Ebook Peter Prudden; A Story of His Life at New Haven and Milford, Conn

In the leisure hours of a busy life Mr. Henry J. Prudden, of New Haven, Conn., collected material for a History of the Prudden family, and, had he lived to continue his investigations, he would doubtless have produced a complete and valuable book. The present volume is, largely, a compilation from his note books of the results of his careful researches into old records, papers and other sources of historical and genealogical information in this country and in England. It has been arranged in appreciation of his labor, and with the hope of stimulating some future family historian to carry the work further.

The characterization of the Rev. Peter Prudden is inserted as Mr. Henry J. Prudden gave it at the 250th anniversary of the First Church in Milford, Conn., when he presented, on behalf of the donor, Mrs. Susan Prudden Beardsley, a tablet in memory of its first Pastor.