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Identifier: memorialofcapta00free (find matches)
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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DRUMMED THE CONGREGA-TION OUT OF THE MEETING HOUSE, WHICH STOODNEAR THIS SPOT. MARCHED TO THE RELIEF OFBOSTON WITH THE ENFIELD COMPANY, LED BYMAJOR NATHANIEL TERRY AND CAPTAIN JOHNSIMONS, JR., LIEUTENANT IN CAPTAIN HEZEKIAHPARSONS COMPANY, 1775. MAY 9, 1776, APPOINTED BY THE GENERAL AS-SEMBLY OF CONNECTICUT FIRST LIEUTENANT INCAPTAIN ABEL PEASES COMPANY. SERVED UNDERGENERAL GATES AT TICONDEROGA AND VICINITY,JUNE TO NOVEMBER, 1776. ADJUTANT CHESTERSCONNECTICUT STATE REGIMENT, JUNE TO DECEM-BER, 1776. COMMISSIONED CAPTAIN JANUARY 1,1777. APPOINTED BY THE COUNCIL OF SAFETY,FEBRUARY 1, 1777, TO COLONEL SAMUEL WYLLYSSREGIMENT IN NEW YORK. HELD THIS COMMANDUNTIL NOVEMBER 15, 1778. THE MEETING HOUSE WHICH STOOD HERE ISNOW THE TOWN H \LL. IT WAS BUILT IN 1775 BYIS\AC KIBBE AND SUCCEEDED THE CHURCH WHICHSTOOD ON THE GREEN ONE-THIRD MILE TO THESOUTH. THERE, JULY 8, 1741, JONATHAN EDWARDSPREACHED THE FAMOUS SERMON, SINNERS INTHE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD. Inscription on the Face of the Pedestal. 11
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