1William Richard Cutter, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, Vol. 2, pp. 789-790 (1908).
"(II) Nathaniel Abbot, son of George Abbot (1), was born in Andover, Massachusetts, July 4, 1671; died December 12, 1749. He resided at Andover, where he married, November 1, 1695, Dorcas Hibbert, who died February 7, 1743. Children: 1. Nathaniel Jr., born 1696; died 1770. 3. Son, born and died June 20, 1700. 4. Joseph, born February 2, 1705; mentioned below. 5. Tabitha, born about 1707. 6. Jeremiah, born November 4, 1709; died August 28, 1748. 7. Joshua, born 1711. 8. Sarah. 9. Hannah. 10. Elizabeth, died July 1799. 11. Rebecca, born 1717; died 1803, aged eighty-six years.
(III) Joseph Abbot, son of Nathaniel Abbot (2), was born in Andover, February 2, 1705, died at Wilton, New Hampshire, August 23, 1787.
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He married August 12, 1731, Deborah Blanchard, who died July, 1773.".