Ebenezer Abbe (1683)
EBENEZER ABBE, son of SAMUEl and MARY (KNOWLTON) ABBE, born in Danvers (Salem Village), Essex, Massachusetts, 31 July 1683; died in Windham, Windham, Connecticut, 5 December 1758; married, in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, 28 October 1707, MARY ALLEN, daughter of JOSHUA and MARY (CROWELL) ALLEN, born in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, about 1686; died 1766 .
EBENEZER ABBE removed with his father in 1698 to a locality known as the "Bricktop"; worked in Norwich for a time (about 1705); was at Windham in 1706; and later lived in North Windham and Mansfield. In November 1705 two deeds were recorded showing an exchange of property between SAMUEL ABBE and EBENEZER of Norwich -- a lot on Bushnell's Plain. EBENEZER received another deed from SAMUEL on 17 July 1707 and sold land to ABRAHAM MITCHELL and WILLIAM SLATE in 1709 and 1711. On 29 October 1713, JOHN ABBE, "now resident at Hartford," sold his brother EBENEZER land he had received from his father. In 1715, EBENEZER settled at Hampton Hill in the northeast part of Windham County. On 9 May 1717, he signed a petition asking the General Assembly to authorize the formation of Canada parish, and the following October he put his name to a second petition to use the property taxes of the parish to establish its church. On 8 September 1743, EBENEZER sold land in Windham, on the east side of Nauchaug River, to his son SAMUEL. In his will, dated 3 June 1750, and probated 14 December 1758, he named his wife MARY; children EBENEZER, JOSHUA, NATHAN, GIDEON, SAMUEL, E;IZABETH CROSS, ZERUIAH MARSH, JERUSHA WOOD, ABIGAIL CARY, MIRIAM CROSS; grandson JONATHAN BINGHA,, only surviving son and heir of his daughter MARY, deceased. (Windham Probate Records, Vol. 5, p. 513).
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