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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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furnished the pioneerrevolutionist of wealth against the authority of King Charles.Samuel Vassall was probably the largest ship-owner of his dayand was the first who refused to pay the tax of tonnage andpoundage. xA.s a result, his property was seized and he himselfthrown into prison for sixteen years by the Star Chamber Court.In 1641 the Long Parliament voted him over ten thousand poundsdamages and resolved that he should be further recompensed forhis personal suffering, but this was never paid. Notwithstanding,when the Parliamentary Party was in its greatest straits duringthe Civil War, this dauntless man repeatedly loaned sums ofmoney to Parliament and also placed his ships at its disposal,among those thus employed being the famous Mayflower. Later,when the Commonwealth was established, he headed a subscrip-tion list with £1,200 to carry on the war in Ireland. This bold and self-reliant man never came to America, al-though he was interested in the launching of the Rhode Island 66
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VASSALL MONUMENT IN KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTONOn entering the church this monument stands on the left against the rear wall. The head of Samuel Vassallment of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. turned toward the monU 67 Colony, being associated in that enterprise with Oliver Cromwell,Sir Harry Vane and other fellow members of Parliament. Heand his brother William were both named as assistants to thegovernor in the charter of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and WilliamVassall, who was our ancestor, came to Boston with GovernorWinthrop in the Arabella. Like all of the name, WilliamVassall, 1592-1655, was devotedly attached to the Episcopalchurch. He settled in Scituate, but in 1634, provoked by thepersecution to which the Episcopalians were subjected, he returnedto England. Later he went to Barbadoes and died there. Hisson, Captain John Vassall, sold the Scituate estate in 1661, butthe daughters married and remained in this country. Our an-cestress, Frances Vassall, born in England in 1623, married JamesAd

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