1779 Joseph Abbott was born on July 8, in Burlington County, New Jersey. [1] [2]
1805 John Abbott and Ann Rickey declared their intentions of marriage. Recorded in minutes of the Chesterfield meeting dated on 5 of month 2. [3]
1805 Ann Rickey, daughter of John and Amy Rickey, and Joseph Abbott, all of Nottingham Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey, were married on 7 of month 3, in Trenton New Jersey, having declared, in Chesterfield Twp, their intention to marry. There were many witnesses to the marriage including John and Amy Rickey, Lambert Rickey, Ann Rickey, Margaret Rickey, and Mary Rickey Jr. [4] [5] [6] [7]
1805 A marriage was reported on March 7: "At Trenton, New Jersey, at the Friends' meeting-house, Mr. Joseph Abbot, of Nottingham, to Miss Ann Rickey, daughter of John Rickey, merchant. [8]
1861 Joseph Abbott died on October 28. [9] [10]
"Joseph Abbott, son of John and Susannah (Bullock) Abbott, during the lifetime of his father, removed to a plantation which the latter had purchased in 1800 from William Watson, east of the original Abbott tract. He was a farmer all his life, and died in 1861. He married, 1805, Anne Rickey, daughter of John Rickey, a hardware merchant in Trenton, New Jersey. They had eight children." [11]
A biosketch reports [12]:
Joseph Abbott, born 1779, died 1861. He married Anne Rickey. In his father's lifetime he moved to a portion of the original "Watson plantation," east of the Abbott homestead, and was a farmer. Joseph and Anne (Rickey) Abbott had, with other issue, …
[1] Thomas Patrick Hughes, Frank Munsel, eds., American Ancestry: Giving Name and Descent, in the Male Line, Vol. 10, (1895), 66, [GoogleBooks].
[2] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 195, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[3] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Minutes, 1797-1806; Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes, 248, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[4] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 181, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[5] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Marriages, Births, Deaths, and Marriage Intentions (from the Minutes), Certificates of Removal 1684-1847 (NJ/B2F:L), [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[6] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 195, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[7] Thomas Patrick Hughes, Frank Munsel, eds., American Ancestry: Giving Name and Descent, in the Male Line, Vol. 10, (1895), 66, left column, [GoogleBooks].
[8] The Literary Magazine, and American Register 3 (Philadelphia: 1805), 237, [HathiTrust].
[9] Thomas Patrick Hughes, Frank Munsel, eds., American Ancestry: Giving Name and Descent, in the Male Line, Vol. 10, (1895), 66, [GoogleBooks].
[10] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 195, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[11] Francis Bazley Lee, ed., Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 (1907), 109, right, person V, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[12] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 195, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].