Abigail Blackstone

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Biography

Abigail Varney, daughter of Humprey and Sarah (Starbuck) (Austin) Varney, was born 10 July 1669 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire.<ref name="Barber and Delorey">Barber, Kathleen Canney, and Janet Ireland Delorey. "William Varney of Ipswich and Gloucester, Massachusetts". The American Genealogist. (Jul 2006), p. 317</ref><ref name="Collacott">Collacott, Margaret Oliver. The ancestors and descendants of Zephaniah and Silence Alden Hathaway: with notes on allied families. (Mentor, Ohio: unknown, 1961), p. 223</ref><ref name="Noyes et al">Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939) Vol 5, p.703.

She married William Blackstone,<ref name="Collacott"/><ref name="Noyeset al"/><ref>Blackstone, Nathaniel Brewster. The Biography of The Reverend William Blackstone and his Ancestors and Descendents (Homestead, Florida) 1974 . transcription?/digital copy? on-line. accessed 8 February 2017</ref> with whom she had seven children, and is mentioned in her father's will of 1713 by her married name.

Abigail died in 1759 in Newcastle, Lincoln County, Maine.

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William Blackstone (cont.)ater running over a solid rock bed that could easily and inexpensively be dammed up. When standing on high ground and looking eastward, he could see a range of mountains and felt sure that he would find his answer there. He had mentioned his ambitions to his father's friend, WILLIAM VAUGHAN, and was promised his full backing, when and if he was ready for it. The main thing now, was to find the appropriate site, and this he was not too long in doing. An area called by the Indians, "Damariscotta" was where he decided he need not look any further. Immediately reporting to WILLIAM VAUGHAN in Portsmouth, he was again assured of his support, and by early Spring, set out for the Damariscotta area, fully equipped for the first stage of development.ARD HENDERSON, ELISHA CLARK, JAMES WILMET, JOSEPH CANNEY and ABIGAIL BLACKSTONE (in the absence of her husband) filed a complaint to the Governor's Council concerning their dispossession of their property, however, it was of no avail.. The next year, their next daughter, LYDIA, married SGT. JOHN HALL's oldest son, SAMUEL, of Somersworth.t ready for VAUGHAN and his saw-mill. WILLIAM was now 47, and felt he had been separated long enough from his family, and having prepared a place for them, set out to bring them back with him. ABIGAIL was now 69; SUSANA 21; and WILLIAM, JR., 20; and for WILLIAM, SR. the world took on a brighter look as he and his family were all together again.AN, and he lost no time getting there and soon, he and his engineer, LINSCOT, had dam and mill all set up and going well.n Branford, Ct.; his daughter, SUSANA, married JAMES HALL (1708) and by now the CLARK and both HALL families had moved into the Damariscotta area.GHAN and others to help win the battle of Louisburg., but doing very nicely in enjoying the fruits of his fondest dream, the development of the Damariscotta area, and his Town of Newcastle, Maine established.e down near where the old Academy once stood and there he lived a happy independent life until he and others in the area were pestered by JONATHAN JONES, the Kings (George II to 1760, then George III) Agent, for taxes on their property, that they had worked long and hard to develop; and had papers from VAUGHAN and NOBLE to prove their right to same. Nevertheless, if they did not pay up, the King's Agent took over their property, as they said, in the King's name.abbing in Dover; and now JONATHAN JONES in the Damariscotta Mills area.f it all, in his deposition dated October 3, 1763, as follows:d at Damariscotta Saw Mills for about 26 years and improved with others who worked at said Mills, all the land and meadows on bothe sides of said river, and fresh pond to the nor ward thereof under WILLIAM VAUGHAN, ESQ. deceased, and since his death, myself with sundry others have held and improved said lands and meadows for about 13 years under JAMES NOBLE, ESQ., except what lots of land on said side of river and pond, NOBLE sold to any persons, and have ever since improved said land and meadows under said NOBLE, the whole length of said pond on the West side of said pond, about half way to the Sheepscott River and pond, and never was disturbed in possession by any claimer whatsoever, ‘till June last, 1763, when one JONATHAN COOK, JONATHAN JONES, JOHN JONES and ANTHONY CHAPMAN, have with a great number of men, although forbid, as I have heard, entered on the premises, which was held under said NOBLE, and built a saw mill, fenced in a large tract of land possest under NOBLE, as aforesaid and gives out that they will hold the same by a strong hand, as I have heard. The deponent further testifies that he with with others paid the yearly rent for the above described and premises to above named VAUGHAN and NOBLE, during the above mentioned term and further saith not.r the Bristol-Nobleboro town lines. His son, WILLIAM, JR., lived and died in in Nobleboro county. His sons, (1754) BENJAMIN and (1755) WILLIAM III, like their grandfather, (1691) WILLIAM; craved new lands to explore and develop, and finally landed in the sandy river country while their sisters remained in Nobleboro, to be added to the MERRILL and CLARK families. (1718) WILLIAM, JR.'s sisters, PATIENCE, LYDIA and SUSANA were scattered from the foot of the lake to Bunker Hill and each raised up large families. To these families the HATCHES and JONES came courting.REND WILLIAM BLACKSTONE's descendents are scattered all over North America with in Northern Maine today, but none are to be found in the Damariscotta area. 1766-CAPTAIN WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, since 1790, has left many descendents in the Pownal area, Portland, and scattered from Maine to Florida, and over to the West Coast. 1591-NATHANIEL BLACKSTONE started in Maryland, and scattered his descendents all over the South and West.NE name. The U. S. Census Bureau estimates that there are approximately 3.2 persons per household in America today, which yields an approximate total of 2,880 people in the United States carrying the BLACKSTONE name.e Blackstone Family, by L. M. Sargent & Lorenzo Blackstone — 1849. (Typewritten — 34 pages).on 1896 By John C. Crane.ng Transcript, under Genealogical Notes and Quiries. (Various dates, #'s Vols., etc.), Mass. - Tilton — 1918s of Boston - Drake — 1856.neers — John Scales - 1923.nd - L. M. Sargentcient Dover — Thompson - 1892.f Winthrop, Maine — E. S. Stackpole - 1925lackstone's Commontaries on the Law, — Gavit - 1892.ryland Calendar of Wills — Richardson - 1913.