Reverend Abiel Abbot Of Peterborough, New Hampshire
Harrer, John A. (author, 1978)
Abbot was born in 1765 in Wilton, N.H., educated at Phillips Academy in Andover, N.H., then at Harvard, preached for many years in CT where he was charged with heresy. When he was in his 60s he took over a church in Peterborough, N.H., where his desire to educate the community led to the founding of the Peterborough Town Library.
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