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Excerpt from Discourse, Embracing the Civil and Religious History of Rhode-Island: Delivered April 4, A. D. 1838, the Close of the Second Century From the First Settlement of the Island
The object of the writer in the following pages, has been to embody and present before the risen and rising generation, some of the most important facts and incidents of our history, during the past century. Nor could the writer feel justified, in a discourse of this nature, without alluding to the circumstances and events which led to the settlement of this State, and especially of our own loved rhode-island.
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