(Based on age 33 in 1860 census.)

Came over on the Abigail. "The Abigail had smallpox on board when it arrived and was quarantined for a couple of weeks. Boston also had an epidemic of smallpox at the same time. I think that Alice traveled with a sister named Francis on the Abigail. Francis Stevens married a Christopher Foster and they sailed together with children. The family is listed on the Abigail passenger list. The parents of Francis were - Jerome Stevens and Alice Stilgoe. I think the reason that Alice has no last name is that her last name is Stevens, it was confused by many thinking that it was Henry's surname. The young Thomas Stevens who sailed on the Abigail is also thought to be of this family. Since there are no records of Thomas, that I can find, I can only presume that he died in the epidemic. Many family ancestors had the same fate and cannot be traced." [Bud Stevens]

Claims that she was Elizabeth Risley have no basis.

On 21 Jan. 1722-3 relinquished administration to John Cobbett.

Joined Charlestown church in 1714. A Boston sawyer 1716, living 1717.

She is often listed by the maiden name of Fuller but this is incorrect.

Came from Totness, near the Ivy bridge, Devonshire, England, with the early settlers of Salem, and probably resided at Marblehead till 1633 when John Winthrop, Jr., with twelve others (one of whom Mr. Abbot is said to have been) commenced the settlement of Ipswich. He died there between 1671 and 1679.

Richard Abbot, keeper of the New Hampshire prison in 1684, may have been his son.

Made freeman 31 May 1671. [C.R. Vol. IV, p. 660.]

It is probable that Moses Abbot of Boston was one of the children. He was the father of Rev. Hull Abbot of Charlestown. There was also perhaps a daughter Susannah.

Pastor of the Second Cong. Church, Roxbury.

Capt. Abbott was brought up on a frontier farm, helping largely to clear the land. Later he went to Buffalo, N. Y., where he remained two years, afterwards sailed on the Great Lakes a few years as Capt. of a vessel, and finally, in 1841, settled in Buffalo, in the shoe business with his son Walter, and was so engaged at the time of his death, Sept. 1, 1859, ac. 49 yrs. He bought, Nov. 1, 1836, certain land of his father for $800, purchased from the Holland Co.(*)

A.M. ABBOTT
OF
Ustick Township, Whiteside Co IL

A.M. Abbott is a native of the Green Mountain State, and came to Ustick in 1847, where he purchased a farm on section 32, on which he has since continued to reside. Mr. ABBOTT learned the gunsmith trade in his native State and when he settled in Ustick nailed up his sign by the road side, and being a skillful workman soon had all the work he could do, many of his customers coming a distance of over twenty miles, and some of them over thirty miles. He has always been an active and influential man in the township, and has been frequently elected to town positions. He was the first Town Clerk, holding the office some years; was Supervisor in 1855-56 and has been several terms Justice of the Peace, occupying the latter position at present. Mrs Dorcas (Noyes) ABBOTT, widow of the late Deacon Benjamin ABBOTT, and mother of Mr. ABBOTT, died at his residence February 27 1877 at the advanced age of ninety-two years. Mrs. ABBOTT was one of the old settlers of Ustick, having settled there with her husband in 1848. Deacon and Mrs. ABBOTTT were among the original members of the Congregational church at Unionville,now the First Congregational church of Morrison, Deacon ABBOTT also being one of the first trustees. At Mrs. ABBOTT'S death the last of those original members had passed away. Mrs. Phoebe DRAKE, sister of Mrs. A M ABBOTT, who died in Ustick in 1843, was the second person interred in the burial ground in Union Grove, west of Unionville.
[Extracted from Bent & Wilson History of Whiteside County Page 472 ]

Graduated from Bowdoin College in 1908 and from Harvard Law School in 1911.

Mr. Abbott was brought up on a farm till he was 22 yrs. of age, and studied at New Ipswich Acad. N. H. He was messenger for the Canadian Ex. Co., 15 yrs., and route agent for the Dominion Ex. Co., Province of Quebec, Ont., New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Me., 9 yrs. He joined the Congl. Ch., Wilton, 1869, but was afterwards transferred to Island Pond, and St. John, N. B., where he now lives.

