Polly's parents were Private Rowland Luce I (1725-1767) and Mary Butler (1726-1807). Rowland was a yeoman, who served as a private in the Tisbury Foot Company Militia, died when his youngest child was only six years old. Most of the men of Martha's Vineyard worked on merchant sailing vessels and on vessels engaged in catching fish and whales. As there was no Panama Canal in those days, the sailors journeyed around the Horn, to the most distant parts of the world, including the Pacific Ocean. Polly's paternal grandfather was Deacon Jonathan Luce (1695-1763). The LUCE line hails from the seaside village of Gloucestershire, England; from there to Scituate, Plymouth Colony, MA (north of Cape Cod) and then to Tisbury (Indian Town), Martha's Vineyard, Dukes, MA. The BUTLER line is from Ashford, Kentshire, England and splits off from the FAMOUS DAGGETT/MAYHEW families of Edwardstone, Suffolkshire AND of Tisbury, Wiltshire, England. It is interesting to note that at the age of 44, Polly's great grandfather, Robert Luce, was lost at sea sailing between Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.
In 1641-1642, immigrant and Governor Thomas Mayhew, Sr. (my particular 8x ggpa) purchased Martha's Vineyard (then called Martin's Vineyard), the island off of Nantucket and the Elizabeth Islands. This area was purchased from William Alexander, Earl of Sterling, Scotland and from Sir Ferdinand Georges, then Governor of the English Province Maine. Each of these men had separate but conflicting titles to these islands from the British Crown. Later, the land was purchased piecemeal from the Indians. Individual purchasers had to first obtain Thomas Mayhew's permission. Yata, yata, yata…
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Back to Mary... In 1777, just after the beginning of the RW, Mary's mother and her second husband (Thomas Allen) removed with Mary to Sharon, Litchfield, CT, where Mary met and married (1781) John Abel, who was at that time serving in the Revolutionary War. There, they resided for about ten years, relocating north of the village of Rensselaerville, Albany, NY from about 1791 - 1816. In 1816, the family removed to Ravenna, Portage County, OH until Polly's death in 1825 -- John subsequently moving in January 1831 to River Road in Perry Station, Perry Twp., Ohio, just outside of Painesville, to live with his married daughter, Mrs. Lury Abel Armstrong, on River Road, Perry Twp., Lake County (formerly Geauga Co.), Ohio.
Mary "Polly" Luce and John Abel had fourteen children, including two sets of twins. The first child was born December 5, 1784, when Mary was 19 years old, and the last was born May 5, 1814, when Mary was almost 50 years old. The young couple probably lived near, but not in, Sharon, Connecticut. According to the 1850 Census for Napoleon, Henry, Ohio, son Almon (the third child) was born in Connecticut but not in Sharon. The family moved to Rensselaerville, Albany, New York and then to Ravenna, Portage, Ohio. Youngest son Daniel was nine years old when his mother died on January 1, 1825, at age 59. Polly had been married 43-years. Her oldest child, Lury, was 40-years old, and her husband, John, was 67. Mary "Polly" must have had a busy life. In those days, people did not have electricity. They used kerosine (coal oil) lamps and candles to light their homes. There was no indoor plumbing, and drinking water had to be secured from a well outside of the house. Clothes were washed with rain "soft" water that had been collected in a barrel. All pastries, breads, etc. were baked at home. In "spare" time, women knitted wool sweaters and stockings. It was a very hard life, but, even so, many women lived to be eighty years of age or more, the exercise being good for them. No time and no care to jog! Polly may have died in an asylum near Albany, NY but is buried at the Maple Grove Cemetery, Ravenna, Portage, OH (Mr. Stock's notes state that she is buried next to Sluman Wm. Abel IV's first wife; one headstone for both!)
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NOTES:
1. The Hinkleys (Ben and Polly Mosher) and Abels (John and Mary Luce) lived in Ravenna, Ohio at the same time. The Billings (Gideon and Sarah Mosher) family was not far away.
