Author: Nathan Bangs

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-19

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9781331803188

Excerpt from The Life of the Rev. Freeborn Garrettson: Compiled From His Printed and Manuscript Journals, and Other Authentic Documents Very soon after the death of Mr. Garrettson it was made known to me by the bereaved widow, that he had expressed a desire that herself and daughter and myself should take the charge of his papers, and make such a disposition of them as we might consider to be fit and right. After taking a cursory survey of them, it was resolved that Mrs. Garrettson and her daughter should first examine them, make such alterations or emendations as they might think expedient, and transmit them to me to be prepared for publication in the manner I might judge most suitable and proper. Whatever reluctance I might feel to undertake a task so delicate, I could not refuse to comply with a request coming from one to whom I felt myself under many obligations for numerous tokens of his friendship, backed as it was by the wishes of his bereaved widow and daughter, and more especially as he had, previously to his death, frequently suggested the same thing to me. It is generally known that Mr. Garrettson published an account of his experience and travels in the year 1791. This account embraces a period of about thirty-nine years of his natural life, and sixteen of his spiritual pilgrimage. To this printed journal he had appended several manuscript notes. 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.