Excerpt from An Historical Discourse, on the Civil and Religious Affairs of the Colony of Rhode-Island: With the Memoir of the Author, Biographical Notices of Some of His Distinguished Contemporaries, and Annotations and Original Documents Illustrative of the History of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations In presenting this volume, the Committee can therefore speak with much confidence respecting the manner in which Professor Elton has met the wishes of the Historical Society. He is entitled to the thanks of that Society, for the valuable addition which he has made to their Collections, and deserves the grateful remembrance of the people of our State, for the satisfactory manner in which he has illustra ted this history of their forefathers. Albert G. Greene, william G. Goddard. Providence, April, 1838. 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.