I recently came across this quotation, apparently from a letter written by Grace Cooke Denny (1655-1741). Hurrion was her nephew. She was writing to her son-in-law the preacher and historian, Thomas Prince (1687-1758). Prince married Deborah Denny (1699-1766), who he had first met on a trip to England, October 30, 1719, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, America. Grace tells Prince Hurrion used to say to her
Aunt I am Moderately Congregationall but desire to Love all gracious persons of all denominations.
Grace Cooke from Hintlesham, Suffolk married Thomas Denny (1639-1717), a prosperous weaver, around 1686. They had five sons and two daughters. A descendant wrote of her
The good and estimable lady .. well educated herself and such a proficient letter writer would scarcely fail to educate her children both in religious and secular matters to the very utmost extent of their means and appeared to have been very happy in her children writing of them later in life in affectionate terms and ending her days with one of her daughters and her husband and holding up to them the example of their father's life. She is believed to have died at Old Newton, Suffolk and was buried at Combs.
