Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Rev. Ralph Smith: First Settled Minister of Plymouth, 1629-1636
It has long seemed to the writer that Ralph Smith, first settled minister of the pilgrim church in Plymouth, deserved a fairer presentation of his known career than has hitherto fallen to his memory, and that this gentle, if grave and severe-minded man, simple and unassuming as his life seems to have been, has a right to our esteem beyond what has heretofore been given when we recall the absence of that carping contentious spirit that engaged the abilities of so many of his contemporaries in the first pastorates in the Bay plantation.
In collating the sparse and scattered facts of his career, it has been an added pleasure to trace and establish the true story of his English birthplace.
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