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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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e, many years after-wards, was induced to visit her relatives several times, butwearied of the civilized life and returned to her Indian home,and lived and died there. She knew no language but the Indiantongue. The diaries of Stephen Williams, of which there are alarge number, were preserved and came down to Rev. John W.Harding, pastor of the Longmeadow Church from 1849 till hedied a few years since, and for a long time yclept the Bishopof Longmeadow, and from him came to his daughter, now thewife of Prof. Wm. B. Medlicott, and it was through their cour-tesy that I was able to get a copy of the part of the diary I havegiven. Many will remember good, sweet, Minister Harding.The first time he appeared in our pulpit was at the funeral ofour pastor, Rev. Francis LeBaron Robbins, in April, 1850, andwho had preached in the Enfield Church thirty-three years. NOTE—This paper was written for and read at the annualmeeting of the First Congregational Church of Enfield on Jan-uary 15, 1914. 181
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BERGEN REFORMED CHURCH, OF JERSEY CITYThis earliest church in New Jersey was founded by the Dutch, in 1660. Thecharter was signed by Governor Peter Stuyvesant. Built in 1842, this is the fourthchurch edifice, but in 257 years the congregation has had only five pastors. 182 THE CAPTAINS DRUMBEAT. Sermon Delivered by Rev. Cornelius Brett, D. D., at Bergen Reformed Church, Jersey City, N. J. Sunday Evening, November 12, 1916. On a recent day, it was my privilege to journey to Enfield,Conn., on a special train, by invitation of Mr. Alden Freemanand other members of his family. There we found a goodlycompany assembled to unveil a monument erected by the Abbeyfamily of New England, in honor of their Revolutionary An-cestor, Captain Thomas Abbey of the Enfield Minute Men. The story runs that when the Battle of Lexington had beenfought, couriers on horseback rode off in every direction towarn the people and to rouse the country. One of those riderscame in at a furious rate, his horse covered

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