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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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makethe world understand that when America says anything shemeans it, and that marvelous development and prosperity havenot smothered nor extinguished the spirit which made Americapossible. History surely repeats itself. We are far more wealthy,though, probably far less wicked, than the doomed cities of theplain, and the patriots and soldiers of the Revolution warn usof their fate. Another incident of the week strengthens and deepens thelesson of Enfield. No one who attended the patriotic and inter- 192 esting exercises commemorating the 150th anniversary of historicSt. Pauls, on Broadway, Manhattan, in which Washingtonworshipped, but must have noticed the significant fact that thevery old and the very young made much the larger proportionof the audience. In other words, the inherited American type ofearly days is fast reaching a vanishing point, if it is not alreadythere, among the active, masterful men of affairs and of thefuture. Evolution has nearly completed the cycle, and a new
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Americanism, vigorous and cosmopolitan, is imperative if thework of the last century and a half is to be continued and theprestige of the nation in the world maintained. If there ever wasa time when the principles and methods of the men of 75 taughta lesson, uttered a command to their descendants and all whohave come from the uttermost parts of the earth to share withthem the blessings of the freedom which they secured, it is hereand now. 193 A WORTHY ENFIELD ABBE. Timothy Harlow Abbe:, 1815-1904, made a collection ofrecords pertaining to the history of the family, many of whichwere used in the Abbe Genealogy in compiling the history ofthe Enfield branch. He also rendered to the Town of Enfielda great service, which is thus described by his daughter, Mrs.James C. Guthrie, of Springfield, Mass.: In our village the only place where young men could con-gregate was the general store and saloon combined. My parentsknew the fatal attraction of the place and to counteract its influ-ence they

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