Abraham Mariner

The handsome heir to a ship building fortune, Abraham craved the attention of women more than anything else. He was once caught sneaking out the window of the much older Fearful Ipswich in broad daylight. He surprised everyone by announcing his engagement to Virginia Stevens, a beautiful but decidedly middle class girl whose father was a simple clerk. There were rumors he impregnated their young servant Sweet Pears Amasan, who fled in the night to conceal her pregnancy. Their son Abram Amasan was born the same night that his wife Virginia died in childbirth. Abraham was relieved to return to bachelor life and begin another illicit affair with a servant, Daffodil Black which resulted in another scandal. As Abraham had no legitimate heirs, he began to worry about what would become of his family fortune. Abraham married Tabitha Ipswich Fearful's least marriageable daughter.