The Journal Of The Reverend Silas Constant

Author : Emily Warren Roebling
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ISBN 13 : 9781332228294
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of the Reverend Silas Constant, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Yorktown, New York written by Emily Warren Roebling and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Journal of the Reverend Silas Constant, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Yorktown, New York: With Some of the Records of the Church and a List of His Marriages, 1784-1825, Together With Notes on the Nelson, Van Cortlandt, Warren, and Some Other Families Mentioned in the Journal We read that "conscience doth make cowards of us all," but sometimes it makes other things of us as well; leads us on to efforts that perhaps we would never have made, had it not been for the uneasy stimulus of remorse which incited us to work out our repentance with a visible act of atonement. Years ago there came into my custody the private papers of an old family. These papers for four generations, perhaps for more, had been carefully preserved and handed down from father to son. They were old and musty, and I had not learned to appreciate the value of records of all kinds in genealogical research, and so had them burned to save the care of keeping them, not realizing that, by so doing, I had destroyed links in the chain connecting the past with the present that no amount of thought or search could replace. The burned papers I could never restore, but when this old Journal accidentally came into my hands, it afforded me an opportunity to make some amends for my rash deed. The Journal, so carefully kept for twenty years, is a mine of names and dates, and a record for a part of New York which is deficient in public records of marriages and deaths. To transcribe the crabbed handwriting, and place in historical libraries the valuable facts that the Journal and its accompanying records contain, has been my pleasant task. To the simple diary has been added notes on many of the families of whom Mr. Constant wrote, though the half of those he mentioned have not had this additional attention, because of the natural limitation of a book of this character, however unlimited the items which could be connected with it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.