Excerpt from Early History of Amenia The history of a rural town not only gratifies a most reasonable curiosity, but possesses a positive value as a source from which is drawn the history of the State; and there is a peculiar importance belonging to the records of those towns, which had their beginning at the commencement of our national life. The people, who laid the foundations of these small communities, were laying the foundations of a great nation, and in no age or country, has the character of a nation been so greatly formed by the people, in their primary associations. Any careful record of these communities will become more valuable as it grows older. In making a memorial of the early settlers of Amenia, and of their first civil and social institutions, I propose to present only those things, worthy of record, which would soon be out of the reach of any historical research, and without attempting to bring the record down to the present time, either of the events of general interest, or of particular families. 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.