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Title: Memorial of Captain Thomas Abbey, his ancestors and descendants of the Abbey family, pathfinders, soldiers and pioneer settlers of Connecticut, its Western Reserve in Ohio and the great West ..
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Freeman, Alden, 1862-
Subjects: Abbey, Thomas, 1731-1811 Abbey family (John Abbey, ca. 1613-ca.1689) Freeman family (Henry Freeman, d. 1763)
Publisher: (East Orange, N.J., The Abbey printshop)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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V *•--. Her sons:ALDEN FREEMAN. Member of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut. FRANCIS AUSTIN FREEMAN, 1869-1889. Her daughters: EDITH FREEMAN DALLETT, 1871-1914. GERTRUDE ABBEY FREEMAN, and the granddaughter, FRANCES DALLETT KISSEL. Names of the donors on 3 sides of the Base of the Pedestal. The Spirit of 1775 Expressed in Sculpture THE STATUE OF CAPTAIN ABBEY
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SHERRY EDMUNDSON FRY, Sculptor Daniel Chester French, whose first public work was "The Minute Man", unveiled at Concord Bridgeon April 19, 1875, loaned Mr. Fry the Colonial costume used in modeling this statue THOMAS ABBEY Bom April 11, 1731. Died June 3, 1811. A SOLDIER IN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS.TOOK PART IN THE CAPTURE OF FORT TICONDE-ROGA, 1758, AND THE CONQUEST OF CANADA, 1761.CORPORAL FIRST REGIMENT, CONNECTICUTTROOPS, MAY 25 TO NOVEMBER 22, 1758. LIEUTEN-ANT IN CAPTAIN SETH KINGS COMPANY, APRIL 1TO DECEMBER 1, 1761. ACCORDING TO TRADITION, AT THE LEXINGTONALARM IN APRIL, 1775, DRUMMED THE CONGREGA-TION OUT OF THE MEETING HOUSE, WHICH STOODNEAR THIS SPOT. MARCHED TO THE RELIEF OFBOSTON WITH THE ENFIELD COMPANY, LED BYMAJOR NATHANIEL TERRY AND CAPTAIN JOHNSIMONS, JR., LIEUTENANT IN CAPTAIN HEZEKIAHPARSONS COMPANY, 1775. MAY 9, 1776, APPOINTED BY THE GENERAL AS-SEMBLY OF CONNECTICUT FIRST LIEUTENANT INCAPTAIN ABEL PEASES COMPANY. SERVED UNDERGENERAL GATES AT TICONDEROGA AND VICIN
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