Abel Moulton
Abel Moulton was born at Wenham, Massachusetts, on 28 August 1741, the son of Samuel and Sarah Moulton. His parents, Samuel Moulton of Ipswich and Sarah Fisk, had married at Ipswich in 1733.
In 1771 he came to Castleton, in the New Hampshire Grants that later became Vermont. Several Moultons arrived the same year: Reuben and his brother Samuel, and John and Gershom. Abel took up land on the brow of the hill in the west part of the village, opposite the later site of the Advent Church, and built a log cabin store. A local history of 1973 says that from his store "the Allen Brothers and Remember Baker bought their supplies when they were marking the Onion River road to Castleton, and where Ira Allen and Remember Baker surveyed the north line of the Town of Castleton and the Allen lots in Hubbardton." The Allens and Baker were the leaders of the Green Mountain Boys, the settlers' militia that held the Grants against New York. In 1774 he built a frame house.
He was known as Major Abel Moulton. He died of smallpox at Castleton on 8 October 1776, in the thirty-fifth year of his age. He was buried near his house, and his stone still stands in what is now Hillside Cemetery. The frame house was later bought by Deacon Enos Merrill, who lived in it for over sixty years.
He left his wife Sarah and their children, among them Sarah, about nine, and Phebe, born in 1775. His widow married Nehemiah Hoit of Stamford, Connecticut, who had come to Castleton in 1771 and had been with Ethan Allen at the capture of Ticonderoga. In 1782 his daughter Sarah married Nehemiah's younger brother, Noah Hoyt.
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Cite: Heirology, "Abel Moulton (1741-1776)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/abel-moulton-1741-1776-d6749d.