Sources: Banks "History of Martha's Vineyard", Vol III, pages 63-4; 253-271.
2. Hatch's "History of Industry, Maine", pages 680-698.
June Pierson of Littleton, MA, LDS Archive Record;
Mary S. M. Christensen of Calgary, Canada.
_____________________________________
Martha's Vineyard is a somewhat triangular island of about 19 miles in length and nine miles in width in the Atlantic Ocean that lies south of Cape Cod. The area is about one hundred square miles, 64,000 acres.
____________________________________________
References:
1. Volume I, "History of Martha's Vineyard, MA", by Charles Edward Banks, M.D.
Chapters VI-XIV, inclusive. See Daggett and Butler references. See Chapter 28, pages 156, 158, 354, 515, 342.
2. Volume II, "History of Martha's Vineyard, MA", by Charles Edward Banks, M.D.
See Mayhew references and Tisbury and Edgartown Annals.
3. Volume III, "History of Martha's Vineyard, MA", by Charles Edward Banks, M.D.
See Mayhew, Daggett, Butler, Hatch, Luce, Allen information.
4. "Tisbury's Town and Proprietors' Records from 1669-1862", by William S. Swift, Town Clerk of Tisbury and Jennie W. Cleveland, Assistant Town Clerk of Tisbury, published 1903. Pages 10, 60, 92-94, 104.
5. "American Descendants of Henry Luce of Martha's Vineyard, 1640-1982", by Thomas Robert Luce and Martha Fletcher McCourt. Martha included references from my communications with her in the book. The authors are alive in 2003.
6. "Sworn Agreements of the widow and children of Robert Luce, deceased, as to the use and disposition of his house lands, and other assets".
7. "Births, Marriages, and Deaths in Sharon, CT, 1721-1879"
9. "A Sweet and Alien Land" by Henn? and Barbara van du Zee, pages 491-493.
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There are various scenarios from which to choose:
"Our" Mary "Polly" Luce Abel (w/o "our" Squire John, Cpl. Abel) died 1825; buried Maple Grove Cemetery, Ravenna, Portage, OH.
To convolute the matter, there were FOUR Sluman Abels:
1. The first one was "our" John's brother -- Lt. Sluman Abel, Sr. who had a son named
2. A. Sluman Abel, Jr.
3. Then, "our" John had a son named Sluman William (a TWIN) Abel, Sr. who had a son named
4. Sluman William Abel, Jr.
5. "Our" John also had a son named John who had a son named Sluman William Abel. I have called him SWA IV.
• Per Mr. Stock's notes, "our" Mary "Polly" Luce is buried next to son Sluman William Abel's first wife; one headstone for both! So, you're your pick as to WHICH Sluman Abel!!! Although Stock is ALWAYS correct, I am unsure if his info is correct per my info that came from a gal who descends from another line.
• The twin SWA was married to Harriet Moulton. They had nine kids who were all born in Ravenna. The parents and most of the kids (except for the THREE that were killed in the CW) died in Andrew, Jackson, Iowa! So, this is not the correct SWA.
1. "Our" John's son, John, Jr., married Lucy Moulton. Harriet and Lucy Moulton were sisters. The son of John, Jr. and Lucy Moulton who was named SWA was married TWICE, leading me to suspect that this is the correct SWA. Both wives are buried in Ravenna. W/1, Sarah Elizabeth Reed Abel, died in 1857 in childbirth. SWA had THIRTEEN CHILDREN with W/2. If Stock is correct, OUR Polly was buried with the same stone as this first wife, although she died MANY years later than Polly.
