This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...in his will made December 14, 1716, proved December 19, 1717. A liberal remuneration will be made for such information as will enable me to complete an authentic record of the births, marriages and deaths of the three generations commencing with Solomon; including family names of wives. In the early records, the names ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...in his will made December 14, 1716, proved December 19, 1717. A liberal remuneration will be made for such information as will enable me to complete an authentic record of the births, marriages and deaths of the three generations commencing with Solomon; including family names of wives. In the early records, the names were sometimes written Lenncr, Lennerson and Leonardson. Who was William Leonard, of Bridgewater, m. Sarah Bolton, 1709? Sarah, m. Samuel Perry, December 14, 1710? Benjamin, m. Hannah Phillips, August 15, 1715? And Martha, m. Ebenezer Eddy, of Norton, 1734? Manning Leonard. Southbridge, Mass. Dunbar.--John Dunbar and Elizabeth his wife were in New Haven m the early part of the eighteenth century. He was father of John Dunbar, of Wallingford, and perhaps had himself lived in that town before going to New Haven. Was he previously from Hingham, Mass.? Had he another wife, and if so, who was she? Who was Elizabeth? E. McC. S. TrLKR's History Of American Literature (ante, pp. 117-19).--The writer of the notice of this work in the January Register, states (p. 118,1. 16) that Prof. Tyler, in his specimens of early American literature, has corrected " the loose grammar and incorrect expressions of his subjects." How the writer could get such an idea, we cannot imagine. Prof. Tyler in his preface, in stating the method adopted by him in the reproduction of the literary specimens which he gives, uses this language: "Obviously their value for the purpose in view would be destroyed, if they should be tampered with; if the historian of this body of literature should undertake to improve it by his own emendations of it, --correcting its syntax, chastising its vocabulary, or recompiling the structure of its sentences. This I have never knowingl...
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