Abbott, Asa

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Wolford Family Burying Ground - Knox-Gallupville Road 1? miles from Knox. Begin on your left in field on Wolford farm. (Site reported destroyed!)

• Col. Asa Abbott, died July 29, 1826 aged 67 years. DAR Mohawk Rev.

(Also reported buried at High Point Cemetery in Knox, but the Wolford Farm has a transcription of his stone.)

Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots about Asa Abbott
Name: Asa Abbott
Cemetery: Priv cem
Location: nr Knox, Albany NY 33

Source Citation: Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots; Volume: 1; Page: ; Serial: 9787; Volume: 5. Source Information: Hatcher, Patricia Law. Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: Hatcher, Patricia Law. Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots. Vol. 1-4. Dallas, TX, USA: Pioneer Heritage Press, 1987.

Asa Abboot under listing of "Albany County Militia (Land Bounty Rights) - Seventeenth Regiment - Enlisted men

New York in the Revolution as Colony and State By New York (State). Comptroller's Office, James Arthur Roberts, Frederic Gregory Mather

With the cursory remarks we shal give a list of the deceased, soldiers and sages of the revolution first mentioned above, feeling it a duty, at least, to preserve their names. Died recently - At Berne, NY, Maj. Asa Abbot

Niles' Weekly Register, Volume 21

(Knox land bounded) north, by the Highway, and on the east, south and went by the lands of Asa Abbot, (now deceased) - Albany, the tweety-second day of April, one thousand eight hundreddred and twenty-eight.

Albany Journal, September 30, 1931 (Difficult to read - Fulton site)

Notices of Revolutionary Soldiers
ABBOTT. In Berne, Albany Co,. on the 24th ult., maj. Asa Abbott. BUF. PAT., Aug. 7. 1821.

The Genealogical Exchange, Volumes 1-7 - By Natalie R. Fernald

ALBANY COUNTY.

Regiment lately commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Johan Jost Deitz:

John Gallup, lieutenant colonel commandant, vice Johan Jost Deitz, resigfned.

Asa Abbot, first major, vice John Gallup, promoted; Gideon Gallup, second major, vice Asa Abbot, do.

Johannes Sant, captain, vice Gideon Gallup, do.

Lewis Sherman, captain, vice A. Talman, moved.

Lieutenants — Thomas Waugh, vice Johannes Sant, promoted; Artemas Morris, vice L. Sherman, do; Thomas Rogers, vice J. Crary, moved.

Ensigns — Justice Boynton, vice T. Waugh/promoted ; Jonathan Parrish, vice A. Morris, promoted; Robert Reed, vice T. Rogers, do.

George Gallup, lieutenant, vice J. Smith, resigned ; Cornelius Van Deusen, ensign, vice G. Gallup, promoted.

Military minutes of the Council of appointment of the state of New York, 1783-1821

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A different Asa Abbot from Andover, MA, was a private in Captain Henry Abbot's company and probably buried in SOuth Parish Burying Ground in Andover. Family of Mary Foster (18783) & Timothy Abbot

32445. Asa Abbot. Born on 17 Oct 1721 in Andover, MA. Asa died in Andover, MA, on 24 Dec 1797; he was 76.

On 20 Sep 1744 when Asa was 22, he married Elizabeth Abbot (42829) , daughter of Ephraim Abbot (6 Aug 1682-8 Jun 1748) & Sarah Crosby (35418) (12 Jun 1694-5 Aug 1780), in Andover, MA. Born on 10 Jul 1726 in Andover, MA.431
Elizabeth died in Andover, MA, on 18 Dec 1819; she was 93.

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Yet another Asa Abbot and his son Asa Abbot lived in Sydney, Maine (I believe).

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Private Asa Abbot in Sixth Company, Connecticut

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