Excerpt from Sayings: Wise and Otherwise; With a Brief Autobiographic Sketch, and an Introductory Note My paternal ancestors settled, either in the latter part of the seventeenth or very early in the last century, in Newport, R. I. Leonard Cozzens, the first of the name, came over from Devizes, in Wiltshire, England. He was admitted a freeman of the Colony pf Rhode Island, May 3, 1715. He was a Quaker, I believe; at least my grandfather was one, before he changed his drab coat for a soldier's uniform in the Revolution. He married a great granddaughter of Richard Hayward, a Moravian, who was a friend of Count Zinzendorf, the founder of Bethlehem, Pa., and used to entertain the missionary brethren at his house; he was the principal founder of that church at Newport, in 1749. and was called then Old Father Hayward, as the chronicles show. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.