History of Great Barrington: Berkshire County, Massachusetts (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Taylor, Charles J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330905407 ISBN 13: 9781330905401

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from History of Great Barrington: Berkshire County, Massachusetts

For the purpose of encouraging the publication of the History in book form, the Town at its adjourned. Annual meeting, April 2d, 1881, on the motion of Mer ritt I. Wheeler, Esq., voted That a committee of three be appointed and authorized to procure the writing and publishing, for the use of the town, fifty copies of a Town History, and that a sum not exceeding seven hundred and fifty dollars be raised and appropriated for that purpose; and Clark W. Bryan, J. Milton Mackie and Justin Dewey were appointed as such com mittee. This action of the town Was taken under an article in the warrant, inserted without consultation with or the previous knowledge of the writer. I then revised and corrected that portion of the History which had been printed, and added to it much new material. The result is this publication.

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Excerpt from History of Great Barrington: Berkshire County, Massachusetts

This volume of Great Barrington History is the result of researches begun long ago, and continued at intervals of leisure through many years. These researches were undertaken, not with the original intention of gathering material for a town history, but for the gratification of my own personal tastes. My interest in the matter was heightened in searching the records of land titles and ancient boundary lines, for business purposes, and the desire to know more of the town and its early dwellers was thereby increased. In process of years, notes, memoranda, and old manuscripts accumulated to such an extent as to appear to me worthy of preservation; and these were, eventually, written out in some form of historic order. I then concluded to follow my examinations with greater thoroughness and to write, in part at least, the history of the town, which I did, as leisure permitted, and arranged my gatherings in chapters.

The work had thus far progressed, when Clark W, Bryan, having purchased The Berkshire Courier, applied for permission to print, in that journal, what had then been written, and accordingly did print, in short weekly articles, most of the matter which was then prepared.

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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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330905407
• ISBN 13: 9781330905401
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 538