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Excerpt from Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Suffolk County: And Its Towns, Villages, Hamlets, Scenery, Institutions and Important Enterprises To relieve the monotony of digging, and searching, and solving contradictory problems, which this work has cost, the author remembers with a grateful heart the many favors he has received at the hands of his friends - generous deeds and kind words of encouragement, which have fallen at times like sun-beams across his path, and inspired him to persevere in the work he had set about. Taking this means to return the most sincere thanks and heartfelt gratitude, to the scores of friends who have ren dered him assistance in the enterprise of preparing these Sketches of Suffolk County he lays down the pen, and hands the book over to the public. 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.