Middlesex County, Massachusetts was created on May 10, 1643. The county originally included Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, Concord, Woburn, Medford, Wayland, and Reading.
Bettey Davis Emmons was born on November 16, 1732 in Littleton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Her parents were Simon and Jane Davis.
She married Abel Emmons in 1757. Abel was born in 1732 in Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts. His parents were Robert Emmons and Mary Petty. The History of Chesterfield says that Abel's wife was probably Betty (Elizabeth) daughter of Moses Smith, but that was his brother Benjamin Emmons.
Abel and Bettey's children included:
Olive Emmons (1758, died age 2),
Jonathan Emmons (1761, married Lydia Hoskins),
Robert Emmons (1763, died 6 months),
Solomon Emmons (1764),
Thomas Emmons (1766),
Eunice Emmons (1769), and
Abel Emmons (1771).
Abel Emmons, along with Simon Davis, settled in Chesterfield, Cheshire County, New Hampshire in the spring of 1762.
Abel signed the Association Test in Chesterfield in 1776. According to the Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the AmericanArmy During the Revolutionary War, Abel served in Fletcher's Regiment from Vermont.
In 1780 they moved to Woodstock, Vermont.
Littleton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts was first settled in 1686 by English settlers and was the the location of the Native American village called Nashoba Plantation
The Association Test was a loyalty oath that men were required to sign to declare their support for the Patriot cause. It was often administered by local Committees of Safety, and refusing to sign could result in social ostracism.
"We, the subscribers do hereby solemnly engage and promise that we will, to the utmost of our powers, at the risque of our lives and fortunes, with arms, oppose the hostile proceedings of the British fleets and Armies against the United American Colonies."
