The First Century of the History of Springfield, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from The First Century of the History of Springfield, Vol. 2: The Official Records From 1636 to 1736; With an Historical Review and Biographical Mention of the Founders In this closing year of the century, after much labor. I am able to place within the reach of those who are interested in the history of Springfield, however widely scattered over the country, the concluding volume of the official transactions of the town during the first hundred years of its existence. This publication has grown out of a desire to make accessible the facts upon which the town government was formed and developed during each stage of its history. Such record must, of necessity, include much that to the casual reader seems of little importance; but however trivial the every-day transactions and perfunctory records may appear, they are necessary to complete the picture of the past. It was a realistic age, full of action that concerned material conditions. The romance which has in these later days been woven around the doings of the beginners of the New England settlements, had not touched the people, nor even the leaders, in the founding of a new scheme of government. Their ideals were based upon necessity and duty, and they builded from rude conditions. They are admired for their firm adherence to those principles which have brought to their successors a realizing sense of the vast responsibility and the wisdom of those who went forth as pioneers in thought and action. The official transactions of Springfield from the beginning in 1636 must remain as the foundation upon which the future historian will reach conclusions, and he will write, not from the doings of a single central figure, nor from a few, but from the whole, all of whom were an integral part of the doings and opinions of the community in its founding and advancement. New discoveries of important facts must henceforth come, if at all, from without, - from the State archives, - or from investigations in England, whence our ancestors came. 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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