Excerpt from An Account of the Lawyers of Groton, Massachusetts: Including Natives Who Have Practised Elsewhere, and Those Also Who Have Studied Law in the Town The town of Groton, in her list of lawyers, can Show an array of distinguished names rarely equalled in any small community within the Commonwealth. The prominence of these names for a century and a half seems to deserve special notice, and it is with reference to this fact that the following account has been prepared. 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.