Delaware County NY Genealogy and History Site

I’m writing an updated version of the Abbe-Abbey family genealogy. Peter Abbey, Enfield CT, m. Hannah Alden (of John Alden lineage) and eventually (1798) moved to Franklin, then to Watertown. Last summer I spent a few weeks in Massachusetts and Connecticut researching Abbe’s there and hope - one day soon - to make my way to NY state. These are the Abbey (children of Peter and Hannah) born, married, died in your area. Thanks, Molly Abbey Ashman Shannon. 23 April 2020

• Fanny Abbey, b. Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut 7 Sep 1789; m. abt. 1810 Orlo Steele, of Oswego, New York.
  
  
• Dorrephus Abbey, b. Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut 13 Jul 1792; m. Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut abt 1815 Catherine Clark, b. Suffield abt 1794. (see Side Bar) - I found his will in the Philadelphia, Jefferson Co NY site: http://jefferson.nygenweb.net/wills/dorephusabbywill.htm - seems he may have been hung for a crime he did not commit (or at least pled not guilty) at Ft. Henry. He was part of a group called the “Hunters Lodges” which I will have to research. a militia of some sort, not good it appears!
  
  
• Arabella Abbey, b. Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut abt 1796; m. William Griffin Adkins M.D., b. 1795 Oswego, New York; d. 28 Nov. 1835.[1]
  
  
• Seth Alden Abbey, b. Franklin, Delaware, New York 3 Oct 1798; m. (1) Watertown, Jefferson, New York 8 Feb 1821 Mercy Hunt; m. (2) Mary Lyons Goodwin. At age 63 was made 1st Lt. of 2nd Ohio Cavalry and served throughout the Civil War, part of the time as Brig. Quartermaster. (Seth and Mercy and their descendants to my grandfather Henry Abbey Jr. will be covered in the next volume of this series.)
  
  
• Chauncey Abbey, b. Franklin, Delaware, New York 1800. He was a printer, lived in Watertown, New York and was at one time printer of the Mercury, Hartford, Connecticut; m. Cassie Russell, d. 1828. A daughter, b. 1828; m. CM Shipman and was living in New Haven abt 1897.
  
  
• William Abbey, b. Franklin, Delaware, New York abt 1802, d. 1862, lived near Watertown NY, Married and no children, He established the Oswego Republican newspaper in 1825.
  
  
• Mary Hannah Abbey, b. Franklin, Delaware, New York 3 31 Jan 1814; m. John C Huguenin. family of cousin Tom Skinner.