Читать книгу The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut: From the Settlement of the Town in 1639 to 1818: Volume 2 - Elizabeth Hubbell Schenck - Страница 4

In presenting the second volume of the History of Fairfield to the public the author has labored under many disadvantages in delay from ill-health for four or five years after the publication of the first volume, the closely-written State records having proved too severe a strain upon he eyes, the historian has hitherto largely depended upon the published records by the late State librarian, Mr. Charles J. Hoadley.

It is not out of place here to impress upon the Legislature of Connecticut the necessity of yearly setting aside a liberal sum of money for the publication and preservation of the Connecticut State records, which possess for the historian and the genealogist civil, military and ecclesiastical documents and records of inestimable value.

The town, probate and parish records of Fairfield, now well-worn and faded, ought to be published without delay; a work by which the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Colonial Dames, with heir earnest zeal for the preservation of valuable relics and the recorded deeds of our ancestors, would add lustre to their many praiseworthy lets of patriotism.

Having had for many years a copy of the first extant parish records of Christ Church, Fairfield, the author has thought wise to add them to this volume, that many who frequently apply to her for genealogical family records may themselves be able to trace them out. The parish records of Green's Farms, Stratfield, Greenfield Hill, Northfield, Mill Plain and Southport, which follow those of Fairfield, are most interesting and valuable.

In recording the names of the military officers of Fairfield and of the several parishes the reader is requested to bear in mind that the men who composed the army were as worthy of honor as the officers who led them, for they were among the soldiers of the army who won the hard fought battles which made the United States a free and independent country.

It is with deep regret that the author feels obliged with this volume to end her work of compiling the History of Fairfield; as, with advancing years, the labor of such an undertaking is too great a strain upon her strength. The years which follow she leaves to some other pen to record and publish.