2. Another note states that our Mary "Polly" Luce Abel is buried with the same stone as Mary Abel, d/o Sluman Abel, Sr. (bro to our John). This Mary was born Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut, as was her first husband, Moses Smith, Sr. (Many of the Smith children are buried in the MG Cemetery.) Moses Smith died 1818 in Ravenna. In 1827, Mary then married Ichabod Lord. Mary Abel Smith Lord died in Ravenna in 1847. If our Polly is buried here, it would be with the SMITH family (or maybe Lord, but I think that the Smith children would have buried their mother nearby, not with Mr. Lord who left the area). per [email protected] (H. Bundy/2021)
P.S. KEEP IN MIND... Mary Polly Luce Abel is "our" family's line to Martha's Vineyard, the whalers and patriot sailors, and the circuitous -- generationally-related to US -- owners of the entire island! Move over John-John... (or is that now Barrack???)
In 1641-1642, immigrant and Governor Thomas Mayhew, Sr. (my particular 8x ggpa) purchased Martha's Vineyard (then called Martin's Vineyard), the island off of Nantucket and the Elizabeth Islands. This area was purchased from William Alexander, Earl of Sterling, Scotland and from Sir Ferdinand Georges, then Governor of the English Province Maine. Each of these men had separate but conflicting titles to these islands from the British Crown. Later, the land was purchased piecemeal from the Indians. Individual purchasers had to first obtain Thomas Mayhew's permission. Yata, yata, yata…
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Back to Mary... In 1777, just after the beginning of the RW, Mary's mother and her second husband (Thomas Allen) removed with Mary to Sharon, Litchfield, CT, where Mary met and married (1781) John Abel, who was at that time serving in the Revolutionary War. There, they resided for about ten years, relocating north of the village of Rensselaerville, Albany, NY from about 1791 - 1816. In 1816, the family removed to Ravenna, Portage County, OH until Polly's death in 1825 -- John subsequently moving in January 1831 to River Road in Perry Station, Perry Twp., Ohio, just outside of Painesville, to live with his married daughter, Mrs. Lury Abel Armstrong, on River Road, Perry Twp., Lake County (formerly Geauga Co.), Ohio.
Mary "Polly" Luce and John Abel had fourteen children, including two sets of twins. The first child was born December 5, 1784, when Mary was 19 years old, and the last was born May 5, 1814, when Mary was almost 50 years old. The young couple probably lived near, but not in, Sharon, Connecticut. According to the 1850 Census for Napoleon, Henry, Ohio, son Almon (the third child) was born in Connecticut but not in Sharon. The family moved to Rensselaerville, Albany, New York and then to Ravenna, Portage, Ohio. Youngest son Daniel was nine years old when his mother died on January 1, 1825, at age 59. Polly had been married 43-years. Her oldest child, Lury, was 40-years old, and her husband, John, was 67. Mary "Polly" must have had a busy life. In those days, people did not have electricity. They used kerosine (coal oil) lamps and candles to light their homes. There was no indoor plumbing, and drinking water had to be secured from a well outside of the house. Clothes were washed with rain "soft" water that had been collected in a barrel. All pastries, breads, etc. were baked at home. In "spare" time, women knitted wool sweaters and stockings. It was a very hard life, but, even so, many women lived to be eighty years of age or more, the exercise being good for them. No time and no care to jog! Polly may have died in an asylum near Albany, NY but is buried at the Maple Grove Cemetery, Ravenna, Portage, OH (Mr. Stock's notes state that she is buried next to Sluman Wm. Abel IV's first wife; one headstone for both!)
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NOTES:
1. The Hinkleys (Ben and Polly Mosher) and Abels (John and Mary Luce) lived in Ravenna, Ohio at the same time. The Billings (Gideon and Sarah Mosher) family was not far away.
Sources: Banks "History of Martha's Vineyard", Vol III, pages 63-4; 253-271.
2. Hatch's "History of Industry, Maine", pages 680-698.
June Pierson of Littleton, MA, LDS Archive Record;
Mary S. M. Christensen of Calgary, Canada.
_____________________________________
Martha's Vineyard is a somewhat triangular island of about 19 miles in length and nine miles in width in the Atlantic Ocean that lies south of Cape Cod. The area is about one hundred square miles, 64,000 acres.
