Excerpt from 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 Warren Johnson, lives in the same house, and has aided greatly in the preparation of this pamphlet. There was nothing irreverent in Thomas Abbey's summoning the people from church by beating a drum. His news was vital and demanded immediate action. It was the decisive moment in our Revolution, and he used the usual and accepted method of assembling the people in that early day. Throughout New England at that period congregations were called to church ser vice by the beating of a drum through the town. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.