Peter Parley's Own Story

Peter Parley's Own Story - From the Personal Narrative of the Late Samuel G. Goodrich, ("Peter Parley")

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by THE HEIRS OF S. G. GOODRICH, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. In the western part of the State of Connecticut is a small town named Ridgefield. This title is descriptive, and indicates the general form and position of the place. It is, in fact, a collection of hills, rolled into one general and commanding elevation. On the west is a ridge of mountains, forming the boundary between the States of Connecticut and New York; to the south the land spreads out in wooded undulations to Long Island Sound; east and north, a succession of hills, some rising up against the sky and others fading away in the distance, bound the horizon. In this town, in an antiquated and rather dilapidated house of shingles and clapboards, I was born on the 19th of August, 1793. My father, Samuel Goodrich, was minister of the Congregational Church of that place, and there was no other religious society and no other clergyman in the town. He was the son of Elizur Goodrich, a distinguished minister of the same persuasion at Durham, Connecticut. Two of his brothers were men of eminencethe[10] late Chauncey Goodrich of Hartford, and Elizur Goodrich of New Haven. My mother was a daughter of John Ely, a physician of Saybrook, whose name figures, not unworthily, in the annals of the revolutionary war. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 45165
Author: Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)
Release Date: Mar 18, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English