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 .. . onor of seeing his own statueplaced in the college hall. He enjoyed the intimacy of the king,of Sir Francis Bacon, Hobbes, Dryden, Cowley and other personsof note, and lived to be considered the first anatomist and physi-cian of his time, and to see his discoveries universally acknowl-edged. Other parts of the original article in Town and Country, entitled The Questof Ancestors, will be found in the f
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 .. . onor of seeing his own statueplaced in the college hall. He enjoyed the intimacy of the king,of Sir Francis Bacon, Hobbes, Dryden, Cowley and other personsof note, and lived to be considered the first anatomist and physi-cian of his time, and to see his discoveries universally acknowl-edged. Other parts of the original article in Town and Country, entitled The Questof Ancestors, will be found in the following sketch of the Freeman family as wellas in preceding sections of this pamphlet. 108 The Freemans of Woodbridge, New Jersey Through the efforts of Daniel Freeman, of Los Angeles,California, the Freeman family, of Woodbridge, has been tracedback in England to the reign of Henry VI., when John Freemanlived in Bentley, Northamptonshire, in 1442. Of my fathersfamily the immigrant ancestor was Judge Henry Freeman, ofWoodbridge, whose sister Elizabeth married John Ford andsettled in Morristown. Her son, Colonel Jacob Ford, Sr., about1773 built the house now known as Washingtons Headquar-. WASHINGTONS HEADQUARTERS AT MORRISTOWN, N. J. The mother of Col. Jacob Ford, senior, who built the house, was Elizabeth Freeman,of Woodbridge, N. J. This roof sheltered more of the heroes of the Revolution thanany other in America. ters, in that town, and her grandson, Colonel Jacob Ford, Jr.,about 1768, built the stone house at Mount Hope, N. J. It was in the house at Mount Hope that Elizabeth Freemanspent the last four years of her life, dying there April 21, 1772,aged 91 years and 1 month. Her great-grandson, Judge GabrielH. Ford, kept a diary. Shortly before his death, in his eighty-fifthyear, under date of June 21, 1849, he wrote that he was sevenyears old at the time of the death of his great-grandmother,whose short stature and slender, bent person I clearly recall,having lived in the s
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