The History Of Boscawen And Webster

Author : Charles Carleton Coffin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282381592
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book The History of Boscawen and Webster written by Charles Carleton Coffin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Boscawen and Webster: From 1733 to 1878 Fifty-eight years have passed since the publication of that history, during which period great changes have taken place. Many of the former citizens and their descendants are to be found upon the prairies of the West, or amid the mines of Nevada and California; while others have taken up their abodes in the manufacturing towns of New England, or in the cities of the sea board, turning their attention from agricultural to mechanical or mercantile pursuits. Emigration, railroads, and the employment of machinery, supplanting manual labor in a great degree in the shop and on the farm, have changed society. Apprenticeship, and trades once acquired under it, together have disappeared. Many of the employments and occupations of fifty years ago have disappeared forever. New habits and customs have taken the places of those of other days. The children of to - day do not stand bare-headed, with cap in hand, by the roadside, and make their manners when the minister rides by. The minister is no longer an oracle, nor are the town esquires embodiments of the majesty of law, as in days of yore. Since the publication of Rev. Mr. Price's history, the academy, and the graded and normal schools, have supplemented the schools taught by the masters and mistresses of the olden time, in which the catechism was regarded as an important study. No newsboy rides his weekly post-route now, as Simeon B. Little rode in those first years of the century, carrying the Concord Gazette to his patrons; no canvas-covered wagons plod their way along the turn pike, from Vermont to Boston; no gaily painted stage, with horses all afoam, rolls along the dusty way; the tavern Sign no longer swings in the wind; the hospitable landlord, the bar with its row of glass decanters, the generous fire flaming on the hearth, the heated loggerhead, toddy-stick, flip, and punch, all have disappeared. 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.