THE History of the Descendants OF JOHN DWIGHT, OF DEDHAM, MASS. BY BENJAMIN W. DWIGHT, AUTHOR OF THE HIGHER CHRISTIAN EDUCATION," OF "MODERN PHILOLOGY," IN TWO VOLS., VOLUME I. PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR. NEW YORK: JOHN F. TROW & SON, PRINTERS AND BOOKBINDERS, 205-213 EAST TWELFTH STREET. 1874. Dedication. THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO ALL WHO, IN FUTURE YEARS, TO THE END OF TIME, SHALL CLAIM A COMMON SHARE WITH THE AUTHOR IN THE Lineage of one of the best of the early Religions Families of New England. AND ESPECIALLY IS IT MOST HEARTILY DEDICATED TO HIS OWN DESCENDANTS IN ALL SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS, WITH THE HOPE AND THE PRAYER THAT THEY MAY NONE OF THEM FAIL TO EMULATE WITH ALL EARNESTNESS THE WORTHIEST EXAMPLES OF ASPIRATION, EXCELLENCE, AND INDUSTRY WHICH THEY FIND PRESENTED IN ITS PAGES. MAY THEY EACH AND ALL HONOR IN SENSE AND SENTIMENT, IN PURPOSE AND PRACTICE, IN LIFE ALIKE AND IN DEATH, THE GOD OF THEIR FATHERS; AND ENJOY THROUGH ALL THEIR EARTHLY MAY THEY BE FULL OF THE SPIRIT OF DUTY AND THE POWER OF FAITH, AND WALK WITH GOD, HERE AND FOREVER, IN THE SKIES. "I will utter dark sayings of old, which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us: shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord and his wonderful work that he hath done. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; that the generation to come might know them, who should arise and declare them to their children-that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God but keep his commandments.”—Psalm 78: 2-7. |