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 .. . 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 that Washington and his advisers at one 105 time contemplated the abandonment of the project altogether,there dev
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 .. . 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 that Washington and his advisers at one 105 time contemplated the abandonment of the project altogether,there developed the most powerful organization in municipalpolitics that this country has ever known. It appears to be un-questioned that the Society of Tammany was organized in NewYork City to protect democratic institutions from the supposedmenace of the Society of the Cincinnati. THE HARVEY line which interested me was the Harvey Harvey Book, by Oscar J. Harvey, of Wilkesbarre, Pa.,is a model for genealogists. From it I learned of Turner Harvey,the favorite longbowman and archer of Henry VIII., and his son,William Harvey, who managed to retain his office in the College. MOUNT GULIANHomestead of th- Verplanck Family at Fishkill-orvthe-Hudson, in which the Societyof the Cincinnati was organized, May 13, 1783. of Heralds during a period of thirty years, through all the dis-turbances of four Tudor reigns, when the state religion wasalternately Protestant and Catholic. Henry VIII. made himSomerset herald, and he represented Edward VI. in the Kings-coat at the funeral of Queen Katherine Parr. King Henry senthim on official visits to the court of Denmark, to Emperor CharlesV. and to Maurice, Duke of Saxony. Edward VI. made himNorroy King of Arms, and seven times sent this trained andtypical diplomatist on embassies to Germany. It was he whomQueen Mary sent June 7, 1557, to declare war against France,when urged thereto by her husband, Philip II., and she created 106
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