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Abel Hildreth (Sampson, Lydia) was born
to Sampson and Lydia Hildreth on March 18, 1757 in Harvard and was baptized on
March 20, 1757 in Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts MA26. Reverend Samuel Whitman performed the marriage ceremony for
Abel Hildreth and Huldah Edwards in Ashby, Middlesex County, Massachusetts on
September 2, 1779 MA26. He
was not enumerated in the 1820 US Census in Richmond, Chittenden County, but
Jonas, Abraham, Stephen, and Abel Hildreth, Jr. were all listed as heads of
households in that location in that census record UN7. The death record for Abel Hildreth indicated that he was a Reverend
(“Abel Hildreth (Rev)”) who was born in 1757, was married to Huldah, died at
age seventy-nine on September 1, 1836, and was buried in Richmond Village
Cemetery in Richmond, Chittenden County, Vermont VE12. A photo of his gravestone which indicated that he served in
the Revolutionary War may be located on the Find
a Grave website.
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1790 US Census: lived in Ashby, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
in a household with three boys under age sixteen, one male over age sixteen,
and three females (their age range was not noted).
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1810 US Census: lived in Richmond, Chittenden County, Vermont in
a household with one boy under age ten, two girls whose ages were ten through
fifteen, one young man aged sixteen through twenty-five, and one woman and two
men older than forty-five.
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1830 US Census: lived in Richmond, Chittenden County, Vermont in
a household which included one boy between five and nine, one young woman
between fifteen and nineteen, one man between twenty and twenty-nine, one woman
between thirty and thirty-nine, and one woman and one man between seventy and
seventy-nine.
Huldah Edwards (Samuel, Huldah) was born
to Samuel and Huldah Edwards on December 11, 1759 in Concord, Middlesex County,
Massachusetts MA26. She was the mother
of Lucy and Rhoda Hildreth and was probably the mother of Stephen Hildreth.
Lucy Hildreth was
called the daughter of Abel and Hulda Hildreth in
Ashby, Massachusetts on March 27, 1784 MA26.
She resided in Salisbury, Vermont when her marriage to Chester Merrifield occurred
on August 5, 1804 in Salisbury, Vermont VE12.
Chester “Maryfield” died at age forty on March 1,
1822 and was buried in Richmond Village Cemetery in Richmond, Chittenden
County, Vermont VE12. Lucy Bishop was probably
the mother of Jane R. Arnold, the daughter of Amos Bishop, who was born about
1828 in Vermont UN10. Rhoda Hildreth was born on September
27, 1786 in Ashby, Middlesex County, Massachusetts MA26.
Stephen Hildreth was
probably the son of Abel and Hulda Hildreth and was
born about 1791 in Massachusetts UN10, UN11 or
on February 18, 1791 VE12. He
resided near Abel Hildreth, Abel Hildreth, Jr., Benjamin Bishop, and Seth
Bishop in Richmond, Chittenden County, Vermont in 1830 UN8. He was enumerated in the
same town in 1850 and 1860 UN10, UN11. In
1850, he lived with Adeline (age fifty-three and born in Vermont), Huldah (age
twenty-eight), Charlotte (age twenty-four), Edward (age twenty), and Rhoda (age
nineteen) UN10. In 1860, he lived with Adeline and Rhoda Hildreth and a farm
laborer named Jeferson Williams UN11. He died at age seventy-six years, five months, and nineteen
days while married to Adeline M. Hildreth on August 9, 1867, and was buried in
Village Cemetery in Richmond, Chittenden County, Vermont VE12.
Huldah
Hildreth, the widow of Abel, was listed as a pension recipient US25. Abel Hildreth had been a private in the Revolutionary War; the
half-yearly allowance for Huldah was 23.33 and was distributed in March and
September, and this had a commencement date of September 5, 1836 US25. Huldah, the wife of Reverend Abel Hildreth, died at age eighty
on May 13, 1840 and was buried in Richmond Village Cemetery in Richmond,
Chittenden County, Vermont VE12.