Mrs. David Abbott This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. Faith Corrigan's "Willoughby Historic City"

   www.willoughbyohio.com/histori - [Cached]

   Published on: 11/18/2001   Last Visited: 11/23/2006

   David Abbott is credited with being the first permanent settler in Willoughby with a historic marker placed on Erie Road near the Pelton Road turnoff. In the early 19th Century, this area was the ford taken by the stagecoach across a shallow portion of the river, location of a famous tavern and one of the first pioneer cemeteries of Lake County.
   
   Although Abbott was predated by French couriers du bois who established a trading post in 1750 at the mouth of the Chagrin, he came to stay. He brought his family with him after he established his Grist Mill in 1798.
   
   Mrs. Abbott, the first, and for a time the only white woman in Willoughby, often sought companionship with the Indian women on the other side of the river. Her baby daughter was baptized by a Christian Indian chief. Abbott was Willoughby's first politician; elected Sheriff of Trumbull County in 1800, representative to the State Constitutional Convention in 1802 and later to the Ohio Legislature.

2. 2. Faith Corrigan's "Willoughby Historic City"

   www.willoughbyohio.com/histori - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/16/2000   Last Visited: 9/5/2003

   David Abbott is credited with being the first permanent settler in Willoughby with a historic marker placed on Erie Road near the Pelton Road turnoff. In the early 19th Century, this area was the ford taken by the stagecoach across a shallow portion of the river, location of a famous tavern and one of the first pioneer cemeteries of Lake County.
   
   Although Abbott was predated by French couriers du bois who established a trading post in 1750 at the mouth of the Chagrin, he came to stay. He brought his family with him after he established his Grist Mill in 1798.
   
   Mrs. Abbott, the first, and for a time the only white woman in Willoughby, often sought companionship with the Indian women on the other side of the river. Her baby daughter was baptized by a Christian Indian chief. Abbott was Willoughby's first politician; elected Sheriff of Trumbull County in 1800, representative to the State Constitutional Convention in 1802 and later to the Ohio Legislature.