Monday, December 7, 2009

John Abbot Information

New information on the John Abbot family in Newfield, NY comes from Ted Reising-Derby :

Here is what I extrapolated from "our"John's pension records statement: about 1776 he was living in Oxford in Sussex Co. NJ, enlisted at Oxford NJ and lived there until about "4 years after the war" (if so, about 4 years after 1783?) therefore:
e1787 to e1795 in Northumberland Co. PA
e1795 to e1799 in Luzerne Co PA
e1799 to e1803 in Cayuga Co NY
e1803? to Newfield (a.k.a. Cayuta/Spencer) NY
*-HOWEVER, if Mary (ABBOTT)STRONG was born in NEW JERSEY in 1791, then as you can see, the above movement dates don't "mesh", and the dates need to be moved forward a bit.....certainly John was stating loosely his movements, anyway. Then maybe he was still in PA in 1800, until about 1807; and therefore would be in PA 1800 census?, but I am not finding him there either. I suppose if we knew the birthplaces of all of his children, it will make things fit better. No one, as yet, seems to have claimed this particular John ABBOTT as a DAR ancestor, or at least he is not in the DAR website database (altho two other, different, John ABBOTTs of NJ, are, including the other one who died 26 Jul 1840, and the DAR record says that one was not from Sussex Co.). About the only other thing that I gleaned fromrecords is that John's wife Anna seems to have died 1840/1841; her name is not on the deed when John ABBOTT sold his Newfield 20ac to David KELLOGG in 1841. When you were in Tompkins Co. area, did you locate John as a purchaser/grantee rather than as seller/grantor when he sold off his properties?[.....I suppose his purchase have been recorded in a different County (Tioga?) than the sale in Tompkins, due to all the border changes of that area.]One additional point about John ABBOTT's land transfers.....he apparently only deeded a small portion of his 20 acres to the school, being only 40 feet by 4 rods. The remainder of the 20 acres of property seems to also have been transferred by John, about a year later, in 1841, to David KELLOG....but at that later time Ann did not sign off (as she did to the school) so Ann was presumably dead by 1841. I guess we would have to check with Tioga Co. to see when John bought that 20 acres in Newfield a.k.a. "Spencer" a.k.a. "Cayuta"?..I'm guessing about 1805? Anyway, it would seem then, since John was still alive in 1841, that "our" John died in March 1850 probably while living with his dau.(?) Mary STRONG in Danby....or at least that corresponds to her living in Danby in 1850, and that he died "in Danby" just shortly before the 1850 census and mortality census (....presumably Mary was caring for her children and the elderly ABBOTTs in 1840...they were around 80 y.o in 1840.....so it's probable that she was still caring for John up til he died in 1850). That transfer of the remaining 20 acres in 1841 also verifies that John was still alive in 1841... therefore is a different Rev. veteran from NJ than the other "John ABBOTT" who died in 1840.