ABIGAIL KELLOGG {120} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6j.7d>, dau. of Ensign Stephen {31} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6j>, b. in Westfield, 27 Dec. 1702; m. 1731 (pub. 15 June, in Westfield) Christopher Jacob Lawton, of Springfield, Mass., son of John Lawton of Suffield, Conn.
She d. 11 Jan. 1734. He res. in Suffield, Conn. (Suffield was incorporated May 1674, by Mass.; annexed to Conn., May 1749), until after the death of his wife, when he rem. to Leicester, Mass.; admitted to the bar of Hampshire Co., in May 1726. "Christopher J. Lawton and John Higgins were noted lawyers and by their knowledge and worthy example gave worth and honorable character to the Provincial Bar." (History of Leicester)
He was Coroner of Hampshire Co., 1734-35, and Representative to General Court, 1736, '40 and '41.
Child:
Pliny Lawton {403} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6j.7d.8a>, b. 1732; m. 18 June 1750, Lucretia Sargent, b. 19 Oct. 1734. Their son, William, b. 9 Apr. 1759, lived to maturity and was a surgeon in the revolutionary army; [1] in 1784 m. Abigail Farmington, of Flushing, L. I. Pliny was a physician and d. 1761 of smallpox, taken from a patient; after his death his widow, Lucretia, m. Rev. Benj. Conklin. She d. 3 Mar. 1793.