Author : William D. Knapp
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 24,85 MB
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780656430277
Book Description
Excerpt from First Annual Report of the City of Somersworth: Containing the City Charter, an Account of the Receipts and Expenditures, the Reports of the City Officials, and the Vital Statistics for the Year Ending March 1, 1894, Etc;; Prefaced With an Historical Sketch of Somersworth Gentlemen: Your committee, Mayor Chase and Chair man Freeman, have kindly informed me of your vote of the 8th inst., requesting me to prepare an historical Sketch of Somersworth for publication with your city reports for the fiscal year ending the first day of next month. I should be elated by your estimate of my ability, if the thought that it will be quite impossible to do so much in so short a time did not tend to depress. George Francis Train attempted to go round the world in Sixty days. He made the journey in Sixty-seven days. If compelled to stop at the end of sixty days his journey would have been incompleteby the distance from New York to Tacoma. Doubtless the chief characteristic of any history of Somersworth which I can prepare in the time allowed me, will be the omission of im portant facts. Having given you this warning, I will at tempt to comply with your request by furnishing a brief sketch relating to the history of about ten square miles of land which now contain our not great but goodly and grow ing city. The material at hand from which some facts will be gathered, consists of Belknap's and mcclintock's His tory of New Hampshire, Carter's Historical Notes, Provin cial and State Papers, Sanford and Everts' Atlas of Straf ford County and the Parish and Town Records of Somers worth. This acknowledgment must cover a multitude of. 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.