James Abbott, the patriarch of the Abbott family of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, came from England. According to an 18th-century account, James was born in Sumersetshire, England, about 1665.

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Henry David Roberts is the first Roberts that I find in our family tree. I do not know when or where he was born. He married Catherine Apgar on 8 August, 1863 at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Fairmount N.J. The pastor's name was C. Clark. Catherine was a daughter of Jacob Newton Apgar (Big Jake) and Mary Margaret Trimmer.

Luther Calvin was born in England or Germany in 1705-10, and died probably before 1778. He had six children, likely born in Bethlehem Twp., Hunterdon County.