First Settlers of Scituate
Nathaniel Tilden (1583-1641) and Lydia Huckstep (1588-aft 1666) Nathaniel and Lydia are my 11th great grandparents by the following path:...
Matthias Hatfield (1635-1687) and Maria Mariken Melyn (1637-1694)
Matthias Hatfield and Maria Melyn are our 9th great grandparents by the following path: RWA → Vera Esler Abbott → Martha Tappan Esler →...
Jesse Frye's Gang Plow
Jesse Frye (1818-1887) was a framer and an inventor noted for the invention of the Jesse Frye Gang Plow. There were several versions of...
She "married my property but not my self"
Elijah Chandler (1790-1860) left an unhappy marriage in New Hampshire and settled in Pope County, Arkansas.
Abbott, Wisconsin
Abbott, Wisconsin was named for the prominent Abbott family in the area. Due to Abbott Confederate sympathies the name was changed to Sherma
Marquis de Lafayette Abbott
Lafayette Abbott served with Confederate forces during the Civil War and was prisoner at two of the more notorious Union prisoner of war cam
"Fire King" Sewell Osgood
Sewell Osgood was a industrious man, well thought of in his community who ultimately met a tragic end.
Battle of Perryville
The Battle of Perryville, also known as the Battle of Chaplin Hills, was fought 8 October 1862. Two George Abbott descendants participated i
"The Kansas Audubon"
Nathaniel Stickney Goss was a noted ornithologist whose ambition was to have specimens of every bird species of North America in his collect
Murder at the Blacksmith Shop
Ira Warren Abbott was of excellent repute in his community, but on 27 July 1894 a long-standing rivalry with a business competitor came to a