Fanny Abbott ResearchF anny Mills (Maude) Aiken
Born 16 Nov 1811 Deering, NH daughter of John Aiken and Nancy "Fanny" Moore
In 1838/39 John Aiken was on a reconnaissance trip to Ogle County, Illinois in preparation for
moving the family from Claremont, NH. Caroline Aiken and her husband Libeus Lazelle Scott,
Fanny Aiken and her husband Benjamin Hamblett and Cyrus Aiken and his wife Eliza Atherton
were in Illinois also at that time. Source: Mary Aiken Terry letter of Feb 10, 1839.
John Aiken had still not arrived back in Claremont, NH on Apr 14, 1839. Source: Mary Aiken
Terry letter of Apr 14th, 1839.
John Aiken was in Claremont, NH January of 1840 and intended to return to Illinois in the
summer of 1840. Source: John Aiken letter to Children written in Claremont Jan 26th, 1840.
He moved to Illinois where he pre - empted a farm across which lay the trail of the Black Hawks
in 1837 (date appears in error). He visited New Orleans about 1845 and in 1853, on the way to
visit his son Hermon Aiken, he was taken sick in Austin, Texas and died.
Mother Nancy Moore Aiken died 1846 in Illinois
Sources:
Title: The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Repository:
Media: Book
Title: Orin Eastland History - 1882
Title: Letter by John Aiken
Text: Claremont, NH Jan 26th 1840
Title: Eastland Family History - compiled by William A. Tidwell Jr.
Title: Bureau of Land Management - Land Patent 1843
Fanny First married Benjamin O. Hamblet 25 October 1831 Lowell, MA
Benjamin born 1805 Lowell, MA
Died 25 Oct 1840 Lee, Ill
Illinois Bureau of land Management has a record of Benjamin Hamblet land patent approved
in 1843
Children
Virginia Frances Born 4 January 1833 MA Died 27 Aug 1833 MA
Albert W - b 20 August 1834, Lowell, MA Died after 1860. He is listed in 1860 census living in
Eden Prairie, MN. He purchased land 1 Nov 1859. Place of death unknown
Annette Frances - b 22 Mar 1836 Lowell , MA Married James Thomes 12 Aug 1855 Eden
Prairie, MN. Died 15 January 1901 Henn Co MN (MVR)
Araminta (Mittie Hamblet) born 14 May 1838 Lowell, MA. Married William Bardwell of Excelsior MN
17 May1859.Died 15 November 1930 Hennepin Co MN (MVR) Buried Oak Hill Cem Excelsio
Benjamin Odell. - Born 1840 Ogle Co Illinois Died 3 July 1863 Gettysburg, PA
Name: Benjamin 0 Hamblet Service Info.: PVT A 2 USSS Cemetery: Gettysburg National Military Park
Cemetery Address: 97 Taney Town Road Gettysburg, PA 17325 Buried At: Section B Site 35
Know Ye, That Benjamin O. Hamblet a private of Captain Abrahm Wright Company, (A) 2nd Regiment
of U.S. Sharp Shooters (Minn) Volunteers who was enrooled on the First Day of October 1861 to serve
three years or during the war is hereby Discharged from the service of the United States this 30th Day of
July 1963 at Gettsburg, PA by reason of death.
Said Benjamin O. Hamblet was born in Ogle County in the State of Illinois, is twenty three years of age, 5
feet 11 3/4 inches high. Light complexion, blue eyes, brown hair and by occupation, when enrooled, a farmer.
Given at Cap Sulphur Springs this Twentieth day of August 1863. By Major Homer R. Stoughton
Discharge Papers)
Fanny married second husband Nirum/Narim Abbott 4 February 1841 Ogle Co Illinois (IVR)
Aiken Family History
History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885, 878
pgs. p. 866 DEERING
WILLIAM and THOMAS AIKEN were two of the first settlers of Deering. They were
grandsons of Edward Aiken, who emigrated, like the McKeens, from the north of Ireland about
the year 1722, and settled in Londonderry. He had three sons, Nathaniel, James and William.
Nathaniel settled on his father's farm, and had five sons, -- Edward, John, James, Thomas and
William. The two latter settled, as above stated, in Deering. William settled the farm occupied by
the late Levi White, and Thomas settled the lot just west of William's. William died when about
fifty -three years of age. Thomas died in 1831, aged eighty -two years. He was a good mechanic;
he made wheels for spinning linen, reeds, spools, etc. His old shop is still standing, and many of
his wheels are still extant. William and Thomas each had a son John. William's son had LIGHT
hair, while Thomas' son had DARK hair. To distinguish them, therefore, they were known
respectively, as RED John and BLACK John. Red John had a large family, only two of whom
are now living, -- Electa, widow of the late David Wilson, of Deering, and Joseph, who lives in
Cambridge, Mass. The names of those deceased were Calvin, William, Martha, Relief, Luther,
Harriett, Rebecca, Jane. The children of Black Johng were Elmira, Cyrus, Caroline, Hermon,
Fanny, James, Hannah, a daughter of William Aiken, married John Gillis, of Deering - -his farm
adjoined Thomas Aiken's on the west. The children of John and Hannah Gillis were William
Aiken Gillis, Thomas, Worcester, John, David, Horace, Hannah, who married Reuben Boutwell,
is now a widow and lives in Hillsborough, N.H. Mark, James M. and Charles are not living. The
name of Aiken as well as Gillis is now extinct in Deering.
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