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Excerpt from History of Kennebunk From Its Earliest Settlement to 1890: Including Biographical Sketches The original plan of Mr. Remich in writing this History of Kennebunk was to take up the noteworthy events of our town after its separation from Wells in 1820, and so continue the History of Wells and Kennebunk by Edward E. Bourne; but after due consideration of the subject it seemed essential to him to go back to its early settlement in. order that the reader might be able to trace the growth of the town, in sequence, since the days when the first white man landed upon our shores, thus necessarily covering much of the ground already gone over by Judge Bourne. He spared neither time nor money in gaining access to old records, deeds, files of papers, etc., to obtain the desired information and his remarkable memory served him well in many instances. He was always greatly interested in historical research and he devoted the most of his time the latter part of his life to this work; it was purely a pastime with him, as he never expected to receive any reward for his labors other than the benefit which he might sometime be able to impart to others. Laboring under difficulties at times, he toiled on with his compilation, hoping to be able to bring it to a satisfactory conclusion. When he finally had a certain amount of material in hand he undertook to have it published, thinking that he could keep in advance of the publishers in putting it together properly, making any necessary alterations and filling in dates and various omissions that had occurred, but his disappointment was great to discover, after having carefully corrected the proof himself, that the company which he had engaged to do the printing had overlooked many of his directions and as a result the pages that were printed were so filled with errors that he became utterly discouraged and consequently withdrew it. Not long after his health began to fail so he did not make another attempt to have it published. It is greatly to be regretted that he was unable to accomplish his long cherished desire. Mr. Remich passed away the thirtieth of May, 1892. 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.