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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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enerations here fulfilled their duties as free American citizens.The New England town meeting was the cradle of Americanindependence, and this hall deserves, for all future time, to becherished with affection and with pride by a religious and liberty-loving people, such as all your history has shown the citizensof Enfield to be. My second suggestion is a memorial to Jonathan Edwardson the site of the church which preceded the old Town Hall.The outline of its walls is, as you are well aware, plainly to beseen one-third of a mile to the south, opposite the post-office.It was there that Jonathan Edwards preached his most famoussermon. As you know, he was born in East Windsor, only ninemiles away. Enfield will honor itself by erecting a monument to the foremost man that Connecticut has produced, the greatesttheologian of the eighteenth century and one of the chief fore-runners of the Revolution. It has been said that if you wouldunderstand the workings of the mind of New England in the 150
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ENFIELD TOWN HALL A shrine in which three generations of our forefathers were baptized, worshipped, were married and their funerals held. Photograph by de W. C. Ward eighteenth century and the throbbing of its heart, you must studythe life and the words of Jonathan Edwards. Before making the formal presentation of this memorial to the authorized representative of the citizens of the Town ofEnfield I have one other duty to perform in pursuance of theagreement ratified at the town meeting held on November 11,1915, and that is to hand this fund to the chairman of the com-mittee of the First Ecclesiastical Society of Enfield, who is alsothe chairman of this meeting. It is a great satisfaction to placethe fund in the hands of a man so efficient, so capable, so pains-taking and so agreeable as Mr. Hathaway, and I feel confidentthat the money will be wisely invested and the income carefullyexpended for the care and maintenance of the memorial and itsimmediate surroundings on the town lands. I

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