The Boundary Line Between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, From the Merrimack River to the Connecticut: A Paper Read Before the Old Residents' ... Anniversary of the Formation of the Soc - Softcover

Green, Samuel Abbott

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ISBN 10: 1332081339 ISBN 13: 9781332081332

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Boundary Line Between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, From the Merrimack River to the Connecticut: A Paper Read Before the Old Residents' Historical Association of Lowell, on December 21, 1893, the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Formation of the Society

I have mentioned these trivia] facts of a personal nature in order to show that once I knew your city well enough to entitle me now to be called almost a Lowell boy by adoption, or, as they say in the army, by brevet; and, if it were possible for a man to have two native places, I should certainly claim this city as one of them. These introductory remarks may not be in their character sufficiently historical to meet the needs of this occasion, but they give the recollections of an Old Resident surely, and so they are in keeping with a part of the name of your association.

In my paper to-night I purpose to call your attention to a controversy that, more than a century and a half ago, was waged in the Merrimack Valley for many a year, and formed then one of the burning questions of the day. For a long time the dispute kept a large number of towns in wavering uncertainty Whether they belonged to the Province of Massachusetts or to that of New Hampshire.

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Excerpt from The Boundary Line Between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, From the Merrimack River to the Connecticut: A Paper Read Before the Old Residents' Historical Association of Lowell, on December 21, 1893, the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Formation of the Society

The Boundary Line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire from the Merrimack River to the Connecticut.

When I first received the message asking me to read a paper on this interesting anniversary, my first impulse was to decline the invitation with thanks; but after some reflection I thought of my early associations with your beautiful city and with Middlesex County, and then I concluded to accept it. In this instance, perhaps, the sober second thought was not the wisest or the best, as it is commonly supposed to be. More than fifty years ago I was very familiar with Lowell, - not the large city of to-day with its 85,000 inhabitants spread out on both sides of the Merrimack, but a small city of 20,000 or 25,000 people living on the southerly side of the river. Not then the handsome city, as now seen, with its stately public buildings, its fine churches, and elegant dwellings, and with many other signs of thrift and cultivation. It had not then become known as the home of men distinguished at the bar and on the bench, and in the arts and sciences, as it is known to-day throughout the land.

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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: 1332081339
• ISBN 13: 9781332081332
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 66