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- Robert AbellEst 1605 - 1663
Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Robert Abell |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][2] |
Est 1605 |
Stapenhill, Derbyshire, England(probably) |
| Immigration[1] |
1630 |
Winthrop Fleet |
| Residence[4] |
1630 |
Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Other[1] |
18 May 1631 |
Admitted freeman. |
| Marriage |
Bef 1639 |
to Joanna _____ |
| Residence[1] |
1643 |
Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States |
| Death[1] |
20 Jun 1663 |
Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States |
| Estate Inventory[1] |
9 Aug 1663 |
£354-17-09; £130 in real estate. |
| Probate[1] |
1 Mar 1663/64 |
Letters of administration granted to the widow. |
| Estate Settlement[1] |
3 Mar 1663/64 |
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| Reference Number |
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Q7341325 (Wikidata) |
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Robert Abell was born in about 1605 in Stapenhill, Derbyshire, England. He emigrated to New England in 1630 as part of the first wave of the Great Migration, and was among the early settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, settling first in Weymouth, and subsequently in Rehoboth, where he died on June 20, 1663.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Robert Abell, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
1:3-6.
ORIGIN: London.
OCCUPATION: Innkeeper. 3 July 1656: "Robert Abell is allowed by the Court to keep an ordinary at Rehoboth" [PCR 3:104].
FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 and admitted 18 May 1631 [MBCR 1:80, 366]. First in a list of Rehoboth men who took the oath of fidelity in 1657 [PCR 8:178].
BIRTH: Born about 1605, probably at Stapenhill, Derbyshire, son of George and Frances (Cotton) Abell [TG 5:162]. In his will of 8 September 1630, George Abell of Hemington, Leicestershire, made a small bequest to his second son Robert Abell "in regard of the charges I have been at in placing him in a good trade in London which he hath made no use of and since in furnishing him for New England where I hope he now is" [Abell Gen 42, citing PCC 10 St. John].
DEATH: Rehoboth 20 June 1663 [ReVR 789, citing original 1:50].
- ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd. Ancestors of American Presidents. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009)
pp. 78, 336-37.
- Richardson, Douglas, and Kimball G. Everingham. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2005)
Abell 2.
Descendant, through is maternal grandfather, of Magna Carta barons Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford and his son Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford.
- ↑ Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
| The Winthrop Fleet (1630)
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| The Winthrop Fleet brought over 700 colonists to establish a new colony at Massachusetts Bay. The fleet consisted of eleven ships: the Arbella flagship with Capt Peter Milburne, the Ambrose, the Charles, the Mayflower, the Jewel, the Hopewell, The Success, the Trial, the Whale, the Talbot and the William and Francis.
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| Sailed: | April and May 1630 from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England
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| Arrived: | June and July 1630 at Salem, Massachusetts
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| Previous Settlers: | The Higginson Fleet (1629)
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