Excerpt from True Religion Delineated: Or Experimental Religion, as Distinguished From Formality on the One Hand, and Enthusiasm on the Other, Set in a Scriptural and Rational Light The fruit of the marriage alluded to was an only son, Matthew Bel lamy, called in the New Haven records, the schoolmaster, the date of whose birth is unknown. In 1671, he married Bethia, daughter of Timothy Ford, who was one of the early settlers of New Haven, and a signer of the Plantation Covenant. In the same year, he went to Guilford, where it was voted, in town meeting, to hire him for twenty pounds as schoolmaster on trial and the next year, to request him to go on with his work, as also to give him a parcel of land by the mill-pond, to be laid out for a house-lot. He afterwards appears at various places, engaged in his vocation - at Stamford and Saybrook, in 1675; at Fairfield in 1681; afterwards at Killingly and Lyme; and in 1689 is noted as not lately heard of. His children were Bethia, born 1673; Elizabeth, born 1674; Mary, born 1676; and Matthew, born February, 1677 - 8. No record is found of his death. His widow. 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.