The History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
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Excerpt from The History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company: From Its Formation in 1637 and Charter in 1638, to the Present Time; Comprising the Biographies of the Distinguished Civil, Literary, Religious, and Military Men of the Colony, Province, and Commonwealth The undersigned, a Committee to superintend the publication of this History, have devoted to that duty the time they could spare from their other avocations, and now submit the volume to the candor of their associates and to the public. They feel none of that weight of responsibility, which a work of history and biography necessarily imposes on an author, nor the slightest accountability for the correctness of matter, or even the arrangement. They fully, however, accord their conviction that the work is one of great interest, correctness and value; and they need not say that the Company have spared no expense to honor its public "appearance." The compiler was well known, for thirty years, as an assiduous friend of the institution, a History of which, published in 1820, was considered a work of merit; in comparison, however, this edition is vastly more accurate, comprehensive, and didactic. He was equally remarkable for his antiquarian and historical taste; and we gladly embrace the opportunity to add, that the manuscript passed under the inquisitorial eye of John Farmer, Esq, one of the most accurate and distinguished antiquarians of our country. It was prepared for publication toward the close of the second Centennial Anniversary, but, for reasons unknown, postponed. The Committee think the omission of a minute narrative of the CC Anniversary to be judicious, since the details of such an occasion would have swelled the book, (as in the instance of Quincy´s History of Harvard College,) without interesting any, except the actors in the scene. 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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