

Zebulon “Parrish” is listed as among the settlement’s first emigrants, and, that same year, 22-year-old Isaac was named tithing man and Zebulon was appointed Fence Viewer. Our Abraham was just about two years old when the family moved to the Town of Westmoreland in 1774.

The first Abraham was five years old when he died a couple months before the second Abraham (and the hero of our story) was born. Here’s the thing you likely don’t know: Abraham was named after his older brother. There’s a couple of things you should know about Abraham: one which you’re already asking and one which you probably don’t know enough to ask.įirst, as you might have noticed, Abraham’s last name contains two r’s (“Parrish”) while his father (and his three oldest brothers Jacob, Nathan, and Isaac), kept the original spelling with one r (“Parish”). More on that in a moment.Ībraham Parrish was born on March 30, 1772. The family landed right smack dab in the middle of a hornet’s nest. When last we left the family of Zebulon Parish, they had packed up their bags and the young’uns, including the toddler Abraham, and ventured out into the frontier wilderness of Connecticut. Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.Source: Ontario County Times, April 16, 1897 This looks bad, wonder how bad it can get.’ the idea that he would compare this to Nazism, we're getting so far away from our history. The church is near, but the way is icy, The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully.Īnd I'm just like, in a tavern and looking over the other table and there are guys in black jackboots and Nazi uniforms, and I'm going like, ‘Hmm. Nazism and racism, homosexuality, and lesbianism, feminism and sexism, all this is inherent only in animals, but not in humans, all people are brothers and sisters who should love and appreciate each other as we all descended from Adam and Eve.

The wars of different minds will never end, it looks like Uncle Ho's tavern in the middle of a bamboo forest, and every mind is there, they all fight among themselves in different styles, all kinds of martial arts: Kong fu, Wushu styles: tiger, monkey, praying mantis, panda, crane, snakes, dragon, Drunken Master Style emitting a drunken fire breath, dexterously wielding a bamboo stick for battle, Aikido, Karate, Boxing, Wrestling, Taekwondo, Sambo, Sumo, Muay Thai, Jiu-Jitsu, Fencing, Wrestling, Capoeira, as well as Samurai, Ninja, and arm wrestling theories, etc., with words and actions, we senselessly fight each other, all these are children of selfishness that leads us to cannibalism, only the words of the Lord God are truth, which must be correctly understood and understood, the rest is childish babble of the human race. The basis and power of evil in egoism is the great destructive lie of evil, it gives strength to money, because of it, hidden and open meaningless wars between people will never end. Whoso associates with the wicked will be accused of following their ways, though their principles may have made no impression upon him just as if a person were in the habit of frequenting a tavern, he would not be supposed to go there for prayer, but to drink intoxicating liquor.
