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Involved in the boats used in Washington’s crossing of the Delaware.
Bio in: The Abel family springs from Squire Jacob Abel, born in 1744, died in 1822. He came from Germany prior to the Revolution, and was a riverman familiar with the handling of the Durham boats so common on the Delaware in that early period. He rendered patriotic service in gathering the flotilla which was used to transport the retreating American soldiers across the Delaware after the battles which forced Washington to retreat across New Jersey to Pennsylvania. He carried the mail from Easton to Philadelphia many times, the mailbags coming from the Eastern States and upper Hudson places over the old main road from Esopus to Van Campen's Mills above the Water Gap. In 1787 he owned the ferry across the Delaware, and was one of the five men who, the same year, purchased Getter's Island of the Penns. He was the proprietor of a hotel at the "Point," and in 1788 his name appears as one of the large property owners of the town. For many years he was a justice of the peace, and for seventy-eight years continued a life of active usefulness. He left two sons, Jacob and John.