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of the town. He sealed his letters, and in superscribing them, 

 the one for the church was directed to the tenant, and the one 

 for the tenant to the church. The afflicted church convened to 

 hear the letter from parson Buckley read, which was to heal all 

 their difficulties. In due form the Moderator broke open the 

 letter in the presence of his assembled brethren, and read as 

 follows : 



" You will see to the repair of the fences, that they be built 

 high and strong, and you will take special care of the old black 

 bull." 



This letter was deemed mystical. One of the elder brethren 

 got up and said, this is just the advice we need. The old black 

 bull is the devil, and we must watch him thoroughly. The 

 fences must be built high and strong to keep out all strange 

 cattle off our fold. Go home said the elder, obey your Divine 

 Master. The meeting was forthwith adjourned, the people 

 departed, the animosities subsided, harmony was restored to the 

 afflicted church. 



We are of the opinion that the old black bull, was one of the 

 black native stock of Wales. Indeed a person traveling through 

 New-England will see individual cattle which strongly represents 

 every type found in England or along the western coast of 

 Europe. 



Many of the people called the Puritans originated in the north 

 of England and the south-east part of Scotland. In the year 

 1607, some of them were driven from the north of England. 

 They first settled in Amsterdam ; two years afterwards they went 

 to Lyden, where the colony increased with numbers from London 

 and the south of England, and remained until 1640. In 1621, 

 the first colony came to Plymouth, Massachusetts; these were a 

 portion of the Lyden congregation, and other portions of the 

 congregation afterwards came to Massachusetts; finally the last 

 portion of them came to New-Haven in 1637 to 1640. On the 

 3d of November, 1620, King James signed a patent incorporating 

 the Duke of Lennox, Sir Ferdinand Gorges, and thirty-eight 

 others, styling them the " Council established at Plymouth, in 

 the county of Devon, in England, for planting, ruling, ordering 



