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Andrew2 Ford son of Andrew, was b. at Weymouth, Mass. ca. 1650-1; and d. at Abington, Mass. 24 Aug. 1725. He mar. ca. 1679-80 to Abiah (or Abia) Pierce [probably] dau. of Capt. Michael Pierce and Persis Eames, b. probably at Weymouth, Mass. ca. 1654; and d. between 22 Mar. 1721 and 8 Apr. 1725.
Andrew took the oath of allegience to Charles II with his father and brothers in Weymouth in 1678. Two other Suffolk County records concern him: the will of his father and the estate records of his first cousin James Lovell. Andrew1, 25 Feb. 1692-3, bequethed his son 12 pence , which he judged sufficient with what he had already given him. The inventory of James Lovell's estate, 1717-8, mentioned land held in partnership with his "brother" Andrew Ford. James was the son of James, brother of Ellinor, Andrew's mother; therefore, Andrew's first cousin; "brother" may indicate a close friend-ship unknown to this historian.
About 1679 Andrew moved into the eastern half of the Souther Grant, purchased by Lovell and Ford in 1664 from the Plymouth Colony. Benjamin Hobart, the Abington historian, said he might have moved there earlier and withdrawn because of Indian trouble. "Andrew Ford's house" was mentioned, 13 Mar. 1671-2, in a description of the Partridge grant, sold by Partridge to Thomas Andrews of Hingham. The deed stated: "The said land lyeth near a mile to the south a little westerly from Andrew ffoards house." "Andrew ffoards house" may have been a crude hut or cabin used while clearing the property; and may have been the house destroyed by the Indians, the incident to which Hobart referred. Andrew2 Ford probably built a more permanent dwelling south of the first after the title to the Souther grant had been cleared up, 1679-80. He was the pioneer settler there. Hobart located an early Ford house, by a pile of rocks, west of Deacon Cleverly's, at the present fork of Washington and Adams Streets in North Abington. The site was marked ca. 1930 by some of Andrew's descendants and a bronze plaque affixed to a boulder, which reads: "Near this spot about the year 1679 Andrew Ford, second of the name in America, built the first house in the territory afterward incorporated as the town of Abington." This house is mentioned in Plymouth Colony Judicial Acts, Vol. 7, p. 310 in a report written, 2 July 1690, on the road from Middlebury, Bridgewater, etc. towards Boston, "...to ye road that goeth to Waymouth, and from thence as ye way now lyeth on ye westerly side of Andrew Foords house, & so to ye patent line..." The land on which Andrew lived was called Ford's Farm or Farms.
On 10 June 1712 Ford's Farms and lands adjoining, together with the N.E. corner of the town of Bridgewater, were incorporated to form the town of Abington.
Andrew Ford's will was made 8 Apr. 1725 and proved 29 Oct. 1725. pp. 58-60
Children, probably b. at Ford's Farms, but not recorded (except Hezekiah); there are no Ford vital records in Abington until about 1724: Andrew b. ca. 1682, Sarah b. ca. 1684, Hezekiah b. Weymouth 28 Apr. 1687, Thankful b. ca. 1689, Lydia b. ca. 1693-5, and Abiah b. ca. 1697-8.
