Also known as Abigail Veazie, married to Nathaniel French.

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A lot of the data I have on Abigail came from Bess Ford Laird, who spent many hours researching the Vesey family.

Abigail Vesey b. Jan.23, 1799, Braintree, Orange Co., Vt. a dau of Benjamin Vesey and Eunice (Lamb) Vesey m. Nathaniel French b. ca 1793 (Mass.?), on May 29, 1816, in Braintree, Orange Co., Vt.

Their children:

Eunice French b. ca 1822, Perry Twp., Geauga Co.,OH m. Feb. 03, 1841, Simon C. Hickock b. Aug. 9, 1817 in Poultney, Vt. Simon died June 10, 1901, and Eunice d. March 16, 1902.

Louisa French, b. ca 1825, Geauga Co., OH m. John Welsh b. ca 1821, Mass.. Louisa (French) Welsh d. Dec. 30, 1854 at Troy, Geauga Co., OH, and is buried in Mentor Center Cemetery, Mentor, Lake Co., OH. ae 29 yrs.

Otis French b. ca 1829, Geauga Co., OH;

Laura R. French b. ca 1831, d. Dec. 29, 1852, ae 21, bur. Mentor Center Cemetery, Mentor, Lake Co., OH;

Mary French b. ca 1834, Geauga Co., OH;

William French b. ca 1838, Geauga Co., OH;

Daniel French b. ca 1841, Lake Co., OH; and

Horace French b. ca 1844, died at Johnson's Island, June 4,1864, ae 20 member of Co E, 128th Reg O.V.I. bur. Mentor Center Cemetery, Mentor, Lake Co., OH.

Abigail (Vesey) French d. August 12, 1864, age 65, and Nathaniel French d. Mar. 6, 1851, age 58 yrs. Both are bur. in Mentor Center Cemetery, Lake Co., OH.

Marriages are taken mostly from records of marriages at the Painesville Court House located in Painesville, Lake County, Ohio. (Lake County was formed from Geauga County about 1840.)

Deaths are mostly from gravestone inscriptions in the various cemeteries which are not far from where I live. Some info comes from census of various years. Also info gathered from wills, old Painesville Telegraph newspapers starting about 1822, etc.

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Additional data received 4-2-2024 from JBrown, IA, MN, Calif, AustinTX - Find-A-Grave ID 48697180

Also known as Abigail Veazie (when spelling was careless), she was Abigail Vesey when she married Nathaniel French, May 29, 1816, before coming to Perry. Her birth record, at the same town in VT, named her father as Benjamin Vesey. Her mother was left nameless, card signed by John French, not the Elijah French serving earlier as town clerk in Braintree, VT, when some older siblings had been born. (The mothers' names were missing from all of their birth cards?

The Veseys and Frenches off to Braintree, VT, had come from the mother town of Braintree, MA, at Boston's south edge. Town records at the mother place show Nathaniel's parents marrying in 1790 (July 24, "both of this town"). Her father's marriage and any re-marriages before coming to Ohio are missing, though multiple names have been suggested, ranging, from "Abigail Brackett", to other women with no maiden name cited, an Elizabeth and a Eunice.

For Nathaniel's birth, his father's death is narrowed to between the births of two children. His mother's remarriage, to Amos Lamb, is also inside that interval, 1799, plus or minus three years or so. Braintree MA's official book of town and church records stopped that year (records through that date were collated by town clerk Samuel Austin Bates, book viewable at archive.org. Overall, anything after 1793 needs other sources, the 1793 stopping date matching when Braintree's Norfolk County separated from Boston's Suffolk County and Randolph separated from mother Braintree)

What happened in 1793 to change the record-keeping? The mother town's modern county of Norfolk "spun-off" from Boston's old Suffolk County. The town of Randolph (former third church parish) split apart from what was left of old Braintree (second church parish), after Quincy had already became a separate town and claimed a different denomination (first church parish voted to turn Unitarian circa 1750, the minority wanting to stay trinitarian had few choices, find another church somehow or leave. ) The towns turning into suburbs promised to bring their records together.