____________________________________________
References:
1. Volume I, "History of Martha's Vineyard, MA", by Charles Edward Banks, M.D.
Chapters VI-XIV, inclusive. See Daggett and Butler references. See Chapter 28, pages 156, 158, 354, 515, 342.
2. Volume II, "History of Martha's Vineyard, MA", by Charles Edward Banks, M.D.
See Mayhew references and Tisbury and Edgartown Annals.
3. Volume III, "History of Martha's Vineyard, MA", by Charles Edward Banks, M.D.
See Mayhew, Daggett, Butler, Hatch, Luce, Allen information.
4. "Tisbury's Town and Proprietors' Records from 1669-1862", by William S. Swift, Town Clerk of Tisbury and Jennie W. Cleveland, Assistant Town Clerk of Tisbury, published 1903. Pages 10, 60, 92-94, 104.
5. "American Descendants of Henry Luce of Martha's Vineyard, 1640-1982", by Thomas Robert Luce and Martha Fletcher McCourt. Martha included references from my communications with her in the book. The authors are alive in 2003.
6. "Sworn Agreements of the widow and children of Robert Luce, deceased, as to the use and disposition of his house lands, and other assets".
7. "Births, Marriages, and Deaths in Sharon, CT, 1721-1879"
9. "A Sweet and Alien Land" by Henn? and Barbara van du Zee, pages 491-493.
-------------------------------------------------------------
There are various scenarios from which to choose:
"Our" Mary "Polly" Luce Abel (w/o "our" Squire John, Cpl. Abel) died 1825; buried Maple Grove Cemetery, Ravenna, Portage, OH.
To convolute the matter, there were FOUR Sluman Abels:
1. The first one was "our" John's brother -- Lt. Sluman Abel, Sr. who had a son named
2. A. Sluman Abel, Jr.
3. Then, "our" John had a son named Sluman William (a TWIN) Abel, Sr. who had a son named
4. Sluman William Abel, Jr.
5. "Our" John also had a son named John who had a son named Sluman William Abel. I have called him SWA IV.
• Per Mr. Stock's notes, "our" Mary "Polly" Luce is buried next to son Sluman William Abel's first wife; one headstone for both! So, you're your pick as to WHICH Sluman Abel!!! Although Stock is ALWAYS correct, I am unsure if his info is correct per my info that came from a gal who descends from another line.
• The twin SWA was married to Harriet Moulton. They had nine kids who were all born in Ravenna. The parents and most of the kids (except for the THREE that were killed in the CW) died in Andrew, Jackson, Iowa! So, this is not the correct SWA.
1. "Our" John's son, John, Jr., married Lucy Moulton. Harriet and Lucy Moulton were sisters. The son of John, Jr. and Lucy Moulton who was named SWA was married TWICE, leading me to suspect that this is the correct SWA. Both wives are buried in Ravenna. W/1, Sarah Elizabeth Reed Abel, died in 1857 in childbirth. SWA had THIRTEEN CHILDREN with W/2. If Stock is correct, OUR Polly was buried with the same stone as this first wife, although she died MANY years later than Polly.
2. Another note states that our Mary "Polly" Luce Abel is buried with the same stone as Mary Abel, d/o Sluman Abel, Sr. (bro to our John). This Mary was born Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut, as was her first husband, Moses Smith, Sr. (Many of the Smith children are buried in the MG Cemetery.) Moses Smith died 1818 in Ravenna. In 1827, Mary then married Ichabod Lord. Mary Abel Smith Lord died in Ravenna in 1847. If our Polly is buried here, it would be with the SMITH family (or maybe Lord, but I think that the Smith children would have buried their mother nearby, not with Mr. Lord who left the area). per [email protected] (H. Bundy/2021)
P.S. KEEP IN MIND... Mary Polly Luce Abel is "our" family's line to Martha's Vineyard, the whalers and patriot sailors, and the circuitous -- generationally-related to US -- owners of the entire island! Move over John-John... (or is that now Barrack???)
