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2305

LIVES

OF THE

CHIEF FATHERS OF NEW ENGLAND.

The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us.

1 Kings 8: 57.

VOL. VI.

2305

THE LIFE

OF

THOMAS HOOKER.

William

BY EDWARD W. HOOKER.

Written for the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society and
approved by the Committee of Publication.

BOSTON:

MASSACHUSETTS SABBATH SCHOOL SOCIETY,

Depository, No. 13 Cornhill.

10385,28

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LUKARY

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849,
BY CHRISTOPHER C. DEAN,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

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PREFACE.

THE preparation of this volume of the Series has been delayed, beyond the expectations of the author and of the Committee of Publication. This delay has arisen from the pressure of other duties, and from the difficulty of collecting materials. The latter has been of no ordinary magnitude. In the almost total absence of original papers of any kind, from Mr. Hooker's pen, the author has been compelled to rely principally upon matter, relative to him, which was incidental in Puritan and New England history, and scattered through many volumes in various libraries, and upon many thousands of pages. The reader will find in this volume, therefore, little of autobiography. The history of Mr. Hooker's life in Connecticut, especially, has been found merged in the civil and religious history of the State. The scantiness of original materials has been rendered a matter for special regret, from the belief that there have been in existence rich materials for a far more full biography, had they been carefully preserved. At the taking down of the old parsonage house of the First Congregational Church in Hartford, about thirty years since, a large quantity of ancient papers was found, supposed to be those of Rev. Thomas Hooker; and by persons employed in the work, and who were either ignorant or thoughtless of their value,

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