A Brief Historical Sketch Of The Town Of Vinalhaven

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ISBN 13 : 9781332106851
Total Pages : 84 pages
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Download or read book A Brief Historical Sketch of the Town of Vinalhaven written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Brief Historical Sketch of the Town of Vinalhaven: From Its Earliest Known Settlement, Prepared by Order of the Town, on the Occasion of Its One Hundredth Anniversary In writing this brief sketch of the town, we are (owing to the limited means at our disposal, and the short time allotted us in which to prepare it, ) compelled to confine ourselves to such published references as can be most readily obtained, and to such information, traditional and otherwise, as can be gleaned from those who are now living, and records that are easily accessible. No doubt many will be disappointed that notice of their ancestors does not appear here, but to those we can only say that we did the best we could under the circumstances, and hope this brief sketch, crude as it is, may be, may prove an incentive to the town, or some enterprising individual, to take measures for having published a more extended and complete work. Nor can we vouch for the absolute correctness of all that is herein written, but judging from the source of our information, and by careful comparisons, we think that on the whole it may be taken as authority. It is a lamentable fact that scarcely a tradition even, exists here of events that must have occurred during the first quarter century of settlement here. The first settling of any country is generally beset with dangers, a battle for subsistence, a period of hardships, suffering and privations, and those who first came here must have had their full share. Coming as they did to a wilderness, with miles of old ocean between them and other settlements, exposed at first to the missiles of the Indians, and later to the indignities of the British, their lot must have been a hard one. No records of those stirring times have been preserved, at least we have not learned of any. 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.