Second Report Of The Record Commissioners Relative To The Early Town Records

Author : Providence Record Commissioners
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333586409
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book First Report of the Record Commissioners Relative to the Early Town Records written by Providence Record Commissioners and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from First Report of the Record Commissioners Relative to the Early Town Records: Presented March 7, 1892 In the work here presented there are references to about seven thousand and fifty documents. Many of these documents are of a composite order, embracing matters so differing from each other that separate references for each one are required. It is estimated that there are over ten thou sand references in this work. When the Commissioners first began to gather and preserve these papers, it became evident that an index was needed. They had, at first, intended to place all the papers in, as nearly as could be determined, a chronological order so that the serial numbers would serve as a clue to the dates. After they had placed some fourteen thousand papers in this way, carrying the dates up into the present century, a collection came to light, comprising nearly a thousand papers and of dates between 1743 and later than 1800. By the time these papers were properly mounted and numbered, another lot was received, the earliest date of which is in 1698; and before these were properly arranged another lot was found, the earliest one of which was dated in 1644. Hence it comes that in this volume, which covers only the period to 1790, we have this result. 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.