Excerpt from Charlotte Cushman: Her Letters and Memories of Her Life The story of the first settlers of New England - of that small band of devoted men and women who left their native land and subjected themselves with unshaken constancy and courage to the perils and dangers and privations of the wilderness, seeking only the privilege of worshipping God according to their own consciences - is too well known to need much recapitulation here. It is, as it should be, a household word; it is one of the worthiest boasts of the nation, that in this transplantation to the shores of the New World its chief or tap root struck deep down, - the noble and true Puritan element, compounded of the best qualities of any race, - earnestness, sincerity, and thorough conscientiousness. 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.