Individual Details

Plainfield, New York.
Abel STAFFORD was on the committee in 1766 to lay out the meeting house lot and the burying ground. He was in most of the Revolutionary War battles from Saratoga to Yorktown. Served in Colonel Chase's regiment in Sept 1777 with Lieut. Reuben Jerold. [I:264]KM. He was paid for "three days of Sarves of his horse". Abel was brother to Nathaniel and Stukely [in the American Revolution]. In 1781 Abel was a member of the Meriden Parish Training Band, a militia, the earliest known organization in Plainfield NH history. Town jobs included: surveyor of highways, selectman, tax collector, tythingman.

Immigrated to Ontario, Canada from New York in 1795

Birth	6 Apr 1748	Coventry, Kent Co., RI
Marriage	3 Oct 1770	Killingly, Windham Co., CN - Rebecca Short
Death	1841	Otsego Co., NY
Marriage		Killingly, Windham Co., CN - Rebecca Short

Spouse	Rebecca Short (1756 - )
Child	Sarah Stafford (1771 - 1822)
Child	Frederick Stafford (1773 - 1848)
Child	Experience Stafford (1778 - )
Child	Abel Stafford Jr. (1785 - )
Child	Moses Stafford (1786 - 1862)

Father	Amos Stafford III (1726 - )
Mother	Experience Spaulding (1726 - )
Sibling	Sarah Stafford (1750 - )
Sibling	Mary Stafford (1752 - )
Sibling	Nathaniel Stafford (1754 - )
Sibling	Joanna Stafford (1756 - )
Sibling	Stutely Stafford (1759 - 1826)
Sibling	Amos Stafford IV (1761 - 1858)
Sibling	Caleb Stafford (twin) (1770 - 1842)
Sibling	Dr. John Stafford (twin) (1770 - 1833)