Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society . ^ What he was in his onter life has beenbriefly told. What he was in his domestic life ofindulgent tenderness, is sacred in the remembrance ofthose to whom he was most endeared. It may seem ungracious that nothing is said of himthrough whose liberality this admirable provision forpreserving the memory of those who have gone beforeus has been ereAed. It ought not, however, to bethought a disregard of his own injunclion to sa3% thatamone the commandments of the Decalogue, in thatbook wdiich the founders of the New Haven colonyadopted as the rul
Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society . ^ What he was in his onter life has beenbriefly told. What he was in his domestic life ofindulgent tenderness, is sacred in the remembrance ofthose to whom he was most endeared. It may seem ungracious that nothing is said of himthrough whose liberality this admirable provision forpreserving the memory of those who have gone beforeus has been ereAed. It ought not, however, to bethought a disregard of his own injunclion to sa3% thatamone the commandments of the Decalogue, in thatbook wdiich the founders of the New Haven colonyadopted as the rule and guide of their lives, there isspecial significance attached to the command Honorthy father and thy mother that thy days may be longin the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee; not necessarily length of days as measured by thestatistics of longevity but that more prolonged lifewhich finds its limit only when the grateful recol-ledlion of generations to come shall cease. :.,i;;/ r . r •. I;, f.^ 1 ;. , ?. I •. u ill :; I , • ( A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF TFIE NEW HAVEN COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Rkad Sept. 28x11, 1S92 BY T-n . THOMAS R. TROWBRIDGE, Secretary of the Society T^O our honored townsman, ]Mr. Horace Da}, wegive the credit of originating this New HavenColony Historical Society. It was Mr. Da}^ who issued invitations to man}- ofthe representative men of the city to meet at thehouse of the late William A. Reynolds, to organize ahistorical societ}. The place of meeting was wellchosen, as the house stood on a portion of the cellarwalls upon which, as early as 1639, rested the man-sion of the first minister of the New Haven colon};almost direcl:ly opposite stood the house of the firstgovernor, Theophilus Eaton,—the house of twenty-foure fire places and rich Turkey hangings. Ixii^?- proci:kdixgs at thic vubijc opknixg At that meeting, in the autumn of 1S62, a memo-rial was prepared, wliich on October 6tli of tlie sameyear was presented to tlie common council; s
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