Historical Sketch of the Town of Weymouth, Massachusetts, From 1622 to 1884 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Town of Weymouth, Massachusetts, From 1622 to 1884Br the courtesy of Gilbert Nash, Esq., the author of this Sketch of Weymouth, I have been permitted to examine the advance sheets of the book. Finding that his labors have been so conscientiously and faithfully executed, it gives me great pleasure to accede to his request to write a few prefatory words.The town of Weymouth has a remarkable history, and may well be congratulated on having an historian so familiar with the details of its early life and so competent to record them. It was the first settlement made within what afterward became the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, and this very antiquity gives an additional interest to its annals. The obscurity surrounding its origin tends to invest the story with a romance which only increases the zeal of the antiquary. It has attracted the atten tion of the novelist, and in modern times has prompted the most critical researches of the scholar. Under these circum stances the appearance of this work makes an important acces sion to the literature of our local history.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.