Polly's parents were Private Rowland Luce I (1725-1767) and Mary Butler (1726-1807). Rowland was a yeoman, who served as a private in the Tisbury Foot Company Militia, died when his youngest child was only six years old. Most of the men of Martha's Vineyard worked on merchant sailing vessels and on vessels engaged in catching fish and whales. As there was no Panama Canal in those days, the sailors journeyed around the Horn, to the most distant parts of the world, including the Pacific Ocean. Polly's paternal grandfather was Deacon Jonathan Luce (1695-1763). The LUCE line hails from the seaside village of Gloucestershire, England; from there to Scituate, Plymouth Colony, MA (north of Cape Cod) and then to Tisbury (Indian Town), Martha's Vineyard, Dukes, MA. The BUTLER line is from Ashford, Kentshire, England and splits off from the FAMOUS DAGGETT/MAYHEW families of Edwardstone, Suffolkshire AND of Tisbury, Wiltshire, England. It is interesting to note that at the age of 44, Polly's great grandfather, Robert Luce, was lost at sea sailing between Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.
In 1641-1642, immigrant and Governor Thomas Mayhew, Sr. (my particular 8x ggpa) purchased Martha's Vineyard (then called Martin's Vineyard), the island off of Nantucket and the Elizabeth Islands. This area was purchased from William Alexander, Earl of Sterling, Scotland and from Sir Ferdinand Georges, then Governor of the English Province Maine. Each of these men had separate but conflicting titles to these islands from the British Crown. Later, the land was purchased piecemeal from the Indians. Individual purchasers had to first obtain Thomas Mayhew's permission. Yata, yata, yata…
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Back to Mary... In 1777, just after the beginning of the RW, Mary's mother and her second husband (Thomas Allen) removed with Mary to Sharon, Litchfield, CT, where Mary met and married (1781) John Abel, who was at that time serving in the Revolutionary War. There, they resided for about ten years, relocating north of the village of Rensselaerville, Albany, NY from about 1791 - 1816. In 1816, the family removed to Ravenna, Portage County, OH until Polly's death in 1825 -- John subsequently moving in January 1831 to River Road in Perry Station, Perry Twp., Ohio, just outside of Painesville, to live with his married daughter, Mrs. Lury Abel Armstrong, on River Road, Perry Twp., Lake County (formerly Geauga Co.), Ohio.
Mary "Polly" Luce and John Abel had fourteen children, including two sets of twins. The first child was born December 5, 1784, when Mary was 19 years old, and the last was born May 5, 1814, when Mary was almost 50 years old. The young couple probably lived near, but not in, Sharon, Connecticut. According to the 1850 Census for Napoleon, Henry, Ohio, son Almon (the third child) was born in Connecticut but not in Sharon. The family moved to Rensselaerville, Albany, New York and then to Ravenna, Portage, Ohio. Youngest son Daniel was nine years old when his mother died on January 1, 1825, at age 59. Polly had been married 43-years. Her oldest child, Lury, was 40-years old, and her husband, John, was 67. Mary "Polly" must have had a busy life. In those days, people did not have electricity. They used kerosine (coal oil) lamps and candles to light their homes. There was no indoor plumbing, and drinking water had to be secured from a well outside of the house. Clothes were washed with rain "soft" water that had been collected in a barrel. All pastries, breads, etc. were baked at home. In "spare" time, women knitted wool sweaters and stockings. It was a very hard life, but, even so, many women lived to be eighty years of age or more, the exercise being good for them. No time and no care to jog! Polly may have died in an asylum near Albany, NY but is buried at the Maple Grove Cemetery, Ravenna, Portage, OH (Mr. Stock's notes state that she is buried next to Sluman Wm. Abel IV's first wife; one headstone for both!)
_____________________________________
NOTES:
1. The Hinkleys (Ben and Polly Mosher) and Abels (John and Mary Luce) lived in Ravenna, Ohio at the same time. The Billings (Gideon and Sarah Mosher) family was not far away.
