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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)
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tho just a little unhappy that in my veins there courses none ofthe blood of that family typified by the noble presence justunveiled, on the other hand, I like to think that even tho noneof my grandfathers signed the Declaration of Independence, oneof my great-great-great-grandfathers wrote the Ten Command-ments. It seems to me, Mr. Freeman, ladies and gentlemen, that theunveiling exercises of this monument are nothing more than aprelude to the great event which is to happen after another fouryears, when all Americans—not only the sons of the Pilgrims, butAmericans of every blood and faith and ancestry—are to unite •156 in commemorating the close of three centuries—three hundredyears—of noble daring on the part of those men who were thefounders of the America we love. My one qualification, if aught I have, for speaking in thishour—and I have been greatly honored by the invitation—is my
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MODEL OF THE SHIP MAYFLOWERdevised by the late James Le Baron Willard, Historian of the N. \ Society of Mayflower Descendants.The Ark of the New Covenant of political and religious liberty whichwas drawn up and signed in her cabin on November 11, 1620. feeling of profound veneration—dare I not say it?—of spiritualkinship, with those Biblical figures who three hundred yearsago dared the terrors of the sea, not that they might have some-thing for themselves, but that they might give their lives more 157 completely to God, to freedom and to righteousness. I alwaysthink of the Pilgrims as Bible heroes. They were the Mahometsof their day, building upon Bible truths, upborne by the Biblespirit. And then, if I may say so, I am privileged perhaps to behere to-day, because I am a churchman, tho a churchman of theolder covenant, and I thank God as a churchman that out of thechurch, the old meeting house since 1775, there came the menwho have written a memorable page in the annals of Enfield

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  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
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  • booksubject:Abbey__Thomas__1731_1811
  • booksubject:Abbey_family__John_Abbey__ca__1613_ca_1689_
  • booksubject:Freeman_family__Henry_Freeman__d__1763_
  • bookpublisher:_East_Orange__N_J___The_Abbey_printshop_
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
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  • bookleafnumber:162
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  • bookcollection:americana
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