Display Patriot - P-100193 - William James ABBOTT/ABBOT
William James ABBOTT/ABBOT
SAR Patriot #:
P-100193
The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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William was born in Concord, New Hampshire, on 24 April 1755. He settled in Bath, New Hampshire.
He was a Private in Captain James Osgood’s 2nd Company of New Hampshire Rangers from 13 July to 31 December 1775 in Major John Brown’s Battalion of Colonel Timothy Bedel’s Regiment of New Hampshire Rangers. William was among those who re-enlisted near Quebec in late 1775 and served in Canada until May 1776, when the American army was withdrawn. After re-enlisting on 26 November 1775, he was a Private in Captain Charles Nelson’s Company of Major John Brown’s Detachment.
William married Mabel Whittlesey in 1777. Their known children were:
• Moses was born in Bath, New Hampshire, on 16 June 1778 and married first to Lucy Willis, second to Mrs. Lucy Wells.
• Lois was born on 11 December 1779 and married Silas Buck.
• Jacob was born on 15 December 1781.
• Mehitable was born on 9 January 1785 and married Horatio Buck.
• Sarah A. was born on 25 October 1786 and married Benjamin Fuller.
• William was born on 19 August 1788 and married Patience Burbank.
• Amos Whittlesey was born on 3 September 1790 and married Elizabeth Laughlin Knight.
• Anna was born on 30 July 1792 and married Samuel Knight.
• Abigail was born on 21 August 1794 and married Nathan Robbins.
• Ezra.
William settled in Haverhill in January 1795 after purchasing 37 1/2 acres in the northwest corner of the governor’s reservation in what was later called Woodsville.
The Patriot died on 14 June 1807 and was buried in Horse Meadow Cemetery in North Haverhill, New Hampshire.
Sources:
Batchellor, Albert Stillman, ed., New Hampshire State Papers, Vol. 30, Miscellaneous Revolutionary Documents of New Hampshire Including the Association Test, the Pension Rolls, and Other Important Papers, Manchester, NH: The John B. Clarke Co., 1910, pages 435–436, 441–442.
Hammond, Isaac W., ed., New Hampshire State Papers, Vol. 14, Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775 to May 1777: With an Appendix, Embracing Diaries of Lieut. Jonathan Burton, Concord, NH: Parsons B. Cogswell, 1885, pages 166–167, 170, 546.
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NSDAR NOTES:
EL - SON WILLIAM MARR PATIENCE BURBANK, NOT LUCINDA BAYLEY; SEE LETTER IN #206215
HEIRS' PENSION CLAIM REJECTED SINCE THEIR MOTHER HAD REMARRIED