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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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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figured, living dead; for thatman, Captain Thomas Abbey, lives as truly at this moment asany man or woman to-day; and I wonder at this moment whoof us will be living in memory after another century shall havepassed, as this man lives, example, exemplar, inspiration to us,whether or not of his own blood, who view his noble presencenearly one hundred and fifty years after the deed of an Americanman, of an American soldier and of an American gentleman. And I ask you to-day, men and women, to remember whatit is that you are to commemorate. What do you commemorate ? 158 Do you wish merely to extol yourselves? Do you wish merelyto glorify the memories of your forebears? Have you comehere to lay a laurel wreath upon the memory of this man becausehe was of your own bond or blood? Or have you come here asI believe you have come, and as I know the donors of thisbeautiful memorial would have you come, in order that you may,as it were, renew the spirit that moved this man in his immortalministrv?
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It was a great poet of another day who said that in orderto acquire the things that we have inherited from our fathers,we must in turn and in our generation, earn them over again.Men and women, everything depends on how ancestry is used,whether ancestry be a source of noble pride or of ignoble pride;whether you value your ancestry as a spirit of achievement—for if you do not, if you look back upon your pride merely assomething that makes you a little better than your neighbor, 159 rather than moves you to be better and to do better than yourneighbor, then your pride is ignoble, and instead of being en-nobling, is unennobling and discrowning. The question is, howwill you view your ancestry—and it is a great ancestry, you areright—remember the ancestry that links you with that figuremeans not privilege but duty, means obligation, means solemn re-sponsibility, means that in every generation his children, and hischildrens childrens children must rededicate themselves anew tothe thin

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