Reminiscences of Old Gloucester (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Reminiscences of Old Gloucester The author of the following pages has attempted little more than to collect, and present at one view, those recorded items relating to his native county which he found scattered through the writings of nearly an hundred men. He has been careful in copying these items to cite his authorities, and the detection, therefore, of any errors in this part of his work will cost the reader but little trouble. Such errors it has been the author´s careful study to avoid; and he flatters himself that be has in a great measure succeeded. But twenty reasons forbid him to express the same confidence with reference to those incidents gathered from oral testimony which are now for the first time presented to the public. He has rarely found two legends of the same event to agree in all material points, and has been obliged therefore to apply his own judgment to the evidence, and make as near an approximation to the truth, as, under all the circumstances, he could. If any one should detect inaccuracies in conclusions thus formed, the author will gladly brook his animadversion, if it only be attended with information which may lead to a more correct version in a subsequent edition. An acknowledgement is due to many gentlemen who have contributed material for this brochure. The author begs leave in particular to refer to the kindness of his Excellency Charles C. Stratton, of Swedesboro´, to J. Fennimore Cooper, Esq., of Cooperstown, N. Y., to the late Joseph Hugg, Esq., of Burlington county, to Mr. Lemuel II. Davis, of Camden, and to Doctor Saunders, of Woodbury, from each of whom much valuable information was derived relating to the Revolutionary history of Gloucester county. As for the style of these sketches, a sufficient apology will be found in the fact that they were intended originally merely for publication in the columns of a newspaper. Their appearance in this form is the result of a suggestion from some of the author´s friends, that they would thus better answer the end for which they were written, to wit. the awakening of the people of old Gloucester to an interest in their local history. This has been too long a neglected subject; yet it is one to the study of which pride, patriotism and good sense alike impel us. It is one much better worth mastering than any of the fables and we might add, than half the realities which the young are sent to college to learn. True knowledge, as true charity, begins at home; and he commences the fabric of his education at the summit instead of the base, who neglects the history of his very home to get from posts, or less truthful orators and historians, a precise knowledge of places and things which most likely never existed - or which if they did exist, it were better we had never heard of. Should these Reminiscences put any young son of Gloucester upon the true path to knowledge, and give him a desire to learn more of the eventful story of his native soil, the author´s labors will have been requited. 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.
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