Sources: Banks "History of Martha's Vineyard", Vol III, pages 63-4; 253-271.
2. Hatch's "History of Industry, Maine", pages 680-698.
June Pierson of Littleton, MA, LDS Archive Record;
Mary S. M. Christensen of Calgary, Canada.
_____________________________________
Martha's Vineyard is a somewhat triangular island of about 19 miles in length and nine miles in width in the Atlantic Ocean that lies south of Cape Cod. The area is about one hundred square miles, 64,000 acres.
____________________________________________
References:
1. Volume I, "History of Martha's Vineyard, MA", by Charles Edward Banks, M.D.
Chapters VI-XIV, inclusive. See Daggett and Butler references. See Chapter 28, pages 156, 158, 354, 515, 342.
2. Volume II, "History of Martha's Vineyard, MA", by Charles Edward Banks, M.D.
See Mayhew references and Tisbury and Edgartown Annals.
3. Volume III, "History of Martha's Vineyard, MA", by Charles Edward Banks, M.D.
See Mayhew, Daggett, Butler, Hatch, Luce, Allen information.
4. "Tisbury's Town and Proprietors' Records from 1669-1862", by William S. Swift, Town Clerk of Tisbury and Jennie W. Cleveland, Assistant Town Clerk of Tisbury, published 1903. Pages 10, 60, 92-94, 104.
5. "American Descendants of Henry Luce of Martha's Vineyard, 1640-1982", by Thomas Robert Luce and Martha Fletcher McCourt. Martha included references from my communications with her in the book. The authors are alive in 2003.
6. "Sworn Agreements of the widow and children of Robert Luce, deceased, as to the use and disposition of his house lands, and other assets".
7. "Births, Marriages, and Deaths in Sharon, CT, 1721-1879"
9. "A Sweet and Alien Land" by Henn? and Barbara van du Zee, pages 491-493.
-------------------------------------------------------------
There are various scenarios from which to choose:
"Our" Mary "Polly" Luce Abel (w/o "our" Squire John, Cpl. Abel) died 1825; buried Maple Grove Cemetery, Ravenna, Portage, OH.
To convolute the matter, there were FOUR Sluman Abels:
1. The first one was "our" John's brother -- Lt. Sluman Abel, Sr. who had a son named
2. A. Sluman Abel, Jr.
3. Then, "our" John had a son named Sluman William (a TWIN) Abel, Sr. who had a son named
4. Sluman William Abel, Jr.
5. "Our" John also had a son named John who had a son named Sluman William Abel. I have called him SWA IV.
• Per Mr. Stock's notes, "our" Mary "Polly" Luce is buried next to son Sluman William Abel's first wife; one headstone for both! So, you're your pick as to WHICH Sluman Abel!!! Although Stock is ALWAYS correct, I am unsure if his info is correct per my info that came from a gal who descends from another line.
• The twin SWA was married to Harriet Moulton. They had nine kids who were all born in Ravenna. The parents and most of the kids (except for the THREE that were killed in the CW) died in Andrew, Jackson, Iowa! So, this is not the correct SWA.
1. "Our" John's son, John, Jr., married Lucy Moulton. Harriet and Lucy Moulton were sisters. The son of John, Jr. and Lucy Moulton who was named SWA was married TWICE, leading me to suspect that this is the correct SWA. Both wives are buried in Ravenna. W/1, Sarah Elizabeth Reed Abel, died in 1857 in childbirth. SWA had THIRTEEN CHILDREN with W/2. If Stock is correct, OUR Polly was buried with the same stone as this first wife, although she died MANY years later than Polly.
