[Illustration: J.W. BOOTT]






THE BAY STATE MONTHLY.

_A Massachusetts Magazine._

VOL. I. MARCH, 1884. No. III.

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Hon. JOSIAH GARDNER ABBOTT, LL.D.

By Colonel John Hatch George.


The Honorable JOSIAH GARDNER ABBOTT, the subject of this
biographic sketch, traces his lineage back to the first settlers of this
Commonwealth. The Puritan George Abbott, who came from Yorkshire,
England, in 1630, and settled in Andover, was his ancestor on his
father's side; while on his mother's side his English ancestor was
William Fletcher, who came from Devonshire in 1640, and settled, first,
in Concord, and, finally, in 1651, in Chelmsford. It may be noted in