One of the original 23 proprietors of Andover. He was about 18 when he emigrated to the Bay Colony in the mid-1630's. It is almost certain that he traveled with the families of William Chandler and John Dane and others of Hertfordshire, and he undoubtedly first settled at Roxbury with the Chandler family.

<b>ABBOTT</b>, <b>JOB</b>, civil engineer and entrepreneur; b. 23 Aug. 1845 in Andover, Mass., son of Nathan B. Abbott, farmer, and Elizabeth L. Noyes; d. There 18 Aug. 1896.
Job Abbott attended local schools and Phillips Academy before studying engineering at Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1864. He worked briefly for the Manchester Locomotive Works in New Hampshire and then became an assistant engineer on the Long Island Rail Road; he subsequently joined the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad. After working for a time in Canton, Ohio, in 1866 Abbott was hired to lay out part of the town, and he practised there as a civil and mining engineer. He also studied patent law, was admitted to the Ohio bar, and became a patent expert.
Abbott’s patent practice brought him into contact with a Canton firm, the Wrought Iron Bridge Company, which he joined as vice-president and chief engineer in 1872. The company was an important builder of prefabricated bridges. The development of standardized trusses removed much conjecture from bridge building; once the size and capacity desired for a bridge were known it was relatively easy to design and fabricate the necessary structure. From 1874 the company produced catalogues that were used by local governments and railways to choose the type of bridge they required. The firm’s standardized bridges provided an important stimulus to development of road and railway transportation.
Wrought Iron Bridge sold structures in Ontario until 1879 when Sir John A. Macdonald’s National Policy placed a 25 per cent tariff on imported fabricated ironwork and steelwork. As a result, that year Toronto engineer James Bartlett, other Toronto investors, and James Cooper, of a Montreal hardware and metal-importing firm, organized the Toronto Bridge Company, with unspecified support from Wrought Iron Bridge; Abbott was a minor shareholder and consultant. The first year sales were low, and inexperienced staff caused problems with the erection of bridges. In 1880 Abbott was named president and chief engineer. His engineering experience and contacts with railway builders had the desired effect; sales, which had been $60,000 in 1879–80, rose to $206,000 between May 1880 and April 1881. However, the limited aims of the original management and charter, inadequate facilities in the Toronto factory, difficulties importing iron during winter, and remoteness from railway head offices, which were in Montreal, combined to limit prospects despite the probability of an enormous increase in demand for bridges with the imminent construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
In early 1882 Abbott and his Montreal colleagues, who had gained control of Toronto Bridge, decided to form a new company with headquarters in Montreal. On 23 Sept. 1882 a federal charter was issued to Dominion Bridge Company Limited to manufacture iron and steel as well as to fabricate and erect bridges and structural work throughout Canada. Abbott became president and chief engineer at a salary of $5,000 and a commission of 10 per cent on all company business. The stock issue was set at $500,000, consisting of 5,000 shares. By April 1883 capitalists from Glasgow and from Sheffield, England, had purchased $185,000 worth of stock, probably in exchange for commitments for steel supplies. This investment gave them control, but their influence was lessened by their distance from Montreal. The purchase of the assets of Toronto Bridge for $356,292 produced windfall profits for Abbott and his colleagues. A bonus bidding war for Dominion Bridge’s shops was won by Lachine, near Montreal, which offered a grant of $10,000 and tax exemption for 20 years.
Dominion Bridge soon obtained several important contracts. In 1883–84 it constructed an unequal arm cantilever bridge over the Reversing Falls at Saint John, N.B. Besides being an early example of cantilever construction in Canada, the bridge was built of steel, which had only recently been developed as a building material. In 1885 the company bid successfully to construct the Lachine Bridge of more than 3,400 feet; linking Montreal and the south shore, it was the CPR’s answer to the Grand Trunk Railway’s Victoria Bridge [<i>see</i> James Hodges*]. Other structures of note built by the firm include the Coteau Bridge, also across the St Lawrence River, constructed for the Canada Atlantic Railway, and the Grand Narrows Bridge on Cape Breton. The company’s mainstay was railway bridges, especially for the CPR, which was replacing its wooden trestle bridges Dominion Bridge also constructed bridges in many towns and counties, thus improving local transportation, and it erected steel framework for tall buildings in urban centres.
Abbott was largely responsible for the success of Dominion Bridge. Besides being president and chief engineer, he was the main salesman, and he personally negotiated many contracts with major clients. His functions as engineer and administrator made him an effective salesman, but he was also favoured, when bidding for contracts, by a capable engineering and erection staff, large modern shops, and easy access to British iron and steel supplies. Abbott’s several roles placed a heavy load on him, however, and in October 1887 he had to take leave for reasons of health. He was back by March 1888, but in June he was replaced as chief engineer.
Abbott had never cut his American connections. He had remained a director of the Wrought Iron Bridge Company, and from early 1889 he devoted much time to the New York Rapid Transit Railway. Unable to reconcile his many interests, he grudgingly resigned the presidency of Dominion Bridge on 26 June 1890; however, he remained a consultant to the company until his death. He was replaced as president by James Ross*, an engineer and railway contractor. Viewed in the light of Abbott’s earlier changes of career, his departure from Dominion Bridge probably reflected a desire after eight years of building a successful enterprise to seek new challenges in engineering. He became chief engineer of the New York Rapid Transit Railway and consulting engineer to the Wheeling Bridge and Terminal Railway Company of West Virginia and to the Bangor and Aroostock Railroad in Maine. His health again declined, however, and he died in August 1896, just before his 51st birthday, leaving a widow.
As the central figure in the development of Dominion Bridge, Abbott united American technology in bridge construction with British capital and steel supply, and yet maintained his firm’s autonomy. Dominion Bridge (now AMCA International) went on to dominate the Canadian markets for bridges and the erection of steel frameworks for buildings and to become a leader in the production of heavy equipment. Abbott was an early example of a versatile professional, trained as he was in civil engineering, law, and administration. This combination of skills made him and his company highly effective in winning and carrying out contracts. Like a number of his contemporaries in engineering, Abbott paid for success with his health, but without his drive it is unlikely that either he or Dominion Bridge would have been as successful as they were.

