The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volume 35 - Taschenbuch

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Lake of the Red Cedars; or Will It Live ? Thirty Years in Lake. A Record of the first Thirty Years of Baptist Labors in the County of Lake, State of Indiana. By Y. N. L. Crown Point, Ind.: T. H. Ball, Publisher. 1880. [I2mo. PP- 357. With map.] This little volume deals mainly with the experiences of a small Baptist colony from West Springfield, Massachusetts, who in 1837 left their old family homes in that town and founded a settlement in Lake, the northwesternmost county of Indiana, and now almost under the shadow of the great city of Chicago. The spot chosen for thU settlement was a lovely one, and the varying fortune1! of the settlers, though written in a rambling, disconnected way, are described in an interesting manner. There are no accounts of hair-breadth escapes from Indian attacks, no perilous adventures or other thrilling incidents peculiar to early border life in the West, but only a simple history of the rise, progress and development of a western township based on New England traditions and New England character. Aside from its merit as a narrative of religious progress, the book contains some interesting family sketches and personal records which are of value to those engaged in tracing family lines to which these are relnted. The appendix, which udds ten years record to the body of the work (from 1868 to 1878) contains, among other interesting matter, a record of Baptist marriages in Lake County, from March 3, 1842, to March 20, 1880. The style, as has been already stated, is rambling, but ii varied in an entertaining manner by personal anecdotes and incidents. The principal defect of the work is the lack of an index, which in all books pertaining to family history is necessary and desirable. [By Oliver B. Stebbins, Esq., of Boston.] Peirre's ...