their son Casper W. Abbott, born 6th of the 12th month, 1848, died aged ten months. Samuel Abbott, 4th, was born 28th of 7th month, 1851. Rebecca and Catharine Abbott's twins were born 26 of 2d month, 1853. Mary Ann, the eldest daughter of Samuel and Sarah W. Abbott married, 4th of 12th month 1872, Josiah, son of Clayton and Martha Wistar, late of Mannington. Samuel and his wife Sarah W. Abbott owns and resides in the township of Mannington on the homestead of his father. George Abbott, the third son of Samuel and Martha Abbott, born 13th of the 7th month 1817, married Ruth S. Baker, of New Bedford, Mass. Their children were Henry B. Abbott, born 5th of the 8th month, 1846; Charles T. Abbott, born 12th of the 4th month 1848; George Abbott 5th, born 11th of 9th month, 1849; William Abbott, born 2nd of 9th month, 1852, and died 30th of the 12th month, 1862, aged eleven years. Joseph B. Abbott, son of George and Ruth Abbott, born 26th of 2d month 1856, and died 30th of the 1st month 1863, aged six years. William Abbott, sixth son of George and Ruth Abbott, born 13th of 2nd month 1868. George, the son of George and Ruth Abbott, married Elizabeth Lippincott, 9th of 10th month, 1872, daughter of Aquila and Sarah Lippincott. They have one son, Edward S. Abbott, born 2d of 9th month, 1873. George, the son of Samuel and Martha Abbott, sold the old homestead of the Abbott's, located in the town of Elsinborough. Said property was devised to him by his father. George purchased a valuable property in Mannington (it formerly belonged to Whittin Cripps) and resides thereon. (end)