. Miscellanies. --. e came, or whither he goes. Themore reason that we should give to our beingwhat permanence we can; — that we shouldrecall the Past, and expect the Future. Yet the race survives whilst the individualdies. In the country, without any interferenceof the law, the agricultural life favors the per-manence of families. Here are still around methe lineal descendants of the first settlers ofthis town. Here is Blood, Flint, Willard, Mer-iam, Wood, Hosmer, Barrett, Wheeler, Jones,Brown, Buttrick, Brooks, Stow, Hoar, Hey-wood, Hunt, Miles,— the names of the inhabit-ants for the first t
. Miscellanies. --. e came, or whither he goes. Themore reason that we should give to our beingwhat permanence we can; — that we shouldrecall the Past, and expect the Future. Yet the race survives whilst the individualdies. In the country, without any interferenceof the law, the agricultural life favors the per-manence of families. Here are still around methe lineal descendants of the first settlers ofthis town. Here is Blood, Flint, Willard, Mer-iam, Wood, Hosmer, Barrett, Wheeler, Jones,Brown, Buttrick, Brooks, Stow, Hoar, Hey-wood, Hunt, Miles,— the names of the inhabit-ants for the first thirty years ; and the familyis in many cases represented, when the name isnot. If the name of Bulkeley is wanting, thehonor you have done me this day, in makingme your organ, testifies your persevering kind-ness to his blood. I shall not be expected, on this occasion, torepeat the details of that oppression which droveour fathers out hither. Yet the town of Con- Fiew of the Town of ConcordApril rg 17 7j mawfflww. AT CONCORD 31 cord was settled by a party of non-conformists,immediately from Great Britain. The best friendthe Massachusetts colony had, though muchagainst his will, was Archbishop Laud in Eng-land. In consequence of his famous proclama-tion setting up certain novelties in the rites ofpublic worship, fifty godly ministers were sus-pended for contumacy, in the course of twoyears and a half. Hindered from speaking, someof these dared to print the reasons of their dis-sent, and were punished with imprisonment ormutilation. This severity brought some of thebest men in England to overcome that naturalrepugnance to emigration which holds the seri-ous and moderate of every nation to their ownsoil. Among the silenced clergymen was a dis-tinguished minister of Woodhill, in Bedford-shire, Rev. Peter Bulkeley, descended from anoble family, honored for his own virtues, hislearning and gifts as a preacher, and adding tohis influence the weight of a large estate. Per-secution r
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