“Whereas New England, and Boston of the Massachusetts, have
this to make mention of, that they can tell their age, and
account it their honor to have their birth and parentage kept
in everlasting remembrance. And in very deed, the families
and churches which first ventured to follow Christ thorow the
Atlantic Ocean into a strange land full of wild men were so
religious, their end so holy, their self-denial in pursuing of
it so extraordinary, that I can’t but hope that the plantation
has thereby gained a very strong crasis, and that it will not
be of one or two or three centuries only, but by the grace of
God it will be very long lasting.”[310]