Author: Joseph Joslin

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-07-17

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780282339388

Excerpt from A History of the Town of Poultney, Vermont, From Its Settlement to the Year 1875: With Family and Biographical Sketches and Incidents It would be strange if some errors were not found. Writers and printers are liable to mistakes, and those furnishing dates and other information are not free from such liability. We ask the reader to make due allowance for the literary execution of our work, for it has been done amid the cares and interruptions of other business, and we are aware that the literature of the family sketches will not endure close criticism. We did not engage in this work with any idea of making money out of it; we knew when we commenced that the profits would not be in dollars and cents. A hundred years had passed away Since the town was settled, and no historic record had been made. We believed that even a partial history of the first half century of the town's existence would be written soon or never. To pre serve what we could of that history has been our Our work, such as it is, is before you. 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.