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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CON NEe T I C:U T. flSt<br />
tohe .has utterly' excluded' oratory frorn<br />
them; anq, did they not fpeak the Eng...<br />
Hili language in greater perfet1:ion than<br />
any other <strong>of</strong> the Americans, few ftrangers<br />
would difoblige them '.'Vith their com- <br />
pany. .Their various fyftems are founded<br />
upon th<strong>of</strong>e <strong>of</strong> Peters, Hooker, and<br />
Davenport, <strong>of</strong> which I have already<br />
fpoken; yet the modern teachers have<br />
made fo many new-fangled refinements in<br />
the doCtrine and difcipline <strong>of</strong> th<strong>of</strong>e patriarchs,<br />
and <strong>of</strong> one another, as render<br />
their paffion for ecclefiafiical innovation<br />
and tyranny. equally confpicuous.-But<br />
the whole are enveloped with fuperfrition,<br />
which here paires for religion, as<br />
much as it does in Spain, France, or<br />
among the favages. I will inltance that<br />
<strong>of</strong> an infant in 1761. Some children<br />
were piling fand-heaps in Hertford, when<br />
a boy, only four years old, hearing it<br />
thunder at a difiance, left his companions<br />
and ran home to his mother, crying out,<br />
l' Mother I