Excerpt from A History of Framingham, Massachusetts: Including the Plantation, From 1640 to the Present Time, With an Appendix, Containing a Notice of Sudbury and Its First Proprietors; Also, a Register of the Inhabitants of Framingham Before 1800, With Genealogical Sketches The author, in conclusion, would commend his work to the candid Judgment of the reader. It was originally prepared, and has been prose cuted as a labor of love, and under a sense of gratitude for personal favors and an ever kind and friendly regard, which has found but an in adequate expression in this work, laborious as it may have been. To the inhabitants of Framingham the work is most respectfully inscribed, with the hope and prayer, that their intelligence, liberality, and public spirit may provide the materials of a future history, of which it may not be said, that the former days were better than these. 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.