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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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hink that if he were alive to-day he would say: We will fight,for an ideal as great as America, if fight we must we will fightfor America, the America of our lives, of our hopes and ourdreams and ideals, but we will fight for nothing less, and ifthese warriors of yesterday were living they would become war-riors in the new cause, the cause that America is to lead, thecause in the leading of which America is to achieve a newdignity, a new glory, and a fadeless immortality; a war againstwar, that is unjust, that is unrighteous, that is unhallowed. Soldier of God, Pilgrim of God, Maker of the Republic, wesalute thee! Let thy spirit rest upon this company, upon thiscommunity, upon the State and commonwealth of Connecticut,upon the America which you gave us, you and like-minded men;the America which we this day solemnly resolve that we willhand down to our children and our childrens children unstained,unmarred and unpolluted, an America worthy of you, your deeds,your life, your memory. 164
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mm SHERRY E. FRY, Sculptor de W. C. WARD, Photographer ADDRESS BY WILLIAM E. VERPLANCK, ESQ., OFMOUNT GULIAN, FISHKILL-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Mr. Freeman, ourHost: It gives me great pleasure to be present here on this fineIndian summer day. I feel favored in being numbered amongthe guests of Mr. Freeman, who have gathered to do honor tothe memory of his ancestor, Thomas Abbey, whose statue hasjust been unveiled—an impressive figure it is. Before leaving New York this morning I took breakfastwith one of the architects who designed the splendid exedrawhich forms a fine setting, and he, a New England man, told me

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