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 .. . THE ROYALL SUMMtR HOUSE in which the Battle of Bunker Hill was planned I See page 69). ROYALL HOUSE AT MHDFORD, MASS. The building at the left is the slave quarters, said to be the only slave quarters still standing in New England. 71 for 170 years. The massive freestone slab is inscribed with theVassall arms and rests on five columns. Here Colonel Vassallwas buried in 1747. He was graduated at Harvar
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 .. . THE ROYALL SUMMtR HOUSE in which the Battle of Bunker Hill was planned I See page 69). ROYALL HOUSE AT MHDFORD, MASS. The building at the left is the slave quarters, said to be the only slave quarters still standing in New England. 71 for 170 years. The massive freestone slab is inscribed with theVassall arms and rests on five columns. Here Colonel Vassallwas buried in 1747. He was graduated at Harvard in 1732; hisbrother Lewis in 1728, and William in 1733. It was the last-named brother who protested by proxy against the ordination ofRev. James Freeman (grandfather of James Freeman Clarke)in Kings Chapel in 1785, and also against the change in theliturgy from the Episcopal to the Unitarian rite. His youngestson, Nathaniel, became a captain in the British navy. There werefour other Vassalls graduated at Harvard, one of whom was theson of the Colonel Vassall buried in this tomb. This secondColonel John Vassall was born in 1738, married Elizabeth Oliver,sister of the last royal lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, wasexiled in 1776, as already related, and, although his e
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