Excerpt from Why Remember the Fathers: An Address at a Meeting of the Connecticut Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, August 6, 1898 To teach reverent regard for the names, character, history and heroism of the founders of this country and their patriot descendants. To discover and preserve whatever may throw light upon their spirit and their deeds, their ancestry and their posterity. T o commemorate and celebrate events in the history of the Colonies and the Republic. To inculcate patriotism in the associates and their descendants. To secure these ends by bringing together men whose ancestors struggled together for life and liberty, home and happiness, in this land, when it was a new and unknown country and whose line of descent from them comes through patriots who sustained the Colonies in the struggle for independence in the Revolutionary war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.