Abiel Abbot

Abiel Abbot (born August 17, 1770 in Andover , Province of Massachusetts Bay , † June 7, 1828 in Staten Island , New York City ) was an American clergyman .

Life

Abiel Abbot, son of John and Abigail Abbot, studied at Harvard College , where he received a degree in theology in 1792 . From 1793 he worked as a preacher and from 1795 as a pastor in Haverhill (Massachusetts) . In 1795 he married Eunice Wales. In 1803 he moved to Beverly (Massachusetts) and became pastor of the First Church , which office he held until shortly before the end of his life, apart from brief interruptions due to illness. To restore his health, he spent the winter of 1827/28 in South Carolina , where he stayed in and around Charleston . In the spring of 1828 he went to Cuba for a few months , then set out on the journey home in the hope of his recovery, but died on June 7, 1828 at the age of 57 of yellow fever on board a ship sailing from Charleston to New York anchored off Staten Island. He was buried in the Staten Island cemetery.

Abbot published several sermons, such as an Artillery Election Sermon in 1802 , Sermons to Mariners in 1812 , an Adress on Intemperance in 1815 , a Sermon before the Salem Missionary Society in 1816 , a Sermon before the Bible Society of Salem in 1817, and a Convention Sermon in 1827 . His main work was only published posthumously under the title Letters written in the Interior of Cuba, between the Mountains of Arcana to the east, and of Cusco to the west, in the months of February, March, April, and May 1828 (Boston 1829) . In this work Abbot shows a great gift of observation, a great talent for a lively and vivid description and a lovable character. His collected sermons, accompanied by a memorandum from S. Everett, came out in Boston in 1831.

literature

• Abbot, Abiel . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 1 : Aaron - Crandall . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 3 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).