2. Another note states that our Mary "Polly" Luce Abel is buried with the same stone as Mary Abel, d/o Sluman Abel, Sr. (bro to our John). This Mary was born Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut, as was her first husband, Moses Smith, Sr. (Many of the Smith children are buried in the MG Cemetery.) Moses Smith died 1818 in Ravenna. In 1827, Mary then married Ichabod Lord. Mary Abel Smith Lord died in Ravenna in 1847. If our Polly is buried here, it would be with the SMITH family (or maybe Lord, but I think that the Smith children would have buried their mother nearby, not with Mr. Lord who left the area). per [email protected] (H. Bundy/2021)
P.S. KEEP IN MIND... Mary Polly Luce Abel is "our" family's line to Martha's Vineyard, the whalers and patriot sailors, and the circuitous -- generationally-related to US -- owners of the entire island! Move over John-John... (or is that now Barrack???)
In 1641-1642, immigrant and Governor Thomas Mayhew, Sr. (my particular 8x ggpa) purchased Martha's Vineyard (then called Martin's Vineyard), the island off of Nantucket and the Elizabeth Islands. This area was purchased from William Alexander, Earl of Sterling, Scotland and from Sir Ferdinand Georges, then Governor of the English Province Maine. Each of these men had separate but conflicting titles to these islands from the British Crown. Later, the land was purchased piecemeal from the Indians. Individual purchasers had to first obtain Thomas Mayhew's permission. Yata, yata, yata…
--------------------------------------
Back to Mary... In 1777, just after the beginning of the RW, Mary's mother and her second husband (Thomas Allen) removed with Mary to Sharon, Litchfield, CT, where Mary met and married (1781) John Abel, who was at that time serving in the Revolutionary War. There, they resided for about ten years, relocating north of the village of Rensselaerville, Albany, NY from about 1791 - 1816. In 1816, the family removed to Ravenna, Portage County, OH until Polly's death in 1825 -- John subsequently moving in January 1831 to River Road in Perry Station, Perry Twp., Ohio, just outside of Painesville, to live with his married daughter, Mrs. Lury Abel Armstrong, on River Road, Perry Twp., Lake County (formerly Geauga Co.), Ohio.
Mary "Polly" Luce and John Abel had fourteen children, including two sets of twins. The first child was born December 5, 1784, when Mary was 19 years old, and the last was born May 5, 1814, when Mary was almost 50 years old. The young couple probably lived near, but not in, Sharon, Connecticut. According to the 1850 Census for Napoleon, Henry, Ohio, son Almon (the third child) was born in Connecticut but not in Sharon. The family moved to Rensselaerville, Albany, New York and then to Ravenna, Portage, Ohio. Youngest son Daniel was nine years old when his mother died on January 1, 1825, at age 59. Polly had been married 43-years. Her oldest child, Lury, was 40-years old, and her husband, John, was 67. Mary "Polly" must have had a busy life. In those days, people did not have electricity. They used kerosine (coal oil) lamps and candles to light their homes. There was no indoor plumbing, and drinking water had to be secured from a well outside of the house. Clothes were washed with rain "soft" water that had been collected in a barrel. All pastries, breads, etc. were baked at home. In "spare" time, women knitted wool sweaters and stockings. It was a very hard life, but, even so, many women lived to be eighty years of age or more, the exercise being good for them. No time and no care to jog! Polly may have died in an asylum near Albany, NY but is buried at the Maple Grove Cemetery, Ravenna, Portage, OH (Mr. Stock's notes state that she is buried next to Sluman Wm. Abel IV's first wife; one headstone for both!)
_____________________________________
NOTES:
1. The Hinkleys (Ben and Polly Mosher) and Abels (John and Mary Luce) lived in Ravenna, Ohio at the same time. The Billings (Gideon and Sarah Mosher) family was not far away.
Sources: Banks "History of Martha's Vineyard", Vol III, pages 63-4; 253-271.
2. Hatch's "History of Industry, Maine", pages 680-698.
June Pierson of Littleton, MA, LDS Archive Record;
Mary S. M. Christensen of Calgary, Canada.
_____________________________________
Martha's Vineyard is a somewhat triangular island of about 19 miles in length and nine miles in width in the Atlantic Ocean that lies south of Cape Cod. The area is about one hundred square miles, 64,000 acres.
