Abiel Wood (July 22, 1772 – October 26, 1834) was aU.S. representative fromMassachusetts.

Born in Pownalborough inMassachusetts Bay'sProvince of Maine (now known asWiscasset), he was the son ofGen. Abiel Wood (1743–1811) and Betsey Tinkham, both originally ofMiddleborough. He was the second of eleven children.

Wood attended the common schools, then engaged in mercantile pursuits. He served as member of theMassachusetts House of Representatives 1807–1811, and again in 1816.

Wood was elected as aDemocratic-Republican to theThirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1815). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1814 to theFourteenth Congress, but served as delegate to the constitutional convention ofMaine in 1819. He was a Maine State councilor, after which he resumed mercantile pursuits and also engaged in shipping. He served as Bank commissioner for Maine until his death inBelfast on October 26, 1834. He was interred in Woodlawn Cemetery in Wiscasset.

He married Hannah Hodge on November 30, 1793, in Wiscasset. They had one child, a daughter named Helen, who married John Hannibal Sheppard.

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