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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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hlands, areForts Montgomery and Clinton. At old Fishkill Village largebodies of troops were stationed throughout the war and Wash-ington went there frequently. The Daughters of the AmericanRevolution have marked the historic sites with appropriatetablets. I extend an invitation to all present to visit the region and Iassure you of a welcome at the Steuben headquarters. My wifehad an ancestor from Connecticut, Ephraim Kirby, who becamea member of the Cincinnati Society and she has a letter of hiswhich he wrote to Reynold Marvin, of Litchfield, whose daugh-ter Ruth he afterwards married, and whither he returned topractice law and became the first law reporter in the UnitedStates. In his letter he tells some of the causes which actuatedthe officers in forming the society. The letter was first publishedin the New England Magazine in some articles which I wroteon the historic homesteads in the neighborhood of Fishkill.These magazine articles appeared in March, 1895, and in August,1896. 168
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BARON STEUBEN The Statue by Albert Jaegers which faces the White House in Washington 169 Kirby writes from Saratoga, 23d June, 1783, as follows:The Army are at last disbanded, all except the men whowere enlisted for three years, and a sufficient number of officersto command them. This was determined by agreement amongthe officers, unless where a sufficient number could not agree, bylot. It has fallen to my share to remain for one. However,I have the most earnest expectations of being soon after them.The ingratitude and villainous conduct of the country haveoccasioned the officers of the army to come into an agreement toassemble annually by Lines in their respective States, and thewhole triennially at some convenient place near the middle of

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