A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation
A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation
A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation
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The Reader, therefore, will not<br />
be furprifed, ihould I have placed<br />
the New-Englanders in a different<br />
light from that in which they have<br />
yet appeared: their charaClerizers<br />
have" not been fufficiently unprejudiced,<br />
unawed by power, or unaffeCled<br />
by the deiire <strong>of</strong> obtaining<br />
it, always to fet them in the true<br />
one. Dr. Mather and Mr. Neal<br />
were popular writers; but at the<br />
time they extolled the prudence<br />
and piety <strong>of</strong> the colonifts, they fup.<br />
preffed what are called in New-England<br />
unneceJ!ary truths: Governor<br />
I-Iutchinfon, who loved fame, and<br />
feared giving <strong>of</strong>fence, publiihed a<br />
few only <strong>of</strong> thore truths j which<br />
failed