Gideon married Mary Wood on March 15, 1735, also in Mansfield. They had one son, Gideon, born October 1741/42.

He married Keziah Walker on December 8, 1742, in Mansfield, Tolland County, Connecticut. They had two children before she passed.

Gideon's last wife was Bathsheba Smith. They married in March 1747, also in Mansfield, Connecticut. We believe they had nine children together.

Gideon wrote his will in May 1779.

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From the book published in 1916 "Abbe -Abbey Genealogy In Memory of John Abbe and his Descendants" by Cleveland Abbe and Joseph Genung Nichols

GIDEON ABBE, son of Ebenezer and Mary (Allen) Abbe, born in Mansfield, Conn, February 13, 1715-6; died there in 1784.

He settled first in Windham, resided later in Union, Mansfield, and Ashford He purchased of Nathaniel Badger, jr., 100 acres on the west side of Union in 1742; was living in Union in 1743-4, and sold 100 acres of land there to Jonathan Barber, April 19, 1744. (Union Records, Book 2, page 17.)

In 1769, Gideon Abbe of Hanover, N. H., bought a piece of land in Hartford, Conn., including a dwelling house. The same year Gideon Abbe of Hartford bought land. In 1770 he was called of Coventry on deeds. (Hartford Deeds, 11, p. 70; 13, pp. 40, 224; 15, p. 233.) His will was made May, 1779, probated June 25, 1784. (Windham Probate Records, Vol. 12, page 43, etc.)

Married (1) in Mansfield, March 15, 1735, MARY WOOD, who died October, 1742, daughter of Samuel Wood of Mansfield.

Married (2) in Mansfield, December 8, 1742, KEZIAH WALKER, who died January, 1746-7.

Married (3) in Mansfield, March, 1747, BATHSHEBA SMITH, daughter of William Smith of Ashford, Conn. She survived him and was living in Mansfield in 1790, one male over 16, one female in family.

The info from the 1916 book was sent to me by "Grandma" #47644196