Welcome to Abington. The Town of Abington lies halfway between Boston and Plymouth, as the crow flies, started life as a frontier settlement in the late I600's on the Satucket path, a major Indian Trail'. Almost all of the area of old Abington Township (now Abington, Rockland, and half of Whitman) was first established by the Plymouth County General Court, in the middle of the 1600's, as land grants to various individuals in payment for public services to the colony. Families in Weymouth and other Towns purchased most of the grants to the North and East, so that Abington was a part of Plymouth colony land-wise, but people-wise was more tied to Massachusetts Bay Colony. In, or before 1685, there was only one family in all of Old Abington - Andrew Ford, and two of his brothers, possibly in two houses in what is now North Abington. They arrived from Weymouth. Andrew Ford way, a road in Abington, is named in his honor.