Excerpt from Historical Raleigh: With Sketches of Wake County From of and Its Important Towns; Descriptive, Biographical, Educational, Industrial, Religious Mr. M. N. Amis, the author and publisher of Historical Raleigh, with Sketches of Wake County and Its Important Towns, is rendering to the present and future generations a most valuable contribution. To do this he has given days, weeks, and months of patient and persistent research. There may be some casual reader who will think it an easy task to run down and dig out the information herein contained, but certainly no person that has ever undertaken the task of collecting history will fail to see the time, care, and labor Mr. Amis has bestowed upon this work, when the matter has been examined. We bespeak for the author the gratitude of our people, and wish for him the great success in the publication that he so richly deserves. 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.