Thomas Abbey Monument

This is a very strange monument located on the green in front of the Enfield Congregational Church. A statue of Thomas Abbey stands on a four-​sided base inside a circular ring of stone benches. The base is absolutely crammed with inscribed text on all four sides, including the verses of a long poem.
The poem is «The Captain’s Drum» and it memorializes a 1775 event in Enfield’s history involving Thomas Abbey (1731 – 1811) and the birth of the United States.
Abbey was a veteran of the French and Indian War. When news of the Boston shootings at Lexington and Concord reached Enfield, Abbey led soldiers of the Enfield Company on a 103-​mile long march from Enfield’s meeting house at the Congregational Church all the way to Boston to join the battle against the British.
The poem’s 12^th verse reads
”The Green of Lexington is red
With British Red-​Coats, brothers’ blood !
In rightful cause the earliest dead
Ave always best beloved of God.
Mark time ! Let the march begin !
All bound for Boston, fall right in !“
I don’t know about you, but I got the chills when I read this…