Abiah's father Eleazer served in the Revolutionary War - serving with the Connecticut Continental Line.
Abiah and her husband Peleg Austin were the Great Great Grandparents of Annabelle Fleischer Griffin.
The following is something I found on Ancestry.com - it is a write up about Abiah and the man who would become her husband:
"Abiah was in love with Dr. Wyman in his younger days when he was a medical student and a bold and adventurous youth who could swear and shoot and had no money but plenty of brains. Abiah's father was a clergyman and Abiah broke off the affair as she was instructed to do. As time went on, the parents feared she would become an old maid. Their hints became too persistent and her quick temper rose and she said she would marry the first man to ask for her hand.
That man was Peleg who was described as homely enough to stop a clock, uneducated and rough and 8 years older than her, but he had land, some money, and was religious and upright, honest and a hard worker and quite dependable. So the dainty little Abiah, cultured, refined and beautiful married him and bore him 11 or 12 children-pioneered with him from Constable to a new frontier, which is now the northern end of Moira Township. They built a log cabin and then a substantial stone house. Indians came daily to their door and often stole whatever they wanted. The hardships and terror of this life was too much for Abiah, together with a broken heart, for she never loved Peleg, caused her to become mentally unbalanced in a mild harmless way. Three of her children were born after this happened. She lived to the age of 86 and died at the home of daughter Ruth McNall and is buried next to Peleg in the old cemetery at Moira."
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