EARLY INHABITANTS OF IPSWICH, MASS. by Abraham Hammatt, page 9

 ABBOTT, Nehemiah, son of George of Rowley, is mentioned in the will of his brother Thomas, Sept. 30, 1659. He was a commoner of Ipswich in 1664 and 1678. He married Dec. 19, 1659, Mary How, and had a daughter Mary, born Nov. 19, 1660, and another with the same name, Nov. 1, 1665, who died Dec. 12, 1668. With the title of Deacon, he had a seat assigned to him “behind ye pulpit" in the Meeting House then recently built, Jan. 16, 1700. He died in 1706, leaving an only child, Nehemiah, who administered on his estate.

Nehemiah 2, son of Nehemiah 1, married Jan. 21, 1685, Remember Fisk, and had John born April 9, 1691, who died June 5, 1710. They had another son, Nehemiah, born Oct. 19, 1692.

    Arthur 1, is the only person of the name of Abbott in a "list of those that by law are allowed to have their votes in Town affairs, voted to be recorded at the Town meeting, December the 2, 1679." He occupied a farm belonging to John Whipple Sept. 28, 1683. His wife was fined "10s & costs and fees," Sept..28, 1675, for "wearing silk." He married April 26, 1669, Elisabeth White, and had Arthur, born Oct. 1, 1670; Philip, born Aug. 30. 1672. He had a seat assigned to him on the same seat with the Deacon, behind the pulpit, in the new Meeting House, in 1700.  He was commoner of Ipswich, 1708.

    Arthur 2, son of Arthur 1, was a constable in 1729. Philip 2, son of Arthur 1, with Mary his wife, had Arthur, born Feb. 3, 1693, and a daughter Frances, May 18, 1696.

Mary Abbot, widow, died Jan. 11,1730.

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