Excerpt from The First Charter and the Early Religious Legislation of Massachusetts: A Lecture in a Course on the Early History of Massachusetts, by Members of the Massachusetts Historical Society, at the Lowell Institute, Boston, Delivered Feb. 9, 1869
IT has been regarded as a subject of complacency, that we know our origin, and can trace our history; that while other communities seek their early history in the mists of conjecture, or the myths of tradition, we can trace our own, in that docu mentary evidence which gives the greatest degree of certainty.
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