What was young Goodman’s initial reaction toward his family’s role in the persecution of Quakers and Indians?

The Puritan intolerance of Quakers occurred during the second half of the seventeenth century. Indians were seen as evil. Despite this , Goodman Brown felt his family was not violent:

"Too far, too far!" exclaimed the goodman, unconsciously resuming his walk. "My father never went into the woods on such an errand, nor his father before him. We have been a race of honest men and good Christians, since the days of the martyrs. And shall I be the first of the name of Brown, that ever took this path and kept--"