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Excerpt from Morristown, National Historical Park, New Jersey Before the war Morristown had been a rustic, frontier community, settled largely by immigrants of New England origin. Farming was the economic mainstay of its 250 people, although neighboring iron mines, furnaces, and forges were already en riching a few families and employing an increasing number of laborers. 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.