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Note: BIRTHPLACE: Banff (/'bµnf/) is a town in the Banff and Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland (not to be confused with Bamff (Perthshire). . . . Banff is situated on Banff Bay and faces the town of Macduff across the estuary of the River Deveron. Banff is a former burgh, and until 1975 was the county town of Banffshire.
MARRIAGE:
p.2 New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1985:
William Abernethy and Sarah Doolittle, 17 Feb 1673, Wallingford, New Haven County, CT
GENEALOGY:
p.637 - History of Torrington, Connecticut: from its first settlement in 1737, with biographies and genealogies:
"Abernethy, William, was a native of Scotland, and came to Branford and thence to Wallingford. The name of his first wife was Sarah, that of his second Elizabeth. He was an active energetic man. Children:
1. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 15, 1673
2. William, b. Jan. 23, 1675
3. Sarah, b. Oct. 10, 1677
4. Mary, b. Mar. 29, 1679
5. Samuel, b. Jan. 10, 1683, d. Mar. 14, 1723
6. Daniel, b. Sept. 3, 1686
7. Susannah, b. July 18, 1689
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pp. 90-96, Our Doolittle Line Revisited, Vol. 2, "Abraham, the Immigrant and Puritan New England", compiled by Ann Brest van Kempen, 2004. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISROOT:
"[W]illiam Abernathy [usually spelled Ebenatha / Ebenathy / Ebernathe / Ebernatha] of Wallingford [married Sarah Doolittle] on February 17, 1673/74. . . . . . William is said to have come from Abernethy, Banff, Perthsire, Scotland. He was an early inhabitant of Connecticut, first at Branford, but later went to Wallingford. He is spoken of as 'an active, energetic man'. [He] . . .is not listed in the 1676 planters list of Branford but was in Wallingford by that time.
March 4, [1676,] . . . [William] was in civilian service at the 'lower garrison' in Wallingford.
[In 1677], William Ebernatha's price for digging graves is 5 shillings for grown persons and 2 shillings 6 pence for children.
December 22, [1687,] William was granted 82 acres of 2nd division land. 75 acres on Muddy River.
February 19, [1690,] William drew lot #46, 5 acres plus 60 rods, in the new Falls Plain or great plain land division . . . [later called South Meriden].
March 12, [1695,] 2 acres plus 60 rods was granted to him by the town. And on April 31st, 3 acres were granted on Wharton Brook.
February 4, [1697,] he sold to Joseph Royss, shoemaker, 5 acres plus 60 rods in Falls Plain. [Apparently unable to write, he signed with a mark OW.]
In [1701, in] the grand list of the town of Wallingford and waluing each estate, William Abernatha is 64 [pounds].
July 10, [1792,] the 5 acres of his 1st division land on Pand Hill was traded t the town for other land.
The land records for William Abernathy were: [1] 4 1/2 acres and 1/2 acre of 1st division on west corner Malden Street - October 16, 1701; [2] 5 acres regulation land joining his 25 acres - November 3, 1701; [3] 12 acres of 3rd division land at the low end of Brushy Hill - February 28, 1702; [and 4] 21 acres of 3rd division land joining his 2nd division land - May 15, 1702.
March 4, [1703, he] . . . received 9 acres plus 16 rods on the east side of Brushy Hill as his 3rd division land.
On March 26, [1707,] he received 18 acres, 3rd division land next to his 2nd division farm onthe Branford line. And 13 1/2 acres, 3rd division on the west side of his farm.
21 November [1709], by this date, William Abernathy had died. His sons William, Jr., and Samuel who were administrators of the will gave to Thomas Wilshire and Sarah as her share of the estate: 2 acres in the Old Plain, 4 acres in the common, 3 1/2 acres on Mudy River and 4 acres, 13 1/2 acres in total.
[Some genealogists have said that Sarah Doolittle [Abernathy] must have died before 1711, because William married an Elizabeth _______ . There is nothing in the records for a marriage between William Abernathy and an Elizabeth around 1711. And William had died before November of 1709.]
January, [1713,] Susannah Abernathy received her portion of her father's farm at Pond Hill as her part of the estate.
