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descendants and establish New England's reputation for 

 conscientiousness and love of learning and culture. As it 

 was almost the first business of the founders of the colonies 

 of Massachusetts Bay and New Haven to found a college, 

 so their descendants the families of Edwards, Whitney, 

 Dwight, Eliot, Lowell, Woolsey, and the rest have not 

 only led in literature, philosophy, and science, but have 

 carried the lamps of learning across the continent, light- 

 ing educational beacons from Boston to San Francisco. 

 Nor is it an accident that on the soil tilled by these dis- 

 senters from the Established Church of England should be 

 spilled the first blood of the American Revolution. 



Later, to the shores of the Delaware, Penn led his band 

 of followers, consisting of men and women whose natures 

 were attracted to his principles of thrift, absence of show, 

 and non-resistance. The germ plasm of his followers soon 

 peopled Penn's woods, and it is not due solely to chance 

 that Pennsylvania has the largest number of homes owned 

 by their occupants and free from debt of any state. 



Thus the characteristics of each commonwealth were 

 early determined by the traits of the persons who were 

 attracted toward them. These traits still persist in their 

 dwindling descendants who strive to secure the preservation 

 in the state of the ideals inculcated by their forefathers. 



One common characteristic these early immigrants had, 

 which led them to leave family and friends, to undergo the 

 trials of the long sea voyage in small ships and to settle in 

 a rigorous climate among unreliable savages, and that was a 

 willingness to break with tradition, to exchange the old for 

 the new and better. This trait, that amounts in extreme 

 cases to a wanderlust, is illustrated by the history of many 

 a pioneer. For example, Simeon Hoyt landed in Salem, 



