Being a well informed man, he was much employed in town business. He married Hannah Dane April 5, 1720; and died, in Andover, Jan. 14, 1761, aged seventy

one.

Children, born in Andover :

102-1.

EBENEZER4, b. Jan. 1, 1721; d. July 18, 1721.

103-II. HANNAH4, b. Dec. 29, 1721; m. Joseph Abbot (78).

104-III. EBENEZER4, b. Nov. 23, 1723; d. April 28, 1725.. 105-IV. MARY4, b. April 2, 1725; m. Isaac Blunt. 106-V. NEHEMIAH4, b. Feb. 2, 1727; d. March 25, 1727. 107-VI. ISAAC4, b. June 30, 1728. See below (107).

108-VII. PHEBE4, b. Jan. 3, 1732; m. James Griffin of Wilmington May 30, 1751; and d. Feb., 1805. 109-VIII. James4, b. April 14, 1736; a physician; settled in Dracut about 1775. He had children.

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DANIEL ABBOT3, born in Andover Jan. 10, 1687-8. He was a cordwainer and farmer, and lived in Andover until about 1732, when he removed to Ashford, Conn. He shortly afterward became a resident of Woodstock. He married Hannah Chandler Sept. 12, 1711; and died before 1736.

Children, born in Andover :

110-1.

HANNAH4, b. Sept. 12, 1712; d.
March 3, 1734.

DORCAS4, b. Dec. 16, 1713; d. Aug.
22, 1798.

112-III. DANIEL4, b. Feb. 18, 1715; d. Feb. 1741.

113-IV. JOSEPH4, b. Dec. 19, 1716; lived in Woodstock; m. Abigail Cutler in 1738; and d. Sept. 22, 1776. They had children. 114-V. ELIZABETH4, b. July 9, 1719; d. Jan. 115-VI. PHEBE4, b. April 7, 1721; d. May

1, 1785.

30, 1756.

116-VII. NATHAN4, b. Oct. 16, 1723; d. Jan. 14, 1793, at Woodstock.

117-VIII. JOHN4, b. Jan. 11, 1726; lived in Woodstock; m. Mary Wright, Nov. 28, 1750; and d. March 7, 1806. She d. May 30, 1811. They had children.

118-IX. SARAH4, b. May 5, 1728; d. Oct. 7, 1802.

CAPT. GEORGE ABBOT3, born in Andover Dec. 22, 1692. He was a shoemaker in his early life, and lived on the homestead with his father, in Andover. He married Mary Phillips of Salem Nov. 29, 1721; and died March 19, 1768, aged seventy-five. His wife survived him, and died Oct. 4, 1785, aged ninety-one.

Children, born in Andover ::122-1. MARY4, b. March 12, 1723; m. first, Stephen Abbot (86); and, second, Jonathan Abbot (180).

123-11.

124-III.

125-IV.

126-v.

127-VI.

128-VII.

GEORGE4, b. Dec. 14, 1724. See below (123).

ELIZABETH4, b. Sept. 11, 1726; d. Jan. 7, 1726-7.

ELIZABETH4, b. Nov. 5, 1727; m., first, Benjamin Abbot (168) of Hollis; second, J. Pollard of Westford; and, third, Capt. Josiah Bowers of Billerica.

SARAH4, b. Jan. 14, 1730; m. Rev. Nathan Holt of Danvers Aug. 4, 1757; and d. Dec. 26, 1797. See 51. SAMUEL4, b. Feb. 25, 1732. See below (127).

HANNAH4, b. Dec. 14, 1733; m. William Foster, jr., Jan. 9, 1755; and d. March 26, 1820.

DEA. ISAAC ABBOT3, born in Andover April 4, 1699. He graduated at Harvard college in 1723. He was a merchant at first, and later devoted his attention to farming, living in Andover. He was a deacon of the South church for forty-four years, and lined the psalms. He married, first, Phebe Lovejoy Nov. 29, 1739. She died Dec. 17, 1751, in her thirty-sixth year; and he married, second, Lydia Coley of Charlestown (pub. Nov. 17, 1753).* Deacon Abbot died Aug. 9, 1784, aged eighty-five; and his widow, Lydia, Feb. 28, 1791, in her eightyseventh year.

