... The first Abell in the county was Caleb, who came from Orange near the end of the last century. In 1V98 he purchased what is still known as the old Abell place on Moore's Creek. It originally consisted of six hundred and ninety-four acres, comprising three different grants, but all bought from the executors of Henry Mullins, of Goochland. Caleb conveyed it to his son, John S. Abell, in 1808. ...
Besides John S., there were
Joshua Abell, who married Caroline, and
Richard, who married Emily, daughters of Benjamin Martin, of North Garden;
Caleb, who married Jane, daughter of William Black; and
Benjamin F., whose wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Grayson. ...
