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BRIEF HISTORY OF OUR ABBOTT FAMILYABBOTT
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BRIEF HISTORY OF OUR ABBOTT FAMILY
James Abbott, Junior, probably the oldest son of James and Martha, was born about 1692. He moved to Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in 1744 or 1745. His wife was Catherine Brown, daughter of Wooter Brown.
James Abbott, III, was the father of Daniel Abbott, who with his son, Jonathan, came to the Finger Lakes area of New York in the early 1800s. Daniel and Jonathan built a stone house from a quarry on their land in Seneca County. This house is still standing and in use.
Jonathan was the father of fifteen children. He, and his third wife, Nancy Smalley, and their family, except for son, Joseph Hunt Abbott, moved from New York to Lenawee County, Michigan about 1852. Joseph Hunt, with his wife, Joannah Runyan, and child, David Franklin, arrived in Lenawee County about two years later. Joseph and Joannah did not stay long in Lenawee, but moved north to Gratiot County. The rest of their family of five boys and one girl (my grandmother, Sarah E. Abbott), were born in Gratiot County. Sarah E. Abbott married Joseph Harvey Hutchings, March 1, 1882.
Pictured above is Henry Abbott, son of Jonathan Abbott and Nancy Smally.