II, pp.
37-40.
[30] _Anbury's Travels_, pp. 87, 88.
[31] _History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Conn.,_ p. 495.
[32] The Rev. Alonzo B. Chapin, in his _History of Ancient Glastenbury,
Conn._ (p. 80), says that the church records, during the pastorate of
the Rev. John Eels [1759-1791], "compel us to believe that the influence
of the French war had been as unfavorable to morals as destructive to
life; and that the absurd practice of _bundling_ prevalent in those
days, was not infrequently attended with the consequences that might
have been expected, and that both together, aided by a previous growing
laxity of morals, and accelerated by many concurrent causes, had rolled
a tide of immorality over the land, which not even the bulwark of the
church had been able to withstand. The church records of the first
society, from 1760 to 1790, raise presumptions of the strongest kind,
that then, as since, _incontinence_ and _intemperance_ were among the
sins of the people. What the condition of things in Eastbury [an
ecclesiastical society in the east part of Glastenbury] was, we have no
means of knowing, _as that portion of the church records which treats of
this point, was long ago_ carefully _removed_.
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