February 14, [1715,] his sons William, Samuel, [and] Daniel divided 26 acres plus 129 rods as part of William Aernathy's estate.
His sons, William and Samuel, settled up his estate in September of 1718. The following were the shares of his sons and daughters: [1] William Abernathy received L80:14:6; [2] Samuel Abernathy [received] L60:7:3; [3] Daniel Abernathy [received] L47:7:3; [4] Simon Tuttle in right of his wife (Elizabeth) [received] L40:7:3; [5] Thomas Wilthsire in right of his wife (Sarah) [received] L40:7:4; [and 6] Susannah Abernathy [received] L40:7:3.
William and Sarah lived in Wallingford but their descendants were very numerous in Harwinton, Torringford, Washington, Woodbury, Bridgeport and other Connecticut towns.(1)
Sarah Doolittle and William Abernathy's children were: 1. Elizabeth Abernathy b. . . .[December 15, 1673/74, in Wallingford]; d. after 1718; m. Simon Tuttle (son of Jonathan Tuttle and Rebecca Bell. He was born March 11, 1671 . . . [and] owned lands near New Haven, where they settled. He died in 1725. . . . . .
2. William Abernathy, Jr. b. . . . [July 23, 1675, in Wallingford]; d. February 1727/28, . . . [in Wallingford]; m. Mary Peck, (daughter or Eleazer Peck and Mary Bunnell of Wallingford, where she was born July 14, 1677. They settled at Wallingford. She died January 1, 1756/57.) William's estate was valued at L409"5"2. . . . . .
3. Sarah Abernathy b. . . . [October 10, 1677, in Wallingford]; d. . . . [July 25, 1724, in Wallingford]; m. (1) . . . [November 8, 1705, in New Haven] Thomas Wiltshire/Welsher. . . . . .[Thomas Wiltshire was apparently 'a drifter'. They settled on the west side of the river in Wallingford. He abandoned her in 1720, leaving her with 5 children She divorced him in 1723.]; m. (2) . . . [September 17, 1723] Thomas Twiss [the widower of Abigail How]. After Sarah's deth in 1724, he married Susanna Samson . . .
4. Mary Abernathy b. . . [March 27, 1679/80, in Wallingford]; d. after 1722; m. William Tuttle, [brother of Simon who married her sister Elizabeth. He was born May 25, 1673 and died 1727.] William's estate was valued at L938:2:0. [Possibly m. (2) October 1, 1729, in New Haven] Isaac Curtis [the widower of Abigail Tuttle] [but] further research needs to be done [to confirm whether Isaac's second wife was Mary, the widow of William Tuttle, or Mary Tuttle, the daughter of Mary and William]. . . . .
5. Samuel Abernathy b. . . .[January 10, 1682/83 in New Haven]; d. . . .[March 14, 1725] [his birth record says his mother is Elizabeth?]; m. . . . [November 21,] 1711, Elizabeth Peck, . . . [in Wallingford] [sister of Mary who married his older brother William Abernathy, they were daughters of Eleazer and Mary Bunnell Peck. Elizabeth then married William Hough. 1726.] Samuel & Elizabeth's children were: Abraham Abernathy, b. . . . [March 1, 1712/13, in Wallingford]; Enos Abernathy, b. abt, 1714, d. . . . [December 30, 1748], m. Beulah Beach . . . September 28, 1737, in Wallingford]; Elizabeth Abernathy, b. abt 1716, m. John Ward . . . [May 11, 1736, in Wallingford]; Abigail Abernathy, b. abt 1717, d. . . . [June 3, 1747], m. Robert Collins . . . [May 4, 1736, in Wallingford]; Samuel Abernathy, b. . . . [December 28, 1718, in Wallingford], d. . . . [July 2, 1724] at age 6 yrs; Jesse Abernathy, b. . . . [February 24, 1721, in Wallingford], d. . . . [December 2, 1741] at age 20 yrs; [and] Martha Abernathy [perhaps] m. Job Brockett . . . [February 27, 1750/51, in Wallingford].
