He lived upon a farm on Wawekus Hill. Though he himself died at the age of 60, his relict lived to be near 90, and their family of nine children all lived to be heads of families, six of them ranging in age from 77 to 90 years at their decease. They settled at Norwich. He was a farmer and in 1719, he purchased the farm of Nathaniel Backus, at Wawecus Hill; which farm in 1859, was in the hands of some of the descendants of his granddaughter Zylpha Hyde, who married James Rogers. The longevity of this family is noticed as one illustration, out of many that might be brought, to show that life was not shortened by removal to a new country, but that the active, plain, frugal, and yet comfortable mode of living then prevalent, the first hardships and hazards of a frontier life having passed away, was favorable to health, strength and long life.2100

!Information (Word File) Ancestors of Robert Abell; Author: Horace A. Abell; Call Number: CS71.A15; Bibliographic Information: Abell, Horace A. One Branch of the Abell Family. Privately Printed, Rochester 1933.