Excerpt from Historical Address, Delivered in the First Congregational Church in Stamford, Ct: At the Celebration of the Second Centennial Anniversary of the First Settlement of the Town We meet this evening, then, not as a clan to give notoriety to a feudal legend, nor to immortalize a lawless origin, but as a portion of a now great and free people, ' to honour a noble parentage, and to learn the history of that parentage, and a portion of our country's history; in the origin of this one of its earliest townships. 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.