Daniel Abbott (25 April 1682 – 7 November 1760) was a deputy governor of the

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. He was the son of Daniel and Margaret (White) Abbott of

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in the Rhode Island colony and was called Daniel Abbott, Jr. when he was made a freeman of Providence in 1708. He served on the Providence Town Council in 1713, and the same year he served as Deputy which he held numerous times until the year of his death. In 1720, he was Clerk of the Assembly, and from 1737 to 1738 he was Speaker of the House of Deputies. In 1738, he was elected as Deputy Governor of the colony and served for two one-year terms under Governor

John Wanton John Wanton (December 24, 1672 – July 5, 1740) was a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, serving for six consecutive terms from 1734 to 1740. He was the son of Edward Wanton who was a ship builder, and who became ...

. In 1723, Abbott and his wife deeded a plot of land in Providence for establishing a church "in the Presbyterian or Congregational way." Ten years later, he and two others were appointed by the Assembly to erect a new jail in Providence of the same size as the one in Kings County. Early in 1740, he was given 20 pounds for his time and expense in revising and renewing the boundary line between the Rhode Island and Connecticut colonies, and later that year he was on a committee to determine the boundaries between the Rhode Island and Massachusetts colonies. In 1741, he and two others were appointed to set off a part of

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to establish the town of

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. Abbott married Mary Fenner, the daughter of Major Thomas Fenner and Dinah Borden. She predeceased him on 7 January 1759. The couple had no children, so much of his estate was left to his Fenner relatives. Executors of his will were future Deputy Governors of the colony

Jabez Bowen Jabez Bowen, Sr. (June 2, 1739May 7, 1815) was an American shipper, slave trader and politician. He was a militia colonel during the American Revolutionary War, and served as Deputy Governor of Rhode Island and chief justice of the Rhode Isla ...

and

Darius Sessions Darius Sessions (17 August 1717 – 27 April 1809) was a deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations during the buildup to the American Revolutionary War. He was heavily involved in moderating the effects of t ...

. Daniel and Mary Abbott are buried in the

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, Providence, Rhode Island.

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State list of lieutenant governors of Rhode Island
{{DEFAULTSORT:Abbott, Daniel 1682 births 1760 deaths Politicians from Providence, Rhode Island People of colonial Rhode Island Burials at North Burying Ground (Providence)

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