Children, born in Andover :-
:-

JAMES', b. Jan. 12, 1717. See below (141).

ELIZABETH', b. June 24, 1718; of Concord, spinster; d. 1773. WILLIAM, b. Sept. 8, 1719; d. Oct. 29, 1741.

RACHEL, b. in 1720; m. ning.

Man

145-VI. EZRA', b. March 11, 1722; d. Dec. 5, 1741.

146-VII. REUBEN, b. April 4, 1723; was a farmer, and lived in Concord. He was the first to drive an ox team from Andover to Concord; and he also drove to the fort the team conveying the bodies of the men killed by the Indians Aug. 11, 1746. Himself and his son, grandson and greatgrandson, all named Reuben, were living at the same time in the same house. He m., first, Rhoda Whittemore, who d. Jan. 27, 1785; and, second, widow Dinah Blanchard. He d. May 13, 1822, aged ninetynine; and his widow d. March 11, 1826, aged ninety-four. SIMEON, b. Sept. 8, 1724; d. Nov. 15, 1741.

147-VIII.

148-IX.

149-X.

AMOS1, b. Feb. 18, 1726; was a farmer, and lived in Concord; m. widow Rebecca (Abbot) Chandler; and d. Dec. 3, 1821, aged ninety-six. They had children.

PHEBE, b. Nov. 22, 1727; m. Thomas Merrill of Concord; and d. about 1755

150-XI. -son- -4, b. in 1729; d. in 1729. 151-XII. SARAH (twin), b. Aug. 13, 1730; m. Job Abbot (185) of Pembroke, N. H. 152-XIII. REBECCA (twin), b. Aug. 13, 1730; m. Enoch Eastman of Hopkinton, N. H.

153-XIV. MARY1, b. Oct. 12, 1732; m. Adonijah Tyler of Hopkinton. HANNAH, b. Jan. 21, 1735; d. Sept. 10, 1736.

154-XV.

She

157-III. BENJAMIN1, b. July 25, 1724; lived at first in Canterbury, then in Hampton, Conn., and removed to Brookfield, Vt., about 1793; m., first, Mary Ann Andrews Jan. 28, 1746. d. Dec. 8, 1788; and he m., second, widow Hannah Brown of Canterbury June 30, 1793. He d. June 21, 1807. He had children. 158-IV. ELIZABETH', b. Feb. 5, 1726; d. Sept. 10, 1736.

159-V. MARY, b. March 3, 1728; m. Joshua Holt, jr., of Windham, Conn., June 17, 1749; and d. Aug. 10, 1769. 160-VI. SARAH, b. Oct. 15, 1730; m. Joseph Ingalls of Pomfret May 24, 1749; and d. Jan. 30, 1810.

161-VII. ISAAC', b. Aug. 29, 1732; lived in Pomfret, Conn., and Milford, N. H.; m. Sarah Barker of Pomfret April 29, 1756. He had children. 162-VIII. DARIUS', b. Oct. 16, 1734. See below (162).

163-1x.

164-X.

165-XI.

ELIZABETH', b. July 20, 1737; m. Joseph Phelps of Pomfret and Andover; and d. in Lexington April 7, 1828, aged ninety.

HARRIETA, b. Feb. 13, 1740; d. Sept. 18, 1740.

HANNAH', b. June 20, 1741; d., unmarried, Nov. 18, 1763. 166-XII. ASA, b. Jan. 7, 1743; never married.

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BENJAMIN ABBOT3, born in Andover July 1, 1686. He was a farmer, and lived on his father's farm in Andover. He married, first, Elizabeth Abbot (29) Dec. 24, 1716. She died Sept. 3, 1718; and he married, second, Mary Carlton Oct. 23, 1722. She died Jan. 19, 1726; and he married, third, Abigail Abbot June 25, 1729. He died Nov. 26, 1748; and his widow, Abigail, died Dec. 8, 1753Children, born in Andover :167-1. SARAH', b. Aug. 2, 1718; m. James Holt, jr., of Andover April 10, 1746; lived on her father's farm in Andover; and d. March 5, 1778. He d. Aug. -, 1812, aged eighty-nine. See be

:

168-11. BENJAMIN, b. Oct. 21, 1723.

