Excerpt from South Britain Sketches and Records The historical sketch by Titus Pierce, which is included in the follow ing pages, with other old documents and records from South Britain, which were loaned to the writer, led him to put the first in print and to examine the latter for additional facts of interest to supplement the narrative. The fact that the homes of several of his ancestors had been in the town of Southbury, two of them within the limits of the South Britain Society, gave a personal interest in the work, ...
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Excerpt from South Britain Sketches and Records The historical sketch by Titus Pierce, which is included in the follow ing pages, with other old documents and records from South Britain, which were loaned to the writer, led him to put the first in print and to examine the latter for additional facts of interest to supplement the narrative. The fact that the homes of several of his ancestors had been in the town of Southbury, two of them within the limits of the South Britain Society, gave a personal interest in the work, and he would gladly have contin ued the research indefinitely had other duties permitted. That so large a part of the book is devoted to genealogical compilations needs no apology in this time of special devotion to such studies, yet it may not be amiss to give here brief Opinions of men of wide reputation for wisdom and sound judg ment. Daniel Webster said that the study of ancestry is an incumbent duty, because we should look upon the present generation as connecting links between the eventful past and the unknown future. The preservation of a pedigree is not, therefore, a mere pastime for the curious; it is the honora ble occupation of the historian. Lord Macaulay said: A people that takes no pride in the noble achieve ments of ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by their descendants. As to the merits of our Connecticut ancestors, Hollister in his History of Connecticut says: The Early Planters of Connecticut were neither Serfs nor the sons of Serfs; so far from this were many of them that they could trace their descent back through the line of Knights and Gentlemen of Eng land to a remote day and some of them to that wavering horizon where his tory loses itself in fable. Berard's History iof the United States says of the original settlers of Connecticut: The founders of this busy little commonwealth were of the excellent of the earth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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