The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . and frugal. It is the tes-timony of an eye-witness, that • one might dwell there fromyear to year and not see a drunkard, hear an oath, or meet abeggar. Among them are names still borne in Roxbury bytheir descendants, such as Curtis. Crafts, Dudley. Griggs,Heath, Pavson. Parker. Seaver, Weld, and Williams. Out- 10 ItOXBURY COLONISTS. XAZIXG. side of Boston, no New England town can show such a rollof distinguished names as have illustrated h
The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . and frugal. It is the tes-timony of an eye-witness, that • one might dwell there fromyear to year and not see a drunkard, hear an oath, or meet abeggar. Among them are names still borne in Roxbury bytheir descendants, such as Curtis. Crafts, Dudley. Griggs,Heath, Pavson. Parker. Seaver, Weld, and Williams. Out- 10 ItOXBURY COLONISTS. XAZIXG. side of Boston, no New England town can show such a rollof distinguished names as have illustrated her annals, unlessCambridge be an exception. Xazing, a rural village in Essex County, England, the homecf many of the fathers of Roxbury, around which clusteredthe affections and remembrances of their youth, comprisesthe northwest corner of Waltham Half-hundred. It is or. theriver Lee, and is twenty miles east from London. Its gable-fronted cottages, with low. thatched roofs and overhangingeaves, show that this quiet little village has undergone slightchanges during the past three hundred years. The manorwas iriven bv Harold II to \Valtham Abbe nazi:;o parish enuecu. Its old parish church maybe regarded as the parent of theFirst Church of Roxbury. It is situated on the side of a hilloverlooking parts of Hertfordshire and Middlesex, boundedon the west by the river Lee. and on the east and south byWaltham Abbey and Epping. Its parish records contain thefamiliar names of Eliot, Ruggles. Curtis. Heath. Pay son,Peacock. Graves, and others, who. between the years lf>C»land 1C4U. left their beloved homes and. for conscience the dangers of a long ocean voyage in the frail vesselsof that period that they might aid in establishing a Christiancommonwealth in the wilderness. The accompanying view FIRST YEARS. rYNCHOX. 11 of the church represents the building as it appeared when theemigrant fathers worshipped within its old gray walls twocenturies and a half ago. Under
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