m. Catherine Gant (b. 1810 NJ) on 6 Mar 1830. Children were Sarah, Barzilla, Lydia, Clarissa, Thomas, Alice, Catherine, William and Abraham A., Joseph N., and Mary H. In 1850 he was an illiterate waterman in Brick twp of Ocean Co, NJ, but his wife was not listed. In the estate division of his father's lands, Abraham bought the original homestead of 50 acres of his grandparents, Thomas and Dorothy Vannote.