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 .. . masters, desire new placesin the sun, they must first develop the sunshine of democracy inthemselves. Colonies do not thrive on the soil of despotism. Before leaving the Adams family, work of theirs in lightervein should be mentioned. William T. Adams, better known asOliver Optic, whose books for boys and girls had a great popu-larity a generation ago, was a descendant of Henry Adams ofBraintree. 90 T
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 .. . masters, desire new placesin the sun, they must first develop the sunshine of democracy inthemselves. Colonies do not thrive on the soil of despotism. Before leaving the Adams family, work of theirs in lightervein should be mentioned. William T. Adams, better known asOliver Optic, whose books for boys and girls had a great popu-larity a generation ago, was a descendant of Henry Adams ofBraintree. 90 the descendants of Captain Samuel Terry, 1661-1730,third captain of the Enfield trainband, were Major NathanielTerry, mentioned in the inscription on the pedestal as the rankingofficer of the company enlisted by Captain Abbey; General AlfredHowe Terry, 1827-1890, of the Civil War, and Rev. RoderickTerry, D. D., of Newport, R. I., formerly governor of the NewYork Society of Mayflower Descendants. descendants of John Alden, the Puritan scholar ofthe Mayflower, are very numerous, and include many of the chiefrepresentatives of American literature and statesmanship, such. as William Cullen Bryant and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,among the poets; Henry Mills Alden, for many years editor ofHarpers Magazine, and all of the distinguished line, just de-scribed, that are descended from Hannah Bass Adams, who wasthe granddaughter of John Alden and the grandmother of JohnAdams, second President of the United States. KIBBE. Edward Kibbe of Boston, 1645, is said to have come from Exeter in England. He settled at Muddy River, now Brookline. His son, Elisha Kibbe, was baptized in the First Church in Boston in 1645, married Rachel Cooke, of Salem, and lived to be 97. 91 He was one of the first settlers of Enfield, and his youngest son,Isaac Kibbe, born in 1683, was the first boy born daughter, Rachel Kibbe, born in 1688, lived until her100th year. As already noted, s
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