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[7]. James Grahame. Colonial History of the United States, Vol. II, p. 481, 1850.
[8]. Spencer. The Hist. of the United States, Vol. I, p. 80.
[9]. Ramsay. The History of South Carolina, 1809.
[10]. H. Marshall. The History of Kentucky, 1824.
[11]. The Story of the Irish in Boston, 1889.
[12]. The Irish Scots and the Scotch Irish, page 44.
[13]. Irish Colonists in New York. A Lecture Delivered before the New York Historical Association at Lake George, New York, 1906.
[14]. Prof. E. D. Sanborn writing of these Puritans (1 Granite Monthly, 34), said: “Some portion of the bigotry, intolerance and persecution of Massachusetts Puritans migrated to New Hampshire with their laws. The result was a few prosecutions of witches and Quakers, but no capital convictions. After the lapse of a century some disabilities and distraint of goods for the support of ‘the standing order’ or clergy were inflicted on dissenters from the established creed. This petty intolerance continued until about 1819, when the Toleration Act became a law of New Hampshire.”
[15]. The late L. A. Morrison, of Derry, N. H., said of them (10 Granite Monthly, page 249), that “They were hard-hearted, long-headed, level-headed, uncompromising, unconquered and unconquerable Presbyterians. They were of a stern and rugged type. They clung to the tenets of the Presbyterian faith with a devotion, constancy and obstinacy little short of bigotry and in it was mingled little of that charity for others of a different faith, ‘which suffereth long,’ and it was said of them in 1790: ‘They have a great deal of substantial civility, without much courtesy to relieve it, and set it off to the best advantage.’ The bold idea of rights and privileges, which seem inseparable from their Presbyterian church, renders them apt to be ungracious and litigious in their dealings. On the whole the middle and lower ranks of people, in this quarter of the kingdom, are a valuable part of the community; but one must estimate their worth as a miner often does his ore, rather by its weight than its splendor.”—Letters concerning the Northern Coast of the County Antrim Island, by William Hamilton, Dublin, 1790, page 117.