Lanterna Rally

Author: Israel Wilkinson

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Published: 2015-07-09

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 9781331058700

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Wilkinson Family in America About tow hundred and twenty years ago Lawrance Wilkinson landed upon the shores of New England. At that time America was a howling wilderness with only a few openings made by European settlers. Dense forests filled the valleys and crowned every hill top, and the wild beasts and the wilder savages were the sole occupants of this wide extended country. To leave the comforts and luxuries of the Old World and take up an abode in the New, under these circumstances required a degree of moral courage and self-denial which only a few possessed; and had not the providence of God brought to bear the sweets of social, civil and religious liberty, the now fertile and smiling fields of the United States would still have remained the uncleared hunting grounds of the Indians. But Liberty - "Sound delightful to every human ear," - rendered more dear and desirable by the iron heel of oppression - opened the gates of the great sea, and forced a passage over the mountain wave. Hither came our ancestor, and, at the close of the first decade of Roger William's planting at "Mooshaussick" at the head of Narrangansett Bay, received with others from the hands of this founder of the only soul-liberty colony the world ever knew, a quarter right grant of twenty-five acres, where he pitched his tent and settled for life. 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.