A few years ago, Ryan Rindells and I decided to write a book about the complicated friendship between Reverend Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine and his neighbor, Reverend Daniel Merrill of Sedgwick. In the book, you will find this quote from a contemporary of Fisher, Beneezer Price, in a letter he wrote to him:
… Read the restWe are, also in a sense, tho young, the Fathers of an extensive Country – our Faithfulness, & setting a pious example, will effect [sic] the present, & doubtless generations to come.