Massachusetts bay colony biography of abraham
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Abraham Howe (bef. - )
AbrahamHowe aka How
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Father of Daniel Howe, Mary (Howe) Bowker, Joseph Howe, Hannah Howe, Elizabeth (Howe) Brigham, Deborah (Howe) Barrett, Rebeckah (Howe) Rice, Abraham Howe, Sarah (Howe) Stratton and Abigail Howe
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Biography
No record of Abraham's birth has been found. His birth apparently took place between and Given that he was married in , these estimates are within reason.
"It is not known that this Abraham How was related to any of his contemporaries of the name in this country, nor has anything been discovered indicating the name or origin of his
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Abraham Pierson, the elder
English Nonconformist clergyman
Abraham Pierson, the elder (–) was an English Nonconformist clergyman, known as a Congregational minister in New England. He reportedly came to the American colonies in to escape persecution for his Puritan views. Later, he and other emigrants from the Massachusetts Bay Colony formed a new township on Long Island which they named Southampton. His gods relocation was in , when Pierson and many of his church followers left the Connecticut Colony and established a new church and township at Newark, New Jersey.
Early life
[edit]Born in Thornton, Bradford, West Ridings, Yorkshire, Pierson graduated B.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge, in That year he was found to be an unlicensed curate at All Saints' Church, Pavement, York.[1] He was ordained deacon at York in September [2] Family genealogy says he was ordained in Newark-on-Trent and this is how he chose the name for the New Jersey town he founded
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Kentucky-Born Abe Lincoln Never Knew of His Massachusetts Roots
The nation's 16th president certainly got around.
Recently, we told you how in September , U.S. Representative Abraham Lincoln spent a night at the Grinnell Mansion on County Street.
Lincoln was in New Bedford to campaign on behalf of Zachary Taylor's presidential bid and for the re-election of his friend, Massachusetts Congressman Joseph Grinnell.
"Honest Abe's" Massachusetts connection is much deeper than that, however.
Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville in Larue County, Kentucky, on February 12, Lincoln's family moved to Indiana and eventually Illinois, where he became a lawyer and served as an elected state representative and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Most images of young Abe Lincoln are of a plain-spoken woodsman from the Midwest who was quite adept with an ax when he wasn't reading, but did you know