6. Daniel Abernathy b. . . . [September 30, 1686, in Wallingford]; d. . . . [October 31, 1723]. His brother Samuel was the administrator of his estate. . . . . .By the marks rather than signatures on . . . [the court documents related to the probate of his will] it appears that none of . . . the Abernathy children could write.
7. Susannah Abernathy b. . . . [July 18, 1689]; d. after 1736; m. George Merriman . . . [January 8, 1713, in Walingford] . . . . . ."
FOOTNOTE: (1) The American Genealogist, Vol. 23, #2, October, 1946. ------------------------
Source: In his book,ROCKETT AND ALLIED FAMILIES,John Franklin Rockette devoted about 30 pages to ABERNATHY families of VA and NC. Starting with Robert ABERNATHIE,b. ca 1624 in England or Scotland,m. Sara (Doolittle) ca. 1655,d. Jan 1685 in VA.
The first recorded Abernethy in America was William Abernathy who settled in Connecticut before 1650. It is a general assumption that he is the brother of Robert Abernethy, sons of George Abernethy De Barrie.
During the reformation, begun by Martin Luther in Germany, the fiery Scotch preacher, John "knox.jpg" ("knoxstatue.gif"), led the Scots to convert their Christian religion from Roman Catholicism to Scotch Presbyterianism. After 1603, the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, who was King James VII of Scotland, became "james1.jpg" of Great Britain, succeeding the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth of England, and was the first King of Great Britain. His son, "charles1.jpg" later refused to relinquish some of his power to Parliament, and in January, 1649, he was beheaded at the direction of Parliament, under the leadership of the Puritan, "cromwell.jpg", who became the Lord High Protector of England. However, Scotland , which had supported Cromwell in his early wars against King Charles, now recognized the late King's son and crowned him as King "charles2.jpg". Cromwell then moved his army of Roundheads against the Scots and their new King, and on Sept 3, 1650, at the battle of Dunbar, in Scotland, he soundly defeated the less disciplined Highlanders and took thousands of prisoners. The Scots, under Lord David Leslie, a distant relative of the Abernethys, regrouped and challenged Cromwell's army exactly one year later at Worcester in West Central England, but as in the first battle, the Scottish Presbyterian Clergy took over for the top officers, and the end result was the same- a disaster for the Scots, with many more thousands of dead and prisoners. The English Roundhead soldiers of Cromwell were so angry with the Scots after these two battles that they disinterred the bones of many buried Abernethys in Church graveyards, scattered the bones and destroyed the headstones.
Among those 10,000 prisoners of war from the battle of Dunbar, most likely, was 27 year old Robert Abernethy, a minor Scottish officer under Lord Leslie , and possibly his brother William, both from Banff, Perthshire, Scotland. William Abernathy emigrated to America about 1650, and settled down in Connecticut and married Sarah Doolittle, the daughter of a New England pioneer.
Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut, Vol. I-IV:
William's Children: Elizabeth , born October 15, 1673 ; William , January 23, 1675 ; Sarah , October 10, 1677 ; Mary , March 29, 1679 ; Samuel , January 10, 1683 , died March 14, 1723 ; Daniel , September 3, 1686 ; Susannah , July 18, 1689 .
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The Abernathy Family of Scotland (jhargrave06 added this on 28 Nov 2009):
The Abernethy family seat was located at Caprow, where remains of a Roman Villa and baths have been unearthed. By the year 1100 AD, the church at Abernethy had expanded to become a large parish, which was first administered by Lay Abbots. For several hundred years the secular power of the parish was inherited by the eldest son of the nobility. The Abernethy family was one of only three families which had the religious privilege of giving Sanctuary (a form of religious protection from punishment by Civil law authorities.)
