Gustavus Abeel (June 6, 1801 – September 4, 1887) was an American pastor, missionary and writer.

[1] Abeel was born in New York City, June 6, 1801, son of John Nielson Abeel,[2] who was minister of the Arch Street Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in New York, and grandson of Col. James S. Abeel, revolutionary soldier.

Abeel graduated from Union College in 1823 and then studied at New Brunswick Theological Seminary.

In 1826 he became a minister of the Reformed church, and preached for a short time in English Neighborhood and in Belleville, New Jersey,[2] while completing his Doctor of Divinity at Rutgers College.

He then removed to Geneva N. Y., where in 1829 he was installed, and where he remained until 1844, when he accepted a call to preach at the new second Reformed church.