Bundle 1: Read More

Much to my surprise after much research I have found very little on Abbey. On the Internet I found only 2 sites they mentioned him.
http://find.mapmuse.com/details/revolutionary-war-sites/19/Thomas-Abbey-
and
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39170812
And these sites only had 3-4 sentences about him.
What I got was that it was erected in 1916 for $20,000 by his great granddaughter Frances Moria Abbey. It was created by Sherry Edmundson Fry and depicts Thomas Abbey, a man who alerted the people of Enfield CT to the British invasion during the revolutionary war.


Then I took my research into books where I found one book written by his ancestors back in 1917 called Memorial of Captain Thomas Abbey: ancestor and descendants of the abbey family. I found a copy online and found it very interesting. 
The site is http://www.worldcat.org/title/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/oclc/277221360?title=&detail=&page=frame&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.archive.org%2Fdetails%2Fmemorialofcaptai00free%26checksum%3Dd9a335e5f8f64c5b34010ed3a6305f2f&linktype=digitalObject 


It had everything one would want to know about him. It had pictures of the carving process, the opening ceremony and everything about Abbey life and ancestors. It explained that each bench around the statue represents a member in his family. each bench has there name and there name seal. It then goes into detail of the history of every relative from the first immigrant to the great granddaughter in 1917. The book even includes the bulletin from the service of the day Abbey alerted the people who were attending church that day. What was the most interesting was seeing the pictures of the opining ceremony with all these people surrounding this statue and thinking of today. Back then he must have been a hero and well known but today he is someone people just past on a busy road and don't even realize who he was.