Robert ABELL
- Born: Abt 1605, England 138
- Marriage: Mrs. Joanna ABELL 138
- Died: 20 Jun 1663, Rehoboth, MA about age 58 139
 General Notes:
Robert was already in New England when his father made out his will dated September 8, 1630. Robert is believed to to have immigrated there that year on board the ship named Mary and John which settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Robert is of royal descent going back to King Edward I and William the Conqueror.
ROBERT ABELL, born in England, perhaps in Hemington, Leicestershire, or Stapenhill, Derbyshire, probably about 1605, died in Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, 20 June 1663 .
He married, possibly in England, but more likely in Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay by 1639, JOANNAH, who married second, in Rehoboth , 4 June 1667, William Hyde, and died in Norwich, Connecticut, after 1682, having survived her second husband.
According to his father’s will, Robert Abell had been placed “in a good trade in London wch hee bath made noe use of.” His father then furnished him for New England, and it is probable he came to America with Governor Winthrop’s fleet, arriving at Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay, in June 1630.
His name was mentioned occasionally in the records of the Quarterly Courts at Boston and Weymouth. He requested freeman’s status on 19 Oct. 1630 and was admitted 18 May 1631. 140
Robert married Mrs. Joanna ABELL.138 (Mrs. Joanna ABELL died after 1682 in Norwich , CT 138.)
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