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Published: 2015-08-06

Total Pages: 710

ISBN-13: 9781332346219

Excerpt from Muddy River and Brookline Records: 1634-1838 No more graphic picture of the habits, condition and character of the founders of our republic can be conceived, than that which their early public records afford. Their frequent meetings, "by public notice from house to house" for consultation on matters of common interest or necessity; for the allotment of the ground; for regulating the keeping of cows, goats and swine; for the admission of new-comers into their community, and allowing them house-lots, provided they were likely to become worthy members of the congregation, not otherwise; authorizing a loan from the common fund to enable a poor brother to cover in his house, on the condition that he should make it over to his wife and children for a permanent home; providing that every man should have a field to cultivate, and that if any man had fenced in more ground than he could plant, he should divide it with one who had none; that gates and stiles should be kept up, so that the shortest cuts to the springs of water or other places of resort should not be obstructed; that boys should not ride the horses across the common to water on the "Sabbath day." All these matters and innumerable others were discussed, regulated and provided for "att general meetings upon public notice, given the day before." 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.