Excerpt from Tristram Dodge and His Descendants in America: With Historical and Descriptive Accounts of Block Island and Cow Neck, L. I. Their Original Settlements Block Island. They were contemporary, and much used; by 1695 had become worn out; when the present volume one, duly copied, as he certifies, from the earlier original, was prepared by faithful Nathaniel Mott, Town Clerk. 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.