The Life of Sir William Pepperell, Bart
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Excerpt from The Life of Sir William Pepperell, Bart: The Only Native of New England Who Was Created a Baronet During Our Connection With the Mother Country The author, two or three years ago, received from a friend in New York, a package of papers, which he was desired to use as materials for a Life of Sir William Pepperrell, the renowned "Hero of Louisburg." These papers had been exposed in an old shed on the Pepperrell estate, probably for half a century, and were much stained and defaced. Indeed a part of them had become almost illegible, while others, on examination, proved to be of little value, being, in fact, mere business receipts, bills of lading, accounts, and memorandums. They were saved from total destruction by Colonel George Sparhawk, who, allied by marriage to descendants of Sir William, and living near the Pepperrell mansion, arranged them according to their dates, in a sequence of years from 1696 to 1759. Among the few of any value to a biographer were rough draughts of letters to correspondents, and original letters from the same. But even these were in a measure unintelligible without their correlatives, which some light-fingered antiquary had purloined. Some of the missing documents were, however, recovered by diligent search subsequently, greatly to the satisfaction of the author, as allowing him to relate incidents in the baronet´s career, which would otherwise have been omitted. 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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