Author: Samuel Orcutt
Publisher: Рипол Классик
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1052

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Author: Samuel Orcutt
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282500511
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1030

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Excerpt from The History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880: With Biographies and Genealogies History is the record of experiences in the ages that are past; and experience, while varying through the changing of circumstances, is a teacher worthy to be carefully studied, and to whose voice it is wise to listen. The person who is indifferent to the past is too selfish to be of much benefit to the world in the present, and too heedless of wisdom to accomplish much for human good in the future. One object sought in the writing of this book has been the promotion of reflection on the past, which would result, it is believed ln careful consideration of what shall be the life of the future, for it would be un pardonable to give a book to the world without some high motive of good, in the mind of the author. How well or poorly the purpose may have been attained is not a question now, the existence of the motive is the only fact of which we can be certain. 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.

Author: Samuel 1824-1893 Orcutt
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781371947453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1048

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Author: Samuel Orcutt
Publisher:
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Category : Derby (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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Author: Samuel 1824-1893 Orcutt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781371947422
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1048

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Author: Samuel 1824-1893 Orcutt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781363027699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1036

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Author: Samuel Orcutt
Publisher:
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Category : Derby (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Author: Samuel Orcutt
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5879692949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 963

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Author: Samuel Orcutt
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ISBN: 9780832800016
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Languages : en
Pages : 843

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Author: Doron S. Ben-Atar
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812245814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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In 1796, as revolutionary fervor waned and the Age of Reason took hold, an eighty-five-year-old Massachusetts doctor was convicted of bestiality and sentenced to hang. Three years later and seventy miles away, an eighty-three-year-old Connecticut farmer was convicted of the same crime and sentenced to the same punishment. Prior to these criminal trials, neither Massachusetts nor Connecticut had executed anyone for bestiality in over a century. Though there are no overt connections between the two episodes, the similarities of their particulars are strange and striking. Historians Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown delve into the specifics to determine what larger social, political, or religious forces could have compelled New England courts to condemn two octogenarians for sexual misbehavior typically associated with much younger men. The stories of John Farrell and Gideon Washburn are less about the two old men than New England officials who, riding the rough waves of modernity, returned to the severity of their ancestors. The political upheaval of the Revolution and the new republic created new kinds of cultural experience—both exciting and frightening—at a moment when New England farmers and village elites were contesting long-standing assumptions about divine creation and the social order. Ben-Atar and Brown offer a rare and vivid perspective on anxieties about sexual and social deviance in the early republic.