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A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation

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'" PRE F ACE.<br />

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

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