Biographical Sketches of the Fathers of New England: Intended to Acquaint Youth with the Lives, Characters and Offerings of Those Who Founded Our Civil and Religious Institutions (Classic Reprint)

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In comparing our institutions with those of othco portions of the civilized earth, a' reflecting mind is natu rally led to enquire concerning the origin of those insti tutions and the character of their founders. Happily, there are abundant means of satisfying such enquiries. The early history of our country is not involved in fable nor obscurity. The venerable pioneers who considered themselves but as stepping-stones to those who should come after, have left behind them other memorials than the blessed institutions of which their labors and suffer ings, their wisdom, courage, fortitude, piety, and perse verance, laid the foundations. Authentic records, bio graphical and historical, of the little band, self-exiled for conscience sake to the wilds of America, have been handed down for the instruction and admiration of pos terity. Memorials and Journals of transactions and events in New England, in an early period of our nation al infancy, were carefully and faithfully noted down, and with some exceptions, have been carefully preserved and gathered up. To these, the rolling tide of time, while bearing us as a nation onward to power and greatness, gives perpetually increasing value and interest. Some of these accounts, it is the object of this little work, com piled from undoubted authorities, to bring before the ris ing generation.

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