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 .. . ainst the Spanish Armada. Later he became a member of theVirginia Company, which made the settlement at Jamestown in1607. While in London in 1900 I one day went down to Stepneyand visited the ancient parish church of St. Dunstans, where Isaw the record of John Vassalls death of the plague, September13, 1625. 9S ELIZABETH VASSALL, LADY HOLLAND. Among the descendants of John Vassall, both in Americaand
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 .. . ainst the Spanish Armada. Later he became a member of theVirginia Company, which made the settlement at Jamestown in1607. While in London in 1900 I one day went down to Stepneyand visited the ancient parish church of St. Dunstans, where Isaw the record of John Vassalls death of the plague, September13, 1625. 9S ELIZABETH VASSALL, LADY HOLLAND. Among the descendants of John Vassall, both in Americaand England, easily the most celebrated was Elizabeth Vassall,already mentioned, who married, as her second husband. HenryRichard Vassall-Fox, third Baron Holland. Both of her hus-bands, by the provisions of her grandfathers will, were requiredto assume the surname of Vassall. The family of her first hus-band, Sir Godfrey Vassall-Webster, Bart., owned Battle Abbeyfrom 1719 to 1849, and in 1901 it was restored to the family asthe property of her descendant, Sir Arthur Webster. Lord Holland was the nephew of the great statesman, CharlesJames Fox. While making the grand tour, and only twenty, he. HOLLAND HOUSE The first of th* great historic houses of England which was restored and embellished by the heiress to an American fortune. met in Florence the beautiful Lady Vassall-Webster, aged twenty-three, and then began the love which ended only with his act of Parliament the first marriage of Elizabeth Vassall wasdissolved and she became the wife of Lord Holland. Togetherthey set out upon a career of political and social success un-equaled before or since in English life. Lady Holland was aremarkable woman. Brilliant, witty, with a queenly grace ofmanner, she was also well informed, possessed of wonderful tactand, above all, gifted with common sense; an ardent horticulturist,she planned gardens and introduced the dahlia into England; as 99 warm a heart as ever beat, she never des
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