Robert Abel

1589 - 1663  (74 years)

• Name	Robert Abel  [1]
  Birth	1589	Hemington, Leicestershire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	20 Jun 1663	Rehoboth, MA
  Person ID	I56122	Cecilie Family
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2005

  
  

  Father	George Abell,   b. Abt 1561, Stapenhill, England bur. 13 Sep 1630, Lockington, Leicester, England (Age ~ 69 years)
  Mother	Frances Cotton,   b. 1573   d. Bef 16 Apr 1646 (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F18264	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joanna (Abel)   d. Aft 1682
  Children	1. Sergt. Caleb Abell,   b. 1646, Rehobeth, MA d. 17 Aug 1731, Norwich, CT (Age 85 years)
  Family ID	F17631	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Feb 2009

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1589 - Hemington, Leicestershire, England Death - 20 Jun 1663 - Rehoboth, MA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  The Amorial Bearings of Robert Abell from "The Abell Family in America" was the immigrant who came to New England with John Winthrop on the Winthrop Fleet, in June 1630 and settled at Rehobeth, MA. He took the Oath of Freeman May 18, 1631.   The first record of Robert in America is at Weymouth, Massachusetts where his name appeared on a list of persons who desired to be made freemen on October 19, 1630. On May 18, 1631 he took the Oath of Freeman. His name appears in court records of the Quarterly Court, held at Boston, in 1638 and 1640. In Weymouth his name appears in land transactions between October of 1642 and May of 1644. For more information see the Our Folk - Hart family Web Site

  
  

• Sources

  [S997] Horace A. Abell and Lewis P. Abell, The Abell Family in America, (The Tuttle Publishing Co, Inc. - Rutland Vermont).