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Excerpt from A Historical Sketch of the Village of Batavia As the reminiscences of Olden Times, which we have occasionally published in the Spirit of the Times, have been received with favor, we now propose to sketch a brief history of the village OF batavia, from its birth in the primeval forest, to what it now is, one of the loveliest in the State. We do this, not for any special pre-eminence which it has attained, but because it is the oldest Village West of Genesee River, from whence, as from a common centre, radiated the settlement of the Holland Purchase. 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.