Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Town of Pawtucket In writing the following sketch I have tried to fulfill the wishes of both our National and State legislators. I suppose that the desire of Congress in recommending the writing of local histories on this Centennial year, was to secure for preservation an outline of the experiences of the various towns and cities in the work of planting and forming their little municipalities, and to show what growth they have attained. I presume that the special desire of the General Assembly of our State was to embody, in addition to the information named, an account of the industrial affairs of the various towns in our Commonwealth. To learn what branches of manufacture have been established among us, what inventions have been perfected, and what development productive industry has attained, is one result they had in view. I have therefore prepared a sketch. The time allotted me was too short to undertake anything more. To read the records of two or three towns for centuries, to ransack the archives of our State and of the shire town of Bristol county, to examine land titles and old manuscripts, would be pleasant for a man of an antiquarian taste, but would demand months of toil. Were a voluminous history of the town desired, however, all this and more would be demanded. But as I do not suppose that this was what our legislators desired, I have proposed to myself a less ambitious aim. Without undertaking much original research, I have gleaned from books and papers the more interesting facts pertaining to the town, and condensed and arranged them in a convenient form. 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.