Excerpt from A History of the Town of Dunstable, Massachusetts: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Year of Our Lord 1873 In the fathers of New England we behold a body of men who, for the liberty of faith alone, resolutely and deliberately exchanged the delights home and the comforts of civilized life for toil and danger, for an ungenial climate and a rugged soil. Gulian C. Verplanck. We have no title-deed to house or lands Owners and occupants of earlier date From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates. H. W. Longfellow. The early English settlements, commenced along the shore of Massachusetts Bay, as that of Plymouth, 1620; of Salem, 1626; of Boston, 1630 and of Newbury, 1633, were gradually extended into the wilderness, then infested with wild beasts, and tribes of wandering savages who justly held themselves to be the rightful owners of the soil. 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.