On any given day, I would choose a different answer to the
question, “Who is your most interesting ancestor?” Today, the most interesting
ancestor I have is George Abbot (1615-1681) because I can trace my ancestry
back to four of his thirteen children, John, Sarah, Benjamin, and Thomas. Part
of what makes George Abbot interesting is the challenge of untangling the
identical names of the successive generations. This is particularly difficult
when they married cousins or descendants of another nearby Abbott family. These
lines trace to my grandparents, Thomas Richard & Fern Lyndell (Cotton)
Carter, making my grandparents distant cousins.
Sigh, I only descend from three of his children.
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