Excerpt from Men of Progress: One Thousand Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts England ancestry. He is a descendant in the eighth generation of George Abbott, an English Puritan, who came from Yorkshire in 1640, and was one of the settlers of Andover in 1643; and, through his paternal grandmother, of the Fletchers, also English Puritans, who came from Devonshire and settled in Concord, and in 1653 in Chelmsford. Both of his paternal great-grand fathers were in the battle of Bunker Hill, and held commissions in the Continental army. On the maternal side he descends from John Liver more, who came from England in 1634, settled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.