4. NATHAN ABBOT, third son and sixth child of Timothy and Mary (Foster)
Abbot, was born January 18, 1729; married, in 1759, Jane Paul.

5. CALEB ABBOT, son of Nathan and Jane (Paul) Abbot, married, in 1779,
Lucy Lovejoy, who died February 21, 1802; he married (2) Deborah Baker;
he died 1819.

6. CALEB ABBOTT, son of Caleb and Lucy (Lovejoy) Abbot, was born
November 10, 1779; settled in Chelmsford; married Mercy Fletcher
(daughter of Josiah Fletcher), who died in 1834; he died December 5,
1846.

7. JOSIAH GARDNER ABBOTT, second son and fourth child of Caleb and Mercy
(Fletcher) Abbott, was born November 1, 1814. In 1838, he married
Caroline Livermore, daughter of the Honorable Edward St. Loe Livermore,
and granddaughter of the Honorable Samuel Livermore, of New Hampshire.
Their children are:--

I. Caroline Marcy Abbott, born April 25, 1839; married April 19, 1869;
and died in May, 1872, leaving one daughter, Caroline Derby, born in
April, 1872.

II. Edward Gardner Abbott, born in Lowell, September 29, 1840; was
killed in battle August 9, 1862.

III. Henry Livermore Abbott, born January 21, 1842; was killed in battle
May 6, 1864.

IV. Fletcher Morton Abbott, born February 18, 1843.