Hannah Abbott

Our Andover ancestor Hannah Abbott (variously spelled Abbot) married back into her mother's family, the Chandlers, quite a close-knit family. She married her own first cousin, John Chandler I, 1655-1721, the son of her mother Hannah Chandler Abbott's older brother Thomas Chandler, 1628-1703. First-cousin husband John's younger sister Sarah Chandler, 1661-1757 became the grandmother of the Samuel Phelps III, 1712-1795 who married Hannah and John's granddaughter Priscilla Chandler, 1713-1778, Samuel's second cousin. Hannah and John had two sons, both of whom are are direct ancestors of ours, so that two of her great-grandchildren (Priscilla Chandler Phelps's son Joshua Phelps I, 1738-1798 and Lois Ballard, 1746-1836) were also married as second cousins. New England apparently had a very restricted gene pool.

Hannah, her siblings, all but her oldest stepsiblings, and her husband were part of the heroic, civic-minded Glorious Generation. Her father and her stepfather were part of the idealistic, puritanical Righteous Generation. Her mother and her eldest stepsiblings were part of the reactive, nomadic Cavalier Generation. Her children were part of the adaptive Enlightenment Generation.

Year by year in the life of Hannah Abbott
The childhood and prime adult years of Hannah Abbott in their historical context
The mature and final years of Hannah Abbott Chandler in their historical context

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*Birth of Hannah Abbott*
Born:	9 June 1650
Birthplace:	Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts
*Parents*
Father:	George Abbott, 1615-1684 (our ancestor)
Mother:	Hannah Chandler, 1630-1711 (our ancestor)
Stepfather:	Francis Dane I, 1615-1697 (our ancestor, from a prior marriage) from 1690 Francis had been previously married, first, to Elizabeth Ingals, 1620-1676, our ancestor, and, second, to Mary Thomas, d. 1689.
*Siblings*
Brother:	John Abbott b. 2 March 1648 in Andover, Essex Co., MA d. 19 March 1721 in Andover, Essex Co., MA
Brother:	Joseph Abbott (the first one) b. 11 March 1649 in Andover, Essex Co., MA d. 24 June 1650 in Andover, Essex Co., MA
Brother:	Joseph Abbott (the second one) b. 30 March 1652 in Andover, Essex Co., MA d. 8 April 1676 in Andover, Essex Co., MA
Brother:	George Abbott b. 7 June 1655 in Andover, Essex Co., MA d. 26 February 1736 in Andover, Essex Co., MA
Brother:	William Abbott b. 18 November 1657 in Andover, Essex Co., MA d. 21 October 1713 in Andover, Essex Co., MA
Sister:	Sarah Abbott b. 14 November 1659 in Andover, Essex Co., MA d. 28 June 1711 in Andover, Essex Co., MA
Brother:	Benjamin Abbott b. 20 December 1662 in Andover, Essex Co., MA d. 30 March 1703 in Andover, Essex Co., MA
Brother:	Timothy Abbott b. 17 November 1663 in Andover, Essex Co., MA d. 9 September 1730 in Andover, Essex Co., MA
Brother:	Thomas Abbott b. 6 May 1666 in Andover, Essex Co., MA d. 28 April 1728 in Andover, Essex Co., MA
Brother:	Edward Abbott b. (date unavailable) in Andover, Essex Co., MA d. (date unavailable) in Andover, Essex Co., MA
Brother:	Nathaniel Abbott b. 4 July 1671 in Andover, Essex Co., MA d. 1 December 1749 in Andover, Essex Co., MA
Sister:	Elizabeth Abbott b. 29 January 1673 in Andover, Essex Co., MA d. 23 April 1750 in Andover, Essex Co., MA
Stepbrother:	(from stepfather's first marriage) Nathaniel Dane b. 1645 d. 14 April 1725 in Andover, Essex Co., MA
Stepsister:	(from stepfather's first marriage) Elizabeth Dane d. 1722
Stepbrother:	(from stepfather's first marriage) Albert Dane (No information on dates)
Stepbrother:	(from stepfather's first marriage) Francis Dane (the first of that name) (No information on dates)
Stepbrother:	(from stepfather's first marriage) Francis Dane (the second of that name) (No information on dates)
Stepsister:	(from stepfather's first marriage) Hannah Dane (No information on dates)
Stepsister:	(from stepfather's first marriage) Phebe Dane d. aft. 1671 (before mother's marriage to stepfather)
Stepsister:	(from stepfather's first marriage) Abigail Dane b. 13 October 1652 in Andover, Essex Co., MA d. 3 February 1730 in Andover, Essex Co., MA
Stepbrother:	(from stepfather's first marriage) Francis Dane II, 1656-1738 (our ancestor) (the third of that name)
*Spouse and children*
Husband:	John Chandler I, 1655-1721 (our ancestor, both through John Chandler II, b. 1679 and through Zebadiah Chandler, 1683-1776), (son of Thomas Chandler and Hannah Brewer Chandler, our ancestors) (John was Hannah's first cousin; they were both grandchildren of William Chandler, 1595-1641 and Annis Bayford Chandler, 1603-1683, our ancestors) Married in Andover 20 December 1676
Son:	John Chandler II, b. 1679 (our ancestor)
Son:	Zebadiah Chandler, 1683-1776 (our ancestor)
No information available on other children
*Other information*
Occupation:	Probably housewife
Religion:	No information available
*Death of Hannah Abbott Chandler*
Died:	2 March 1741 (age 90 years 8 months 23 days)
Deathplace:	Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts
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Sources on Hannah Abbott Chandler:

Robert Kline's Ancestors, Merged with Those of Several Distant Cousins.

For more information on Francis Dane I, Hannah's stepfather, see Bargeron's Genealogy Records. This site, however, has Francis's brother John Dane (1612-1684) as the second husband to Hannah's grandmother Annis Bayford. But then how could Grandmother Annis have married her third husband, John Parmenter, in 1660 unless her second husband had already died? It also seems unlikely (though not impossible) that Annis would marry the older brother (older by 2 years) of the man who married her daughter Hannah Chandler Abbott (the mother of Hannah Abbott Chandler). We must then agree with the Kline research that Annis's second husband was this John Dane's father, John Dane (1590-1658), who was also the father of Francis Dane I. As stated on the Bargeron Genealogy homepage, "Use this information only as a guide for conducting your own research; not all of the information contained herein is adequately proven and some family connections have been compiled from secondary sources without verification. Please advise us of any errors so that we may update our files."

Wendy Edmands Pearson, in her research for membership in the Colonial Dames

Mary Caroline Findley Edmands, 1887-1970, in her research for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution

Mary Anna Hawes Edmands Ashbrook, 1917-1992, in her compilation of Mary Caroline Findley Edmands's research.

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