Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Biographical Sketches of the Moody Family: Embracing Notices of Ten Ministers and Several Laymen From 1633 to 1842
There seems to be a growing desire, on the part of many, to know more of their ancestors: the places where they lived; their habits of life their trials and hardships; and their modes of thinking and acting, not only upon the topics fa miliar to them, but especially upon such subjects as have 'come down to us, and now engross the public mind. If we find them differing from us, we immediately begin to look at the circumstan ces by which they were surrounded, and the ia ?uences which were likely to lead them to a given course of action. We believe this inclination to study the past, and especially to make genealogi cal researches, is productive of the most salutary results. A few years since, the author of this little work, ignorant of the biography of many of his ancestors, turned his attention to this branch of study; and, pursuing his inquiries from time to time, found his interest deepening at every step Of his course, and began to wonder that no one had offered to the public the many interesting particulars Opened up to his View. He therefore solicited several persons to embody the facts?f'and to prepare a volume for the press; but, finding none willing to perform the task, he was com pelled, in lieu of a. More competent hand, to en gage in it himself.
The preparation of this volume was a pleasing task but, though the book itself is small in size.
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