 In 1702 he was appointed Judge of the Albany County Court and Albany City Recorder (Deputy Mayor), and in 1705 he accepted appointment as a Master in Chancery.On April 10, 1694, Abeel married Catalina Schuyler (1678–1747).She was the daughter of David Pieterse Schuyler (1636–1690) and Catharina Verplanck (1639–1690), who both died during the Schenectady massacre of 1690, and the sister of Albany mayors, David Davidse Schuyler (1669–1715) and Myndert Schuyler (1672–1755).