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Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

Excerpt from Ancient Pemaquid: An Historical ReviewOu the outskirts of our historical panorama, we can just descry, here and there, wanderers along the solitary shore.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preser...

Excerpt from Peter Oliver's "Puritan Commonwealth" ReviewedOne hundred years later, in this year of grace, in Mayhew's own city, by a son of New England, under the imprint of one of the most respectable publishing houses, such men, under the guise of historical truth, are held up as worthy of a statue. What folly, what presumption, will greet us next?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. ...

Excerpt from Lives of Isaac Heath, and John Bowles, Elders of the Church, and Principal Founders of the Grammar School in Roxbury: And of Rev. John Eliot, Jr., Preacher to the Indians, and First Pastor of the Church in NewtonHeath, a pure Saxon word, the name of a plant or shrub of the genus erica, of many species, soon came to signify a place overgrown with heath, and finally has a more general signification meaning a place overgrown with shr...

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Excerpt from Peter Oliver's "Puritan Commonwealth" Reviewed The author's general re¿ections on the character of Puritanism, at the close of the book, would have been a fitting and honest introduction to the work, and had it been so arranged the purchaser would have been fairly dealt with. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reprodu...

Excerpt from Ancient Pemaquid: An Historical Review Within a few years, several of the States, awakened to a just sense of the value of their legislative records, and archives, as indispensable to an accurate knowledge of our institutions, their origin and developement, safeguards and dangers, have adopted means for their collection and publication. The voluminous collections of New York, edited with distinguished judgment and learning, are ...

Excerpt from Lives of Isaac Heath, and John Bowles, Elders of the Church, and Principal Founders of the Grammar School in Roxbury: And of Rev. John Eliot, Jr., Preacher to the Indians, and First Pastor of the Church in NewtonIn the reign of Queen Elizabeth, under the auspicious in¿uences of the protestant reformation, and the spirit begotten in the English nation by the grand designs of Sir Humphry Gilbert, the Father of American Colonization,...