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 .. . so altered in 1750 that Enfield became a part ofConnecticut; and of the long line of warlike Abbeys, beginningwith John, who came in the Bonaventure and settled in Salemin 1636; his son Thomas, who settled in Enfield after King Philipswar; his grandson, Lieutenant Thomas Abbey, and his great-grandson, Thomas Abbey, ensign and lieutenant in the French 104 and Indian wars, and afterward captain in the r
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 .. . so altered in 1750 that Enfield became a part ofConnecticut; and of the long line of warlike Abbeys, beginningwith John, who came in the Bonaventure and settled in Salemin 1636; his son Thomas, who settled in Enfield after King Philipswar; his grandson, Lieutenant Thomas Abbey, and his great-grandson, Thomas Abbey, ensign and lieutenant in the French 104 and Indian wars, and afterward captain in the revolution, whoseservice I was invited to represent in the Society of the Cincinnati. THE SOCIETY OF THE Continental officers, indignant at a Congress whichfailed to make provision for disabled officers and for the widowsand orphans of deceased soldiers, resolved to undertake theirrelief by starting a fund to which each should contribute onemonths pay. Their society was founded on May 13, 1783, atthe Verplanck house, still standing on the banks of the Hudsonat Fishkill, New York. At that time the already venerablemansion of the Verplanck family was the headquarters of Baron. The Order of the Society of the Cincinnati, designed by Major LEnfant the Frenchengineer, who made the plan of the city of Washington. Steuben, who organized the society with the co-operation ofGeneral Knox, Alexander Hamilton, General Lafayette and otherofficers of the Revolution. They chose George Washington forthe first president of the society. After the lapse of 133 years it is interesting to recall thatat the time of its founding the Society of the Cincinnati wasregarded with suspicion as the entering wedge of returningdespotism, that many feared it might result in the establishmentin America of an hereditary aristocracy and that even monarchyitself might, through its malign influence, be restored. Out ofthis opposition to the Society of the Cincinnati, which was soserious and so active
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