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| The surname
ABBOTT is an occupational name for someone who is the chief
ruler |
| of an abbey or
for someone employed in the household of an abbott. |
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| John
ABBOTT |
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| d. |
| m. |
| Children: |
| F. Mary
ABBOTT b. 1756 |
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**2nd
Generation** |
| William
SHEFFIELD |
| b. 1754 Duplin County, North
Carolina |
| d. 1826 Bulloch County,
Georgia |
| m. |
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Mary ABBOTT |
| b. 1756 Duplin County, North
Carolina |
| d. Aft. 1788 Bulloch County, Georgia |
| Children: |
| F. Delilah
SHEFFIELD b. 1770 |
| M. John
SHEFFIELD b. 1772 |
| M. Amos
Austin SHEFFIELD b. 1775 |
| F. Martha
SHEFFIELD b. 1777 |
| M. Isham
SHEFFIELD b. 1782 |
| F. Margaret
SHEFFIELD b. 1785 |
| M. William
SHEFFIELD, Jr. b. 1787 |
| F. Mary
SHEFFIELD b. 1788 |
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| William Sheffield served in
the 10th North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina Line, in |
| Captain Hall's
Company in 1782-1783 during the American Revolution. He first |
| served in South Carolina and
Georgia. The State of Georgia granted him 575 |
| acresof bounty land in Washington
County, Georgia in March of 1784. |
| William Sheffield moved to
Burke County, Georgia from North Carolina after the |
| Revolution. He sold his
bounty land to Robert Forsyth in 1788 and moved to |
| Effingham County. The State of
Georgia then granted him 400 acres on |
| April 7, 1794. In 1796,
his part of Effingham County
became Bulloch County. |
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