169-III. MARTHA', b. June 1, 1725.

low (168).

MARY, b. July 21, 1732; m. Nehemiah Barker of Methuen Nov. 13, 1759; and after the Revolution removed to Milford, N. H. She d. Aug. 9, 1798; and he d. Jan. 20, 1810. ABIGAIL*, b. Jan. 13, 1734; m. Capt. John Abbot (246).

174-VIII. ABIEL', b. July 24, 1735. See below (174).

176-x.

175-IX. JACOB', b. Feb. 2, 1737; d. in the army, near Albany, in February, 1760, of cold, hunger and fatigue. ELIZABETH', b. Oct. 27, 1738; m., first, Ebenezer Cummings of Dunstable June 1, 1758; second, Thomas Merrill, esq., of Conway, N. H., in 1780; and d. Oct. 12, 1789. 177-XI. ANNA', b. Oct. 23, 1739; m. Ephraim Burge of Hollis Jan. -,1762. He d. July 20, 1784, aged forty-six ; and she d. Jan. 15, 1810, aged seventy. One of their children was Rev. Josiah Burge.

178-XII. JOEL', b. Oct. 2, 1742; d. March 23,

A TYPICAL DOGTOWN HOUSE.

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THE DESERTED VILLAGE. Sweet was the sound when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There, as I passed with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below.

But now the sounds of population fail,
No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale,
No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread,
But all the bloomy flush of life is fled.

Where then, ah where, shall poverty reside,
To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride?
If to some common's fenceless limits strayed,
He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade,
Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,
And even the bare-worn common is denied.
Oliver Goldsmith.

GLOUCESTER'S DESERTED VILLAGE. Easterly from the head of Annisquam river, in Gloucester, was formerly a settlement known as Dogtown. Here lived the ancestors of many of the present inhabitants of Cape Ann. Dogtown commons, as the territory is now called, contains several hundred acres, and is a barren waste in its general appearance, though between the innumerable boulders grass grows for the cattle that pasture there. The old streets are distinguishable much of their distance by the parallel walls of stone, and in these old thoroughfares the grass grows as in the pastures on either side. A team could not be driven over its roads most of their course. Many of the cellars of the houses are well preserved, and door stones remain in some instances where they were first placed. Novelists and poets have written of this place, Richard Henry Dana, Thomas Starr King, Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Hiram Rich being among their number. In "Oldport Days," Col. Higginson says, "I know of nothing like that gray waste of boulders."

Here a hundred families once lived. Why they chose for their habitation this place so difficult of access is not clear. It is probable that the first settlers wished to remove from the coast as the troubles of the Revolution came on, and in this

place, then almost entirely surrounded by a dense forest, in the very heart of Cape Ann, they intended to secrete their valuables and families if worst came to worst, and the British burned or captured the seaports. The houses were small, generally of one story in height, with two small rooms on the floor.

Whoever the builders or first settlers were, it is clear that they were succeeded by poor and ignorant people. The seafaring occupation of the men soon removed most of them from the support of their families, and the children left home. A large number of the inhabitants came to be widows, and old and poor and ignorant, with little commerce with the outside world, many of them were soon esteemed to be witches. Their peculiar appearance, and the dreariness of the place, especially after nightfall, giving credence to the belief. The places of their natural protectors were taken by dogs, and so the region became known as Dogtown. The women obtained their living by picking berries and grazing sheep.

The cellar at the southern corner of the locality, on the brow of a steep rise of ground near Alewife brook, known as Foxhill, was covered by the residence of Lucy George, and later of her niece, Tammy Younger, "the queen of the witches." The latter was probably best known and most feared of her cotemporaries. She was daughter of William Younger, was born July 28, 1753, and died Feb. 4, 1829. A writer says that no one ever refused to do anything that she requested.

A little farther north stood the shop of Joseph Allen, the first blacksmith of Gloucester, who settled there in 1674. Then came the house of John Wharf, which afterward became the property of his daughter Polly Boynton. The Tristram Coffin house and Becky Rich's abode came next. Becky told fortunes by coffee grounds. Then came the house of Nathaniel Day, and some distance beyond that of Henry Day, John Clark, Philip Priestly, William Pulcifer, Arthur