Excerpt from The History of Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts: From the Earliest Settlement Known to the Present Time, a Period of About Two Hundred and Thirty Years O literary productions are so interesting to most people as those relating to the place of their nativity; and, although most of the work may be made up of homely facts and local incidents, uninteresting to the stranger, it will be highly prized by him who loves the home of his birth, and who can discern upon its pages the part that his fathers played in'the his tory of the past. Perhaps this interest has been the sole cause of the production of this volume. The work was commenced in the fall of 1875, - when the author was seventeen years of - merely to gratify a longing to know about the past but, the notes becoming voluminous, the idea of preparing a history presented itself, and was indulged to such an extent that the result is before us. 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.