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The Edgerton Database |
Phebe Edgerton, daughter of John and Phebe (Harris) Edgerton.
Samuel Abbott, son of John and Elizabeth (Phipps) Abbott.
Children:
Lemuel
Abijah Abbott’s Descendants of George Abbott
of Rowley, Mass., Vol. I (privately
published; 1906; pp. 213-214) provides the following biography of Col. Samuel
Abbott: “Col. Samuels Abbott (John,4 John,3 George,3 George1) was b. in Windham, Windham Co., Ct., Sept. 18, 1726, and m. in Norwich, Ct., Oct. 4, 1749, Phebe Edgerton, b. Feb. 8, 1731/2, dau. of John and Phebe, of Norwich. Col. Abbott lived and d. in Norwich. He bought of Peter Huntington, Mar. 3, 1752, for ₤160, a house lot having a frontage of three rods (1/4 acre) in the N. E. corner of the "houselot" on which Mr. Huntington then lived in Norwich. Col. Abbott built a house on this lot – now a part of the grounds of Charles Young – in which he lived till his death. On June 1, 1773, he bought of Simon Huntington for ₤23:7s.:6d., 11½ rods with a frontage of 36 ft., 9 in., on which Col. Abbott built a shop, afterwards changed into a house and occupied by his son Daniel. The Norwich deeds show that he bought other land as follows: Nov. 22, 1758, for ₤62 (xxi: p.187), about 8 acs., of Jabez Lathrop, of Norwich, on the east side of the road "that leads from my Dwelling House to ye Town Hall"; May 6, 1756, for ₤56 (xiii: p.421), about 9 acs., 62 rods, of William Morgan, of Norwich, "on the east side of the road that leads into the woods from Richard Hide’s Dwelling House"; Apr. 27, 1772, for ₤12 (xx: p.92), about 1 ac. of John Hughes, of Norwich, " lying and being in the first society in said Norwich and is adjacent to the Highway lately laid out through the Parsonage Land"; Mar. 19, 1774, for ₤50 (xx: p.93). about 33 rods of Jabez Huntington, of Norwich, lying southwardly from sd. Abbott’s house; July 19, 1770, for £2:3s.:3d. (xxi: p.286), about 3 acs., 8 rds. of Richard Hyde, of Norwich, "a little northward from the Town House"; Dec. 9, 1785, for ₤8:11s. (xxvi : p.329), about 3 rds. (17 links) of Joseph Carrow, of Norwich, "adjoining to the Town Street." Col. Abbott, wife Phebe and sixteen others, sold to David Hall, of Norwich, Nov. 12, 1776, for ₤9:8s.:7d., all their right and title in the "sixth-seventh parts of if acs. Lying in the Society of Chelsea South from the little Fort on the west of the landing place," probably in Norwich (xxiii: p.37). He was a Lieut, in the Colonial service, 1758; Lt. Col. 20th Regt., Ct. Inf., composed of Co.’s from Norwich, in the Rev. War, 1774; and was Col. of the same, May, 1777 to 1780. In 1776, and at various other times, he was commissioned by the government to buy arms for the troops; and in 1782 was one of 68 "prominent men" in Norwich who formed themselves into an association against "Illicit Trade." He held the following local offices: Lister, 1766, 1771-2, 1778; fence-viewer, 1770-1-2-3, 1778, 1780-1, 1783-4-5-6-7; leather sealer, 1777, 1779; "commissioner to class the Inhabitants," 1781, etc. (Norwich city rec). He was probably a leather and shoe dealer. He d. suddenly, 1788-9, ae. abt. 62 yrs. His wid. Phebe, d. 1793, ae. abt. 62 yrs. Had 10 chil. (6th gen.), b. in Norwich, New London Co., Ct.” |