____________________________________________
References:
1. Volume I, "History of Martha's Vineyard, MA", by Charles Edward Banks, M.D.
Chapters VI-XIV, inclusive. See Daggett and Butler references. See Chapter 28, pages 156, 158, 354, 515, 342.
2. Volume II, "History of Martha's Vineyard, MA", by Charles Edward Banks, M.D.
See Mayhew references and Tisbury and Edgartown Annals.
3. Volume III, "History of Martha's Vineyard, MA", by Charles Edward Banks, M.D.
See Mayhew, Daggett, Butler, Hatch, Luce, Allen information.
4. "Tisbury's Town and Proprietors' Records from 1669-1862", by William S. Swift, Town Clerk of Tisbury and Jennie W. Cleveland, Assistant Town Clerk of Tisbury, published 1903. Pages 10, 60, 92-94, 104.
5. "American Descendants of Henry Luce of Martha's Vineyard, 1640-1982", by Thomas Robert Luce and Martha Fletcher McCourt. Martha included references from my communications with her in the book. The authors are alive in 2003.
6. "Sworn Agreements of the widow and children of Robert Luce, deceased, as to the use and disposition of his house lands, and other assets".
7. "Births, Marriages, and Deaths in Sharon, CT, 1721-1879"
9. "A Sweet and Alien Land" by Henn? and Barbara van du Zee, pages 491-493.
-------------------------------------------------------------
There are various scenarios from which to choose:
"Our" Mary "Polly" Luce Abel (w/o "our" Squire John, Cpl. Abel) died 1825; buried Maple Grove Cemetery, Ravenna, Portage, OH.
To convolute the matter, there were FOUR Sluman Abels:
1. The first one was "our" John's brother -- Lt. Sluman Abel, Sr. who had a son named
2. A. Sluman Abel, Jr.
3. Then, "our" John had a son named Sluman William (a TWIN) Abel, Sr. who had a son named
4. Sluman William Abel, Jr.
5. "Our" John also had a son named John who had a son named Sluman William Abel. I have called him SWA IV.
• Per Mr. Stock's notes, "our" Mary "Polly" Luce is buried next to son Sluman William Abel's first wife; one headstone for both! So, you're your pick as to WHICH Sluman Abel!!! Although Stock is ALWAYS correct, I am unsure if his info is correct per my info that came from a gal who descends from another line.
• The twin SWA was married to Harriet Moulton. They had nine kids who were all born in Ravenna. The parents and most of the kids (except for the THREE that were killed in the CW) died in Andrew, Jackson, Iowa! So, this is not the correct SWA.
1. "Our" John's son, John, Jr., married Lucy Moulton. Harriet and Lucy Moulton were sisters. The son of John, Jr. and Lucy Moulton who was named SWA was married TWICE, leading me to suspect that this is the correct SWA. Both wives are buried in Ravenna. W/1, Sarah Elizabeth Reed Abel, died in 1857 in childbirth. SWA had THIRTEEN CHILDREN with W/2. If Stock is correct, OUR Polly was buried with the same stone as this first wife, although she died MANY years later than Polly.
2. Another note states that our Mary "Polly" Luce Abel is buried with the same stone as Mary Abel, d/o Sluman Abel, Sr. (bro to our John). This Mary was born Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut, as was her first husband, Moses Smith, Sr. (Many of the Smith children are buried in the MG Cemetery.) Moses Smith died 1818 in Ravenna. In 1827, Mary then married Ichabod Lord. Mary Abel Smith Lord died in Ravenna in 1847. If our Polly is buried here, it would be with the SMITH family (or maybe Lord, but I think that the Smith children would have buried their mother nearby, not with Mr. Lord who left the area). per [email protected] (H. Bundy/2021)
P.S. KEEP IN MIND... Mary Polly Luce Abel is "our" family's line to Martha's Vineyard, the whalers and patriot sailors, and the circuitous -- generationally-related to US -- owners of the entire island! Move over John-John... (or is that now Barrack???)
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