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Excerpt from A Boston Merchant of 1745: Or Incidents in the Life of James Gibson, a Gentleman Volunteer at the Expedition to Louisburg, Journal of That Siege, Never Before Published in This Country by One of His Descendants 'does not mention the given name 0 Perkins. Tradition in our family as signs them to the congregation wor shipping ih the Old South Church.' That there was a family in Boston whc tenderly cherished the orphan of Bea con Hill mansion ever afte she went into the family of Rev. Mr. Niles Of Braintree, we have still further evidence. If the descendants Of such a family could be found, perhaps the writer, who is on a kind of pilgrim age upon the back track Of his anecs tors, might meet with Some fact which may be quite gratifying to his antiquarian curiosity - which he. 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.