Excerpt from Life and Labors of John Eliot, the Apostle Among the Indian Nations of New England: Together With an Account of the Eliots in England When William the Conqueror, in the year 1066, with his army, in seven hundred ships, then landing on the shores of England, at Pevency, he had on board an Eliot, - not an apostle, but the remote ancestor of our New England evangelist. It was no other than Sir William De Aliot, a military officer under the great Conqueror, then valiant, and then in high command. 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.