Died young.

She stud. at Buffalo Sem., Buffalo; has been identified with nearly every soc. in the city, of a benevolent, moral reform, intellectual, or patriotic character, always taking a leading and conspicuous part in their management and development; charter mem. Buffalo Chap., Daus. of Rev.

He was hog-reave, 1831; highway surveyor, 1837, 1846, 1848, 1855, 1866; pound-keeper (his barnyard for a pound), 1843-4-5; and field-driver, 1845-6-7, 1850. He was a farmer.

Died young.

Miss Ablutzel came from Switzerland. After arriving in America, the final 'el' was dropped and the name became Ablutz. She was a tailor by trade, making men's suits; she did not like to sew women's clothing.

1845-1860 censuses Newark Twp, NY; 1870 census Ridgeville Twp., Monroe County, WS.

Taught the first school in Poynette.

Unmarried.

Mentioned in his father's will as executor. Abraham purchased a valuable tract of land west of Cart Creek that was a part of the large Sewall grant. Mrs. Pike's statement in the Adams genealogy says that she herself, her mother, her grandfather and great grandfather Robert (4) were all born on the "long barn farm" which was the home of Robert (1). This leaves the inference strong that Serj. Abraham, son of Robert,, built and lived in the house on the west side of the road, 30 or 40 rods northwest of his father's and the one that was taken down about 1887.

He went to sea early, sailed to the West Indies; he was captain of a boat and made fourteen trips to England. After his marriage he built a house above the falls at Byfield, Rowley, and became a farmer.