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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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every sentence burned and blazedAs trenchant as a sabre-stroke: Tis time to pick the flint to-day,To sling the knapsack and away— XII The Green of Lexington is red With British Red-Coats, brothers blood!In rightful cause the earliest dead Are always best beloved of God.Mark time ! Now let the march begin! All bound for Boston, fall right in! XIII Then rub-a-dub the drum jarred on,The throbbing roll of battle beat! Fall in, my men \ and one by one, They rhymed the tune with heart and feet And so they made a Sabbath marchTo glory neath the elm-tree arch. XIV The Continental line unwound Along the church-yards breathless sod,And holier grew the hallowed ground Where Virtue slept and Valor trod.Two hundred strong that April day They rallied out and marched away. XV Brigaded there at Bunker Hill Their names are writ on Glorys page,The brave old Captains Sunday drill Has drummed its way across the Age. Benjamin Franklin Taylor.Enfield, April, 1875. 1819—1887. NORTH SIDE OF PEDESTAL. 19
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THE TOWN HALL OF ENFIELD From 1775 to 1848 this building was the Meeting House,and stood in the middle of the Green. It was the scene of theepisode commemorated by the statue of Captain Abbey, and wasthe third building in which the Enfield congregation has wor-shipped. The Abbey Memorial stands close to the spot where this ven-erable structure was originally erected and where it stood for 73years as a house of worship. The Town Meeting is justlyregarded as the cradle of American Independence, and this build-ing, by reason of its traditions, both as a place of worship, wherethree generations of the people of Enfield were baptized, marriedand their funerals held, and also as the Town Hall, where threelater generations have fulfilled their political duties as free Amer-ican citizens, deserves, for all future time, to be cherished withaffection and with pride by a religious and liberty-loving people. Enfield was generous in financial support of the brave soldierswhom it sent to the front,

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