Excerpt from History and Antiquities of New Haven, Conn;, From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time: With Biographical Sketches and Statistical Information of the Public Institutions, &C., &C Disdaining to sacrifice a good conscience for personal ease or popularity, they exiled themselves from their native land. Fired with a noble zeal for the welfare of the race, these genuine Puri tans transplanted themselves to a wilderness, where they might have freedom to worship God. Armed with conscious rectitude, and faith in a Divine Being, though surrounded by savages, they ventured to lay the foundations of a Christian commonwealth. 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.