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 .. . ughout his lofty , on his forehead hoar Doth seal the sacred mountains build their monument Though you destroy their dust. THE VASSALL FAMILY The Vassall coat of arms commemorates a distinguishedcolonial family which was unflinchingly loyal to the British crownduring the American Revolution. The seven mansions still stand-ing in Brattle street, Cambridge, known as Tory Row, w
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 .. . ughout his lofty , on his forehead hoar Doth seal the sacred mountains build their monument Though you destroy their dust. THE VASSALL FAMILY The Vassall coat of arms commemorates a distinguishedcolonial family which was unflinchingly loyal to the British crownduring the American Revolution. The seven mansions still stand-ing in Brattle street, Cambridge, known as Tory Row, whichinclude the home of the poet Longfellow and Elmwood, thebirthplace of James Russell Lowell, were in 1774 the homes ofthe Vassall family. In that year the Vassalls altered their family motto fromSaepe pro rcge, semper pro republica, which they had splendidlyexemplified against Charles I. in the English Civil War, to Semperpro rege, and proceeded just as gallantly to live up to the revisedversion. In consequence the entire family was exiled and theirestates confiscated. After their return to England in 1776members of the family distinguished themselves in the Britisharmy and navy. •64. ELMWOOD, CAMBRIDGE, home of Thomas Oliver, last royal lieutenant-governor of Massa-chusetts, whose wife was Elizabeth Vassall, sister to Col. John Vassall,who in turn married Elizabeth Oliver, sister to the lieutenant-governor.
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