The first famous Secular peer of the Culdee monastery at Abernethy was Hugh De Abernethy, possibly the grandson of Ethelred. The Culdees were primitive Christian priests of Pictish or Scottish origin, discovered in Britain in the 6th Century AD by St. Augustine. Hugh's son was named Ormly or Orm, and he received royal grants of land from King William the Lion. Orm's son was Lawrence, the first to use Abernethy as a surname. He was born about 1167 AD. Lawrence's son was named Hugh, born about 1197. Hugh was involved in a minor insurrection against King Alexander III, when he abducted the young King briefly, but was later pardoned by the King. However, later Sir Hugh was involved with his sons Patrick and William, and Sir William Percy in the assassination of the regent, the Earl of Fife. When the plotters were arrested, Percy was executed, Sir Hugh and son William died in prison, but the actual assassin, Patrick, escaped to France and lived there until his death. Hugh's remaining son was Alexander, whose mother was known as Mary, Queen of Man. Alexander became involved in Scotland's struggle to preserve its independence, originally siding with Sir. William Wallace. But later, he changed sides and supported Edward I of England. In 1303, Edward appointed him as Warden of the area between the Firth of Forth and the Highlands. In 1312 he was sent by Edward II on an unsuccessful mission to Rome to intercede with the Pope against the Scots. After the defeat of Edward II at Culleden, the new Scottish King Robert the Bruce declared all of Alexander's holdings forfeit because of disloyalty. Because there was no other male heir in the Abernethy line, King Robert consented that all of the Abernethy estates could go to the daughters of Alexander. Margaret was married to the Earl of Angus, Helen was married to the Earl of Crawford, and Mary married Sir Andrew, 6th Baron of Leslie, who signed the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath. When their marriage lasted more than six months, by English feudal law, all the Abernethy lands and titles reverted to Baron Leslie, and the Abernethys became a sept of the Leslie Clan. The third son of Baron Leslie, John, was the progenitor of the Earls of Rothes, who continued to quarter the Abernethy arms with those of Leslie. Sir Andrew died about 1324 and Lady Mary Abernethy married Sir David Lindsay in 1325. Their third son, Sir William of Lindsay of the Byres, married Catherine Muir and their descendants acquired the Leslie castle at Pitcaple. The Abernethy baronial title was later revived for William, a descendant of Patrick Abernethy. It continued with Sir Lawrence Abernethy, who in 1445 became the first Lord Saltoun. There is a tenuous connection with the house of Bruce to the Abernethy line, in that William de Abernethy (1365-1420) married Maria, daughter of the Duke of Albany, the third son of King Robert II, the grandson of Robert the Bruce. The death of the 9th Lord Saltoun in 1668, without children, ended the ancient line of the Abernethy nobility. However, many other commoner descendants maintained the Abernethy name throughout Scotland, and in England and Ireland. In Italy, it is is called Abernetti and in Sweden it is Ebbernet.
During the reformation, begun by Martin Luther in Germany, the fiery Scotch preacher, John "knox.jpg" ("knoxstatue.gif"), led the Scots to convert their Christian religion from Roman Catholicism to Scotch Presbyterianism. After 1603, the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, who was King James VII of Scotland, became "james1.jpg" of Great Britain, succeeding the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth of England, and was the first King of Great Britain. His son, "charles1.jpg" later refused to relinquish some of his power to Parliament, and in January, 1649, he was beheaded at the direction of Parliament, under the leadership of the Puritan, "cromwell.jpg", who became the Lord High Protector of England. However, Scotland , which had supported Cromwell in his early wars against King Charles, now recognized the late King's son and crowned him as King "charles2.jpg". Cromwell then moved his army of Roundheads against the Scots and their new King, and on Sept 3, 1650, at the battle of Dunbar, in Scotland, he soundly defeated the less disciplined Highlanders and took thousands of prisoners. The Scots, under Lord David Leslie, a distant relative of the Abernethys, regrouped and challenged Cromwell's army exactly one year later at Worcester in West Central England, but as in the first battle, the Scottish Presbyterian Clergy took over for the top officers, and the end result was the same- a disaster for the Scots, with many more thousands of dead and prisoners. The English Roundhead soldiers of Cromwell were so angry with the Scots after these two battles that they disinterred the bones of many buried Abernethys in Church graveyards, scattered the bones and destroyed the headstones.
Among those 10,000 prisoners of war from the battle of Dunbar, most likely, was 27 year old Robert Abernethy, a minor Scottish officer under Lord Leslie , and possibly his brother William, both from Banff, Perthshire, Scotland. William Abernathy emigrated to America about 1650, and settled down in Connecticut and married Sarah Doolittle, the daughter of a New England pioneer."
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