Hist Of East Boston W Biograph

Author : William Hyslop Sumner
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265554630
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book A History of East Boston written by William Hyslop Sumner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of East Boston: With Biographical Sketches of Its Early Proprietors, and an Appendix; Illustrated by Eleven Portraits, Five Descriptive Views, Six Pedigrees, Two Maps, and Eighteen Autographs The motives which influence the author to give to the pub lic a History of East Boston are twofold: first, his desire to make a permanent record of the transactions which have made Noddle's Island a populous part of the city of Boston, and added so largely to the present and prospective wealth and capital of the metropolis of New England; and, secondly, his Wish to perpetuate the names and lives of its early owners, most of whom were men eminently deserving that notice and that place in our colonial history which but few of them have hitherto received. As to the former, his personal acquaintance with the whole course of plans and results for the last half century is sufficiently described in the Introductory Letter im mediately preceding the body of this work. For the latter, he has spared no pains to gather from printed works, colonial records, and the voluminous family papers in his possession, accounts which may be relied upon as authentic; he especially refers to Samuel Maverick, Samuel Shrimpton, and John Yea mans, of whom though only the first has been yet recognized even in the local names of streets, squares, churches, or schools in East Boston, yet all will be found not only deserving re membrance for their intimate connection with the Island, but also for their services in various public capacities which they honored. 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.