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Excerpt from The History of Petersham, Massachusetts, Incorporated April 20, 1754: Volunteerstown or Voluntown, 1730-1733, Nichewaug, 1733-1754
Those note books are a mingling of facts, traditions and stories in all shades of propriety, revealing strange emotions of jealousies, retaliations as well as humor and pathos, in the simplicity of the good, the beautiful and the true, in the lives of the Petersham folks, in those early days.
When the committee selected the writer of this History, they charged her to record everything she knew of the past, for no matter how insignificant an item seems, there is a chance that it prove to be the tie linking those of greater importance. These years have been full of joy, and interest in the attempt to verify, adjust, and co ordinate a tale of reasonable truth of the past two hundred and ten years of Petersham life. Even so, many things, remain doubtful and unrecorded, in the hope that they may some time be verified by future students of history, enabled by clearer records to proceed along this alluring path.
Stress has been placed upon the location of Early Settlers, for two important reasons, first because of the ever increasing number of inquiries locating ancestors; and second, because of the rapid demolishment of sources of information regarding them in clearing out seemingly useless papers from attics. Family Bibles were removed by remote generations and by fires.
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Those note books are a mingling of facts, traditions and stories in all shades of propriety, revealing strange emotions of jealousies, retaliations as well as humor and pathos, in the simplicity of the good, the beautiful and the true, in the lives of the Petersham folks, in those early days.
When the committee selected the writer of this History, they charged her to record everything she knew of the past, for no matter how insignificant an item seems, there is a chance that it prove to be the tie linking those of greater importance. These years have been full of joy, and interest in the attempt to verify, adjust, and co ordinate a tale of reasonable truth of the past two hundred and ten years of Petersham life. Even so, many things, remain doubtful and unrecorded, in the hope that they may some time be verified by future students of history, enabled by clearer records to proceed along this alluring path.
Stress has been placed upon the location of Early Settlers, for two important reasons, first because of the ever increasing number of inquiries locating ancestors; and second, because of the rapid demolishment of sources of information regarding them in clearing out seemingly useless papers from attics. Family Bibles were removed by remote generations and by fires.
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.
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Language - English
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Mabel Cook Coolidge
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ISBN - 9780265310571
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Page Count - 460
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Mabel Cook Coolidge
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ISBN - 9781332263967
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Page Count - 462
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