Admitted 1816 - Alfred, New York.
Dismissed 1831.
Elizabeth is mentioned in the will of her father William Davis.
Abel was a scholarly man and the author of a book on orthography. He moved from Hopkinton to Brookfield, NY, thence to Alfred, NY. He was one of the founders of the Brookfield Seventh Day Baptist Church.
Admitted 31 Mar 1815 - Alfred, New York.
Excluded 5 Jan 1823.
Isaac and Abel Burdick were contemparies and came to theAllegany County, NY together. Their families had moved from RI to Rensselaer County (near Albany), NY, then to Allegany County.
He was a soldier in the War of 1812, an early pioneer of NewYork State, and a farmer.
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 4, No 41, p 163, March 30, 1848.
Death notice
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Ancient Cemetery Reveals Early History of Alfred
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/allegany/CemeteryPages/ALFREDRuralCem/AlfredRuralCem.htm
Originally from the Alfred Sun,
Allegany County Democrat, January 4, 1934
Abel Burdick was among those buried in the Thacher cemetery. His marker
records his death in 1854, at the age of 80 years, and on it is inscribed
this quaint epitaph:
"Dear friends on earth who now survive
Obey the voice of God and live
That you with me may dwell in love
Around the throne of God above."
By his side lay his wife, Elizabeth, who died November 28, 1852, aged 77
years. Her epitaph reads as follows:
"Come back this is the way
Come back and walk herein
Oh may you harken and obey
And shun the path of sin."
Abel Burdick was from Brookfield and settled in Alfred in 1814, on the farm
which adjoins that now owned by Harley Sherman. Slight of stature, weighing
less than 100 pounds, he must have possessed the sturdy virtues of the
pioneer, surviving hardships and living to the ripe old age of 80. It is
said that he and his three sons not yet grown, made in one year 2,900 pounds
of maple sugar. The sap was caught in troughs hewn out of cherry and
basswood trees, and gathered with shoulder yokes and buckets. It was boiled
out-of-doors in cauldron kettles. Thereafter the neighborhood was always
known as "Sugar Hill.". He appears to have been a man of considerable
education and in later life wrote articles which appeared in the early
agricultural papers. His orchard was planted with trees which he raised
from seed, but after they were set out, he discovered that he had planted
them on the adjoining tract of land. So he made a trip to Bath and
succeeded in buying it, and to this day there is included in this farm the
extra piece of land where Abel planted his first orchard.