Updated on 21 August 2026 | Abbie Forrest was a 127-ton, 76-foot-long, two-masted, billet-headed schooner built in Essex in 1854. Edmund Smith was the master. Ownership was split into 32 shares. Seth L. Nickerson held 6. Edmund Smith, Seth Nickerson II, Jonathan Nickerson Jr., and Stephen Nickerson each held 5. 1
1“Alphabetical List of Ship Registers, District of Barnstable, Massachusetts, 1814-1913, Compiled From Original Documents Stored in the New Bedford Custom House,” prepared by the National Archives Project, 1938, accessible through HathiTrust.