Excerpt from Early Connecticut Marriages: As Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800 Since agriculture, both by necessity and choice, was in those trying times the only dependence of our sturdy ancestors, the possession of the necessary land with a little to spare became a common and prevail ing impulse; while the occasional cessation of Indian warfares gave the ambitious sons and later arrivals the increased courage to locate for themselves farther and farther inland. And all naturally resulting in new parish organizations and later by division of the old or the opening of new territory, into other incorporated towns. In each and every case the church serving as that nucleus around which a township was formed. 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.