Excerpt from The Town Church of Manchester Ond struggle took the form chiefly of litigation. Its weapons were charters and grants, deeds and dates, seals and signatures. It extended over a period of more than a hundred years, and was the direct cause of much anxiety, suffering, and bloodshed. Perhaps no such struggle between different sections of the Eng lish-speaking race has been fought for the possession of any other river in America. But the last echoes of the unfortunate conflict have long since died away. A winding chain of pcpu lous cities, with immense industries, now extends along its banks from Newburyport to Concord. Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Nashua and Manchester are links in that chain. Here are the three chief cities of New Hampshire. One of them Manchester - is the largest city in the northern tier of New England states. 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.