A Picture Of Lisbon With Sketches Of The Portuguese In General By A Gentleman Many Years Resident In Lisbon Scholars Choice Edition

Author : Henry F. Bishop
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483468603
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (686 download)

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Download or read book Historical Sketch of Lisbon, Conn written by Henry F. Bishop and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historical Sketch of Lisbon, Conn: From 1786-1900 In looking up the records of Lisbon's history, one finds very little help in any written historical descriptions thus far published. The explanation is to be found that she is so unimportant relatively with her larger sister towns. She has had a small, contracted terri tory, a sparse population, and a short period of existence since she was incorporated into a separate town in 1786. This necessarily makes but a brief sketch of history when all of it is collected for publication. Barker's 'historical Collections, ' published in 1837, speaking 'of all the towns in Connecticut, describing their geography, soil, inhabitants, churches, and manufacturing interests, gives about as good a description of Lisbon as is found anywhere, but it is only a half - page record. Hurd's History of New London County, published in 1882 gives Lisbon's boundaries as follows: On the north by Canterbury, County, east by Griswold, south by Preston, west by Norwich and Sprague. It only gives us two of its early settlers, James Burnham, admitted as a settler in and Benjamin Burnham, admitted as a settler in 1726. Having had a difficult task in research for genealogical informa tion the last few years (with imperfect and fragmentary records), the writer has deemed it a fitting service to render his native town to more conveniently arrange for observation and preservation its records; that hereafter students looking up family history may be greatly helped in finding what is needed, if it exists. Lisbon has a large representative body scattered through the States of the Union, descendants of her noble stock, who have to come back to her for biographical and genealogical family history. They have often turned away in despair that they could find so little to enlighten them. That delightful historical writer and author, Dr. Hale, of Boston, says, speaking of writers: For one, I am much obliged to anybody who tries to make it easy for me to read, and again he makes the following memorandum: N. B. When you know any thing worth knowing, which few other people know, write it down at once. 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.